Partitioning High Bandwidth Ports

The 40G ports on ExtremeSwitching X465 (with VIM5-2Q), X670-G2, X870, X690, and X590 series switches can be partitioned into 4x10G and 1x40G modes. Also, the 100G ports on the X870, X590, X690, and X695can be partitioned into 1x100G, 2x50G, 4x25G, 4x10G, 1x40G.

For the ExtremeSwitching 5520 series switches, the QSFP28 ports in Ethernet mode can be configured for 40G (default), 2x50G, 4x25G or 4x10G. These ports are normally configured for stacking. To use these for Ethernet, you must disable stacking support.

Note

100G is not supported on the ExtremeSwitching 5520 series switches QSFP28 ports.

Note

When replacing a Universal switch (for example, the ExtremeSwitching 5420 series or ExtremeSwitching 5520 series switch) that is not in a stack, stacking-support should be disabled before applying a configuration where port partitioning is enabled on either of the Universal ports (U1 or U2).

Additionally, on ExtremeSwitching X465 (with VIM5-4Y/4YE/2Y), X695, and 5520 (with 5520-VIM-4YE) switches, the 25G ports can be partitioned into 10G.

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This partition allows all ports to be converted either as 10G or as 25G and not both. To partition the 25G ports, apply the 4x10 option in the following command to:

• X465: first VIM port (port 25 on 24-port models, and port 49 on 48-port models).
• X695: ports: 1–48.
• 5520: first VIM port (port 33 for 24-port models and port 57 for 48-port models).

To partition the ports, enter the following command:

configure ports [port_list | all] partition [1x100G | 1x40G | 2x50G | 4x10G | 4x25G]