2021 H3C HSE Training
Data Center Switches
CONTENTS 1. H3C DC Switch Market Positioning
2. DC Switch Product Overview
3. DC Switch Key Features
4. Typical DC Scenarios
H3C DC Switch Market Positioning
H3C DC Switch Market Positioning
Gartner The Forrester Wave™
H3C 2020
H3C 2019
Magic Quadrant for Data Center and Cloud Open, Programmable Switches For A
Networking,2020 Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020
DC Switch Product Overview
DC Switch Family Album
Chassis Switch Compact 40/100GE Modular 10GE/25GE ToR
Chassis Switch
HB LPU
Mainstream, 10G/40G/100G
AD-DC Solution Recommended
S12504X-AF S12516X-AF S12508X-AF
HF LPU
Big Entry, 2M IPv4 FIB，DCI
Chassis Switch
CLOS Orthogonal Middle Plane Free Front-Back AF Innovative Design Non Blocking Switch
48 Port 100GE Daughter Card Design
Compact & Modular Switch
100GE 40GE
Compact
S9850-32H S9820-64H S6800-32Q-H1
Modular
Modular Switch with Interface Card
S6800-2C S6800-4C S6850-2C S9850-4C
8-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card 8-Port QSFP28 Ethernet Optical Interface Card
24-Port SFP Plus and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card
16-Port QSFP Plus Ethernet Optical Interface Card
with MACSec
24-Port 10GBASE-T and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface 24-Port SFP28 and 2-Port QSFP28 Ethernet Optical
Card with MACSec Interface Card
10 Types of Interface Card
Competitive Combination 24-Port SFP Plus and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card 8-Port QSFP28 MACSEC Ethernet Optical Interface Card
24 Ports SFP Plus and 2 Ports QSFP Plus Interface Card 2-Port QSFP28 and 2-Port QSFP Plus Ethernet Optical
with FC Interface Card
TOR Switch
10GE ToR Deep Buffer & Big Entry
S6800-54QF-H3 S6890-30HF
S6800-54QT-H3 S6890-54HF
Cost Effective 10GE ToR INT 25GE ToR INT
S6860-30HF S6860-54HF S6805-54HF S6850-56HF
S6860-54HT S6805-54HT
Y2021 New DC Switch
Designed for
the core scenarios of data centers
Advanced CLOS+ architecture
S12500G-AF
ADDC solution adaptive
Network visualization by telemetry/INT
Highly cost-effective
3 individuals with 4/8/16 slots
10G/40GE/100GE ready
Y2021 New DC Switch
Highly cost-effective 10G TOR switch
S6812/S6813 Embedded AC
RoCE
Highly Cost-effective
48*10G SFP+6*100G QSFP28 AD-DC solution adaptive
Y2021 New DC Switch
High-density compact 100G & 400G switch
RoCE Service Chain
S9820-8C-H1
3U Micro
Vxlan over
Segmentation
IPv4/IPv6
8× Vertical LPU Slots
Support 8 *16 100GE
Support 8*4 400GE
DRNI
NSR
DC Switch Key Features
DC Switch Key Features
High Performance Visualization Virtualization
RoCE GRPC ERSPAN INT IRF DRNI MDC
High Performance — RoCE
PFC ECN ETS DCBX
Sending Queue Receiving Buffer Sending Queue Receiving Queue
Congestion, mark
Polling for other queue
Pause Bandwidth Guarantee
Priority Scheduling
Inform Source
Data Center Bridging
Priority-based Flow Control Explicit Congestion Notification Enhanced Transmission Selection Exchange Protocol
VIQ DLB
FAST ECN DPP
Virtual Ingress Queue Fast Explicit Congestion Notification Dynamic Packet Priority Dynamic Load Balance
Visualization
Chip Visualization Traffic Visualization Buffer Visualization
Deep Positioning Conflict Detection Pressure Awareness,
Fast O&M Higher Link Utilization Network-Wide Traffic Optimization
Visualization
INT
Real-time monitoring
Micro-burst of the full network status Netstream
ERSPAN Monitoring in Monitor granularity for each packet gRPC
TCP Three-way Handshake Message buffer Packet ingress/egress timestamp sFLOW Real-time Collection
buffer, packet loss, Traffic statistic
RDMA Control Signaling Message Active Reporting
Fault Location switch id, hop latency Second Level Interval
Chip Visualization Traffic Visualization Buffer Visualization
Deep Positioning Conflict Detection Pressure Awareness,
Fast O&M Higher Link Utilization Network-Wide Traffic Optimization
Virtualization
IRF（Intelligent Resilient Framework） DRNI (Distributed Resilient Network Interconnect)
