Aruba 8360-12C v2 12-port 100G QSFP+/QSFP28 Front-to-Back 3 Fans 2 AC Bundle

Introduction

The Aruba CX 8360 v2 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 cloud data center environments. The first switch in this series is the Aruba CX 8360-48Y6C v2 switch.

Features

Modular Cloud-Native Architecture
- The Aruba CX 8360 v2 Switch Series AOS-CX simplify the complexities of managing data center networks with automation options to match your IT organization’s operating model.
- Proactively detect issues and speed troubleshooting with actionable insights provided by an analytics engine embedded in every switch. Always-on infrastructure designed for resiliency and upgrades with zero downtime.
- REST APIs and Python scripting provide fine-grained microservices architecture enabling full integration with other workflow systems and services.
- Continual state synchronization provides superior fault tolerance and high availability. Always-on infrastructure designed for resiliency and upgrades with zero downtime.

Aruba Network Analytics Engine
- The Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) for advanced telemetry and automation. NAE is an industry-first monitoring and troubleshooting system, providing greatly improved network operations. NAE uniquely provides the ability to monitor and easily troubleshoot network health and congestion issues.
- Customers can use data from The Time Series Database (TSDB) to store configuration and operational state to write software modules to troubleshoot problems. This data may also be used to analyze trends, identify anomalies, and predict future capacity requirements.

High Availability and Resiliency
- All software processes in the Aruba CX 8360 v2 Switch Series run as microservices that communicate via the state database of the switch; there is no direct communication between microservices. Should a software process crash, the impact of that failure will be limited.
- The ability of ArubaOS-CX to maintain synchronous state across dual control planes allows a unique high availability solution called Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX).
- Aruba VSX provides a robust, yet simple solution for high availability with a unique design for control plane synchronization and an architecture that is redundant in both hardware and software by deploying two chassis with an inter-switch link, maintaining its independent control.

Software-Defined Automation
- The Aruba CX 8360 v2 Switch Series is supported by Aruba Fabric Composer, a software-defined orchestration solution that simplifies and accelerates leaf-spine network provisioning and day-to-day operations across rack-scale compute and storage infrastructure.
- Orchestrate a discrete set of switches as a single networking fabric to simplify operations and troubleshooting. This infrastructure and application-aware solution also automates various configuration and lifecycle events.

Management features

Switch type

Managed

Switch layer

L3

Quality of Service (QoS) support

Y

Ports & interfaces

QSFP+ module slots quantity

12

Fiber optic connector

QSFP+, QSFP28

Console port

RJ-45/USB Type-C

Network

Networking standards

IEEE 802.1AE, IEEE 802.1AX, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.1ak, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1t, IEEE 802.1v, IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3an, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3cc, IEEE 802.3cd, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3z

Port mirroring

Y

Flow control support

Y

Link aggregation

Y

Spanning tree protocol

Y

Ethernet LAN data rates

40000,100000 Mbit/s

VLAN support

Y

Number of VLANs

4094

Data transmission

Switching capacity

2400 Gbit/s

Throughput

2678 Mpps

MAC address table

212992 entries

Jumbo frames support

Y

Packet buffer memory

32 MB

Security

DHCP features

DHCP server

Access Control List (ACL)

Y

Access Control List (ACL) egress

8192

Access Control List (ACL) ingress

65536

IGMP snooping

Y

Security algorithms

SNMPv2, SNMPv3

SSH/SSL support

Y

Authentication type

RADIUS, TACACS+

Multicast features

Multicast support

Y

Protocols

Routing protocols

BGP4, MPLS, OSPF, OSPFv3, RIP-2, RIPng

IPv4 & IPv6 features

IPv4/IPv6 access-control list (ACL)

Design

Rack mounting

Y

Form factor

1U

Redundant fans support

Y

Ventilation system

Front-to-back airflow

Airflow direction

Front-to-back airflow

Number of fans

3 fan(s)

Performance

Built-in processor

Y

Processor frequency

1800 MHz

Memory type

RAM / Flash

Internal memory

16384 MB

Flash memory

32768 MB

Power

Power source

AC

Power supply included

Y

Redundant power supply (RPS) support

Y

Number of power supply units

2

AC input voltage

100 - 240 V

AC input frequency

47/63 Hz

Power consumption (max)

375 W

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

N

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 45 °C

Storage temperature (T-T)

-40 - 70 °C

Operating relative humidity (H-H)

15 - 95%

Storage relative humidity (H-H)

15 - 95%

Heat dissipation

1280 BTU/h

Weight & dimensions

Width

442.5 mm

Depth

406.4 mm

Height

44 mm

Weight

8.01 kg