F5 ARX-VE, Planning Manual

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Physical Site Preparation
ARX Site Planning Guide 1 - 39
System Specifications and Requirements
This section details the system specifications and requirement of each ARX.
Choose from the following:
2500 The ARX-2500 is a cost-effective,
small-form-factor Adaptive Resource Switch
designed for use in small data centers and
branch/remote offices. Similar to the
ARX-2000, the ARX-2500 combines application
processing and control, switch fabric
throughput, and external interfaces into a single
FRU compact design. It offers the same
software features as the other ARX
®
platforms,
differing only in performance and scale.
• Ports: 4 x 1GbE copper (1 mgmt/data and (3) 1
GbE and 2 x 10GbE
• 10GbE ports are optical with SFP+ transceivers
• Throughput: 400 to 500 MB/s
• Files: 1536M
• Power supply: redundant
• Disk drives: dual, hot-swappable
• NVRAM with SuperCap (No Battery required)
• Height: 1U
• Weight: 22.5
• Licensing and entitlement tracking using F5
Licensing
• Weight: 35 pounds
4000 The ARX-4000 is a cost-effective Adaptive
Resource Switch that combines application
processing and control, switch fabric
throughput, and external interfaces into a
compact design consisting of two FRUs. The
switch includes a removable front bezel which,
when attached, covers all components except
the Ethernet ports and a set of data plane
LEDs.
• Compact design (2U control plane, 2U data plane)
• Weight: 96 pounds
• Throughput: 1050 MB/s
• Box-to-box failover capability to provide
redundancy.
• Single bezel covering control and data plane
components.
• AC power cords (4): 15 amp, 110 volts and 220
volts.
• PCI-E interconnect cable (control plane to data
plane).
• External interfaces, including:
– Serial console port
– 10/100 Mbps out-of-band (OOB) Ethernet
management port
– 100/1000 gigabit Ethernet ports (12 ports,
copper)
– 10-gigabit Ethernet ports (2 ports, fiber-optic)
• Front control panel LEDs that indicate port activity,
disk drive activity, system status, and power.
• Front data panel LEDs that indicate PCI link
status, NVRAM battery status, power supply
status, and various operational states.
• Power supply: (4) with the following
characteristics: 1:1 redundant, load-sharing,
universal, auto-sensing, hot-swappable (110 volts
and 220 volts).
• 146 GB internal SAS hard disks (2),
hot-swappable, configured as RAID1.
Table 1.4 ARX Models and Description (Continued)
Model Description Hardware Feature