Converged Enhanced Ethernet
Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE 802.1Qbb) extends 802.3x standard flow control to allow the
switch to pause traffic based on the 802.1p priority value in each packet’s VLAN tag.
Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) (IEEE 802.1Qaz) provides a method for allocating link
bandwidth based on the 802.1p priority value in each packet’s VLAN tag.
Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange Protocol (DCBX) (IEEE 802.1AB) allows neighboring network
devices to exchange information about their capabilities.
Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
FC-BB5 FCoE specification compliant
Native FC Forwarder (FCF) switch operations
End-to-end FCoE support (initiator to target)
FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for automatic ACL configuration
Link Aggregation Group (LAG) support for FCoE connections
Supports 2,048 FCoE sessions with FIP Snooping by using Class ID ACLs
Omni Ports support 4/8 Gb FC when FC SFPs+ are installed in these ports
Support for F_port, E_Port ISL, NP_port and VF_port Fibre Channel port types
Full Fabric mode for end-to-end FCoE or FCoE gateway; NPV Gateway mode for external FC SAN
attachments
Fabric services in Full Fabric mode:
Name Server
Fabric login services
Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
Fabric-Device Management Interface (FDMI)
Port security
Zoning
Manageability
Industry-standard command line interface (isCLI)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP V1, V2 and V3)
HTTP/HTTPS browser GUI
Telnet interface for CLI
Secure Shell (SSH) v1 and v2 for CLI
Secure Copy (SCP) for uploading and downloading the switch configuration via secure channels
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for discovering network devices
Serial interface for CLI
Scriptable CLI
Dual software images
Firmware image update via TFTP, FTP, or Secure FTP (sFTP)
Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization
Netconf (XML)
Switch Center management application
Monitoring
Switch LEDs for port status and switch status indication
Remote Monitoring (RMON) agent to collect statistics and proactively monitor switch performance
Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
Support for sFLOW agent for monitoring traffic in data networks (separate sFLOW analyzer required
elsewhere)
The following features are not supported with IPv6:
Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and DHCP
RADIUS, and LDAP
VMware Virtual Center (vCenter) for VMready
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
RackSwitch G8264CS
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