H3C S6850 Series

Data Center Switches

Release Date: Nov, 2022

New H3C Technologies Co., Limited

H3C S6850 Series Data Center Switches

H3C S6850 Series Data Center Switches

Product overview
H3C S6850 high-density intelligent switch series is developed for data centers and cloud
computing networks. It provides powerful hardware forwarding capacity and abundant data
center features. It provides up to 48*25G ports and 8*100G ports. The switch supports modular
power modules and fan trays. By using different fan trays, the switch can provide field-
changeable airflows.
The switch is an ideal product for high-density 25GE switching and aggregation at data centers
and cloud computing networks. It can also operate as a TOR access switch on an overlay or
integrated network.

Product Appearance
The S6850 series come in the following models.

 S6850-56HF: The switch provides 48 × 25G SFP28 ports, 8 × 100G QSFP28 ports, and 2 × 1G
SFP ports

S6850-56HF front panel S6850-56HF rear panel

 S6850-2C: The switch provides 2 service slots, 2 × 100G QSFP28 ports

S6850-2C front panel S6850-2C rear panel

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Features and Benefits

High-Density 25GE Access
 The switch offers high-density 100G/40G/25G/10G ports and a wire-speed forwarding capacity as
high as 4 Tbps. With standard 25G ports, it can provide high-density server access in high-end data
centers.

IRF2 (Second Generation Intelligent Resilience Architecture)

 Facing the application requirements of the unified switching architecture of the data center, the
series switches support the IRF2 technology, which virtualizes multiple devices into one logical.
 The equipment has strong advantages in scalability, reliability, distributed and availability.
 IRF2 not only can achieve a long-distance intelligent elastic architecture within a rack, across racks,
and even across regions.

Abundant Data Center Features

The switch supports abundant data center features, including:

 H3C S6850 switch series supports VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN), which provides two major
benefits, higher scalability of Layer 2 segmentation and better utilization of available network paths.
 H3C S6850 switch series supports MP-BGP EVPN (Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet
Virtual Private Network) which can run as VXLAN control plane to simplify VXLAN configuration,
eliminate traffic flooding and reduce full mesh requirements between VTEPs via the introduction of
BGP RR.
 H3C S6850 switch series support Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which permits storage, data,
and computing services to be transmitted on one network, reducing the costs of network
construction and maintenance.
 H3C S6850 switch series support Priority-based Flow Control (PFC), Enhanced Transmission
Selection (ETS) and Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX). These features ensure low latency and
zero packet loss for FC storage, RDMA applications and high-speed computing services.

H3C Distributed Resilient Network Interconnection (DRNI)

 H3C S6850 switch series support DRNI(M-LAG), which enables links of multiple switches to
aggregate into one to implement device-level link backup. DRNI is applicable to servers dual-
homed to a pair of access devices for node redundancy.
 Streamlined topology: DRNI simplifies the network topology and spanning tree configuration by
virtualizing two physical devices into one logical device.
 Independent upgrading: The DR member devices can be upgraded independently one by one to
minimize the impact on traffic forwarding.
 High availability: The DR system uses a keepalive link to detect multi-active collision to ensure that
only one member device forwards traffic after a DR system splits.

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Powerful Visibility
With the rapid development of data center, the scale of the data center expands rapidly; reliability, operation
and maintenance become the bottleneck of data center for further expansion. H3C S6850 switch series
conform to the trend of automated data operation and maintenance, and support visualization of data
center.
 INT (Inband-Telemetry) is a network monitoring technology used to collect data from the device.
Compared with the traditional network monitoring technology featuring one query, one reporting,
INT requires only one-time configuration for continuous data reporting, thereby reducing the
request processing load of the device. INT can collect timestamp information, device ID, port
information, and buffer information in real time. INT can be implemented in IP, EVPN, and VXLAN
networks.
 Provides a variety of traffic monitoring and analytic tools, including sFlow, NetStream,
SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN mirroring, and port mirroring to help customers perform precise traffic
analysis and gain visibility into network application traffic. With these tools, customers can collect
network traffic data to evaluate network health status, create traffic analysis reports, perform traffic
engineering, and optimize resource allocation.
 Supports realtime monitoring of buffer and port queues, allowing for visible and dynamic network
optimization.
 Supports PTP (Precision Time Protocol) to achieve highly precise clock synchronization.

RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)

 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) directly transmits the user application data to the storage
space of the servers, and uses the network to fast transmit the data from the local system to the
storage of the remote system. RDMA eliminates multiple data copying and context switching
operations during the transmission process, and reduces the CPU load.
 RoCE supports RDMA on standard Ethernet infrastructures. H3C S6850 switch support RoCE and can
be used to build a lossless Ethernet network to ensure zero packet loss.
 RoCE include the following key features，include PFC(Priority based Flow Control), ECN(Explicit
Congestion Notification), DCBX(Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange Protocol), ETS(Enhanced
Transmission Selection).

Flexible programmability
 The switch uses industry-leading programmable switching chips that allow users to define the
forwarding logic as needed.
 Users can develop new features that meet the evolving trend of their networks through simple
software updates.

Powerful SDN capacity

 H3C S6850 switch series adopt the next-generation chip with more flexible Openflow FlowTable,
more resources and accurate ACL matching, which greatly improves the software-defined network
(SDN) capabilities and meet the demand of data center SDN network.
 H3C S6850 switch series can interconnect with H3C SeerEngine-DC Controller through standard
protocols such as OVSDB, Netconf and SNMP to implement network automatic deployment and
configuration.

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Comprehensive security control policies

 H3C S6850 series switch supports AAA, RADIUS and user account based authentication, IP, MAC,
VLAN, port-based user identification, dynamic and static binding; when working with the H3C iMC
platform, it can conduct real time management, instant diagnosis and crackdown on illicit network
behavior.
 H3C S6850 series switch supports enhanced ACL control logic, which enables an enormous amount
of in-port and out-port ACL, and delegate VLAN based ACL. This simplifies user deployment process
and avoids ACL resource wastage. S6850 series switch can also take advantage of Unicast Reverse
Path Forwarding (Unicast RFP). When the device receives a packet, it will perform the reverse check
to verify the source address from which the packets are supposedly originated, and will drop the
packet if such path doesn’t exist. This can effectively prevent the source address spoofing in the
network.

Multiple reliability protection

 The S6850 series switch provides multiple reliability protection at both switch and link levels. With
over current, overvoltage, and overheat protection, all models have a redundant pluggable power
module, which enables flexible configuration of AC or DC power modules based on actual needs.
The entire switch supports fault detection and alarm for power supply and fan, allowing fan speed
to change to suit different ambient temperatures.
 The switch supports diverse link redundancy technologies such as H3C proprietary RRPP, VRRPE,
and Smart Link. These technologies ensure quick network convergence even when large amount of
traffic of multiple services runs on the network.


Flexible choice of airflow

 To cope with data center cooling aisle design, the H3C S6850 series switch comes with flexible
airflow design, which features bi-cooling aisles in the front and back. Users may also choose the
direction of airflow (from front to back or vice versa) by selecting a different fan tray.

Excellent manageability
The switch improves system management through the following ways:

 Provides multiple management interfaces, including the serial console port, mini USB console port,
USB port, two out-of-band management ports, and two SFP ports. The SFP ports can be used as in-
band management port through which encapsulated sampling packets are sent to the controller or
other management devices for deep analysis.
 Supports multiple access methods, including SNMPv1/v2c/v3, Telnet, SSH 2.0, SSL, and FTP.
 Supports standard NETCONF APIs that allow users to configure and manage the switch, enhancing
the compatibility with third-party applications.

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Hardware Specification
Item S6850-56HF S6850-2C

Dimensions (H × W × D) 43.6 × 440 × 460 mm (1.72 × 17.32 × 18.11 in) 44.2 × 440 × 660 mm (1.74 × 17.32 × 18.11 in)

Weight ≤ 15 kg (33.07 lb) ≤ 16 kg (35.27 lb)

Serial console port 1 1

Out-of-band management port One GE copper port and one GE fiber port One GE copper port and one GE fiber port

Mini USB console port 1 1

USB port 1 1

QSFP28 port 8 2

SFP28 port 48 -

SFP port 2 -

Expansion slot - 2

CPU 2.2GHz@4Core 2.2GHz@4Core

Flash/SDRAM 4GB/8GB 4GB/8GB

Latency <1μs <1μs

Switching capacity 4 Tbps 3.6Tbps

Forwarding capacity 2024 Mpps 2024 Mpps

Buffer(byte) 32M 32M

AC-input voltage 90v AC to 264v AC 90v AC to 264v AC

DC-input voltage –40v DC to –72v DC –40v DC to –72v DC

Power module slot 2 2

Fan tray slot 5 Hot-swappable fan, fan speed adjustable and wind invertible

Air flow direction From front to rear or from rear to front From front to rear or from rear to front

