Dell EMC Mx9116n Fabric Switching Engine

MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine Specification Sheet

Dell EMC MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine High-performance, scalable 25 Gigabit Ethernet fabric switch with multi-chassis fabric scaling capabilities for the PowerEdge MX platform

The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching MX Scalable Fabric Architecture Engine is a scalable, high-performance, low latency 25Gbps Ethernet switch purpose-built for the PowerEdge™ The MX Scalable Fabric Architecture allows the MX9116n MX platform providing enhanced capabilities and cost- to seamlessly support up to 80 MX compute sleds and 10 effectiveness for the enterprise, mid-market, Tier 2 cloud MX7000 chassis via the ultra-low latency MX7116n Fabric and NFV service providers with demanding compute and Expander Module. storage traffic environments. SmartFabric OS10 Delivering industry leading performance in a modular The Dell EMC Networking SmartFabric OS10 is a Network switch, the non-blocking switching architecture in the Operating System supporting multiple architectures and MX9116n provides line-rate 25GbE L2 and L3 forwarding environments. The networking world is moving from a capacity to all connected servers with no oversubscription monolithic stack to a pick-your-own-world. The OS10 and a sub 450ns latency. In addition to 16 internal 25GbE solution is designed to allow multi-layered disaggregation ports, the MX9116n provides four QSFP28 100GbE of network functionality. While OS10 contributions to Open ports for uplinks and twelve QSFP28-Double Density Source provide users freedom and flexibility to pick their ports. These QSFP28-DD ports provide capacity for own 3rd party networking, monitoring, management and additional uplinks, ICLs, connections to rack servers orchestration applications, OS10 bundles an industry at 10GbE or 25GbE via breakout cables, and fabric hardened networking stack featuring standard L2 and L3 expansion connections for up to 9 additional MX7000 protocols over a standard and well accepted CLI interface. chassis. SmartFabric Services Maximum performance and functionality Included in OS10, SmartFabric Services provides single The Dell EMC Networking MX9116n is a high-performance, pane of glass management and automation across multifunction, 25GbE Fabric Switching Engine purpose- every fabric in a PowerEdge MX deployment, up to the built for applications in demanding data center, cloud and 20 chassis Multi-Chassis Management group limit*. computing environments. The MX9116n also supports the SmartFabric Services key features include: open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of alternate operating systems in • I/O Aggregation to simplify connectivity to existing future releases. networks Built-in convergence capabilities • Integration of VLAN and automated QoS settings with Server Deployment Template The MX9116n is fully IEEE data center bridging (DCB) compliant, supporting iSCSI, NAS, and FCoE transit. Two • Fabric-wide firmware upgrades and configuration of the QSFP28 ports can support eight 32Gb Fibre Channel consistency checks connections (4 per QSFP28), enabling direct attachment • Automatic topology validation – detects physical of a FC storage array and as a NPIV Proxy Gateway to an topology misconfigurations and provides corrective existing FC SAN. guidance • Automatically heals fabric upon failure condition removal

Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Spec Sheet © 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Key applications Key features with OS10 • Organizations looking to enter the software- • Consistent DevOps framework across compute, defined data center era with a choice of networking storage and networking elements technologies designed to deliver the flexibility they • Standard networking features, interfaces and scripting need functions for legacy network operations integration • Native high-density 25 GbE server access in high- • Standards-based switching hardware abstraction via performance data center environments Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) • 25 GbE backward compatible to 10G and 1G for future • Pervasive, unrestricted developer environment via proofing and data center server migration to faster Control Plane Services (CPS) uplink speeds • Open and programmatic management interface via • Capability to support 25G and 10G rack mount servers Common Management Services (CMS) • iSCSI storage deployment including DCB converged • OS10 software enables Dell EMC layer 2 and3 lossless transactions switching and routing protocols with integrated IP • Suitable as a ToR or Leaf switch in 100G leaf/spine Services, CLOS Fabric implementations • Quality of Service, Manageability and Automation Key features features • Up to 6.4Tbps of switching I/O bandwidth (full duplex) • Platform agnostic via standard hardware abstraction available and non-blocking switching fabric delivering layer (OCP-SAI) line-rate performance under full load with sub 450ns • Unmodified Linux kernel and unmodified Linux latency distribution • Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet switching with QoS and • Leverage common open source tools and best- a full complement of standards-based IPv4 and IPv6 practices (data models, commit rollbacks) features, including OSPF and BGP routing support • Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet Switching with QoS, ACL • Up to eight 32Gb Fibre Channel connections and a full complement of standards based IPv4 and supporting both NPG and Direct Attach FC IPv6 features including OSPF, BGP and PBR configurations • Enhanced mirroring capabilities including local • L2 multipath support via Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) mirroring, Remote Port Mirroring (RPM), and and multiple VLT (mVLT) multi-chassis link aggregation Encapsulated Remote Port Mirroring (ERPM) technology • Converged network support for DCB, with priority flow • NVMe-oF ready to support the next generation of high control performance storage • (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV • Jumbo frame support for large data transfers • Rogue NIC control provides hardware-based protection • 128 link aggregation groups with up to sixteen from NICS sending out excessive pause frames members per group, using enhanced hashing • Converged network support for DCB, with priority flow control • (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV support • Supports Routable RoCE to enable convergence of compute and storage

MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine Transceiver, 2x100/2x80GbE Multi-rate, 2SR4 QSFP28-DD Transceiver, 2x100GbE, 2SR4 QSFP28-DD Transceiver, 2x40GbE, 2SR4 QSFP28-DD Transceiver, 100GbE, SR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, LR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, ESR4 QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, PSM4 500m QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, CWDM4 2Km QSFP28 Transceiver, 100GbE, SWDM4 100m QSFP28 Optics Transceiver, 100GbE, BIDI optic QSFP28 Transceiver, 40GbE, SR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, eSR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, LR4 optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, BIDI optic QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, PSM4 10Km QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, LM4 Duplex QSFP+ Transceiver, 40GbE, SM4 Duplex QSFP+ Transceiver, 4x32G FC SW optic QSFP28 Transceiver, 4x16G FC SW optic QSFP+ 2x 100GbE, QSFP28-DD to QSFP28-DD, active optical, passive DAC 2x 100GbE, QSFP28-DD to 2xQSFP28, active optical, passive DAC 2x 100GbE, QSFP28-DD to 8xSFP28 (8x10/25GbE), active optical, passive DAC 2x 100GbE, MPO12-DD to MPO12-DD optical 2x 100GbE, MPO12DD to 2xMPO12 optical breakout 2x 100GbE, MPO12DD to 8xLC optical breakout 2x 40GbE, QSFP28-DD to 2xQSFP+, active optical, passive DAC Cables 2x 40GbE, QSFP28-DD to 8xSFP+ (8x10/10GbE), active optical, passive DAC 100GbE, QSFP28 to QSFP28, active optical, passive DAC 100GbE, QSFP28 to 4xSFP28 (4x10/25GbE), active optical, passive DAC 100GbE, MTP to MTP optical 100GbE, MTP to 4xLC optical breakout 40GbE, QSFP+ to QSFP+, active optical & passive DAC 40GbE, QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ (4x10GbE), active optical & passive DAC SmartFabric OS10 Software Select third-party operating system offerings (future)

Technical specifications

Physical Performance 802.3x Flow Control Full featured 25/100GE switch in PowerEdge Switching I/O bandwidth: 6.4Tbps MX Fabric A/B I/O sled form factor Forwarding capacity: 2380 Mpps Layer2 Protocols 1 USB 2.0 type A storage port Latency: Sub 450ns 802.1D Compatible 1 micro USB type B port for console/ MAC addresses: 137K 802.1p L2 Prioritization management port access IPv4 Unicast routes: 130K 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Indicators: IPv6 Unicast routes: 130K 802.1s MSTP Power/Health LED ARP entries: 48K 802.1w RSTP ID LED Layer 2 VLANs: 60K P*V in Full Switch mode 802.1t RPVST+ Link/activity LEDs Layer 3 VLANs: 30K P*V in Full Switch mode 7348 VxLAN Size: 1.18”h x 17.11”w x 10.94”d MST: 32 instances Weight: 8.49lbs (3.85kg) PVST+: 128 instances VLT (Virtual Link Trunking) Max. power consumption: 260 Watts w/5W LAG: 128 groups, 16 members per LAG group VRRP Active/Active QSFP28-DD Optics ACL Entries-Layer 2 Egress: 1020 RSTP, MSTP, RPVST+ Typ. power consumption: 237 Watts w/5W ACL Entries-Layer 2 Ingress: 767 Port Mirroring on VLT ports QSFP28-DD Optics ACL Entries-IPv4 Egress: 767 DCB, iSCSI, FSB on VLT Max. operating specifications: ACL Entries-IPv4 Ingress: 767 RPM/ERPM over VLT Standard Operating Temperature 10°C to ACL Entries-IPv6 Egress: 512 VLT Minloss upgrade 35°C (50°F to 95°F) ACL Entries-IPv6 Ingress: 767 VxLAN with VLT Operating Relative Humidity 5% to 85%, iSCSI Number of sessions: 256 ICMP/MLD snooping over VLT noncondensing Jumbo Frames: 9K PIM SM/SSM over VLT Max. non-operating specifications: Storage temperature: -40°C to 65°C (-40°F to IEEE Compliance RFC Compliance 149°F) 802.1AB LLDP 768 UDP Storage humidity: 5 to 95% (RH), TIA-1057 LLDP-MED 793 TCP noncondensing 802.3ad Link Aggregation 854 Telnet 802.1D Bridging, STP 959 FTP Expanded Operating Temperature, Continuous 802.1p L2 Prioritization 1321 MD5 Operation: Not Supported 802.1Q VLAN Tagging 1350 TFTP 802.1Qbb PFC 2474 Differentiated Services Redundancy Redundant Power and Cooling provided by Dell 802.1Qaz ETS 2698 Two Rate Three Color Marker EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis 802.1X Network Access Control 3164 Syslog 802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN 4254 SSHv2 Tagging 3 Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Spec Sheet © 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Technical specifications

