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• One internal I2C connection to the PRIMERGY BX Management Blade provides control and
status collection.
• One internal serial port (RS-232) connection to the PRIMERGY BX Management Blade provides switch
control.
• Two internal 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces over the midplane to the Management Blade support
switch management.
• Port status LEDS indicate status of the ports, and system status LEDs indicate UID, health, and
module status using color indicators and patterns.
• Power-on self-test (POST) and embedded online and offline diagnostics are supported.
• Dual temperature sensors maintain internal temperatures.
• Switch power consumption is monitored and a power-saving feature is implemented when FC ports are
not enabled.
• As with all Fibre Channel devices, operates in switch mode.
NOS Feature Description
All features of NOS 2.1.1 release are supported on VDX 2730 except where noted in this document. Network
OS v2.1.1 includes the following high-level features:
Layer 2 Security Features
• VLANs
• Cisco PVLAN
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP, MSTP and PVST+ and PVRST+)
• Unicast and multicast capabilities
• IGMP snooping
• Layer 2 Forwarding
• Layer 2 multi-path based on Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
• Layer 2 access control lists (VLAN ACL and Port/Interface ACL)
• Management-access ACLs
• Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) (also known as port mirroring)
• Brocade VCS Ethernet Fabric technology
• Transparent mode with single-node VCS
Virtualization
• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
• VLAN, QoS, and security port profiles
• Virtual Machine-aware network automation
Convergence
• Pause Frames (Tx and Rx)
• DCB features such as Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
• End-to-end, multi-hop FCoE
• FCoE and FC zoning and Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) suppression (name server-
based zoning)
• FC connectivity to Brocade FC SANs and by Brocade Fibre Channel Routing (FCR)