Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch
The Lenovo® Flex System™ EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch is a high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) embedded switch that supports the most demanding business applications. It offers advanced storage support with multiple storage connectivity options, including FCoE, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage. Clients deploying the new Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) Fabric can now extend the features to the Flex System chassis using the EN4023 switch module. It is specifically designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and dramatically simplify network architecture in virtualized data centers.
Manufacturer Part Number
47C9993
Full Product Specifications
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System specifications
The Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch has the following specifications:
- Internal ports:
- 42 internal full-duplex 10 Gigabit ports (optional Upgrade 1 and Upgrade 2 license upgrades are required to activate all ports).
- Two internal full-duplex 1 GbE ports that are connected to the chassis management module.
- External ports:
- Fourteen SFP/SFP+ports (optional Upgrade 1 or Upgrade 2 license upgrades, or both, might be required to activate all external ports depending on the configuration; see Table 2 for details).
- Base module supports 10 Gb Ethernet SFP+ transceivers (support for 10GBASE-SR or 10GBASE-LR) or SFP+ direct-attach copper (DAC) cables. SFP+ modules and DAC cables are not included and must be purchased with the switch (see Table 3).
- Upgrade 3 adds support for Flex Ports (support for 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ modules; supported FC port types include E_Port (connecting to EX_Port only), F_Port, and N_Port [Access Gateway mode]). FC SFP+ modules are not included and must be purchased with the switch, if needed (see Table 3).
- Two ports for 40 Gb Ethernet QSFP+ transceivers or QSFP+ DAC cables (ports are disabled by default; an optional FoD license is required to activate them). QSFP+ modules and DAC cables are not included and must be purchased with the switch, if needed.
- One RS-232 serial port (mini-USB connector) that provides an additional means to configure the switch module.
- Fourteen SFP/SFP+ports (optional Upgrade 1 or Upgrade 2 license upgrades, or both, might be required to activate all external ports depending on the configuration; see Table 2 for details).
- Operating system - Brocade Network OS 6.0.0
- Scalability and performance
- 40 Gbps Ethernet ports for extreme external bandwidth and performance (Optional)
- Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic
- Aggregated throughput of 1.28 Tbps
- Support for up to 160,000 MAC addresses
- Up to 4096 VLANs supported per switch
- Up to 1,024 port profiles (AMPP)
- Maximum members in a standard LAG: 64
- Maximum LAG groups in a VCS Fabric: 512
- Maximum members in which a vLAG can span: 8
- Maximum members in a vLAG: 64
- Support for jumbo frames (up to 9,216 bytes)
- Queues per port: 8
- Maximum ACLs: 13,000
- Maximum ARP entries: 32,000
- Maximum IPv4 unicast routes: 12,000
- Maximum IPv6 unicast routes: 3,000 (Hardware support)
- Layer 2 switching features:
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) RFC 826
- High availability/In-Service Software Upgrade—hardware-enabled
- IGMP v1/v2 Snooping
- MAC Learning and Aging
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) IEEE 802.3ad/802.1AX
- Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
- VLAN Encapsulation 802.1Q
- Private VLANs
- Edge loop detection (ELD)
- Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+/PVRST+)
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 802.1w
- Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s
- STP PortFast, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter
- STP Root Guard
- Layer 2 Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Pause Frames 802.3x
- Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
- Layer 3 switching features:
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4+)
- DHCP Helper
- Layer 3 ACLs
- Multicast: PIM-SIM, IGMPv2
- OSPF
- Static Routes
- IPv4/v6 ACL
- Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- 16-way ECMP
- VRF Lite
- VRF-aware OSPF, BGP, VRRP, static routes
- VRRP v2 and v3
- IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
- IPv6 ACL packet filtering
- IPv6 routing
- Wire-speed routing for IPv4 and IPv6 using any routing protocol
- Brocade VCS Fabric technology features:
- Automatic Fabric Formation
- DHCP Option 66/67 (Auto Fabric Provisioning)
- Distributed Configuration Management
- Distributed Fabric Services
- 16-way Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
- Zero-touch provisioning
- Switch Beaconing
- Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
- Transparent LAN Services
- Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) spanning
- VRRP-E
- Fabric virtual gateway
- Fibre Channel/FCoE features (requires Upgrade 3 - FCoE license)
- Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) 802.1Qbb
- Enhanced transmission Selection (ETS) 802.1Qaz
- Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)
- DCBX Application Type-Length-Value (TLV) for FCoE and iSCSI
- Multihop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); requires Brocade VCS Fabric technology
- FC-BB5 compliant Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF)
- Native FCoE forwarding
- FCoE to Fibre Channel Bridging
- FCoE on QSFP+ ports
- Flex Ports, allowing direct and SAN connectivity of Fibre Channel targets
- Multi-hop Access Gateway support
- End-to-end FCoE (initiator to target)
- FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) v1 support for FCoE device login and initialization
- Name Server-based zoning
- Supports connectivity to FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) device
- FCoE traffic over standard LAG
- Interface Binding
- Logical SANs
- Multitenancy and virtualization features:
- TRILL FGL-based VCS Virtual Fabric feature
- Brocade VCS Gateway for NSX with VMware NSX Orchestration
- Virtual fabric extension
- Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
- VM-Aware Network Automation
- BFD for virtual fabric extension
- IP storage:
- Auto QoS (automatic prioritization of IP storage traffic)
- High Availability
- ISSU L2 and L3
- BFD
- OSPF v2/v3 and OSPF3-NSR
- BGP4 & BGP4-GR
- Quality of Service (QoS):
- ACL-based QoS
- Eight priority levels for QoS
- Class of Service (CoS) IEEE 802.1p
- DSCP Trust
- DSCP to Traffic Class Mutation
- DSCP to CoS Mutation
- DSCP to DSCP Mutation
- Random Early Discard
- Per-port QoS configuration
- ACL-based Rate Limit
- Dual-rate three color token bucket
- ACL-based remarking of CoS/DSCP/Precedence
- ACL-bases sFlow
- Scheduling Strict Priority (SP), Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (DWRR), Hybrid Scheduling (Hybrid)
- Queue-based Shaping
- Flow-based QoS
- Management and control:
- IPv4/IPv6 management
- Industry standard Command Line Interface
- Netconf API
- REST API with YANG data model
- Brocade VCS Plugin for OpenStack
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IEEE 802.1AB
- Logical chassis management
- MIB II RFC 1213 MIB
- Switch Beaconing
- Management VRF
- Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN)
- Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
- Telnet
- SNMPv3 (default) and SNMPv1
- sFlow RFC 3176
- Out-of-band management
- RMON-1, RMON-2
- NTP
- Management Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Range CLI support
- UDLD
- OpenStack Neutron ML2 plugin
- Python
- Puppet
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and programmability:
- OpenFlow 1.3
- VXLAN Gateway
- REST API with YANG data model
- Puppet
- Python
- Security
- Port-based Network Access Control 802.1X
- RADIUS
- TACACS+
- Secure Shell (SSHv2)
- BPDU Drop
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
- Secure FTP (sFTP)
- Switch health monitoring
- Brocade Fabric Watch monitoring and notification
- Command-line interface (CLI) through Telnet or Secure Shell V2 (SSHv2)
- Terminal emulation program connection to the serial port interface
- Brocade Network Advisor (optional, can be purchased from Brocade)
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent