HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325H 18p SFP28 25G 4p QSFP28 100G Back-to-Front 4xFan 2xPSU TAA Switch

HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325H 18p SFP28 25G 4p QSFP28 100G Back-to-Front 4xFan 2xPSU TAA Switch, Managed, L3, Rack mounting, 1U

Reasons To Buy

Game-changing business agility

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series is a campus core and aggregation switch and data center (ToR) solution with an innovative and powerful approach to dealing with the cross-domain demands of the mobile, cloud, and IoT era.
It is fully programmable with the HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX) and, it brings automation and visibility and helps troubleshoot through simple scripting.
HPE Aruba Networking CX Network Analytics Engine provides the ability to monitor and troubleshoot the network, system, application and security-related issues easily, through simple Python agents and REST APIs.
It offers high-speed fully distributed architecture with 6.4 Tbps of switching capacity. It provides robust security and QoS with advanced layer 2 and layer 3 features including support for BGP, OSPF, VRF, EVPN, VXLAN and IGMP.
The CX 8325H helps balance density, high-availability, and affordability by conserving rack space and costs when deploying server, storage and HCI solutions making it ideal for compute and storage networking use cases where lower-density networking I/O and/or limited rack space are required.

Modern software system simplifies and automates

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series is based on the new HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX), a modern software system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks.
The built-in time series database enables customers and developers to develop software modules for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of historical trends, to predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks.
The HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX) features are organized into CX Foundational and CX Advanced software licenses.
It includes stability, independent monitoring and restart of individual software modules, and enhanced software process serviceability functions. It also allows individual software modules to be upgraded for higher availability.
Every CX switch includes AOS-CX at no cost and with an active, perpetual set of native features that has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network.

High performance and high availability

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series includes a high-speed, fully distributed architecture and provides up to 6.4 Tbps for bidirectional switching and 2000 Mpps for forwarding. All switching and routing are wire-speed to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications.
The HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) is a high-availability technology, which has been designed from the ground up to deliver continuous availability, virtualization, and simplicity requirements. Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and fans provide additional resiliency.
The compact 1U switch delivers line rate 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE with very low latency. Optimize for your deployment with models that provide 48 ports of 1/10/25 GbE plus 8 ports of 40/100GbE or 32 ports of 40/100GbE.
The CX 8325P-32C switch delivers Advanced Layer 3 including OSPF, BGP, VXLAN and breakouts to support up to 128 ports of 10G and 25G.
The CX 8325H switch delivers high-performance, high density 1/10/25/40/100GbE connectivity half-width, in a single RU form factor. Throughput of 2.16 Tbps with 18 ports of 1/10/25GbE and 4 ports of 40/100GbE and throughput of 4 Tbps with 16 ports of 40/100GbE.

New HPE Aruba Networking data center solutions

HPE Aruba Networking offers customers highly differentiated pre-engineered IT infrastructure solutions that span a wide variety HPE Compute, HPE Storage, HPE Networking that span virtualization, vSAN, HCI, HPC, MCS, Microsoft, SAP HANA, VMware, Nutanix application and IaaS service offerings.
HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, both 10/25G and 40/100G, can be deployed as part of these solutions and are often designed into these integrated solutions along with HPE platforms and servers.
These ready-to-deploy, integrated IT DCN solutions simplify and speed IT service, reduce time, risk, and expertise needed to deploy complex solutions. Use the new tracking SKUs (R9FXXX) when including CX switches in HPE integrated and mixed compute, storage, networking configuration and deployments.
The CX 8325P switches provide greater flexibility to help ensure a range of deployment models by allowing 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G computing deployments, while providing greater interoperability with key HPE Telco solutions.
The CX 8325H switches enable low-latency and “lossless” network QoS and connectivity characteristics that storage requires. Ideal for software-defined storage and HCI solutions, where multiple servers share captive (SSD/flash-based) storage resources.

Description

HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325H 18p SFP28 25G 4p QSFP28 100G Back-to-Front 4xFan 2xPSU TAA Switch. Switch type: Managed, Switch layer: L3. Switching capacity: 2160 Gbit/s. Networking standards: IEEE 802.1AX, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.1ak, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE.... Rack mounting, Form factor: 1U

Specifications

Management features
Switch layer	L3
Switch type	Managed
Quality of Service (QoS) support	Yes
Multicast support	Yes
Cloud-managed	Yes
Ports & interfaces
Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports quantity	0
Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type	No
Installed SFP modules quantity	0
Installed SFP+ modules quantity	0
SFP+ module slots quantity	2
Fiber ports quantity	24
Fiber optic connector	QSFP28, SFP+, SFP28
QSFP28 ports quantity	4
SFP28 ports quantity	18
Network
Networking standards	IEEE 802.1AX, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.1ak, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1t, IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3z
Number of VLANs	4040
VLAN support	Yes
Spanning tree protocol	Yes
Port mirroring	Yes
Link aggregation	Yes
Flow control support	Yes
Ethernet LAN data rates	1000,10000,25000,40000,100000 Mbit/s
10G support	Yes
Virtual LAN features	Private VLAN
IGMP snooping	Yes
Data transmission
Switching capacity	2160 Gbit/s
Throughput	1000 Mpps
Jumbo frames support	Yes
Packet buffer memory	32 MB
Number of VLANs	4040
Security
SSH/SSL support	Yes
IGMP snooping	Yes
Access Control List (ACL)	Yes
Authentication type	RADIUS, TACACS+
DHCP features	DHCP relay, DHCP server
Multicast features
Multicast support	Yes
Protocols
Management protocols	SNMP v2c, SNMP v3, RMON
Routing protocols	BGP, BGP4, OSPF, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPng, VRRP
Design
Rack mounting	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Form factor	1U
Airflow direction	Back-to-front airflow
Number of fans	4 fan(s)
Performance
Internal memory	32000 MB
Built-in processor	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Packet buffer memory	32 MB
Power
Power supply included	Yes
AC input voltage	100 - 240 V
AC input frequency	50/60 Hz
Power consumption (max)	500 W
Number of power supply units	2
Power consumption note	Maximum: 500 W, 1705 BTU/hr Idle: 100 W, 341 BTU/h
Power source	AC
Power supply note	Fixed
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Power over Ethernet (PoE)	No
Other features
Performance management	Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure; SNMP v2c/v3; sFlow (RFC 3176); Remote monitoring (RMON); Precision Time Protocol (PTP Class C (G.8275.1/.2)
Memory and processor	CPU: AMD x86 8-core processor Memory: 32 GB, 120 GB SSD Packet Buffer: 32 MB
Fan	4 fixed fans (N+1)
I/O ports	(18) 25G SFP28 ports and (4) 100G QSFP28 ports and (2) 10 SFP+ ports
Ethernet LAN data rates	1000,10000,25000,40000,100000 Mbit/s
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 45 °C
Heat dissipation	1705 BTU/h
Virtual LAN features
Number of VLANs	4040
VLAN support	Yes
Virtual LAN features	Private VLAN
Weight & dimensions
Depth	17.3" (438.4 mm)
Optical fiber
Fiber optic connector	QSFP28, SFP+, SFP28