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• No additional feature licenses. The following four switch modes are available:
Standard—Configurable DCB switch◦
◦ FCF—FC/FCoE initiator; target; FlexFabric SAN switch; F, VF, VE, and E port connectivity
(4K zones); FSPF
◦ NPV—Gateway for FC/FCoE multi-vendor connectivity
◦ Transit—FIP-snooping DCB aggregation switch
• 1.28 Tb/s switching capacity
• 952.32 Million PPS throughput, integrated 9 MB packet buffer
• 10GbE cut-through latency < 1.5 µs (64Byte packets)
• CLI and iMC/VAN/VFM (Intelligent Management Center) fabric management
• HP IIIAS (Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software) support
• L2/L3, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, TRILL, VEPA
• Cloud and SDN ready (OpenFlow 1.3.1 support)
Figure 2 (page 5) describes the major components and the ports of the HP FlexFabric 5900CP
switch. The front view shows the 48 converged ports and the four 40GbE ports.
The switch supports two pluggable fan trays and two AC power supplies for redundancy. Two
options are available for fan trays, front-to-back airflow or back-to-front airflow.
Figure 2 HP FlexFabric 5900CP components and ports
HP FlexFabric 5900CP network architectures
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP switch can be utilized in the following environments:
• A traditional Ethernet network switch for Ethernet data
• A converged network switch in environments that support Ethernet and FCoE for storage data
• A native Fibre Channel fabric switch for storage data
In a converged environment, the HP FlexFabric 5900CP switch is typically configured as a ToR
switch connecting to a LAN and a SAN.
LAN connectivity is made through any of the 48 converged ports configured as 10GbE ports or
the 40GbE ports for a total of up to 64 10GbE ports.
SAN connectivity is made through any of the 48 converged ports configured as 10GbE/FCoE
ports or configured as 8/4/2 Gb Fibre Channel ports. When configured as FCoE ports, the
converged ports support device connectivity (VF_Port) or switch connectivity using inter-switch links
HP FlexFabric 5900CP network architectures 5