IPv6 Layer 3 functions:
IPv6 host management
IPv6 forwarding
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for router redundancy
Static routes
Equal Cost Multiple Paths (ECMP)
Routing protocols (BGP)
Policy-based routing (PBR)
DHCP Relay
DNS client
Virtualization:
Virtual link aggregation groups (vLAGs)
Two switches (vLAG peers) act as a single virtual entity for a multi-port aggregation
vLAG Peer Gateway for improved usage of the link between the vLAG peers
Two-tier vLAGs with VRRP enables active/active VRRP to reduce routing latency
Network Policy Agent gives increased visibility of the virtual infrastructure and automates
VM-aware network provisioning and configuration updates for VLANs, virtual NICs, virtual
networks, ACLs, and QoS based on the VM associations in a hyperconverged Nutanix
environment (requires the AHV and software version 5.0.2 or higher [excluding 5.1.2]).
VXLAN Gateway enables the communication between physical and virtual devices using the
VXLAN protocol for VMware NSX integration.
Converged Enhanced Ethernet:
Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE 802.1Qbb) extends 802.3x flow control to allow the
switch to pause traffic that is 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 that is 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.
Monitoring:
Switch LEDs for port status and switch status indication
Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
Telemetry agent for real-time analytics: Buffer statistics and congestion drop counters
sFLOW agent for monitoring traffic in data networks (separate sFLOW analyzer required
elsewhere)
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