General IPv4 Protocols 2796 Route Reflection Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD) 791 IPv4 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions 3rd party packages support on Docker 792 ICMP 2918 Route Refresh Container 826 ARP 3065 Confederations 1027 Proxy ARP 4271 BGP-4 Quality of Service 1035 DNS (client) 4360 Extended Communities Prefix List 1042 Ethernet Transmission 4893 4-byte ASN Route-Map 1191 Path MTU Discovery 5396 4-byte ASN Representation Rate Shaping (Egress) 1305 NTPv4 5492 Capabilities Advertisement Rate Policing (Ingress) 1519 CIDR 5549 BGP Unnumbered Scheduling Algorithms 1812 Routers, Static Routes BGP ADD PATH Round Robin 1858 IP Fragment Filtering BGP to OSPF route distribution Weighted Round Robin 2131 DCHPv4 (server and relay) BGP EVPN Deficit Round Robin 5798 VRRPv3 L2 & L3 Gateway with VxLAN Tunnels Strict Priority 3021 31-bit Prefixes BGP EVPN Asymmetric IRB Weighted Random Early Detect 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers Symmetric IRB 1918 Address Allocation for Private Type 5 Routes Data center bridging Internets 802.1Qbb Priority-Based Flow Control 2474 Diffserv Field in IPv4 and Ipv6 Linux Distribution 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Headers Debian Linux version 8 Selection (ETS) 3195 Reliable Delivery for Syslog Linux Kernel 3.16 Explicit Congestion Notification 3246 Expedited Forwarding PHB Group Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBx) MIBS DCBx Application TLV (iSCSI, FCoE) General IPv6 Protocols BRIDGE-MIB RoCEv2 1981 Path MTU for IPv6 ENTITY-MIB 2372 IPv6 Addressing EtherLike-MIB Fibre Channel 2460 IPv6 Protocol Specification HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB FIP Snooping 2461 Neighbor Discovery IEEE8021-PFC-MIB 2462 Stateless Address AutoConfig IEEE8023-LAG-MIB Regulatory compliance 2463 ICMPv6 IF-MIB Safety 2464 Ethernet Transmission IP-FORWARD-MIB UL/CSA 60950-1, Second Edition 2675 IPv6 Jumbograms IP-MIB EN 60950-1, Second Edition 3493 Basic Socket Interface LLDP-EXT-DOT1-MIB IEC 60950-1, Second Edition Including all 3542 Advanced Socket, API LLDP-EXT-DOT3-MIB National Deviations and Group Differences 3587 Global Unicast Address Format LLDP-MIB EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products Part 1: 3848 Default Address Selection OSPF-MIB Equipment Classification Requirements and 4291 IPv6 Addressing OSPFV3-MIB User’s Guide 3633 DHCPv6 Relay Q-BRIDGE-MIB (Get) EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products Part 2: IPv6 Static Routes RFC1213-MIB Safety of Optical Fiber Communication 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets SFLOW-MIB Systems over Ethernet Networks SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB FDA Regulation 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11 2711 IPv6 Router Alert SNMP-MPD-MIB 4007 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture SNMPv2-MIB Emissions & Immunity 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 TCP-MIB Australia/New Zealand: AS/NZS CISPR Hosts and Routers UDP-MIB 32:2015, Class A SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB Canada: ICES-3/NMB-3, Class A OSPF (v2/v3) SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB Europe: EN 55024:2010 (CISPR 24:2010), 1745 OSPF/BGP interaction SNMP-TARGET-MIB Class A 1765 OSPF Database overflow Japan: VCCI V-3/2010.04 Class A 2154 OSPF with Digital Signatures Network Management and Monitoring USA: FCC CFR 47 Part 15, Subpart B:2011, 2328 OSPFv2 SNMPv1/v2c/v3 Class A Immunity 2370 Opaque LSA IPv4/IPv6 Management support EN 300 386 V1.6.1 EMC for Network Equipment 3101 OSPF NSSA (Telnet, FTP, TACACS, RADIUS, SSH, EN 55024:2010 4552 OSPFv3 Authentication NTP) EN 61000-3-2: Harmonic Current Emissions Port Mirroring EN 61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker Multicast RPM/ERPM EN 61000-4-2: ESD 2236 IGMPv2 Snooping 3176 SFlow EN 61000-4-3: Radiated Immunity 3810 MLDv2 Snooping Support Assist (Phone Home) EN 61000-4-4: EFT RestConf APIs, Auto-docs EN 61000-4-5: Surge Security XML Schema EN 61000-4-6: Low Frequency Conducted 1492 TACACS (Authentication, Accounting, CLI Commit (Scratchpad) Immunity Authorization) Uplink Failure Detection 2865 RADIUS Object Tracking RoHS 3162 RADIUS and IPv6 FarEnd Failure Detection EN 50581:2012 All MX9116n components are 3579 RADIUS support for EAP Bidirectional Forwarding Detection EU 3580 802.1X with RADIUS (BFD) – BGPv4/6, OSPFv2/3, Static RoHS compliant 3826 AES Cipher in SNMP Routes Control Plane, VTY ACLS Streaming Telemetry IP Access Control Lists System, Buffers, Data monitoring gRPC Transport with gPB encoding BGP 1997 Communities Automation 2385 MD5 Control Plane Services APIs 2439 Route Flap Damping Linux Utilities and Scripting Tools 2545 BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for CLI Automation (Multiline Alias) IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack

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