The following sections detail what is new in this document.
ExtremeSwitching 5720 Series is a family of high-performance, feature-rich edge and aggregation switches designed for the next generation digital enterprise. As a universal hardware platform, the 5720 Series provides end-to-end secure network segmentation, in addition to advanced policy capabilities, and offers a user-selectable choice of Extreme‘s flagship switch operating systems.
Fabric Engine 8.7 supports the following new switching models:
5720-24MW
24 100M/1/2.5/5GbaseT full-duplex (FDX), MACsec-capable ports with 802.3bt PoE (90W)
5720-48MW
48 100M/1/2.5/5GbaseT full-duplex (FDX), MACsec-capable ports with 802.3bt PoE (90W)
5720-24MXW
24 100M/1/2.5/5/10GbaseT full-duplex (FDX), MACsec-capable ports with 802.3bt PoE (90W)
5720-48MXW
48 100M/1/2.5/5/10GbaseT full-duplex (FDX), MACsec-capable ports with 802.3bt PoE (90W)
In addition to the fixed ports, all models provide two QSFP28 Universal Ethernet ports, console interface ports (one micro Type B USB and one RJ-45), one RJ 45 out-of-band (OOB) management port (10/100/1000), two USB Type A ports for removable storage, one VIM slot, and hot-swappable, redundant power supplies and fan units.
Each model provides one Versatile Interface Module (VIM) slot. You can install any one of the following VIMs in the VIM slot to provide flexible linkage to other switches or devices over a range of media:
5720-VIM-2CE: Two 100-GbE (QSFP28) MACsec-capable ports.
5720-VIM-6YE: Six 25-GbE (SFP28) MACsec-capable ports.
For optics compatibility, see the Extreme Optics website.
For high-level feature support information, see Fabric Engine Feature Support Matrix.
This release introduces a change to the ACL architecture for Fabric Engine switches.
In earlier releases, ACL ACE rules were defined as:
Security: ACE ID range 1-1000
QoS: ACE ID range 1001-2000
Security ACEs were used to perform permit or deny actions on a match. QoS ACEs were used to perform remarking actions on a match. The switch performed a parallel search on both Security and QoS ACE lists, which resulted in distinct and non-conflicting actions.
Now, ACL ACE rules can be defined as:
Primary Bank: ACE ID range 1-1000
Secondary Bank: ACE ID range 1001-2000
You can use both Primary and Secondary Banks for Security and QoS ACEs. The switch performs a parallel search on both ACE lists. If actions do not conflict, both actions apply. If actions conflict, the action from the Primary Bank has precedence.
Note
As a best practice, apply deny actions to Primary Bank ACEs in configurations where ACEs in Primary and Secondary Banks with deny and permit actions applied can match the same flow.
For more information, see Traffic Filtering.
This release introduces Extreme Integrated Application Hosting support for 5720-24MXW and 5720-48MXW, providing high-performance and flexible visibility applications using dedicated resources.
For more information, see Extreme Integrated Application Hosting.
In this release, the Third Party Virtual Machine (TPVM) version is based on Ubuntu 20.04.04 TLS.
This release introduces EDM support to modify the spbm-node scaling boot config flag. This is only applicable to, and supported on, 5320 Series and 5420 Series.
For more information, see Configure Boot Flags.
You can now configure OSPFv2 point-to-point network interface type, which provides a single connection between two specific points or OSPF routers. In earlier releases, you could only configure broadcast, non-broadcast multiple access, and passive OSPFv2 network interface types.
For more information, see the following sections:
Prior to this release, you could only enable reauthentication on ports manually through CLI. Now you can enable reauthentication dynamically through RADIUS VSA Extreme-Dynamic-Config. To identify the origin of configuration, the origin displays as either CONFIG or RADIUS.
For more information, see Extreme-Dynamic-Config.
Prior to this release, you could not apply two 10 Gbps Port Licenses to the same switch nor could you move to an 8-port license without revoking the 4-port license first, which caused the SFP+ ports on the switch to revert to operating at 1 Gbps. You can now apply a 4-port and an 8-port 10 Gbps Port License to the switch concurrently. You can also move from one license to another license without a loss in connectivity.
In this release, you can use Enterprise Device Manager (EDM) to revoke either the 4-port 10 Gbps or the 8-port 10 Gbps port license.
For more information, see the following sections:
In this release, support for Microsoft Internet Explorer to access Enterprise Device Manager (EDM) is removed.
For a list of supported browsers, see Supported Browsers.
Prior to this release, packets tagged with VLAN ID 0 were dropped. This release provides support for processing and forwarding packets with VLAN ID 0.
In this release, the Third Party Virtual Machine (TPVM) version is based on Ubuntu 20.04.04 LTS.
In this release, you can use CLI and EDM to view the current operational speed of the chassis fan in rotations per minute (RPM).
For more information, see the following sections:
View Fan Information - CLI
View Fan Information - EDM