Single AC: 167 W Single AC: 136 W

Dual AC: 179 W Dual AC: 148 W

Static power consumption
Single DC: 154 W Single DC: 132 W

Dual DC: 174 W Dual DC: 146 W

Single AC: 201 W Single AC: 273 W ( with LSWM18CQ)

Dual AC: 224 W Dual AC: 282 W( with LSWM18CQ)

Typical power consumption
Single DC: 198 W Single DC: 268 W( with LSWM18CQ)

Dual DC: 210 W Dual DC: 275 W( with LSWM18CQ)

Single AC: 686 Single AC:932 ( with LSWM18CQ)

Maximum heat consumption Dual AC: 765 Dual AC:963( with LSWM18CQ)

(BTU/hour) Single DC: 676 Single DC:915( with LSWM18CQ)

Dual DC: 717 Dual DC: 939( with LSWM18CQ)

Operating temperature 0°C to 45°C (32°F to 113°F)

Operating humidity 5% to 95%, noncondensing

MTBF(year) 33.2 34

MTTR(hour) 1 1 6
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Software Specification
Item Feature description

IRF2.0
Device Virtualization M-LAG(DRNI)
S-MLAG
BGP-EVPN
Network Virtualization VxLAN
EVPN ES
L2 VxLAN gateway
L3 VxLAN gateway
Distributed VxLAN gateway
Centralized VxLAN gateway
VxLAN EVPN VxLAN
manual configured VxLAN
IPv4 VxLAN tunnel
IPv6 VxLAN tunnel
QinQ VxLAN access
SDN H3C SeerEngine-DC
PFC and ECN
DCBX
RDMA and ROCE
Lossless network
PFC deadlock watchdog
ECN overlay
ROCE stream analysis
Openflow1.3
Netconf
Programmability
Ansible
Python//TCL/Restful API to realize DevOps automated operation and maintenance
Sflow
Traffic analysis
Netstream, only S6850-2C
Port-based VLANs
Mac-based VLAN ,Subnet-based VLAN and Protocol VLAN
VLAN mapping
VLAN QinQ
MVRP(Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol)
Super VLAN
PVLAN
Dynamic learning and aging of mac address entries
MAC address Dynamic,static and blackhole entries
Mac address limiting on ports
RIP(Routing Information Protocol) v1/2
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) v1/v2
ISIS(Intermediate System to Intermediate system)
IPv4 routing BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
Routing policy
VRRP
PBR

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Item Specification

RIPng
OSPFv3
IPv6 ISIS
IPv6 routing
BGP4+
Routing policy
VRRP
PBR
Support L3 MPLS VPN
Support L2 VPN: VLL (Martini, Kompella)
Support VPLS, VLL
Support hierarchical VPLS and QinQ+VPLS access
MPLS/VPLS
Support P/PE function
Support LDP protocol
Support MCE
Support MPLS OAM
IGMP snooping
MLD snooping
IPv4 and IPv6 multicast VLAN
IPv4 and IPv6 PIM snooping
Multicast
IGMP and MLD
PIM and IPv6 PIM
MSDP
Multicast VPN
LACP
STP/RSTP/MSTP protocol, PVST compatible
STP Root Guard and BPDU Guard
RRPP and ERPS
Reliability Ethernet OAM
Smartlink
DLDP
BFD for OSPF/OSPFv3, BGP/BGP4, IS-IS/IS-ISv6, PIM/IPM for IPv6 and Static route
VRRP and VRRPE
Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) and tail drop
Flexible queue scheduling algorithms based on port and queue, including strict priority (SP), Weighted
Deficit Round Robin (WDRR), Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), SP + WDRR, and SP + WFQ.
Traffic shaping
Packet filtering at L2 (Layer 2) through L4 (Layer 4); flow classification based on source MAC address,
QOS
destination MAC address, source IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, destination IP (IPv4/IPv6) address, port,
protocol, and VLAN to apply qos policy,including mirroring,redirection,priority remark etc.
Committed access rate (CAR)
Account by packet and byte
COPP
FC, FC subcard is supported on S6850-2C
FC/FOCE
FCOE
gRPC
Telemetry ERSPAN
Mirror on drop

