NETGEAR M4300 Intelligent Edge Series Manual

Hardware Installation Guide
M4300 Intelligent Edge Series
Fully Managed Stackable Switches
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Revision History
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The CD is no longer shipped with product. Removed info on CD.
Updated branding.
Updated support and compliance section.
January 2020202-12073-01
For all models, changed the Fan LED behavior for a faulty fan condition from
blinking yellow to solid yellow.
Made minor corrections to existing sections.
November 2019202-11995-02
Added switch models M4300-16X, M4300-24XF, and M4300-48XF.
Made minor corrections to existing sections.
Published the guide in a new format.
September 2019202-11995-01
Added information about the location of the SFP+ ports on model M4300-24X.
Updated the SFP+ Ports for 10GBASE-X and 1000BASE-X Transceiver Modules
and Cables section.
Updated the RJ-45 Ports, Including 10GBASE-T RJ-45 Ports section, including
information about some limitations for half-duplex mode for certain models.
Added the Cables and Speed section.
Made multiple corrections and refinements.
May 2018202-11606-05
Updated Figure 17.
Added notes to the Install Two Half-width Switches in a Rack section.
Updated figures with model M4300-24X.
Added the Optional Step 11: Replace a Half-width switch in a Rack section.
January 2017202-11606-04
Added switch models M4300-24X and M4300-48X.July 2016202-11606-03
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Added information to the Safety Instructions and Warnings section.December 2015202-11606-02
First publication.December 2015202-11606-01
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview................................................................................................7
Hardware features................................................................................8
About stacking....................................................................................10
Safety instructions and warnings......................................................11
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview
Hardware descriptions, M4300 series full 10G models.................15
Front panel, M4300 series full 10G models...............................15
Back panel, M4300 series full 10G models................................19
LEDs, M4300 series full 10G models...........................................21
Hardware descriptions, M4300 series 1G models with 10G
uplinks..................................................................................................23
Front panel, M4300 series 1G models with 10G uplinks..........23
Back panel, 4300 series 1G models with 10G uplinks..............27
LEDs, M4300 series 1G models with 10G uplinks.....................29
Hardware descriptions, M4300 series full 10G models with
RJ45/SFP+ combo ports....................................................................31
Front panel, M4300 series full 10G models with RJ45/SFP+ combo
ports.................................................................................................31
Back panel, M4300 series full 10G models with RJ45/SFP+ combo
ports.................................................................................................35
LEDs, M4300X series full 10G models with RJ45/SFP+ combo
ports.................................................................................................38
Switch hardware interfaces...............................................................40
Cables and speed..........................................................................40
RJ-45 ports, including 10GBASE-T RJ-45 ports.........................40
10GBASE-X, 1000BASE-X, and 1000BASE-T transceiver modules
and cables for SFP+ ports.............................................................41
USB port..........................................................................................42
Out-of-band 1G Ethernet port.....................................................43
Mini USB console port...................................................................43
RJ-45 RS232 console port.............................................................43
RPS interface...................................................................................43
Reset button....................................................................................43
Power supply units.............................................................................44
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PoE power budgets............................................................................45
Chapter 3 Installation
Step 1: Prepare the site......................................................................48
Step 2: Protect against electrostatic discharge..............................48
Step 3: Unpack the switch.................................................................49
Step 4: Install the switch....................................................................51
Install a full-width switch in a rack................................................51
Install a single half-width switch in a rack...................................52
Install two half-width switches in a rack.......................................54
Install the switch on a flat surface.................................................56
Optional Step 5: Install SFP transceiver modules...........................56
Install an SFP transceiver module in a full 10G model..............56
Install an SFP transceiver module in an uplink or combo port..57
Optional Step 6: Install a power supply unit...................................58
Optional Step 7: Connect a redundant power supply to model
M4300-52G-POE+..............................................................................59
Step 8: Check the installation...........................................................60
Step 9: Apply AC power and check the LEDs.................................61
Optional Step 10: Connect a console to the switch.......................62
Chapter 4 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Replace a power supply unit.............................................................65
Replace a half-width switch in a rack................................................66
Troubleshooting chart.......................................................................68
Additional troubleshooting suggestions.........................................69
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Introduction
The NETGEAR M4300 Intelligent Edge Series Fully Managed Stackable Switches are
high-performance, IEEE-compliant, stackable, intelligent edge switches that support
non-stop forwarding. In this manual, all models of the M4300 Intelligent Edge Series
Fully Managed Stackable Switches are referred to as the switch.
