DATA SHEET

Brocade vRouter

HIGHLIGHTS Agile Networking and High Performance

•• Provides a solution purpose-built for
The Brocade® vRouter1 is purpose-built for Network Functions
high-performance Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) Virtualization (NFV), bringing an impressive performance boost. As the
first virtual router for carrier-class networks, the Brocade vRouter is the
•• Leverages the Intel Data Plane
Development Kit (DPDK) to deliver highest-performing software router in the industry, achieving 10+ Gbps
breakthrough performance and enable performance per physical core. The Brocade vRouter delivers advanced
efficient network designs routing, stateful firewall, NAT, and VPN capabilities in software without
•• Delivers advanced routing and security sacrificing the reliability and carrier-class performance of hardware
services for physical, virtual, and cloud networking solutions.
networking environments
•• Provides a robust, Linux-based, and The Brocade vRouter allows service Brocade vPlane Technology
extensible OS providers to rapidly scale services up Brocade vPlane® technology enables
•• Supports all commonly used and down with their business demands hardware-like routing performance in a
hypervisors and can be installed on through flexible and elastic deployment software-based network appliance. It is
any standard IA x86-based system for options, accelerating the time to market the industry’s first highly scalable data
maximum flexibility of network services. The next-generation forwarding plane for next-generation
platform architecture easily consolidates telco, enterprise, and cloud networks.
resources, maximizing utilization of Leveraging innovations from Brocade
the underlying hardware infrastructure and the Intel Data Plane Development
and helping to significantly reduce Kit (DPDK), vPlane technology delivers
capital and operating costs. With the breakthrough levels of performance and
Brocade vRouter, organizations gain a enables more efficient network designs for
comprehensive NFV solution for building various data center and telco use cases.
high-performance, optimized, and secure
vPlane technology is a Layer 3 forwarding
networks in environments where agility
plane that is architecturally separate
and automation are critical.
from the Brocade vRouter control plane.
By offering carrier-class performance and By utilizing the Intel DPDK, vPlane
reliability in a software solution that runs technology allows each forwarding plane
on commercial off-the-shelf servers, the to be allocated to multiple Intel CPU cores.
Brocade vRouter changes the economics Isolating forwarding planes on individual
of networking while driving innovation x86 cores enables the Brocade vRouter
inside and outside the data center. to deliver 10+ Gbps performance while
eliminating resource contention.

