Technical
specifi cation
Dell
™
PowerConnect
™
8132
Dell
™
PowerConnect
™
8132F
Dell
™
PowerConnect
™
8164
Dell
™
PowerConnect
™
8164F
Port
types
24x 10GBASE-T auto-sensing
GbE switching ports;
upgradable QSFP+/4x10GbE/
stacking ports
24x SFP+ 10Gb/1Gb ports;
upgradable QSFP+/4x10GbE/
stacking ports
48x 10GBASE-T auto-sensing
GbE switching ports; 2 fi xed
QSFP+ ports; upgradeable
QSFP+/4x10GbE/stacking ports
48x SFP+ 10Gb/1Gb ports;
2 fi xed QSFP+/4x10GbE/
stacking ports
Port
confi guration
Resilient HA stacking with up to 6 switches
Auto-negotiation for speed, duplex mode and fl ow control
Auto MDI/MDIX Port mirroring
Flow-based port mirroring
Broadcast storm control
Supports DCB requirements including PFC (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx, iSCSI TLV 2.2, iSCSI Optimization
Up to 8,160 Routes Supported
Ease-of-Use Compellent Macro for setting up storage connections
Ports support 1Gb and 10Gb transceivers for SFP/SFP+ and 100Mb, 1Gb and 10GBASE-T for RJ-45 environments and
40Gb transceivers for QSFP environments
sFlow
UDLD
Management
Web-based management interface; Industry-standard CLI accessible via Telnet, Out-of-Band Ethernet or Local Serial
Port SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 supported; LLDP-MED; SNTP; iSCSI Auto Confi guration; Multiple confi guration
fi le upload/download supported; TFTP transfers of fi rmware and confi guration fi les; Dual fi rmware images on-board;
Four RMON groups supported (history, statistics, alarms and events); Statistics for error monitoring and performance
optimization including port summary tables; BootP/DHCP IP address management supported; Syslog remote logging
capabilities; Pre-defi ned roles for simplifi ed administration of the switch
Quality of
service
Layer 2 Trusted Mode (IEEE 802.1p tagging); Layer 3 Trusted Mode (DSCP); Layer 4 Trusted Mode (TCP/UDP); Advanced
Mode using Layer 2/3/4 fl ow-based Policies, including metering/rate limiting, marking and bandwidth guarantees;
8 Priority Queues per Port; Adjustable Weighted-Round-Robin (WRR) and Strict Queue Scheduling; Port-based QoS
Services Mode; Flow-based QoS Services Mode;IPv4 and IPv6 support
Security
Switch access password protection and strong password support; User-defi nable settings for enabling or disabling Web, SSH,
Telnet, SSL management access; IP Address fi ltering for management access via Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS/SSL, SSH and SNMP;
RADIUS and remote authentication for switch management access; SSLv3 and SSHv2 encryption for switch
management traffi
c; Management access fi ltering via Management Access Profi les; IEEE 802.1x-based edge authentication;
802.1x monitor mode to aid in.1x troubleshooting; Up to 100 Access Control Lists (ACLs) supported with up to 1k rules per
ACL; per-command authorization; accounting
VLAN
IEEE 802.1Q tagging and port-based, up to 4,000 user-confi gurable VLANs (up to 1000 simultaneous); Private VLAN and
edge extensions
Layer 2
multicast
IGMP v1/v2/v3 snooping; IGMP snooping for IP multicast support; IGMP Querier PIM-SM, PIM-DM
Other switching
features
Link Aggregation with support for up to 72 link aggregation groups (LAGs) per switch and up to 8 member ports per LAG (IEEE
802.3ad); LACP support (IEEE 802.3ad); Support for unicast NLB (multicast NLB not supported); Jumbo frame support up to 9K
Availability
Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1D) and Rapid Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1w) with Fast Link Support; Multiple spanning trees (IEEE 802.1s);
Spanning Tree optional features – STP root guard, BPDU guard, BPDU fi ltering; Dual fi rmware images; Supports Virtual Redundant
Routing Protocol (VRRP); Cable diagnostics; SFP/SFP+ transceiver diagnostics
Layer 3
routing
protocols
Static routes; Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1/v2; Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v1/v2/v3; Virtual Redundant Routing
Protocol (VRRP); Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR); Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP); ICMP Router Discover
Protocol (IRDP); Address Resolution Protocol (ARP); Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v1/v2/v3; Distance-Vector
Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP); DHCP – Helper/Relay
Layer 3 routing performance
Up to 512 RIP Routes
Up to 8K IPv4/4K IPv6 OSPF Routes
Up to 2,000 Multicast Forwarding Entries
Up to 4,000 ARP entries