Note: All non-modular M4300 switch models are described in this hardware installation
guide. NETGEAR provides a separate hardware installation guide for modular model
M4300-96X.
This hardware installation guide complements the installation guide that came with your
switch.
This chapter serves as an introduction and includes the following sections:
• Overview
• Hardware features
• About stacking
• Safety instructions and warnings
Note: For more information about the topics that are covered in this manual, visit the
support website at netgear.com/support/.
Note: For technical specifications, see the data sheet at
netgear.com/business/products/switches/managed. For switch documentation, visit
netgear.com/support/download/.
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Overview
The NETGEAR M4300 Intelligent Edge Series Fully Managed Stackable Switches consists
of a 16-port PoE+ full 10G model, 22-port, 24-port, 42-port, and 48-port full 10G models,
and 28-port and 52-port 1G/10G models that can also support PoE+. All ports on the
10G models are stackable. On the 1G models with 10G uplinks, the two or four 10G
ports are stackable. This installation guide is for the following models:
•Full 10G models:
-M4300-16X. Full 10G switch model with sixteen 10G PoE+ copper ports in a
half-width chassis
-M4300-8X8F. Full 10G switch model with eight 10G copper ports and eight
10G fiber ports in a half-width chassis
-M4300-12X12F. Full 10G switch model with twelve 10G copper ports and twelve
10G fiber ports in a half-width chassis
-M4300-24X24F. Full 10G switch model with twenty-four 10G copper ports and
twenty-four 10G fiber ports in a full-width chassis
•1G models with 10G uplinks:
-M4300-28G. Switch model with twenty-four 1G copper ports, two 10G copper
ports, and two 10G fiber ports in a full-width chassis
-M4300-28G-POE+. Switch model with twenty-four 1G PoE+ copper ports, two
10G copper ports, and two 10G fiber ports in a full-width chassis
-M4300-52G. Switch model with forty-eight 1G copper ports, two 10G copper
ports, and two 10G fiber ports in a full-width chassis
-M4300-52G-POE+. Switch model with forty-eight 1G PoE+ copper ports, two
10G copper ports, and two 10G fiber ports in a full-width chassis
•10G models with 10G RJ45/SFP+ combo ports:
-M4300-24X. Switch model with twenty copper RJ45 ports and four 10G
RJ45/SFP+ combo ports in a half-width chassis
-M4300-24XF. Switch model with twenty-two 10G fiber ports and two 10G
RJ45/SFP+ combo ports in a half-width chassis
-M4300-48X. Switch model with forty-four copper RJ45 ports and four 10G
RJ45/SFP+ combo ports in a full-width chassis
-M4300-48XF. Switch model with forty-six 10G fiber ports and two 10G RJ45/SFP+
combo ports in a full-width chassis
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With these switches, you can create high-speed connections to a server or network
backbone. For example, you can do the following:
•Connect switches to each other with high-speed links
•Link to high-speed servers
•Provide 10G/1G/100M copper and 10G/1G fiber connectivity
•Connect up to eight switches in a stack to create a high-port-capacity solution with
a single point of administration
The switch can be freestanding, stacked with other switches, or rack-mounted in a wiring
closet or equipment room. The switch is IEEE compliant and offers low latency for
high-speed networking. All ports can automatically negotiate to the highest speed,
which makes the switch also suitable for environments with a mix of Ethernet, Fast
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet devices. For 10 and 100 Mbps
speeds, the ports can operate in half-duplex or full-duplex mode. For 1G and 10G
speeds, the ports always operate in full-duplex mode. For certain models, some
limitations exist for half-duplex mode (see RJ-45 ports, including 10GBASE-T RJ-45
ports on page 40).
