HPE Aruba Networking

HPE Aruba Networking

Switches

Aruba OS-CX

Aruba CX 10000 Switch Series

Designed with the next generation of large-scale data centers in mind, the Aruba CX 10000 Switch Series delivers a flexible and innovative approach to address the security compliance, performance, agility, and scalability demands of the highly distributed, hybrid, multi-cloud application era.  

In conjunction with Pensando, Aruba has defined a new market category of data center switches. The CX 10000 combines the best-of-breed network operating system, Aruba AOS-CX, for data center, campus, and edge in addition to the fully programmable Pensando DPU. This allows the CX 10000 to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO.  

The Aruba CX 10000 allows operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with distributed stateful segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT1, encryption1, and telemetry services-all delivered inline, all the time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise applications run. The CX 10000 distributed services architecture is agnostic of network deployment architecture. This allows the flexibility to enable stateful services delivery, when deployed as access, leaf Top of Rack (ToR), or End of Row (EoR) in a datacenter, and potentially in the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center designs.  

The CX 10000 offers 3.6Tbps of line-rate switching capacity with interface configurations supporting 1/10/25GbE (SFP/ SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity, in a compact 1U form factor. Consequently, these switches offer a fantastic investment for customers migrating from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE to 100GbE ports. 

The Aruba CX 10000 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks.

A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as past trends analysis. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks. 

Our AOS-CX software also includes Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) and support for Aruba NetEdit. Because AOS-CX is built on a modular Linux architecture with a stateful database, our operating system provides the following unique features:

Easy access to all network state information for unique visibility and analytics
REST APIs and Python scripting for fine-grained programmability of network tasks
A micro-services architecture that enables full integration with other workflow systems and services
Continual state synchronization that provides superior fault tolerance and high availability
Near real-time state and resiliency and the ability to independently upgrade individual software modules for higher availability
Pensando Stateful Software Services Embedded natively in the Aruba CX 10000 Switch Series, the AOS-CX operating system is an industry unique, inline stateful software service, enabled through Pensando's programmable DPU, delivered at scale with wire-rate performance. The services include stateful firewalling and secure segmentation, DDoS protection, and deep flow-based session-level telemetry, enabled natively in the fabric switching infrastructure without requiring host-based agents or dedicated appliances.

Stateful software benefits include:

Improves security posture, limiting appliance sprawl
Extends Zero Trust segmentation deeper into the data center for any type of host
Delivers isolation and multi-tenancy for virtualized, bare-metal, or containerized workloads
Optimizes network traffic flows, bandwidth, and performance, which reduces operational complexity associated with service stitching
Overcomes centralized networking service layer chokepoints, which reduces downtime
Simplifies operations via unified network and security automation and management with Aruba Fabric Composer
Addresses deployments where security agents can't be deployed into servers
Accelerates infrastructure service provisioning
Lowers capex/opex expenditure on security and services
Aruba Fabric Composer is an intelligent, API-driven, software-defined orchestration solution that simplifies and accelerates leaf-spine fabric provisioning and day-to-day operations across rack-scale compute and storage infrastructure. What makes Aruba Fabric Composer different from other solutions is that the software can orchestrate a discrete set of switches as a single entity, which significantly simplifies operations and troubleshooting. This solution is fully infrastructure and application aware, providing automation of various configuration and lifecycle events.
Aruba Fabric Composer also provides unified network and security management for the Aruba CX 10000 platform. This provides automated switch and network configurations, while also unifying security policy and distributed firewalls across the entire switching fabric. This unified network and security policy management significantly simplifies operations and troubleshooting. This solution is implemented to augment switch-by-switch configuration, so operators can access any device directly and make local changes, which means you get the best environment for both traditional network operators in addition to DevOps and SecOps automation.