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Item Specification
Telemetry Stream
INT
Telemetry
iNQA
Packet trace, Packet capture
Console telnet and SSH terminals
SNMPv1/v2/v3
ZTP
System log
File upload and download via FTP/TFTP, BootRom update and remote update
Configuration and
NQA
maintenance
ping,tracert
VxLAN ping and VxLAN tracert
NTP
PTP(1588v2)
GIR Graceful Insertion and Removal
Macsec, Macsec subcard is supported on S6850-2C and only 100G macsec subcard can support 256-bit
AES encryption
Micro-Segmentation
Hierarchical management and password protection of users
Authentication methods,including AAA,RADIUS and HWTACACS
Support DDos, ARP attack and ICMP attack function

Security and management IP-MAC-port binding and IP Source Guard

SSH 2.0
HTTPS
SSL
PKI
Boot ROM access control (password recovery)
RMON
FCC Part 15 Subpart B CLASS A
ICES-003 CLASS A
VCCI CLASS A
CISPR 32 CLASS A
EN 55032 CLASS A
AS/NZS CISPR32 CLASS A
EMC CISPR 24
EN 55024
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
ETSI EN 300 386
GB/T 9254
YD/T 993
802.3x/802.3ad/802.3AH/802.1P/802.1Q/802.1X/802.1D/802.1w/802.1s/802.1AG
IEEE Standard
802.1x/802.1Qbb/802.1az/802.1Qaz
UL 60950-1
CAN/CSA C22.2 No 60950-1
IEC 60950-1
Safety EN 60950-1
AS/NZS 60950-1
FDA 21 CFR Subchapter J
GB 4943.1

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Performance and scalability

Item Description
Virtualization IRF2.0 stack 9

M-LAG device number 2

ED group 8
ACL max number of ingress ACLs 18K/pipe, total 2 pipes

max number of ingress Car 2304/pipe, total 2 pipes

max number of ingress Counter 10752/pipe, total 2 pipes
max number of egress ACLs 2048
max number of egress Car 1K
max number of egress Counter 1K
Forwarding table Jumbo frame length(byte) 9416
Mirroring group 4

PBR policy 1000

PBR node 256

max number of MACs per switch 288K max

max number of ARP entries IPv4 272K max
max ND table size for IPv6 136K max

max number of unicast routes IPv4 324K max

max number of unicast routes IPv6 162K max

IPv4 l2 multicast group 4000

IPv4 l3 multicast group 4000
IPv4 multicast routing 16K

IPv6 l2 multicast group 4000

IPv6 l3 multicast group 4000
IPv6 multicast routing 8K
LAGG group 1024

LAGG member per group 256

ECMP group max 4K
ECMP member per group 2-128

VRF 4095
Interface Loopback interface number 1K

L3 sub interface number 2500

SVI interface number 2K
VxLAN AC number 16K

VxLAN VSI number 16K

VxLAN tunnel number 2K
VSI interface number 8K
IPv4 tunnel number 2K

IPv6 tunnel number 2K

VLAN number 4094

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Performance and scalability

Description

Performance RIB 1M
MSTP instance 64

PVST instance 510

PVST logical port number 2000
VRRP VRID 255
VRRP group 256
NQA group 32
Static table static mac-address 4000
static multicast mac-address 1K
static ARP 1K

static ND 4K
static IPv4 routing table 2K

static IPv6 routing table 4000

Data Center Application

The typical data center application is an EVPN-VxLAN design,S12500G-AF or S12500X-AF
switches work as spine or spine/border, S68XX series work as leaf and border or ED. From this
design, the usres can get a non-blocking large L2 system.

