SLX 9740 Scalability Matrix

Support Type SLX 9740
LAYER 2 SWITCHING
Number of Trunk Groups supported

77 groups for 1U (1 to 256 IDs)

153 groups for 2U (1 to 256 IDs)

Tested: 44 groups

Number of Ports per Trunk Group 64
Maximum LACP Trunk threshold 64
Maximum number of MAC Addresses per Switch

600K (default profile)

190K (route profile)

Jumbo Frames 9216 bytes
Number of VLANs 4096
Maximum number of Spanning-Tree instances (RSTP) RSTP is 1 instance only, RPVST/PVST 128, MSTP 32
Maximum number of bridge domains 4K
RSTP
Max number of Spanning-Tree Instances 1 (RSTP is always 1 instance)
Maximum number of physical ports supported with STP/RSTP Max number of front-end ports
MSTP
Maximum Number of instances 32
Maximum number of VLANs per instance 4090
Maximum number of physical interfaces participating per instance Max number of front-end ports
Maximum number of LAG interfaces participating per instance Max number of allowed LAG; Tested: 44 POs
PVST
Maximum number of VLANs 126
Maximum number of interfaces Max number of front-end ports; (ports x vlans < = 2K)
Maximum number of instances 126
Maximum number of port-VLAN associations 2048
Multicast
Maximum IGMPv2/v3 L3 entries 16K
L2 Multicast Cache 16K
IPv4 Software Multicast Cache for PIM/SM 20K
IPv4 Hardware Multicast Entries 20K
Maximum IGMP snooping vlans 500
Maximum IGMP snooping vlans (MCT) 500
Maximum static entry (IGMPv2) with uplink - IPv4 1000
Maximum static entry (IGMPv3) with uplink - IPv4 1000
Snoop Multicast IGMP Join rate per port 1000
Snoop Multicast IGMP leave rate per port 1000
IGMP Join rate (with PIM-SM) 4000
IGMP Leave rate (with PIM-SM) 4000
PIM SM Maximum local receivers (IGMP) 4000
PIM SM Maximum OIFs per system 64000
PIM SM Maximum OIFs per S,G 128
Maximum number of VLAN replication per entry 128
Maximum number of multicast VRFs 50
Maximum number of IGMP groups per system 16K
Maximum number of IGMP groups per interface 128
Maximum number of IGMP OIF per system 8000
Maximum number of Mcast Prefix advertised by a RP 250
Maximum number of BSR RP per mcast domain 56; Tested: 4
Maximum number of Static RP per system 56; Tested: 4
Maximum number of RPset x RP per system 56; Tested: 4
Maximum number of PIM Anycast RPs per system 56; Tested: 4
Maximum number of Anycast RP peers per system 8; Tested: 4
PIM Fast Hello Min Hello: 1 Sec; Neighbor Removal: 3 Sec
Multicast ECMP Paths 32
LAYER 3 FEATURES - IPv4
Maximum number of IP interfaces per system (IPv4, IPv6) 8K
Maximum number of Virtual Ethernet interfaces per system 8K
Maximum number of ARP entries Default Profile: 102k; Route Profile: 95K
Maximum number of ND entries Default Profile: 102k; Route Profile: 95K
Maximum number of Static ARP entries Default Profile: 102k; Route Profile: 95K
Maximum ARP/ND suppression scale 8K
Maximum number of directly connected host routes (or IP next-hops) 64K; Tested: 52K
Number of possible secondary IP Addresses 255
Maximum number of Loopback interfaces 255
Maximum number of OSPF areas (Per VRF) 200
Number of OSPF routers in a single area 200
Number of OSPF adjacencies 200
Maximum Number of OSPF Routes 100K
Maximum Number of Static Route Entries 32K
Maximum BGP Peer-Groups 250
Maximum BGP Routes in RIB 9M IN, 14M OUT
BGP Peers (IPv4 and IPv6 concurrent) 2400
Maximum Number of IS-IS Routes 25K
Number of IS-IS adjacencies Broadcast: 255; P2P: 1024
Number of IS-IS LSPs 255
Maximum Number of IPv4 Routes Default profile: 2M; Route profile: 3.5M
