Aruba 8100 48XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies (R9W91A)
High Performance Enterprise Campus and Data Center Switch

Overview:

The Aruba CX 8100 Switch Series offers a flexible and innovative approach to addressing the application, security, and scalability demands of the mobile, cloud, and IoT era. These switches serve the needs of the next-generation core and aggregation layer of campuses, as well as virtual and highly dynamic data center environments. They provide up to 2.4Tbps of capacity, with line-rate Gigabit Ethernet interfaces including support for Smart Rate (1/2.5/5 Gbps), 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps, and 100Gbps.

The CX 8100 series includes industry-leading line rate ports with 1/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity in a compact 1U form factor. 4x10Gbps and 4x25Gbps break out from 40/100G ports offer advanced flexibility in connectivity and aggregation.

These switches deliver a fantastic investment for customers requiring 1GbE/10GbEwith a mix of fiber and copper ports, and 40/100GbE uplink ports.

Key Features:

• High-performance 1.76Tbps and 1,309 Mpps
• Intelligent monitoring and visibility with Aruba Network Analytics Engine
• High availability with industry leading VSX redundancy, and redundant power supplies and fans
• Designed for core/aggregation in the campus or Top of Rack or End of Row in data center environments
• ArubaOS-CX automation and programmability using built-in REST APIs and Python scripts
• Advanced Layer 2/3 feature set includes BGP, OSPF, VRF, and IPv6
• Addition of Smart Rate (1/2.5/5/10G) ports on the 8100-40XT8XF4C and 8100-24XT4XF4C

Product Differentiators:

The Aruba CX 8100 switch series is based on ArubaOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex tasks. The enhanced capabilities of ArubaOS-CX provide a unique set of differentiators for campus and data center switching.

• Modular Architecture with native cloud-native ArubaOS-CX
• Aruba Central, Cloud-based network management
• Aruba Network Analytics Engine
• Aruba Virtual Switching Extension

Product Capabilities

Performance

High-speed fully distributed architecture

• Provides up to 1.76Tbps for bidirectional switching and 1,309 Mpps for forwarding to meet the demands of bandwidth- intensive applications today and in the future

Scalable system design

• Provides investment protection to support future technologies and higher-speed connectivity

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Connectivity

Variety of port density options

Four different base models, each sold in two airflow modes: a Front to Back airflow bundle, and Back to Front airflow bundle:

All QSFP ports (QSFP+/QSFP28), on the 8100-24XT4XF4C and 8100-24XF4C support optional 4x10G/4x25G break out capability.

There is 1Gbps transceiver support, including 1GBASE-T, on SFP+ports.

Jumbo frames

• Allows high-performance backups and disaster-recovery systems; provides a maximum frame size of 9K bytes

Unsupported Transceiver Mode (UTM)

• Allows users to insert and enable unsupported 1G, 10G, 25G and 100G transceivers and cables
• No warranty nor support for the transceiver/cable when used

Loopback

• Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and increased availability; loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network configurations and can be enabled on a per-port or perVLAN basis for added flexibility

Loopback

• Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and increased availability; loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network configurations and can be enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added flexibility

Packet storm protection

• Protects against unknown broadcast, multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined thresholds

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Quality of Service (QoS)

Strict priority (SP) queuing and Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR)

• Enable congestion avoidance

Data Center Bridging (DCB)

• Supports lossless Ethernet networking standards to eliminate packet loss due to queue overflow
• Priority Flow Control (PFC) 2 priorities per port
• Enhanced Transmission Service (ETS)
• DCB Exchange Protocol (Pre-standard LLDP DCBX IEEE 1.01 version)

Flow-Control Guard

• Prevents accumulation of excessive congestion with periodic flushing. Avoids packets buffering for an extended time period

ECN with slope

• Marks packets as ECN-CE (Congestion Experienced). Helps TCP to reduce receive window size during congestion

Advanced lossless pool configuration

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Global buffering statistics

Storage Solution Support

• iSCSI, Lossless iSCSI, RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCE v1 and v2) and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe over Fabrics)

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Resiliency and high availability

Redundant and load-sharing fans and power supplies

• Increases total performance and power availability while providing hitless, stateful failover

Hot swappable power supply and fan modules

• Allows replacement of accessory modules without any operational impact on other modules nor the switch operations

Separate data and control paths

• Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and performance

Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX)

• VSX enables a distributed and redundant architecture by deploying two switches with each switch, maintaining independent control yet staying synchronized during upgrades or failover. Also supports upgrades during live operation.

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

• VRRP allows a group of switches to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments.

Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD)

• Enable sub-second failure detection for rapid routing protocol re-balancing
• Enabled for both BGP IPv4 and IPv6

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS)

•  Supports rapid protection and recovery in a ring topology.

Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)

• Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional traffic is detected, preventing loops in STP-based networks

IEEE 802.3ad LACP

• Supports up to 54 LAGs, with up to 16 members per LAG (32 for a VSX pair), with a user-selectable L1- 4 hashing algorithm

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Management

In addition to the Aruba CX Mobile App, Aruba NetEdit and Aruba Network Analytics Engine, the 8100 series offers the following:

Built-in programmable and easy to use REST API interface

Management interface control

• Enables or disables each of the following interfaces depending on security preferences: console port or reset button

Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure

• Reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations

Management security

• Restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide SNMP access; local and remote Syslog capabilities allow logging of all access

IP SLA

• Monitors the network for degradation of various services, including voice.
• Monitoring is enabled via the NAE for history and for immediate automated gathering of additional information when anomalies are detected.

SNMP v2c/v3

• Provides SNMP read and trap support of industry standard Management Information Base (MIB), and private extensions.

sFlow® (RFC 3176)

• Provides scalable ASIC-based wire-speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; this allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-time network monitoring purposes

IPFIX

• IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) is an integrated network flow analysis tool that allows to measure flow properties and send flow reports. The switch AISC supports inline flow accounting of all the packets ingressing the switch. The telemetry can be used for capacity planning, network monitoring and capacity planning.

Remote monitoring (RMON)

• Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions and supports events, alarms, history, and statistics groups as well as a private alarm extension group

TFTP and SFTP support

• Offers different mechanisms for configuration updates; trivial FTP (TFTP) allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/ IP network
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over an SSH tunnel to provide additional security

Supportability

• Job scheduler framework

Debug and sampler utility

• Supports ping and traceroute for IPv4 and IPv6

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

• Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clockdependent devices within the network
• Can serve as the NTP server in a customer network

IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network, facilitating easy mapping by network management applications

LACP-fallback

• Enables Zero Touch Provisioning over Link Aggregation Groups

Dual flash images

• Provides independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading

Multiple configuration files

• Stores files easily to the flash image.

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Security

TAA Compliance

• The Aruba CX 8100, a TAA compliant product runs AOS-CX, which uses FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography for protection of sensitive information

Access control list (ACL) Features

• Supports powerful ACLs for both IPv4 and IPv6. Supports creation of object groups representing sets of devices like IP addresses. For instance, IT management devices could be grouped in this way
• ACLs can also protect control plane services such as SSH, SNMP, NTP or web servers.
• 802.1x, Mac-auth, LUR, DUR, Port-Access Policy, Static Port Filtering
• MAC lockdown, MAC lockout, sticky MAC

Private VLAN

• Enables traffic isolation for users on the same VLAN
• Support for isolated, community and primary VLANs
• L3-Mcast, IGMP snooping, MLD snooping, ACL/
• QoS interop, L3 unicast (BGP, IPDB, L3 addressing, static routes)
• VSX support

Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST)

• Enables secure certificate enrollment, allowing for easier enterprise management of PKI.

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)

• Eases security access administration by using a password authentication server
  • RADIUS Port-Access (Accounting, Tracking, CoA, v4/v6, Dead Only Server Tracking)

Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS+)

• Delivers an authentication tool using TCP with encryption of the full authentication request, providing additional security

RadSec

• Enable RADIUS authentication and accounting data to be passed safely and reliably across insecure networks such as the internet

Management access security

• AOS-CX provides for both on-box as well as off- box authentication for administrative access. RADIUS or TACACS+ can be used to provide encrypted user authentication.
• Additionally, TACACS+ can also provide user authorization services
• Dot1x supplicant: support for EAP-TLS

Secure shell (SSHv2)

• Uses external servers to securely log in to a remote device; with authentication and encryption, it protects against IP spoofing and plain-text password interception; increases the security of Secure FTP (SFTP) transfers

Specifications:

CX 8100 Series Specifications
	Aruba 8100 24XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W87A (Back to Front)]	Aruba 8100 24XT4XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W89A (Back to Front)]	Aruba 8100 48XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W91A (Back to Front)]	Aruba 8100 40XT8XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W93A (Back to Front)]
I/O ports and slots
	24 ports of 1GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	24 ports of 100M/1/2.5/5/10 GbE 4 ports of 1/GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	48 ports of 1GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	40 ports of 100M/1/2.5/5/10 GbE 8 ports of 1/GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)
Additional ports and slots
Power supplies	2 field-replaceable and hot-swappable power supplies1
Fans	3 field-replaceable and hot-swappable fans2
Management	RJ-45 serial and USB-C console; RJ-45 Ethernet port; USB-Type A
Physical characteristics
Physical Dimensions (HxWxD)	1.73in x 17.4in x 16.0in (44.0mm x 442.5mm x 406.4mm)
Full configuration weight	18.0 lbs (8.16 kg)	18.3 lbs (8.30 kg)	18.5 lbs (8.39 kg)	18.9 lbs (8.57 kg)
Memory and Processor
CPU	1.8 GHz 4-core 64-bit
Memory and Flash	16GB RAM, 32GB Flash/Storage
Packet Buffer	32MB
Performance1
Switching Capacity	1.28 Tbps	1.36 Tbps	1.76 Tbps	1.76 Tbps
MAC Address Table Size	147,456
IPv4 Host Table	65,636
IPv6 Host Table	65,636
IPv4 Unicast Routes	24,576
IPv6 Unicast Routes	12,288
Maximum Number of Access Control List (ACL) Entries Ingress	IPv4 2,048 , IPv6 512, MAC 2,048
Maximum VLANs	1,024
IGMP Groups	4,000
MLD Groups	4,000
IPv4 Multicast Routes	4,096
IPv6 Multicast Routes	4,096
Environment
Operating Temperature3	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C) up to 5000 ft
Non-Operating Temperature	-40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) up to 4.6 km (15,000 ft.)
Operating Relative Humidity	15% to 95%, relative humidity at 104°F (40°C), non-condensing
Non-Operating Storage Relative Humidity	15% to 95% at 149°F (65°C) non-condensing
Max Operating Altitude	Up to 10,000ft (3.048 km)
Max Non-Operating Altitude	Up to 15,000ft (4.6km)
Primary Airflow	Back-to-Front
BTU/hr#	1275	1364	1535	1705
Acoustic4	LWAd = 5.9 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 41.2 dB	LWAd = 6.6 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 47.7 dB	LWAd = 6.3 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 44.9 dB	LWAd = 6.8 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 49.3 dB
Electrical Characteristics
Frequency	47-63 Hz
AC Voltage	100-127V – 7.1 A for 100-127VAC 200-240V – 3.4A for 200-240VAC
Power consumption (230VAC)	120W Idle Power / 375W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 400W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 450W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 500W Max Power
Regulatory
Compliance	Products comply with CE Markings according to directives 2014/30/EU (EMC) and 2014/35/EU (Safety)
RoHS	EN 63000:2018
Safety
North America	UL62368-1, CSA 22.2 No 62368-1
Worldwide	IEC 62368-1:2014 IEC 62368-1:2018
EMC
	EN55032:2015/CISPR 32, Class A FCC CFR 47 Part 15:2018, Class A ICES-003, Class A CNS 13438 Class A KN32 Class A VCCI Class A AS/NZS CISPR 32 Class A EN55035:2017/CISPR 35 EN/IEC 61000-4-2 EN/IEC 61000-4-3 EN/IEC 61000-4-4 EN/IEC 61000-4-5 EN/IEC 61000-4-6 EN/IEC 61000-4-8 EN/IEC 61000-4-11 EN/IEC 61000-3-2:2019 EN/IEC 61000-3-3:2013
Lasers
	EN60825-1:2014 / IEC 60825-1: 2014 Class 1 Class 1 Laser Products / Laser Klasse 1
Mounting
	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-inch rack or other equipment cabinet; horizontal surface mounting only; 2-post and 4-post mounting options available5; air duct available for 4-post deployments and sold separately

Note:
1. Bundles include the 2 power supplies (2xJL712A in R9W87A, R9W89A, R9W91A, & R9W93A)
2. Bundles include the 3 fans (3x JL715A in R9W87A, R9W89A, R9W91A, & R9W93A)
3. Derate -1°C for every 1000 ft from 5000 ft to 10000 ft regardless of airflow direction 4. Acoustics measured in 23°C semi-anechoic chamber with a loading of 50% traffic on all ports. Measured in accordance with ECMA 74.. Declared in accordance with ECMA 109. Values presented are the Declared A-Weighted Sound Power Level (LWAd) and the mean Bystander A-Weighted Sound Pressure Level (LpAm).
# BTU/hr is derived from the max power
5. Rack mounting kit must be ordered separately

