HPE Aruba Networking

HPE Aruba Networking

Switches

Flex Network

HPE FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series

JH390A

Overview
- Management: Fully Managed
- 48x SFP + ports + 6x QSFP28 ports
- Redundant power supplies (Not included. Must be purchased separately - JC680A, or JH336A)
- front-rear (JG552A or JG683A) or front-front (JG553A or JC682A) fans
- VXLAN L2 / L3 and EVPN support for virtualized environments
- OpenFlow
- unified management for virtual and physical networks with VEPA and IMC
- SPB, ISSU, DCB, FC / FCoE, IRF and TRILL support
- rack mounting
- Extensive network of HP service centers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

VXLAN L2 and L3 and EVPN support for virtualized environments
OpenFlow support for investment protection and SDN environments
High-density 10GbE, 40GbE with 40G or 100G uplink and modular for spine-and-leaf deployments
Unify management of virtual and physical network with VEPA and IMC
Data center convergence and resiliency with SPB, ISSU, DCB, FC/FCoE, IRF, and TRILL


Product overview

The HPE FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series is a family of high performance and low-latency 10GbE, 40GbE top-of-rack (ToR) data center switches. The switch series include also 100G uplink technology and also a 2-slot and 4-slot modular form factor providing ultimate flexibility for an ever-changing Data Center requirements. This entire series is part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise FlexFabric data center solution, which is a cornerstone of the FlexNetwork architecture.

The FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series is ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers, or at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises.

With the increase pace of deploying virtualized applications, adopting software-defined networking, and the server-to-server traffic, many data centers now require spine and ToR switch innovations that will meet their requirements. The HPE FlexFabric 5940 is optimized to meet the increasing requirements for higher-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage traffic, the capability to handle virtual environments, and low-latency.