HP ProCurve 6600 Switch

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The HP ProCurve 6600 Switch Series consists of the most advanced data center server edge switches in the HP ProCurve Networking product line. The 6600 series includes 1U 10/100/1000Base-T and 10-GbE SFP+ stackables enhanced for server edge connectivity with front-to-back cooling, redundant hot-swappable power, and redundant hot-swappable fans. The foundation for all of these switches is a purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC that allows the most demanding networking features, such as Quality of Service (QoS) and security, to be implemented in a scalable yet granular fashion. With a variety of connectivity interfaces and expanded buffering, the 6600 switches offer excellent investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well as ease of deployment and reduced operational expense


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Performance

• High-speed/capacity architecture: based on the purpose-built ProVision ASICs to provide superior system performance and scalability.
• Selectable queue configurations: increase performance by selecting the number of queues and associated memory buffering that best meet the requirements of your network applications.

Resiliency and high availability

• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and ProCurve trunking: 12345 support up to 60 trunks, each with up to 8 links (ports) per trunk; trunking across modules is supported.
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree: provides high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees; provides legacy support for IEEE 802.1d and IEEE 802.1w.
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol: VRRP allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments.
• Server-to-switch distributed trunking: allows a server to connect to two switches with one logical trunk that consists of multiple physical connections; enables load-balancing and increases resiliency.
• Sparing simplicity: common power supplies, fan trays, and transceivers are used among the 6600 series products.

Connectivity

• IPv6: IPv6 host: the switches can be managed and deployed at the edge of IPv6 networks: Dual stack (IPv4/IPv6); provides transition mechanism from IPv4 to IPv6; supports connectivity for both protocols: MLD snooping; forwards IPv6 multicast traffic to the appropriate interface; prevents IPv6 multicast traffic from flooding the network: IPv6 ACL/QoS: supports ACL and QoS for IPv6 network traffic;
• Auto-MDIX: automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100/1000 ports.
• Jumbo frames: on Gigabit and 10-Gigabit ports, allow high-performance remote backup and disaster-recovery services.

Layer 2 switching

• ProCurve switch meshing: dynamically load-balances across multiple active redundant links to increase available aggregate bandwidth.
• GARP VLAN Registration Protocol: allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs.
• IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q (requires Premium License): increases the scalability of Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure; connects multiple LANs on high-speed campus or metro network.
• IEEE 802.1v protocol VLANs: isolate select non-IPv4 protocols automatically into their own VLANs.

Layer 3 routing

• RIP: provides RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing.
• Static IP routing: provides manually configured routing; includes ECMP capability.
• OSPF (requires Premium License): includes host-based ECMP to provide link redundancy/scalable bandwidth and NSSA.

Quality of Service

• Layer 4 prioritization: enables prioritization based on TCP/UDP port numbers.
• Class of Service: sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on IP address, IP Type of Service (ToS), L3 protocol, TCP/UDP port number, source port, and DiffServ.
• Bandwidth shaping: Port-based rate limiting: per-port ingress/egress enforced maximum bandwidth; Classifier-based rate limiting: use ACL to enforce maximum bandwidth for ingress traffic on each port; Guaranteed minimum: per-port, per-queue egress-based guaranteed minimum bandwidth.
• Advanced classifier-based QoS: classifies traffic using multiple match criteria based on L2/3/4 information; applies QoS policies such as setting priority level and rate limit to selected traffic per port or per VLAN.
• Traffic prioritization: allows real-time traffic classification into eight priority levels mapped to eight queues.

Security

• Source-port filtering: allows only specified ports to communicate with each other.
• RADIUS/TACACS+: eases switch management security administration by using a password authentication server.
• Secure Shell (SSHv2): encrypts all transmitted data for secure, remote command-line interface (CLI) access over IP networks.
• Port security: allows access only to specified MAC addresses, which can be learned or specified by the administrator.
• MAC address lockout: prevents configured particular MAC addresses from connecting to the network.