H3C S6813 & S6812 Series Next-Generation High-Performance Data Center Ethernet Switches Managed Layer 3 Switches for Cloud, Virtualization, Spine-Leaf Architecture and Enterprise Data Center

The rapid growth of data center virtualization deployments, commercial deployment of 10-gigabit servers, and high-bandwidth applications have all accelerated the demand for 100GE, 40GE, and 10-gigabit networks. The H3C S6813-48X6C and S6812-48X6C support 48 100Gbps ports and 6 100GE QSFP28 ports. The S6813-24X6C and S6812-24X6C support 24 100Gbps ports and 6 100GE QSFP28 ports.

Facing the application needs of unified switching architectures in data centers, series switches support IRF2 (Second Generation Intelligent Resilient Architecture) technology, virtualizing multiple devices into a single logical device. They offer strong advantages in scalability, reliability, overall architecture, and availability, mainly reflected in four aspects:

Scalability: IRF2 technology allows switches to expand multiple devices using interconnected cables; It offers the advantages of plug-and-play, single IP management, and synchronized upgrades, while greatly reducing the cost of system expansion.

Reliability: Through routing hot backup technology, redundant backup and uninterrupted three-layer forwarding of all information on the control plane and data plane are realized throughout the entire IRF2 group, greatly enhancing the reliability and high performance of the IRF2 group, eliminating single points of failure and avoiding business interruptions.

Distribution: Through distributed link aggregation technology, load sharing and mutual backup across multiple uplinks are achieved, thereby improving the overall network architecture redundancy and link resource utilization.

Availability: Intelligent elastic architecture is implemented through standard 10G Ethernet interfaces, allowing allocation of service bandwidth and system connection bandwidth according to demand, reasonably allocating local and uplink traffic; It can not only realize long-distance intelligent elastic architectures within racks, across racks, and even across regions.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support the VXLAN protocol, enabling the establishment of a flexible, easily scalable high-performance Layer 2 network architecture and a cloud data center that supports dynamic migration of server virtual machines. As high-performance hardware gateways for overlay virtualized network VXLAN, they support multi-tenant data center operation networks and integrate with the H3C cloud management platform, enabling the construction of a new generation of flexible, efficient, on-demand, highly reliable, and highly scalable next-generation data centers.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support a wide range of data center features. Supports FCoE technology to carry FC packets over Ethernet, allowing FC SAN networks and Ethernet LAN networks to share the same network infrastructure. Supports packet-loss features in data centers such as PFC, ETS, and DCBX, meeting the low-latency and packet-free requirements of FC storage and high-performance computing services.

Software Defined Network (SDN) is an innovative network architecture system. Its core technology, Openflow, separates the control layer and data forwarding layer of the network, greatly simplifying the difficulty of network management and maintenance. More importantly, it enables flexible control of network traffic, providing an excellent network platform for innovation in core networks and applications. The S6813 & S6812 series switches can be combined with multiple Openflow controllers to implement SDN solutions.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support DCB (Data Center Bridging) and stacked ISSU and OAM (Operation, Management, and Maintenance), fully meeting the data center's requirements for high-performance equipment.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support data center Puppet, Chef, and Ansible features, enabling automated operation and maintenance management of data centers.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support M-LAG (Multichassis Link Aggregation Group) cross-device link aggregation technology (formerly DRNI technology). By virtualizing two physical devices as one device at the forwarding level, cross-device link aggregation is achieved, maintaining control independence and thereby improving single-board level reliability to device-level reliability.

M-LAG decouples the control plane from the data layer, allowing each node device to upgrade independently to ensure zero interruption in user services.

Dual-active device access provides device-level redundancy protection and traffic load sharing, while also improving system reliability.

Suitable for overlay and traditional underlay scenarios, offering flexible networking.

To better support the air duct design of data centers, the S6813 & S6812 series switches offer users more flexible duct solutions. While achieving front and rear air ducts, users can also select different fan boxes to achieve different wind directions (from front to back or back to front).

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support L2 (Layer 2)~L4 (Layer 4) packet filtering, providing stream classification based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, source IP address, destination IP address, TCP/UDP port number, protocol type, and VLAN.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches feature multiple reliability protections at both the device and link levels. Equipped with overcurrent, overvoltage, and overheat protection technologies, all models support pluggable redundant power modules, meaning AC or DC power modules can be flexibly configured according to actual environmental needs. Additionally, the entire unit supports fault detection and alarms for power supply and fans, automatically adjusting fan speed according to temperature changes. These designs give the device high reliability.

In addition to device-level reliability, the S6813 & S6812 series switches also support a wide range of link-level reliability technologies, such as VRRPE. When the network is loaded with multiple services and heavy traffic, it does not affect network convergence time, ensuring normal business operations.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support a wide range of management interfaces, such as console ports, USB ports, and out-of-band management ports.

Supports SNMPv1/v2/v3 (Simple Network Management Protocol), supporting industry-standard network management platforms as well as iMC intelligent management centers. Supports CLI command line, Telnet, FTP, and encryption methods such as SSH2.0 and SSL, making management more secure.

Supports the standard Netconf interface, providing a programmable method for configuring and managing network devices. This makes it very convenient for third-party software development, meeting users' demands for openness and flexibility in devices.

Supports sFlow functionality, allowing for detailed packet statistics, SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN images and multiple image observation ports, allowing network traffic analysis to implement management and maintenance measures, making previously invisible network business application traffic clear at a glance. It provides users with various network flow analysis reports to help optimize network structure and adjust resource deployment in a timely manner.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches support AAA and RADIUS authentication, and enable dynamic or static binding of user identification elements such as user accounts, IP, MAC, VLAN, and ports; Supports real-time management of online users in cooperation with H3C's iMC platform, enabling timely diagnosis and dismantling of illegal online activities.

The S6813 & S6812 series switches provide enhanced ACL control logic, support large-capacity incoming and outgoing port ACLs, and support VLAN-based ACL issuance, simplifying user configuration while avoiding ACL resource waste.