HPE Aruba CX 8320 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Aruba CX 8320 switch series is an enterprise 1U campus core and datacenter top-of-rack switch delivering wire-speed 10GbE and 40GbE performance. The Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch is a high-density 1U 10GBASE-T data center switch designed for large-scale enterprise server clusters and IP storage pools.
| HPE Aruba CX 8320 | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U rack |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch with redundant power and fans | — |
| Port options | 48x 10GbE SFP+ with 6x 40GbE QSFP+, or 32x 40GbE QSFP+ | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 2.5 Tbps | 2.16 Tbps switching capacity with 1.6 Bpps forwarding rate |
| Forwarding capacity | Up to 1,905 Mpps | — |
| High availability | Aruba VSX multi-chassis redundancy | — |
| Cooling airflow | Front-to-back (port-to-power) or back-to-front (power-to-port) | — |
| Port configuration | — | 48x 10GBASE-T RJ-45 ports and 6x 40/100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports |
| Operating system | — | Lenovo Cloud Network Operating System (CNOS) |
| Features | — | Virtual Link Aggregation (VLAG), VXLAN gateway, cut-through architecture, telemetry streaming |
| Airflow | — | Rear-to-front or front-to-rear airflow options |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies |
| Management | — | RESTful API, CLI, Ansible, OpenStack, Telemetry |
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