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Order information
PID Description
LS-6850-56HF H3C S6850-56HF L3 Ethernet Switch with 48 SFP28 Ports and 8 QSFP28 Ports
H3C S6850-2C L3 Ethernet Switch with 2*QSFP28 Ports and 2*Interface Module
LS-6850-2C
Slots
Power
LSVM1AC650 650W AC Power Supply Module
LSVM1DC650 650W DC Power Supply Module
Fan
LSWM1FANSAB Fan Module (SW, 4056, DC, Air Inlets in Panel)
LSWM1FANSA Fan Module (SW, 4056, DC, Air Inlets in Panel)
Module
LSWM18QC 8-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card
LSWM124XG2Q 24-Port SFP Plus and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card with MACSec
LSWM124XGT2Q 24-Port 10GBASE-T and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card with MACSec
LSWM124XG2QL 24-Port SFP Plus and 2-Port QSFP Plus Interface Card
LSWM124XG2QFC 24 Ports SFP Plus and 2 Ports QSFP Plus Interface Card with FC
LSWM18CQ H3C 8-Port 100G Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP28)
LSWM116Q H3C 16-Port 40G Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP Plus)
H3C 24-Port 25G Ethernet Optical Interface (SFP28) and 2-Port 100G Ethernet
LSWM124TG2H
Optical Interface (QSFP28) Module
LSWM18CQMSEC H3C 8-Port 100G MACSEC Ethernet Optical Interface Module(QSFP28)
Transceiver
SFP-GE-LH80-SM1550 1000BASE-LH80 SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1550nm, 80km, LC)
SFP-FE-LX-SM1310-A 100BASE-LX SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1310nm, 15km, LC)
SFP-FE-SX-MM1310-A 100BASE-FX SFP Transceiver, Multi-Mode (1310nm, 2km, LC)
SFP-FE-LH40-SM1310 100BASE-LH40 SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1310nm, 40km, LC)
SFP-GE-LX-SM1310-A 1000BASE-LX SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1310nm, 10km, LC)
SFP-GE-LH40-SM1310 1000BASE-LH40 SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1310nm, 40km, LC)
SFP-GE-LH40-SM1550 1000BASE-LH40 SFP Transceiver, Single Mode (1550nm, 40km, LC)
SFP-GE-SX-MM850-A 1000BASE-SX SFP Transceiver, Multi-Mode (850nm, 550m, LC)
SFP-GE-T SFP GE Copper Interface Transceiver Module (100m,RJ45)
QSFP-100G-LR4-
100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module(1310nm,10km,LR4,WDM,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-100G-LR4L-
100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,2km,LR4L,CWDM4,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-100G-PSM4-
100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,500m,PSM4,MPO/APC)
SM1310
QSFP-100G-SR4-MM850 100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module (850nm,100m OM4,SR4,MPO)
QSFP-100G-LR4L- 100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,2km,LR4L,CWDM4,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-100G-LR4- 100G QSFP28 Optical Transceiver Module(1310nm,10km,LR4,WDM,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-40G-LR4-
QSFP+ 40GBASE Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,10km,LR4,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-40G-BIDI-SR-
QSFP+ 40GBASE BIDI Optical Transceiver Module (850nm,100m,SR)
MM850

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PID Description
Transceiver
QSFP-40G-LR4L-
QSFP+ 40GBASE Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,2km,LR4L,LC)
WDM1300
QSFP-40G-LR4- QSFP+ 40GBASE Optical Transceiver Module (1310nm,10km,MPO/APC,LR4,Parallel
PSM1310 Single Mode)
QSFP+ 40GBASE Optical Transceiver Module (850nm,100m,SR4,Support 40G to
QSFP-40G-SR4-MM850
4*10G)
QSFP-40G-CSR4- QSFP+ 40GBASE Optical Transceiver Module (850nm,300m,CSR4,Support 40G to
MM850 4*10G)
Cable
QSFP-100G-D-AOC-
100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 10m Active Optical Cable
10M
QSFP-100G-D-CAB-1M 100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 1m Passive Cable
QSFP-100G-D-AOC-
100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 20m Active Optical Cable
20M
QSFP-100G-D-CAB-3M 100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 3m Passive Cable
QSFP-100G-D-CAB-5M 100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 5m Passive Cable
QSFP-100G-D-AOC-7M 100G QSFP28 to 100G QSFP28 7m Active Optical Cable
QSFP-100G-4SFP-25G-
100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 1m Passive Cable
CAB-1M
QSFP-100G-4SFP-25G-
100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 3m Passive Cable
CAB-3M
QSFP-100G-4SFP-25G-
100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 5m Passive Cable
CAB-5M
LSWM1QSTK0 40G QSFP+ Cable 1m
LSWM1QSTK1 40G QSFP+ Cable 3m
LSWM1QSTK2 40G QSFP+ Cable 5m
QSFP-40G-D-AOC-10M 40G QSFP+ to 40G QSFP+ 10m Active Optical Cable
QSFP-40G-D-AOC-20M 40G QSFP+ to 40G QSFP+ 20m Active Optical Cable
QSFP-40G-D-AOC-7M 40G QSFP+ to 40G QSFP+ 7m Active Optical Cable
LSWM1QSTK3 40G QSFP+ to 4x10G SFP+ Cable 1m
LSWM1QSTK4 40G QSFP+ to 4x10G SFP+ Cable 3m
LSWM1QSTK5 40G QSFP+ to 4x10G SFP+ Cable 5m

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IRF stack
M-LAG device number