- Supports scale-out, two-tier leaf-spine architectures with greater reliability
- Combines the investment protection and flexibility of a chassis - but in a smaller foot print and at a lower entry price
- Includes feature rich HPE Comware capabilities and simplified zero cost/complexity licensing
- Federates HPE FlexFabric infrastructure with VMware NSX virtual overlay
- Supports VXLAN, NVGRE and OpenFlow 1.3
The HPE FlexFabric 7900 Switch Series is the next generation compact modular data center core switch designed to support virtualized data centers and evolutionary needs of private and public clouds deployments. The 7900 delivers unprecedented levels of performance, buffering, scale, and availability with high-density 10GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE interfaces using only a fraction of the footprint used by traditional chassis. The switch supports full Layer 2 and 3 features along with advanced data center features including TRILL, IRF, VXLAN, and open standards-based programmability with OpenFlow support.