Tight coupling N:1 Loose coupling N:1
Unified management &
forwarding plane Support N:1 & 1:N Separate forwarding plane
Maximum 16 device in a Stack Combined management plane
Independent software upgrade
Million second scale link
switchover
MDC (Multitenant Device Context)
Chipset level/port group dual patterns 1:N
Maximum 1:16
Consistent software features for single virtual switch
Multi virtual switch is separated by hardware chip
Typical DC Scenarios
Traditional DC Scenario
Customer Requirement Customer Expectation
Existing DC Upgrade
Other vendor device replacement
TOR: Low access speed/ port density
Limited space, limited budget High Performance Scalability
New DC
High performance/availability
Middle/small scale server access Mature
High Availability
Scalability, seamless upgrade
Traditional DC Scenario
Topology Key Tech
IMC- NMS
Fabric
Core EVPN/VXLAN: Provide Overlay network
Overlay or L3 or L2 MSTP/VRRP/ECMP(OSPF/RIP/ISIS): L2/L3 network
IRF
TOR DRNI/IRF: High availability
DRNI
vSwitch
SNMP/Netstream/sFlow: Unified network
Bare Metal Server management, traffic analysis
VM
VM
VM
Traditional DC Scenario
Product Recommended Target Industry
Large DC High Performance/Availability
Core: S125X-AF/S125G-AF (Chassis)
Aggregation: 9850(40/100G)
Access: 6800,6805 (10G TOR) 6850 (25G TOR)
Education Finance
Middle Scale DC Mid Performance
（Modular Device，Flexible）
Core/Aggregation:
6800 (High-density 40G) 9850-32H,9850-4C(40/100G)
Access: 6800-2/4C (10G TOR)
6850-2C (25G TOR)
6860 (10G Cost-Effective TOR)
Transportation Enterprise
Traditional DC Scenario
Value Case
High Performance High Availability
10G/25G access, Key components
40G/100G uplink, redundancy, network
low subscription DRNI, high availability 2*S125X-AF 10+ *S125X-AF
12*S6800 100+ *S6800
Scalability Mature
AD-DC recommend Real case and high traffic
device, seamlessly pressure test (Spirent
upgrade to Cloud DC S125X-AF 768*100G) 2*S9850-32H 8*S125X-AF
Modular device, expand 20*S6800-54QF 8*S6800
port density on demand
Cloud DC Scenario
Customer Requirement Customer Expectation
Existing DC Upgrade
Old equipment, low performance and low reliability
Long deployment period, high cost
High Performance High Availability
Not able to apply and release resource on demand
New DC
AI/HPC application
Large-middle scale server access, low subscription,
low latency Automation Flexibility Visibility
Granular traffic monitoring, risk warning, network
self-tuning
Cloud DC Scenario
Topology Key Tech
Cloud
ADDC Controller
Fabric
Spine
EVPN/VXLAN: Provide high availability Overlay
Overlay
Netconf & Openflow: API interface, automatic deployment
IRF
Leaf
GRPC/INT/ERSPAN: Visibility management
DRNI
vSwitch RoCE(PFC/ETS/ECN): Provide lossless low latency network
Bare Metal Server
VM
VM
VM
Cloud DC Scenario
Product Recommended Target Industry
Large DC High Performance/Availability
Spine: S125X-AF/S125G-AF (Chassis)
Leaf: 6805 (10G TOR) 6850 (25G TOR)
Middle Scale DC Mid Performance Finance
Internet Service Provider
Spine: S125X-AF /S125G-AF(Chassis) 9850 (40/100G EOR)
Leaf: 6800 (10G TOR) 6805(10G big-entry TOR)
Small DC Box-Box high cost-effective
Spine: 9850 (40/100G EOR), 6800 (40G EOR)
Leaf: 6800 (10G TOR) 6860 (10G cost-effective TOR)
High Value DC Visibility Government Enterprise
Spine: S125G-AF(Chassis)/9850 (40/100G EOR)
Leaf: 6805 (10G TOR) 6850 (25G TOR)
Cloud DC Scenario
Value
Case
High Performance Visibility & Intelligent O&M
10G/25G access, Network Health degree
40G/100G uplink erformance analysis, troubleshooting
Low subscription Baidu Cloud Beijing Government Cloud
E2E lossless Ethernet, 4*S12516X-AF Spine S125 TOR S6800
Low latency network 900* S6800-54QF
Automation & Flexibility High Availability
Physical/Logical network NetsUnion Clearing Haier <CosmoPlat>
Key components redundancy
Service auto deployment and 6 DC located in 3 cities 2*S12504X-AF
delivery Network DRNI
1000+ SDN switch 8*S6800-54QT
2*S6800-32Q
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