HPE FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series is a family of high performance and low-latency 10 GbE, 40 GbE Top-of-Rack (ToR) data center switches. The switch series include also 100G uplink technology and also a 2-slot and 4-slot modular form factor providing ultimate flexibility for an ever-changing Data Center requirements. This entire series is part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise FlexFabric data center solution, which is a cornerstone of the FlexNetwork architecture.

The FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series is ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers, or at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises.

• Key features
• VXLAN L2 and L3 and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) support for virtualized environments.
• OpenFlow support for investment protection and SDN environments.
• High-Density 10 GbE, 40 GbE with 40G or 100G uplink for spine and leaf deployments.
• Unify management of virtual and physical network with VEPA and IMC.
• Includes Distributed Resilient Network Interconnect (DRNI) that offers high availability and resiliency by combining multiple physical switches into one virtual distributed-relay (DR) system.
• Data center convergence and resiliency with Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), Data Center Bridging (DCB), FC/FCoE, Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) and TRILL.
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Powerful QoS features
• Flexible queue scheduling
• : Including Strict Priority (SP), Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Weighted Deficit Round Robin (WDRR), Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), SP+WRR, SP+WDRR, SP+WFQ, configurable buffer, time range, queue shaping, Committed Access Rate (CAR) with 8 kb/s granularity.
• Packet filtering and remarking
• : Packet filtering at Layer 2 (L2) through Layer 4 (L4); flow classification based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, source IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, destination IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, port, protocol, and VLAN.
• Provides nonblocking, lossless close architecture with VOQs and large buffers with the flexibility and scalability for future growth.
• Data center optimized
• Flexible high port density
• High-Performance switching
• Higher scalability
• Advanced modular OS
• TRILL, SPB and Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)/Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA)
• Reversible airflow
• Redundant fans and power supplies
• Lower OPEX and greener data center
• DCB protocols
• FCoE support
• Jumbo frames
• VXLAN hardware support
• Dynamic VXLAN configuration
• EVPN