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The HPE Networking CX8325 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 Networking CX Switch Operating System (OS-CX) and, it brings automation and visibility and helps troubleshoot through simple scripting.
The Network Analytics Engine (NAE) 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, EVPN, VXLAN and IGMP.
The CX8325H helps balance density, high-availability, and affordability by conserving rack space and costs when deploying server, storage and HCI solutions making it 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 CX8325 Switch Series is based on the new HPE Networking CX Switch Operating System (OS-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 OS-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 Networking CX8325 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 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 40/100GbE or 32 ports of 40/100GbE.
The CX8325P-32C switch delivers Advanced Layer 3 including OSPF, BGP, VXLAN and breakouts to support up to 128 ports of 10G and 25G.
The CX8325H switch delivers high-performance, high density 1/10/25/40/100GbE connectivity half-width, in a single RU form factor. Throughput of 2.16 Tbps with 18 ports of 1/10/25GbE and 4 ports of 40/100GbE and throughput of 4 Tbps with 16 ports of 40/100GbE.
HPE Networking data center solutions
The HPE 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 services.
The HPE Networking CX switches, both 10/25G and 40/100G, can be deployed as part of these solutions and are often designed into these integrated solutions along with HPE platforms and servers.
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 CX8325P switches provide greater flexibility to help ensure a range of deployment models by allowing 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G computing deployments, while providing greater interoperability with key HPE Telco solutions.
The CX8325 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.