CX 8100 Series Specifications
	Aruba 8100 24XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W86A (Front to Back)]	Aruba 8100 24XT4XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W88A (Front to Back)]	Aruba 8100 48XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W90A (Front to Back)]	Aruba 8100 40XT8XF4C 3 Fans, 2 AC Power Supplies [R9W92A (Front to Back)]
I/O ports and slots
	24 ports of 1GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	24 ports of 100M/1/2.5/5/10 GbE 4 ports of 1/GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	48 ports of 1GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)	40 ports of 100M/1/2.5/5/10 GbE 8 ports of 1/GbE/10GbE (SFP/SFP+) 4 ports of 40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)
Additional ports and slots
Power supplies	2 field-replaceable and hot-swappable power supplies6
Fans	3 field-replaceable and hot-swappable fans7
Management	RJ-45 serial and USB-C console; RJ-45 Ethernet port; USB-Type A
Physical characteristics
Physical Dimensions (HxWxD)	1.73in x 17.4in x 16.0in (44.0mm x 442.5mm x 406.4mm)
Full configuration weight	18.0 lbs (8.16 kg)	18.3 lbs (8.30 kg)	18.5 lbs (8.39 kg)	18.9 lbs (8.57 kg)
Memory and Processor
CPU	1.8 GHz 4-core 64-bit
Memory and Flash	16GB RAM, 32GB Flash/Storage
Packet Buffer	32MB
Performance1
Switching Capacity	1.28 Tbps	1.36 Tbps	1.76 Tbps	1.76 Tbps
MAC Address Table Size	147,456
IPv4 Host Table	81,920
IPv6 Host Table	81,920
IPv4 Unicast Routes	24,576
IPv6 Unicast Routes	12,288
Maximum Number of Access Control List (ACL) Entries Ingress	IPv4 16,384, IPv6 4,096 , MAC 16,384
Maximum Number of Access Control List (ACL) Entries Egress	IPv4 2,048 , IPv6 512, MAC 2,048
Maximum VLANs	1,024
IGMP Groups	4,000
MLD Groups	4,000
IPv4 Multicast Routes	4,096
IPv6 Multicast Routes	4,096
Environment
Operating Temperature8	32°F to 113°F (0°C to 45°C) up to 5000 ft
Non-Operating Temperature	-40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) up to 4.6 km (15,000 ft.)
Operating Relative Humidity	15% to 95%, relative humidity at 104°F (40°C), non-condensing
Non-Operating Storage Relative Humidity	15% to 95% at 149°F (65°C) non-condensing
Max Operating Altitude	Up to 10,000ft (3.048 km)
Max Non-Operating Altitude	Up to 15,000ft (4.6km)
Primary Airflow	Front-to-Back
BTU/hr#	1275	1364	1535	1705
Acoustic9	LWAd = 6.3 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 45.8 dB	LWAd = 6.6 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 48.0 dB	LWAd = 6.4 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 46.6 dB	LWAd = 6.6 Bel LpAm (Bystander) = 47.9 dB
Electrical Characteristics
Frequency	47-63 Hz
AC Voltage	100-127V – 7.1 A for 100-127VAC 200-240V – 3.4A for 200-240VAC
Power consumption (230VAC)	120W Idle Power / 375W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 400W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 450W Max Power	120W Idle Power / 500W Max Power
Regulatory
Compliance	Products comply with CE Markings according to directives 2014/30/EU (EMC) and 2014/35/EU (Safety)
RoHS	EN 63000:2018
Safety
North America	UL62368-1, CSA 22.2 No 62368-1
Worldwide	IEC 62368-1:2014 IEC 62368-1:2018
EMC
	EN55032:2015/CISPR 32, Class A FCC CFR 47 Part 15:2018, Class A ICES-003, Class A CNS 13438 Class A KN32 Class A VCCI Class A AS/NZS CISPR 32 Class A EN55035:2017/CISPR 35 EN/IEC 61000-4-2 EN/IEC 61000-4-3 EN/IEC 61000-4-4 EN/IEC 61000-4-5 EN/IEC 61000-4-6 EN/IEC 61000-4-8 EN/IEC 61000-4-11 EN/IEC 61000-3-2:2019 EN/IEC 61000-3-3:2013
Lasers
	EN60825-1:2014 / IEC 60825-1: 2014 Class 1 Class 1 Laser Products / Laser Klasse 1
Mounting
	Mounts in an EIA standard 19-inch rack or other equipment cabinet; horizontal surface mounting only; 2-post and 4-post mounting options available10; air duct available for 4-post deployments and sold separately

Note:
6. Bundles include the 2 power supplies (2xJL600A in R9W86A, R9W88A, R9W90A & R9W92A)
7. Bundles include the 3 fans (3xJL714A in R9W86A, R9W88A, R9W90A & R9W92A)
8. Derate -1°C for every 1000 ft from 5000 ft to 10000 ft regardless of airflow direction 9. Acoustics measured in 23°C semi-anechoic chamber with a loading of 50% traffic on all ports. Measured in accordance with ECMA 74. Declared in accordance with ECMA 109. Values presented are the Declared A-Weighted Sound Power Level (LWAd) and the mean Bystander A-Weighted Sound Pressure Level (LpAm).
# BTU/hr is derived from the max power
10. Rack mounting kit must be ordered separately

Documentation:

Download the Aruba CX 8100 Series Datasheet (.PDF)