HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 Switch: технические характеристики и документация

The Fabric Advantage

HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 is a passive optical interconnect module that creates an optical mesh architecture which enables linear scaling, with each additional switch adding fabric capacity, resiliency and multi-path options.  Maintains all the photonic switching capabilities of the traditional Composable Fabric solution to ease troubleshooting.  HPE Composable Fabric rack connectivity module QSFP optics combined with the FM 1006 to create an optical mesh that is completely controllable by software through HPE Composable Fabric Manager.   Module-to-module cabling is greatly simplified with two connections per switch.

Multi-Layered Network Architecture

The full potential of optical switching is unleashed by Composable Fabric's multi-layered network architecture that delivers efficient layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 network topologies to critical application workloads. Optical interfaces create a highly meshed, multipath network fabric with multiple direct and indirect paths between modules. HPE Composable Fabric Manager software understands the physical and logical network topology as well as the application and data workload requirements. It establishes a network where individual workloads receive their own portion of the network at each network layer.  

Dynamic Topologies

In conjunction with the centralized HPE Composable Fabric Manager platform, the HPE Composable Fabric provides intelligent and adaptive technology that ensures workloads always have access to the most optimal network paths. HPE Composable Fabric Manager provides both the integration platform, as well as a set of HPE-developed API level integrations that automate workflows based on the included sensors, actions and triggers for 3rd party orchestration systems.  

HPE Composable Fabric connectivity modules intelligently select the best network paths for workloads that have resource requirements or explicit constraints defined by the integrations. 

Less sensitive workloads without explicitly defined constraints are efficiently forwarded across the available direct and indirect paths created by the network fabric. Based on HPE residual fit algorithms, HPE Composable Fabric Manager dynamically fits non-affinitized traffic. Unlike typical multipath networks, which might utilize a maximum of 16 or 32 IP based equal cost paths between switch ports, HPE Composable Fabric Manager can intelligently select from hundreds of non-interfering, nonequal paths across the highly diverse HPE Composable Fabric at layer 1, 2 or 3. As a result, HPE creates unprecedented efficiency, delivering higher performance with greater flexibility than traditional access/aggregation/core hierarchical networking solutions.

Scale Out, Not Up

HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 physically interconnect using optical ports to create a very dense, full or partial mesh between rack connectivity modules. This creates a more cost effective and power efficient network architecture than traditional tree or leaf-and-spine hierarchical networks can achieve. The mesh architecture enables linear scaling, with each additional switch adding fabric capacity, resiliency and multi-path options. HPE Composable Fabric connectivity modules create network fabrics ranging from a few server racks in size to a large capacity cloud data center. The linear build-out offers predictable economics and capacity growth in true scale-out fashion.

Network Deployments

HPE Composable Fabric enables several highly flexible deployment models. Composable Fabric's Network deployments involve QSFP ports whose location and the amount varies per rack connectivity module's flavor. These ports connect to QSFP ports on another connectivity module for a direct connect network, alternatively leaf and spine configuration can be created where FM 3032Q acts as a spine module. For simplified cabling and where there are more than 6 connectivity modules involved, FM 1006 is used. 

• Direct Connect for six rack connectivity modules or less, for example:

- Directly connect FM 2072 modules together using a QSFP-to-QSFP cable such as a Direct Attach Cable (DAC) or Active Optical Cable (AOC).

• Leaf and Spine configuration with FM 3032Q acting as a spine module:

- Directly connect FM 3032Q to the QSFP ports of other rack connectivity modules (e.g. FM 3180/3032Q/2072 etc.). Use a QSFP-to-QSFP cable such as a Direct Attach Cable (DAC) or Active Optical Cable (AOC).

• Optical-based FM 1006 passive interconnect solution with simplified cabling for six rack connectivity modules or more, for example:

- Connect FM 2072 modules to an FM 1006 interconnect passive device. Plug each FM 2072 into the FM 1006 using the HPE-supplied cable. The passive FM 1006 device creates the mesh structure of an HPE Composable Fabric. 

The FM 1006 creates a meshed network between the HPE Composable Fabric rack connectivity modules, which is used by HPE Composable Fabric Manager to create forwarding topologies based on Affinities. All the values of the Composable Fabric solution are preserved in this deployment. As a passive device, the FM 1006 consumes no power and as such has failure behaviors that are similar to, or better than, fiber patch panels. FM 1006s can be connected together to create larger networks.  

With 3 simple MPO cables, FM 1006 can be extended to provide a single implementation of a meshed network for the attached rack connectivity modules. In increments of 6 rack connectivity modules, any sized Composable Fabric network can be created.

HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 - Port Names

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East Fabric Ports (From 1 to 6)

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West Extender Ports (From 1 to 3)

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East Extender Ports (From 1 to 3)

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West Fabric Ports (From 1 to 6)

HPE Composable Fabric Rack Connectivity Module – Access Ports

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West  Access Ports

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East  Access Ports

Fabric Ports

The HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 passive interconnect module provides 12 fabric connectors for 6 HPE Composable Fabric rack connectivity modules.

HPE Composable Fabric FM 2072 – QSFP Port Diagram

Extender Ports

Multiple (unlimited) FM 1006 devices can be interconnected to form a mesh larger than six rack connectivity modules using the three 24-fiber MPO connectors. The extender ports provide the ability to extend the optical 'spine' to multiple FM 1006 modules, creating 10s of Tbit/sec optical capacity. To use all the available backbone bandwidth in a single pod deployment, the east extender interfaces have to be connected with west extender interfaces of the same FM 1006.

Optical Cables

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HPE 24 Fiber MPO

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HPE 24 Fiber MPO 0.25M Cables

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HPE 100Gb QSFP25 LC CWDM4 2km Transceiver

NOTE: HPE Composable Fabric mesh connectivity is provided from the "last" connectivity module on FM 1006 1 to the first through fourth connectivity module on FM 1006 2, and so on.

Cabling examples

• Rack connectivity module to FM 1006 cabling examples
• There are no embedded transceivers in the FM 1006 patch panels
• FM 1006 maps individual fiber pairs to other rack connectivity modules
• FM 1006 leverages 3 into 1 optical cable - 3 uplinks to 1 MPO (24 fiber)
• It is possible to daisy chain multiple FM 1006 units
• For unused ports, MPO loopback cable needs to be used

3 x QSFP Deployment – Optical Cables

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4 x 10G HPE 40Gb QSFP + MPO IR4P 2km Transceiver or 4 x 25 HPE 100Gb QSFP28 PSM4 2km Transceiver

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HPE 24 F MPO to 3 x 12 F MPO

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HPE 24 Fiber MPO 0.25M Cables

4 x QSFP28 Deployment – Optical Cables

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HPE 100Gb QSFP28 LC CWDM4 2km Transceiver

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HPE 24 Fiber MPO 0.25M Cables

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HPE 24Fiber MPO to  4xLC Single-mode