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This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL toolkit.
 •• Virtual VPN (vVPN) gateway High Availability and
KEY FEATURES •• Virtual Route Reflector (vRR) Redundancy
• Purpose-built for NFV Mission-critical networks can deploy the
• Advanced IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and Powerful Network Brocade vRouter with the confidence that
multicast routing, firewall, NAT, and VPN Connectivity high availability and system redundancy
• Intel DPDK support At the core of the Brocade vRouter is a can be achieved through industry-
powerful routing engine with full support standard failover and synchronization
• VMware ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, XenServer,
AMI for IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic routing mechanisms, such as stateful firewall
protocols (BGP4/4+, OSPFv2/v3, RIP), failover and VRRP.
• Stateful firewall
Multicast, Policy-Based Routing (PBR),
• IPsec VPN, OpenSSL, and DMVPN
NAT, and DHCP. The Brocade vRouter IPv6 Compatibility
• Suite-B for L3 IPsec The Brocade vRouter is the only software-
also supports a variety of 10/100/1000
• RESTful API, NETCONF/YANG, CLI, Mbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet NICs. based routing and security solution
Web GUI with proven IPv6 functionality and
• World-class 24×7 support Robust Firewall Protection interoperability, ensuring a future-proof
• Available on major public clouds, The system’s firewall features robust IPv4/ investment in a solution that offers a
including Amazon Web Services (AWS) IPv6 stateful packet inspection to intercept simplified migration path from IPv4 to
and Azure2 and inspect network activity and protect IPv6.
critical data.
RELIABLE SUPPORT OPTIONS Simplified Administration
Brocade Essential Support Secure Connectivity and Authentication
Organizations can establish secure site- The Brocade vRouter can be managed
• Provides 24×7 access to Brocade
Technical Support expertise, reducing to-site VPN tunnels with a standards- through a familiar network-centric
time to resolution based IPsec VPN between two or Command Line Interface (CLI),
• Provides unmatched expertise in data more Brocade vRouters or any IPsec Web-based GUI, or through external
center networking to optimize network VPN device with support for Dynamic management systems using the Remote
performance Multipoint VPN (DMVPN). The Brocade Access API or NETCONF/YANG. All
• Simplifies management through online vRouter supports Suite-B for L3 IPsec, network management sessions can be
technical support tools which includes strong encryption securely managed using SSHv2, RADIUS,
and authentication methods for next- or TACACS+.
generation data security, and can provide
secure network access to remote users Virtual Routing and
A Wide Variety of Use Cases with embedded SSL-based OpenVPN Forwarding
Designed to provide high-performance
functionality. The Brocade vRouter supports Virtual
virtual routing, the Brocade vRouter can
Routing and Forwarding (VRF) domains
be used for: Reduced Operating Costs with VRF-Lite capability (also known as
•• Virtual Customer Edge (vCE) routers The Brocade vRouter can help multi-VRF CE). VRF-Lite support allows
organizations eliminate or reduce single- admins to separately manage access
•• Virtual Customer Premise Equipment
purpose hardware, since routing, firewall, into a dedicated management VRF or
(vCPE)
and VPN capabilities can be provided via a segregate users in their dedicated routing
•• Secure cloud access VM on existing servers. This helps reduce and forwarding domains for security, or
power and space requirements, leading to allow overlapping address ranges.
•• ACL offload from hardware routers
lower operating costs.
•• Virtual Top-of-Rack (vToR) Layer 3 Monitoring and Reporting
routing at the server edge, offloading Efficient Traffic Management The Brocade vRouter presents complete
the Layer 3 routing capability from ToR The Brocade vRouter provides a variety logging and diagnostics information that
switches of QoS queuing mechanisms that can be can be monitored using industry-standard
applied to inbound and outbound traffic and embedded Linux tools.
•• High-performance BGP routing
for identifying and prioritizing applications
•• Virtual Firewall (vFW) and traffic flows.

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Maximizing Investments
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Leveraging 20 years of expertise in
Brocade and its partners offer complete
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solutions that include professional
Brocade Global Services delivers world-
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For more information, contact a Brocade
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enabling organizations to maximize their
Brocade investments, accelerate new

Brocade vRouter Specifications

IPv4/IPv6 Routing

•• BGPv4, BGPv6 •• Static Routes

•• OSPFv2 •• Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
•• OPSFv3 •• IPv6 Policy
•• Multiple OSPF processes •• IPv6 SLAAC
•• BGP Multipath •• Multicast
•• RIPv1 and RIPv2

IP Address Management

•• Static •• DNS Forwarding

•• DHCP Server •• IPv6 DNS Resolver
•• DHCP Client •• DHCPv6 Server, Client
•• DHCP Relay •• DHCPv6 Relay
•• Dynamic DNS

Encapsulations

•• Ethernet •• GRE
•• 802.1Q •• QinQ

Firewall

•• Stateful Inspection Firewall •• ICMP Type Filtering

•• Zone-based Firewall •• Policy Rate Limiting
•• IPv6 Firewalling

Tunneling/VPN

•• SSL-based OpenVPN •• Layer 2 Bridging over OpenVPN

•• Site to Site VPN (IPsec) •• OpenVPN Dynamic Client Bundler
•• Remote VPN (L2TPv3, IPsec) •• Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
•• OpenVPN Client Auto-Configuration •• OpenLDAP Authentication
•• Layer 2 Bridging over GRE

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Additional Security

•• Network Address Translation •• MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 (256-bit) Authentication

–– IPv4 to IPv4 •• RSA, Diffie-Helman Key Management
–– IPv6 to IPv4 •• NAT Traversal
•• 3DES, AES Encryption, IKEv2 •• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
•• Suite-B for L3 IPsec •• Log all commands executed by a user
–– Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Galois/Counter
Mode (GCM) with key sizes of 128 and 256 bits
–– Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) – DH groups 19, 20
–– Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
–– Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) - SHA-256 and SHA-384
for message digest