Maximum VE per system 8K
Maximum VRFs per system (BGP VRF IPv4/IPv6) 1024
Maximum VRFs per system (OSPF VRF IPv4/IPv6) 1024
Maximum VRFs per system (Static VRF IPv4/IPv6) 1024
Number of IS-IS routers in a level 255
ECMP Support 32K
Number of VRRP/VRRPe Instances per system (IPv4, IPv6) 1K
Number of VRRP instances per IP interface 10
Number of VRRP/VRRPe instances with Time Scale 128
Maximum Number of GRE Tunnels 1024
Maximum IS-IS interfaces Broadcast: 255; P2P: 1024
PBR Over GRE NA
ICMP Error Message handling 5000
LAYER 3 FEATURES - IPv6
Maximum Number of IPv6 Static Route Entries 32K
Maximum Number of IPv6 Routes Default profile: 2M; Route profile: 3.5M
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 Routes 64K
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 Interfaces 256
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 Neighbors 256
Maximum Number of OSPFv3 area 10
Maximum Number of BGPv6 Routes in the RIB Same as IPv4
Maximum Number of BGPv6 Neighbors 2400
BGP Flow Spec
Maximum Number of Local Flowspec rules alone 1K
Maximum Number of Remote Flow spec rules alone 1K
Maximum Number of Local and remote Flow spec rules together 1K
BGP large-community
Maximum number of large-community that can be added/replaced/deleted for incoming route updates(NLRI) using set directive. 32
Maximum number of large-community standard/extended ACL type 1024 rules per list. Max Seq # is 65535
Maximum number of large-community ACL that can be matched in route-map 32
Maximum number of large-community attributes that be received per route update (including in bound set large community) 64
MPLS
Maximum MPLS labels 15K
Maximum Label stacking depth 3
Maximum Target LDP sessions 100
Maximum ingress 5K
Maximum transit LSPs 20K cross-connects
MPLS tunnels 5K
Maximum VLLs per system (with MCT) 500
Maximum VPLSs per system (with MCT) 8K
Maximum endpoints per VLL per system 1K
Maximum endpoints per VPLS per system (non-MCT, MCT) 20K
Maximum VPLS MACs per system (max vpls mac table) Default Profile: 600K; Route Profile: 190K
Total VPLS VC labels per system 8K
Maximum Routes per VRF/VPN Default Profile: 2M; Route Profile: 3M
Maximum MPLS VPNs (IPv4) per system 512
Maximum MPLS VPNs (IPv6) per system 512
Maximum Adaptive LSP (ingress/egress) 5K
Maximum FRR instances 5K Facility or 2K 1-to-1 detour
Maximum number of VPLS LSP load balance 16
Maximum number of LDP ECMP path 16
RSVP LSP History support Max 32 events per LSP at Ingress router
Maximum number of Auto-bandwidth templates 100
Maximum number of recorded samples per Auto- 1500
Single-hop LSP Accounting 5K
Maximum number of VPLS instance with IPv4/IPv6 VE VRF support (MCT) 8K
Maximum number of Bypass LSP per system 512
Maximum number of LDP session 100
Maximum number of LDP FEC 5K
RATE LIMITING AND TRAFFIC POLICING FEATURES
Granularity 22kbps
Number of Rate-limiters/Traffic-policers Per System 1k/32k
ACL
Ingress IPv4 ACLs (ACLs, PBR, RACL, RL, RACL-RL, v4Broadcast ACL) per system 4K
Ingress IPv6 ACLs (ACLs, PBR, RL, RACL, RACL-RL) 2K
Ingress MAC ACL 2K
Egress L2 ACL 1K
Egress L3 ACL 1K
Named L2 ACL statements 2K
Maximum number of IP receive ACLS 200
Maximum number of IPv6 receive ACLs 50
Policy based routing (PBR) 4K
IPv6 PBR 2K
Max number of configurable PBR route maps 200
Max number of configurable stanzas in PBR 1024
MULTI-CHASSIS TRUNKING (MCT support)
Number of vPorts – (# of VLANs) times (# of ports) 100k
Maximum MCT Clients

