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The VDX 2730 also has an enterprise SKU SM-VDX2730-0001 that enables 24-port 10G Ethernet ports,
FCoE/FC and VCS capabilities in the same SKU.
Standards, Compatibility, Interoperability, and Scalability
Standards Compliance
This software generally conforms to Ethernet standards in a manner consistent with accepted
engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, Brocade might add proprietary supplemental
functions to those specified in the standards, or choose to implement modifications to the standards
for performance or behavioral improvements.
The VDX products conform to the following Ethernet standards:
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
• IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging
• IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames)
The following draft versions of the Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Standards are also supported on VDX products:
• IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control
• IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection
• IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task
Group of IEEE 802.1 Working Group)
• FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0)
The VDX products conform to the following Internet IETF RFCs:
• RFC 2865 Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
• RFC 1112 IGMP
• RFC 2236 IGMPv2
• RFC2131 DHCP
• RFC 2571 Architecture for Describing SNMP Framework
• RFC 3176 sFlow
• RFC 1157 SNMPv1/v2c
• RFC4510 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)