◦NPV—Gateway for FC/FCoE multi-vendor connectivity
◦Transit—FIP-snooping DCB aggregation switch
•1.28 Tb/s switching capacity
•952.32 Million PPS throughput, integrated 9 MB packet buffer
•10GbE cut-through latency < 1.5 µs (64Byte packets)
•CLI and iMC/VAN/VFM (Intelligent Management Center) fabric management
•HP IIIAS (Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software) support
•L2/L3, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, TRILL, VEPA
•Cloud and SDN ready (OpenFlow 1.3.1 support)
Figure 2 (page 5) describes the major components and the ports of the HP FlexFabric 5900CP
switch. The front view shows 48 converged ports, which can be configured as 1 or 10GbE, or 8,
4 or 2 Gb Fibre Channel. The four 40GbE ports can be configured as four individual 40GbE
ports, or 16 10GbE ports when used with a splitter cable.
The switch supports two pluggable fan trays and two AC power supplies for redundancy. Two
options are available for fan trays, front-to-back airflow or back-to-front airflow.
Figure 2 HP FlexFabric 5900CP components and ports
HP FlexFabric 5900CP network architectures
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP switch can be utilized in the following environments:
•A traditional Ethernet network for Ethernet data
•A converged network switch in environments that support Ethernet and FCoE for Ethernet and
storage data
•A native Fibre Channel fabric switch for storage data
In a converged environment, the HP FlexFabric 5900CP switch is configured as a ToR switch
connecting to a LAN and a SAN.
LAN connectivity is made through any of the 48 converged ports configured as 10GbE ports or
the 40GbE ports for a total of up to 64 10GbE ports.
SAN connectivity is made through any of the 48 converged ports configured as 10GbE/FCoE
ports or configured as 8/4/2 Gb Fibre Channel ports. When configured as Fibre Channel ports,
the converged ports support device connectivity (F_Port) or switch connectivity via NPV (NP_Ports)
to other HP Fibre Channel switches that support NPIV.
HP FlexFabric 5900CP network architectures 5
