Introduction

The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series provides 25.6Tbps, 1U fixed configuration that supports 32 ports of 100/400GbE. This series is designed to provide flexible, cost-effective, high-density 400GbE for servers, storage, and intra-fabric connectivity.

The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series protects enterprises’ investment as they as they transition server farms from 10GbE and 25GbE to 100GbE/400GbE EVPN-VXLAN spine configurations, with reduced power and a smaller footprint. It supports large data center pods of up to 6,000 x 25G servers or up to 2,000 x 100G servers. This is an significant jump in scaling/density over current Aruba CX 8325-32C, which scales to 700 x 25G servers.

Features

High Performance and Scale
- The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series meets the modern demands of large scale virtualized and cloud networks.
- Provide flexible, cost-effective, high-density 100/400GbE for servers, storage, and intra-fabric connectivity.
- The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series with breakout cabling scalability allows a single 200GbE split into two 100GbE links.
- 100GbE ports can breakout to four 25GbE ports linking one switch port, and accommodating up to four adapter cards in servers or other subsystems.
- 400 Gbps port can be configured as 4x100GbE, 2x200GbE, or 1x400GbE.

Ethernet Storage Fabric
- The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series enables 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.

Investment Protection
- The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series eases transition from 10GbE and 25GbE to 100GbE/400GbE.
- Provides higher scaling with reduced power and a smaller footprint.

Intelligent Analytics
- The Aruba CX 9300 Switch series features real-time monitoring and troubleshooting with Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE).
- Intelligent pre-processing of data turns raw telemetry into actionable insights.

Management features

Switch type

Managed

Switch layer

L3

Quality of Service (QoS) support

Yes

Cloud-managed

Yes

Ports & interfaces

Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type

No

SFP+ module slots quantity

2

Fiber ports quantity

32

Fiber optic connector

QSFP-DD

Console port

RJ-45/Micro-USB

Network

Networking standards

IEEE 802.1AX, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1t, IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ak, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bs, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3cd, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3z

10G support

Yes

Port mirroring

Yes

Flow control support

Yes

Link aggregation

Yes

Spanning tree protocol

Yes

VLAN support

Yes

Virtual LAN features

Private VLAN

Number of VLANs

4040

Data transmission

Switching capacity

25600 Gbit/s

MAC address table

81920 entries

Jumbo frames support

Yes

Packet buffer memory

132 MB

Security

DHCP features

DHCP relay, DHCP server

Access Control List (ACL)

Yes

IGMP snooping

Yes

Security algorithms

FIPS 140-2

SSH/SSL support

Yes

Authentication type

RADIUS, TACACS+

Multicast features

Multicast support

Yes

IPv4 multicast entries

8000

IPv6 multicast entries

8000

MLD entries

4000

Protocols

Management protocols

SNMPv2c, SNMPv3

Routing protocols

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

Design

Rack mounting

Yes

Form factor

1U

Redundant fans support

Yes

Airflow direction

Front-to-back airflow

Number of fans

6 fan(s)

Performance

Built-in processor

Yes

Processor frequency

1700 MHz

Internal memory

32768 MB

Technical details

Compliance certificates

Trade Agreements Act (TAA)

Power

Power source

AC

Power supply included

Yes

Redundant power supply (RPS) support

Yes

Number of power supply units

2

AC input voltage

100 - 240 V

AC input frequency

50/60 Hz

Power consumption (max)

600 W

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

No

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 - 90%

Operating altitude

0 - 3000 m

Non-operating altitude

0 - 4600 m

Heat dissipation

4435 BTU/h

Weight & dimensions

Width

438.4 mm

Depth

590 mm

Height

43.5 mm

Weight

11.8 kg