HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325H 18p SFP28 25G 4p QSFP28 100G Back‑to‑Front 4xFan 2xPSU Managed L3 1U

Aruba Networking CX 8325H 18p SFP28 25G 4p QSFP28 100G Back‑to‑Front 4xFan 2xPSU Switch

Description

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series serves as both a campus (core and aggregation) and data center (ToR and EoR) switch. This game-changing solution offers an innovative approach to dealing with network demands in the mobile, cloud, and IoT era. CX 8325 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, with its microservices style modular architecture, REST APIs, Python scripting capabilities and NAE is a modern software system that automates and simplifies critical and complex network tasks, delivers enhanced fault tolerance and facilitates zero-service disruption during planned or unplanned control-plane events. CX 8325 provides line rate 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, and 40GbE in a compact 1U form factor.

CX 8325P, delivers key solutions for providers in their 5G (Radio Access Network) and edge computing deployments. CX 8325H are high-performance 1/10/25/40/100G half-width switches ideal for smaller, edge or colocation data centers, and wide variety of compute and storage networking use cases.

Game-changing Business Agility
- The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series is a campus core and aggregation switch and data center (ToR) solution with an innovative and powerful approach to dealing with the cross-domain demands of the mobile, cloud, and IoT era.
- It is fully programmable with the HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX) and, it brings automation and visibility and helps troubleshoot through simple scripting.
- HPE Aruba Networking Network Analytics Engine provides the ability to monitor and troubleshoot the network, system, application and security related issues easily, through simple Python agents and REST APIs.
- It offers high-speed fully distributed architecture with 6.4 Tbps of switching capacity. It provides robust security and QoS with advanced layer 2 and layer 3 features including support for BGP, OSPF, VRF and VXLAN.
- The CX 8325H helps balance density, high availability, and affordability by conserving rack space and costs when deploying server, storage and HCI solutions. Ideal for compute and storage networking use cases where lower-density networking I/O and/or limited rack space are required.

Modern Software System Simplifies and Automates
- The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series is based on the new HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX), a modern software system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks.
- The built-in time series database enables customers and developers to develop software modules for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of historical trends, to predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks.
- The AOS-CX features are organized into CX Foundational and CX Advanced software licenses.
- It includes stability, independent monitoring and restart of individual software modules, and enhanced software process serviceability functions. It also allows individual software modules to be upgraded for higher availability.
- Every CX switch includes AOS-CX at no cost and with an active, perpetual set of native features that has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network.

High Performance and High Availability
- The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series includes a high-speed, fully distributed architecture and provides up to 6.4 Tbps for bidirectional switching and 2000 Mpps for forwarding. All switching and routing are wire-speed to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications.
- The HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) is a high-availability technology, which has been designed from the ground up to deliver continuous availability, virtualization, and simplicity requirements. Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and fans provide additional resiliency.
- The compact 1U switch delivers line rate 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 25 GbE, 40 GbE, and 100 GbE with very low latency. Optimize for your deployment with models that provide 48 ports of 1/10/25 GbE plus 8 ports of 40/100 GbE or 32 ports of 40/100 GbE.
- The CX 8325P-32C switch delivers Advanced Layer 3 including OSPF, BGP, VXLAN and breakouts to support up to 128 ports of 10G and 25G
- The CX 8325H switch delivers high-performance, high density 1/10/25/40/100G connectivity half-width, in a single RU form factor. Throughput of 2.16 Tbps with 18 ports of 1/10/25 and 4 ports of 40/100 GbE and throughput of 4 Tbps with 16 ports of 40/100 GbE.

New HPE Aruba Networking Data Center Solutions
- HPE Aruba Networking offers customers highly differentiated pre-engineered IT infrastructure solutions that span a wide variety HPE Compute, HPE Storage, HPE Networking that span virtualization, vSAN™, HCI, HPC, MCS, Microsoft, SAP HANA®, VMware®, Nutanix application and IaaS service offerings.
- HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, both 10/25 and 40/100G, can be deployed as part of these solutions and is often designed into these integrated solutions along with the following HPE platforms ProLiant DL/DX servers, SimpliVity, Synergy, Cray ClusterStor, Superdome Flex, and HPE GreenLake.
- These ready-to-deploy, integrated IT DCN solutions simplify and speed IT service, reduce time, risk, and expertise needed to deploy complex solutions. Use the new tracking SKUs (R9FXXX) when including CX switches in HPE integrated and mixed compute, storage, networking configuration and deployments.
- The CX 8325P switches provide greater flexibility to ensure a range of deployment models by allowing 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G computing deployments, while ensuring greater interoperability with key HPE Telco solutions.
- The CX 8325H switches enable low-latency and “lossless” network QoS and connectivity characteristics that storage requires. Ideal for software-defined storage and HCI solutions, where multiple servers share captive (SSD/flash-based) storage resources.

Specifications

Management features
Switch layer	L3
Switch type	Managed
Quality of Service (QoS) support	Yes
Multicast support	Yes
Cloud-managed	Yes
Ports & interfaces
Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports quantity	0
Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type	No
Installed SFP modules quantity	0
Installed SFP+ modules quantity	0
SFP+ module slots quantity	2
Fiber ports quantity	24
Fiber optic connector	QSFP28, SFP+, SFP28
QSFP28 ports quantity	4
SFP28 ports quantity	18
Network
Networking standards	IEEE 802.1AX, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.1ak, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1t, IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3z
Number of VLANs	4040
VLAN support	Yes
Spanning tree protocol	Yes
Port mirroring	Yes
Link aggregation	Yes
Flow control support	Yes
Ethernet LAN data rates	1000,10000,25000,40000,100000 Mbit/s
10G support	Yes
Virtual LAN features	Private VLAN
IGMP snooping	Yes
Data transmission
Switching capacity	2160 Gbit/s
Throughput	1000 Mpps
Jumbo frames support	Yes
Packet buffer memory	32 MB
Number of VLANs	4040
Security
SSH/SSL support	Yes
IGMP snooping	Yes
Access Control List (ACL)	Yes
Authentication type	RADIUS, TACACS+
DHCP features	DHCP relay, DHCP server
Multicast features
Multicast support	Yes
Protocols
Management protocols	SNMP v2c, SNMP v3, RMON
Routing protocols	BGP, BGP4, OSPF, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPng, VRRP
Design
Rack mounting	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Form factor	1U
Airflow direction	Back-to-front airflow
Number of fans	4 fan(s)
Performance
Internal memory	32768 MB
Built-in processor	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Packet buffer memory	32 MB
Power
Power supply included	Yes
AC input voltage	100 - 240 V
AC input frequency	50/60 Hz
Power consumption (max)	500 W
Number of power supply units	2
Power source	AC
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Power over Ethernet (PoE)	No
Operational conditions
Heat dissipation	1705 BTU/h
Virtual LAN features
Number of VLANs	4040
VLAN support	Yes
Virtual LAN features	Private VLAN
Optical fiber
Fiber optic connector	QSFP28, SFP+, SFP28
Other features
Ethernet LAN data rates	1000,10000,25000,40000,100000 Mbit/s