Performance Optimization

•• ECMP •• CPU Affinity

•• Bandwidth Management •• WindRiver Accelerated vSwitch (AVS) support

Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF-Lite)

•• VRF-aware routing: static, OSPF, BGP •• VRF-aware tunnels: GRE, IPsec

•• VRF-aware services: FW, NAT, PBR, ALG, DHCP, SSH,
TWAMP, VRRP, BFD, flow monitoring

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

•• Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) •• Data plane support for MPLS forwarding
•• Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP-TE)

QoS Policies

•• 8 Queues •• Random Early Detection (RED)

•• Policing •• Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)
•• 1,024 Classes •• Strict Priority Queuing
•• DSCP Classification •• Ethernet (Layer 2) Header Matching
•• DSCP Remarking •• Ethertype support
•• Per Queue DSCP Remarking •• 4,095 VLAN Support and Tagging
•• Weighted Round Robin (WRR) •• Bandwidth Percentage Limits

High Availability and Redundancy

•• Stateful Firewall/NAT Failover •• VRRP Support with IPsec VPN

•• VRRPv2 (IPv4 and IPv6) •• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
•• VRRPv3 (IPv6) •• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
•• Configuration Replication

Deep Packet Inspection

•• Matching applications for selective routing with DPI in

PBR policy

Automation

•• Cloud-init •• Zero-touch provisioning based on NETCONF-ZeroTouch

•• PXE boot (interop with Brocade Zero-Touch Installer)

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Administration and Authentication

•• Integrated CLI •• Image Cloning

•• Web GUI •• RADIUS
•• Brocade Vyatta® Remote Access API (RESTful API) •• TACACS+
•• NETCONF/YANG •• X.509 digital certificate authorization
•• Configured API for Python, Perl, and Ruby languages •• Single Configuration File
•• Telnet •• Configuration Audit
•• SSHv2/SSH Public Key •• CPU Affinity Configuration for Data Plane
•• Binary Image Install

Diagnostics, Logging, and Monitoring

•• Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) Flow •• SPAN port mirroring

Monitoring •• RSPAN port mirroring
•• tcpdump •• ERSPAN mirroring
•• BGP MD5 Support •• Flow monitoring
•• Wireshark Packet Capture –– IPFIX (RFC 7011) export
•• Syslog –– NetFlow Version 9 export
•• SNMPv3 –– Monitoring egress traffic
•• SNMP for IPv6 –– LAN, VLAN, and QinQ interfaces

Hypervisor Support

•• VMware ESXi •• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

•• KVM •• Interface hot-plug support
•• Microsoft Hyper-V –– KVM
•• XenServer –– ESXi

RFC Compliance

Multicast •• RFC 1112 Host Extensions for IP Multicasting •• RFC 4601 Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode
•• RFC 2236 Internet Group Management Protocol Version 2 (PIM-SM)
•• RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 •• RFC 3973 Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode
(PIM-DM)
•• RFC 3376 Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3
•• RFC 3618 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
•• RFC 3810 Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLD v2)
for IPv6 •• RFC 2236 Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
•• RFC 4604 Using Internet Group Management Protocol •• RFC 3376 Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3
Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery •• RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source-Specific Multicast
•• RFC 3973 Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode
(PIM-DM) Protocol Specification (Revised)

OSPF •• RFC 2328 OSPF Version 2 •• RFC 1583 Compatibility OSPF Version 2
•• RFC 2370 The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

OSPFv3 •• RFC 5340 OSPF for IPv6 •• RFC 5838 Support of Address Families in OSPFv3

RIP and RIPng •• RFC 1058 Routing Information Protocol •• RFC 2080 RIPng for IPv6
•• RFC 2453 RIP Version 2 •• RFC 2081 RIPng Protocol Applicability Statement

BFD •• RFC 5880 - BFD RFC (Not supported sections - 4.3, 4.4, •• RFC 5883 - Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for
5, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8.13, 6.8.14, 6.8.18) Multihop Paths (Not supported sections - 4.2)
•• RFC 5881 - BFD for IPv4/v6 RFC 5882 - Generic •• RFC 7331 – BFD MIB
Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) (Not
supported sections - 4.3, 7)