Hardware features
The switch includes the following key hardware features:
•Traffic ports in various configurations:
-Full 10G models:
-Eight, twelve, or twenty-four independent 10GBASE-T autosensing ports and
eight, twelve, or twenty-four independent 10GBASE-X SFP+ ports
- Sixteen independent 10GBASE-T PoE+ autosensing ports
-1G/10G models with 10G uplinks:
-Twenty-four or forty-eight 1000BASE-T autosensing ports, two dedicated
10GBASE-T ports, and two dedicated 10GBASE-X SFP+ ports
-Twenty-four or forty-eight 1000BASE-T PoE+ autosensing ports, two dedicated
10GBASE-T ports, and two dedicated 10GBASE-X SFP+ ports
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-Full 10G models with combo ports:
-Twenty or forty-four independent 10GBASE-T autosensing ports and four 10G
RJ45/SFP+ combo ports
-Twenty-two or forty-six independent 10G fiber ports and two 10G RJ45/SFP+
combo ports
•Support from 128G to 960G switching fabric (all ports line-rate), depending on the
model.
•One out-of-band 1G Ethernet port.
•One RJ-45 RS232 console port.
•One mini USB console port.
•One regular USB port for connection to a storage device.
•One or two power supply unit (PSU) bays for small form-factor modular PSUs. For
the dual PSU bay models, the second PSU can support 1+1 redundancy.
•Support for stacking on any 10G port.
•Half-width or full-width model.
•Full compatibility with IEEE standards:
- IEEE 802.3i (10BASE-T)
- IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-TX)
- IEEE 802.3ab (1000BASE-T)
- IEEE 802.3an (10GBASE-T)
- IEEE 802.3z (1000BASE-X)
- IEEE 802.3 Clause 49 (10GBASE-LR and 10GBASE-SR)
- IEEE802.3ae (10GBASE Ethernet)
-IEEE802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet)
-IEEE 802.3x (Full-duplex flow control)
-IEEE 802.1af (PoE)
- IEEE 802.1at (PoE+)
•AutoSensing and autonegotiating capabilities for all ports.
•Auto Uplink™ technology is supported on all ports.
•Automatic address learning function to build the packet-forwarding information
table. The table contains up to 16K Media Access Control (MAC) addresses.
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•Store-and-forward transmission to remove bad packets from the network.
•Full-duplex IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control.
•Active flow control to minimize packet loss and frame drops.
•Half-duplex backpressure control.
•Per-port status LEDs and system status LEDs.
•Nonstop Forwarding Failover (NSF) support for the master in a stack.
•NETGEAR green power-saving features:
-Energy efficiency mode that fully conforms to the IEEE802.3az standard
- For 1GBASE-T ports, per-port automatic change to a lower power mode when
the port link is down
•Support for Power over Ethernet plus (PoE+) on models M4300-16X,
M4300-28G-POE+, and M4300-52G-POE+.
•Support for an APS1000W PSU to provide a larger power budget on model
M4300-28G-POE+ and model M4300-52G-POE+.
•Support for an external redundant power supply (RPS) on model M4300-52G-POE+.
About stacking
A single switch can control and manage a stack. This switch is referred to as the stack
master, or simply, the master. Any other members in the stack are referred to as slaves.
All switches in a stack are stack members.
Slaves can download firmware from the master and the master can push firmware to
the slaves.
The master runs the fully operational software of a switch. In addition, the master runs
the master software of the distributed switching application that configures and manages
all slaves. Generally, the master operates the remote slave’s low-level drivers through
the distributed switching application part that is running in the context of the slave.
During stacking setup, the switches autoselect one switch as the master. All other
switches become slaves and are assigned unique stack IDs. One of the slaves is
designated as the backup master. The backup master functions as a slave but can
become the master if the original master fails. In the default configuration, the master
and backup master are assigned unit IDs of 1 and 2, respectively. You can use the local
browser–based management interface to configure different ID assignments. The master
provides a single point of control and management as well as a single interface through
which to control and manage the stack.
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