72(1U) (72 x 25G/10G+ 4x100G possibility)

144(2U) (144*25G/10G + 8x100G possibility)
Maximum of VLANs for ICL All VLANs
Maximum number of L2 / unified bridging instances (VPLS/EVPN, L2, VXLAN) with MCT and BUM RL 4k
Maximum number endpoint in MCT for L2/bridging (VPLS, EVPN, L2, VXLAN)

Breakdown for each endpoint type

*100k AC LIFs
MCT VPLS *8K PW instances total; *8K total VNI (including 4K for vlan and 4K for BD); *100K for all types of services.
MCT VLL 500
Maximum number of MAC addr for MCT Default Profile: 256K; Route Profile: 190K; Tested: 250K
SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING/OpenFlow
Maximum number of flows per system Not supported
Maximum number of L2 mode flows Not supported
Maximum number of L3 mode flows Not supported
Maximum number of L23 mode flows Not supported
Maximum number of L2, L3, L23 mode flows with flow statistics Not supported
Maximum number of controller connections Not supported
Maximum flows with wildcard match Not supported
Maximum protected VLANs per hybrid port Not supported
Maximum protected VLANs per system Not supported
OAM
BFD min timer 200ms
Max BFD sessions 250 (16 multihop sessions)
802.1ag sessions 4000
Y.1731 SLM/DM sessions N/A
EVPN-VXLAN Scaling (IP Fabric)
VxLAN Tunnel (e.g. ToR, DCI, hybrid cloud) 1K
L2 VNI (Bridge Domains) 8K
L3 VNI 1024
Maximum # VRF 1024
Layer 2
Maximum # of VLANs 4K
Maximum # of Bridge Domains 4K
Maximum # of MAC entries Default Profile: 600K non-MCT(256K MCT/EVPN); Route Profile: 190K
Maximum # VNI 8K
Layer 3
Maximum # of BGP peers (IPv4+IPv6) 256 (V4 only)
Maximum # of VE 8K
Maximum # of VRF 1024
Maximum number of BD VE 4K
ND entries 102K
SAG per switch 8K
SAG address per interface 64
BGP EVPN IPv4 and IPv6 route (HW) and (SW) HW: 2M; SW: 5M
BGP EVPN macIP routes (HW) and (SW) HW: 102K ARP/102K ND; SW: 2M
BGP EVPN mac routes (SW) HW:250K; SW: 2M
MVRP
Maximum no. of dynamic VLANs advertised over MVRP (with/without MCT) Not supported
Maximum no. of MACs on DUT on 2K dynamic VLANs (with/without MCT) Not supported
QoS
Maximum number of traffic clsses 8
On chip buffers per ASIC (shared between ingress and egress) Ingress OCB: 16MB per core (32MB total); Ingress DRAM Buffer: 8GB; Egress OCB: 48MB per core (96MB total)
Max schedulers on system 40
Max shapers on system 40
POLICY-MAP MAX config on SYSTEM (Created in SW globally) 1K
Class-map max config aper policy 4K
Policy-map max config per interface 1
Service-policy per interface 1 per direction
Class-map max config on system (created in SW globally) 32k
Default class-map per policy 1
Match ACL class-map per policy 4k non default class map per policy map
Port-based In service-policy on system # of port supported
Match ACL class in service-policy on system 4K non default class map per policy map
Port-based out service policy on system # of ports supported
Storm control (BUM traffic policy) 3
Maximum number of ACL tables per class 1
Number of policers (HW supported) 16K
Maximum unique RED profiles configured (SW) 256
Maximum unique RED profiles configured (HW) 256
PCP > TC, DSP > TC 400, 400
DSCP > DSCP 400
DSCP > Cos, TC > CoS 400, 1
TC > DSCP N/A
Maximum per-port priority pause level Not supported
QoS priority queues (per port) 8
SNMP
Maximum communities 256
Maximum contexts 256
Maximum community maps 256
Maximum SNMP v3 users 10
Maximum groups 10
Maximum views 10
Maximum v1/v2c trap hosts 12
Maximum v3 trap hosts 6