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BGP •• RFC 4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) •• RFC 5082 The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism
•• RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute (GTSM)
•• RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping •• RFC 5291 Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4
•• RFC 2545 Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 •• RFC 5292 Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for
Inter-Domain Routing BGP-4
•• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 •• RFC 5492 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
•• RFC 4273 Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4 •• RFC 5925 The TCP Authentication Option (MD5)
•• RFC 4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute •• RFC 6793 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
•• RFC 4456 BGP Route Reflection—An Alternative to Full •• RFC 2842 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
Mesh IBGP •• RFC 4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
•• RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP - Only •• RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
Helper mode •• RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection—An Alternative to Full
•• RFC 4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 Mesh IBGP
•• RFC 5065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP

IPsec •• RFC 2401 Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol •• RFC 3706 A Traffic-Based Method of Detecting Dead
•• RFC 2402 IP Authentication Header (AH) Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Peers
•• RFC 2406 IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) •• RFC 4307 Cryptographic Algorithms for Use in the Internet
Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)
•• RFC 2407 The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation
for ISAKMP •• RFC 4478 Repeated Authentication in Internet Key
Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
•• RFC 2408 Internet Security Association and Key
Management Protocol (ISAKMP) •• RFC 7296 Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
•• RFC 2409 The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) •• RFC 7815 Minimal Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)
Initiator Implementation
•• RFC 2412 The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol
•• RFC 3526 More Modular Exponential (MODP) Diffie-
Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)

Tunneling •• RFC 1853 IP in IP tunneling •• RFC 1702 Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4
•• RFC 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Networks
Routers •• RFC 2784 Generic Routing Encapsulation
•• RFC 3884 Use of IPsec Transport Mode for Dynamic
Routing

General •• RFC 2461 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) •• RFC 3315 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
•• RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet (DHCPv6)
Networks •• RFC 3736 Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
•• RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets (DHCP) Service for IPv6
•• RFC 4330 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 •• RFC 3442 The Classless Static Route Option for Dynamic
for IPv4, IPv6, and OSI Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 4
•• RFC 4291 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture •• RFC 2136 Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System
(DNS UPDATE)
•• RFC 4941 Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Auto-
configuration in IPv6 •• RFC 5735 Special Use IPv4 Addresses
•• RFC 4862 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration •• RFC 3513 Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing
Architecture
•• RFC 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
•• RFC 2606 Reserved Top-Level DNS Names
•• RFC 2332 NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
•• RFC 6241 Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
•• RFC 3046 DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
•• RFC 6020 YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the
•• RFC 3442 The Classless Static Route Option for Dynamic
Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 4
•• RFC 6022 YANG Module for NETCONF Monitoring
•• RFC 2131 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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SNMP •• RFC 1525 Definitions of Managed Objects for Source •• RFC 3415 View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for
Routing Bridges the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
•• RFC 2742 Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible •• RFC 3417 Transport Mappings for the Simple Network
SNMP Agents Management Protocol (SNMP)
•• RFC 2786 Diffie-Helman USM Key Management •• RFC 3419 Textual Conventions for Transport Addresses
Information Base and Textual Convention •• RFC 3584 Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and
•• RFC 2856 Textual Conventions for Additional High-Capacity Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management
Data Types Framework
•• RFC 2864 The Inverted Stack Table Extension to the •• RFC 3635 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-
Interfaces Group MIB like Interface Types
•• RFC 3165 Definitions of Managed Objects for the •• RFC 3826 The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher
Delegation of Management Scripts Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model
•• RFC 3231 Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling •• RFC 4001 Textual Conventions for Internet Network
Management Operations Addresses
•• RFC 3411 An Architecture for Describing Simple Network •• RFC 4273 Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks •• RFC 5591 Transport Security Model for the Simple Network
•• RFC 3412 Message Processing and Dispatching for the Management Protocol (SNMP)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) •• RFC 5953 Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Model
•• RFC 3413 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Applications
•• RFC 3414 User-based Security Model (USM) for Version 3
of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)

Brocade vRouter VM
vCPU #0

Control Pane

vCPU #1

Receive Packet Pipeline

Data Plane
vCPU #2

Transmit Packet Pipeline

Interface
Hypervisor vSwitch

Figure 1: Virtual CPU (vCPU) data plane architecture.

