8325 Switch Series

QuickSpecs
Aruba 8325 Switch Series
Overview
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Resiliency and high availability
• VRRP
Allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments
• Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)
Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional traffic is detected, preventing loops in STP-
based networks
• IEEE 802.3ad LACP
Supports up to 47 trunks, each with eight links per trunk; and provides support for static or dynamic groups and a user-
selectable hashing algorithm
• Redundant power supplies
Provides N+1 high reliability with hot swappable, redundant power supplies
Virtual private network (VPN)
• Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Enables tunneling traffic from site to site over a Layer 3 path
Management
• IPSLA
Monitor the network fo
r degradation of various services, including monitoring voice. Monitoring is enabled via the NAE for
history and for automated gathering of additional information when anomalies are detected.
• Management interface control
Enables or disables each of the following interfaces depending on security preferences: console port, or reset button
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure
Reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
• Management security
Restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide
SNMP access; local and remote Syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
• SNMP v2c/v3
Provides SNMP read and trap support of industry standard Management Information Base (MIB), and private extensions
• Redundant and load-sharing fans, and power supplies
• sFlow (RFC 3176)
Increases total performance and power availability while providing hitless, stateful failover
• Hot swappable power supply and fan modules
Allows replacement of modules without any impact on other modules
• Separate data and control paths
Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and performance
• Provides scalable ASIC-based wire speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance;
this allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics and information for capacity planning
and real-time network monitoring purposes
• Remote monitoring (RMON)
Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions and supports events, alarms, history, and statistics groups as
well as a private alarm extension group
• TFTP and SFTP support
Offers different mechanisms for configuration updates; trivial FTP (TFTP) allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/ IP
network; Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over an SSH tunnel to provide additional security
• Debug and sampler utility
Supports ping and traceroute for IPv4 and IPv6
• Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-
dependent devices within the network. Can serve as the NTP server in a customer network.