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Brocade VDX 6720 Hardware Reference Manual 3

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Brocade VDX 6720 overview

Software features

The Brocade VDX 6720 switches support the following features. For more details on these

features, refer to the Brocade Network OS Administrator’s Guide.

Layer 2 and Layer 3 security features

• VLANs

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP, MSTP and PVST+ and PVRST+)

• Support for unicast and multicast capabilities

• Support for IGMP snooping

• Layer 2 multi-path based on Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)

• Layer 2 access control lists (ACLs)

• Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) (also known as port mirroring)

Virtualization

• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)

• Support for VLAN, QoS, security, and FCoE port profiles

Convergence/FCoE

• Pause Frames (Tx and Rx)

• DCB features such as Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)

• End-to-end, multi-hop FCoE

Link aggregration

• 802.3ad LACP support

• Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) (a LAG that spans multiple physical switches)

QoS

• 802.1p marking

• Scheduling: Strict priority (SP), Shaped Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (SDWRR)

Management

• IPv4 or IPv6 management

• CLI management utilities on Network OS v2.0.0

• Out-of-band management (standalone mode)

• sFlow

• TRILL Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM)