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BlackDiamond X8 Series Switches Hardware Installation Guide
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CHAPTER
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BlackDiamond X8 Series
Switches
This chapter includes the following sections:
● Overview of the BlackDiamond X8 Series Switches on page 13
● BlackDiamond X8 Chassis on page 14
● Management Ports on page 16
For information about management modules, fabric modules, and I/O modules for the
BlackDiamond X8 series switch, see Chapter 2.
For instructions to install the BlackDiamond X8 chassis, see Chapter 5.
Overview of the BlackDiamond X8 Series Switches
The BlackDiamond X8 series switches are chassis-based switches designed for virtualized data centers
and high-performance compute cluster installations. They provide high-density, line rate 10/40 GbE
ports. For more information about configuring a BlackDiamond switch, see the ExtremeXOS Concepts
Guide and the ExtremeXOS Command Reference Guide.
The features of these switches include:
● I/O modules that are hot-swappable and provide 10-Gigabit or 40-Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports using
SFP+ or QSFP+ optical modules
● Up to 768 line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or 192 line-rate 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports in one chassis
● Redundant management modules that provide the CPU control subsystem
● N+1 redundant switch fabric modules that provide the active switching fabric
● Redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies
● Field-replaceable, hot-swappable fan trays
● 20+ Tbps switching capacity
● 1.28 Tbps bandwidth per slot