Description
Aruba 6100 24G CL4 PoE 4SFP+ Switch (Local warranty in Malaysia)
The Aruba CX 6100 Switch Series is modern family of entry level access switches ideal for enterprise branch offices and SMB networks. Optimized for reliable, simple and secure access, the CX 6100 switches provide a convenient wired access solution for enterprise networks supporting IoT, mobile and cloud applications.
The CX 6100 series is based on the Aruba ASIC architecture with the programmable AOS-CX operating system used across the entire Aruba CX portfolio for a more consistent, more efficient operator experience. This layer 2 switch series has convenient built-in high speed uplinks with up to 370W of PoE to support IoT devices such as security cameras and wireless APs, and includes a compact and fanless model ideal for use in quiet work spaces. With robust QoS, support for static routing, and IPv6, the CX 6100 also simplifies ownership with no software licensing requirements.
AOS-CX - a modern software system
The Aruba CX 6100 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that is built on a modular Linux architecture. This operating system provides the following unique capabilities:
- Easy access to all network configuration state information
- REST APIs for fine-grained programmability of network tasks
- A micro-services architecture that enables full integration with other workflow systems and services
- All software processes communicate with the database rather than each other, ensuring near real-time state and resiliency
Aruba ASICs - programmable innovation
Based on over 30 years of continuous investment, Aruba’s ASICs create the basis for innovative and agile software feature advancements, unparalleled performance and deep visibility. These programmable ASICs are purpose-built
to allow for a tighter integration of switch hardware and software within campus and data center architectures to optimize performance and capacity. The Aruba CX 6100 is based on the Aruba ASIC architecture.
Mobility and IoT performance
The Aruba CX 6100 Switch Series uses internally developed
Aruba ASICs that provide very low latency, increased packet
buffering, and adaptive power consumption. Each switch
includes the following:
- Up to 176 Gbps in non-blocking bandwidth and up to 98.6 Mpps for forwarding
- Selectable queue configurations that allow for increased performance by defining a number of queues and associated memory buffering to best meet the requirements of network applications
Simplify adds, moves and changes
Reduce manual IT operation tasks around initial deployment or on-going configuration changes to accommodate adds, moves and changes with colorless ports using local user roles and local-MAC-Authentication (LMA). Instead of statically pre-configuring access ports to VLANs and maintaining the switch port to VLAN mapping, colorless ports can automatically apply the role/policy required.
Resiliency and availability
To support a highly-available Layer 2 access deployment, the CX 6100 supports the following features:
- Uni-directional Link Detection (UDLD) to monitor link connectivity and shut down ports at both ends if uni directional traffic is detected, preventing loops in STPbased networks
- IEEE 802.3ad LACP supports up to 8 LAGs, each with up to 8 links per LAG; and provides support for static or dynamic groups and a user-selectable hashing algorithm
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree provides high link availability in VLAN environments where multiple spanning trees are required; and legacy support for IEEE 802.1d and IEEE 802.1w
Quality of Service (QoS) features
To support congestion actions and traffic prioritization, the CX 6100 includes the following:
- Strict priority (SP) queuing
- Traffic prioritization (IEEE 802.1p) for real-time classification
- Class of Service (CoS) sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on IP address, IP Type of Service (ToS), Layer 3 protocol, TCP/UDP port number, source port, and DiffServ
- Rate limiting sets per-port ingress enforced maximums and per-port, per-queue minimums
- Large buffers for graceful congestion management
Simplified configuration and management
The CX 6100 series supports a choice of management interfaces including Aruba NetEdit, easy to use Web GUI, and industry standard CLI. Supported in a future release of cloud-based Aruba Central for unified network operations of wired, WLAN, SD-WAN, and public cloud infrastructure.
Features include:
- Built-in programmable and easy-to-use REST API interface
- Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure for reduced training time and expense. Delivers increased productivity in multivendor environments
- sFlow (RFC 3176) is ASIC-based wire speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; network operators can gather a variety of network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-time network monitoring purposes
- Management security restricts access to critical configuration commands, provides multiple privilege levels with password protection and local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
- SNMPv1/v2c/v3 support provides Read capability of industry standard Management Information Base (MIB), and private extensions
- Remote monitoring (RMON) with standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions. Supports events, alarms, history, and statistics groups as well as a private alarm extension group
- TFTP and SFTP support offers different mechanisms for configuration updates; trivial FTP (TFTP) allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/ IP network; Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over an SSH tunnel to provide additional security
- Debug and sampler utility supports ping and traceroute for IPv4 and IPv6
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-dependent devices within the network so the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time
- IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network, facilitating easy mapping by network management applications
- Dual flash images provides independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading
- Multiple configuration files can be stored to a flash image
- Unidirectional link detection (UDLD) monitors the link between two switches and blocks the ports on both ends of the link if the link goes down at any point between the two devices
Specifications
| Product Description | HPE Aruba 6100 24G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ - switch - 28 ports - managed - rack-mountable |
| Device Type | Switch - 28 ports - L3 - managed - stackable |
| Enclosure Type | Side to side airflow rack-mountable 1U |
| Subtype | 10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Ports | 24 x 10/100/1000 + 4 x 1 Gigabit / 10 Gigabit SFP+ |
| Power Over Ethernet (PoE) | PoE+ |
| PoE Budget | 370 W |
| Performance | Switching capacity: 128 Gbps |
| Throughput: 95.2 Mpps | |
| Latency (1 Gbps): 1.5 µs | |
| Latency (10 Gbps): 1.8 µs | |
| Capacity | Switched virtual interfaces (SVIs): 16 |
| ARP entries: 1024 | |
| IPv4 routes (Unicast): 512 | |
| IPv6 routes (Unicast): 512 | |
| IGMP groups: 512 | |
| MLD groups: 512 | |
| IPv4 ACL entries (ingress): 256 | |
| IPv6 ACL entries (ingress): 128 | |
| MAC ACL entries (ingress): 256 | |
| MAC Address Table Size | 8192 entries |
| Routing Protocol | IGMPv2, IGMPv3 |
| Features | Flow control, BOOTP support, ARP support, VLAN support, DiffServ support, IPv6 support, SNTP support, sFlow, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) support, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) support, MLD snooping, LACP support, LLDP support, port based access control, DHCP client, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Management Information Base (MIB), Network Access Control (NAC), Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), SNMP support, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), EntityMIB, DNS client, LLDP-MED, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree (RSTP), IPv6 addressing |
| Compliant Standards | IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.3at, IEEE 802.3az |
| Power | AC 230 V (50/60 Hz) |
| Dimensions (WxDxH) | 44.2 cm x 26.82 cm x 4.39 cm |
| Weight | 4.19 kg |
| Manufacturer Warranty | Limited lifetime warranty |
Aruba CX 6100 Switch Series Datasheet
Aruba switch warranty and support summary