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Table 1. Bare metal, PCI passthrough, and SR-IOV LAN device support.

Vendor and Model Description (Controller) PCI SR-IOV Hyper-V

10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Bare Metal ESXi KVM ESXi KVM Xen

Intel X552 Dual SFP+ Y

HPE Ethernet 10 Gbps HP dual 10 Gbps copper PCI x8

Y Y Y
2-port 561T Adapter card based on Intel X540 chipset

Intel X540-T2 Dual RJ-45 copper (X540) Y Y Y Y Y Y

HPE Ethernet 10 Gbps HP dual 10 Gbps fiber optic PCI x8

2-port 560SFP+ Adapter slot card based on Intel 82599ES Y Y
chipset

Intel X520-SR2 Dual fiber optic (82599ES) Y Y Y

Intel X520-SR2 Dual 10 GbE with SFP+

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
(82599EB)

Broadcom 57711 Broadcom 57711 dual port 10

Y
GbE card

Broadcom 57810 NetXtreme II QP Combo DP 10

Y Y Y
GbE Base-T + DP 1 GbE

Broadcom 57810 Dual 10 GbE SFP+ Y

1 Gigabit

Intel I210-T1 Single port 1 GbE copper Y

Intel I350-T2 Dual RJ-45 copper (I350) Y Y Y Y Y

Intel I350-T4 Quad RJ-45 copper (I350) Y Y Y

Intel Gigabit ET Dual RJ-45 copper (82576) Y

vNICs

rte_hyperv_pmd Hyper-V Y

virtio KVM Y

vmxnet3 VMware ESXi 5.5 Y

Supermicro (vCPE) Optics

Brocade 10G-SFPP-SR Y

Brocade 10G-SFPP-LR Y

Brocade 10G-SFPP-ER Y

Brocade E1MG-SX-OM Y

Brocade E1MG-LX-OM Y

Brocade E1MG-LHA-OM Y

Supermicro (vCPE) Copper Port

Intel I 210 AT Intel I210 SM X10SDV-TP8F

Y
LOM

Intel I350 AM4 Intel I350 SM X10SDV-TP8F

Y
LOM

Notes:
• Supported NICs will vary based on the software release version of the Brocade vRouter.
• Please consult the Release Notes and Brocade vRouter documentation for a more detailed list of supported devices and drivers.

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Ordering Information and 24-vCPU, each available with
Licensing Options subscription-based or perpetual-based
The Brocade vRouter is offered with a terms (see Table 2). Contact Brocade
flexible set of licensing options designed for more information on ordering and
to meet customers’ specific requirements. licensing.
These purchase options include a term-
Recommended Hardware
based license, with terms of one or three
and Software Configurations
years, or a perpetual license. In addition,
Tables 3 and 4 show are recommended
the Brocade vRouter is offered with a data
hardware and software configurations for
plane capacity-based license with options
maximizing the routing performance of the
of 1-vCPU, 2-vCPU, 3-vCPU, and
Brocade vRouter.

MIB Support Table 2. Software licenses available for the Brocade vRouter.

MIB RFC Software License SKU Description

BGP4-MIB RFC 1657 1-year subscription software license (1 license) with 1-vCPU
BR-5600S-1V-SVV-SW-1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB RFC 2790 data plane license
RMON-RIB RFC 2819 3-year subscription software license (1 license) with 1-vCPU
BR-5600S-1V-SVV-SW-3
IF-MIB RFC 2863 data plane license
EVENT-IB RFC 2981
Perpetual software license (1 license) with 1-vCPU data plane
IP-MIB RFC 2011 BR-5600P-1V
license
NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB RFC 3014
IPv6-MLD-MIB RFC 3019
IPM-ROUTE RFC 2932 Table 3. Example Layer 3 routing performance of the Brocade vRouter.
IPV6-TC RFC 2465
IPV6-UDP-MIB RFC 2454 Number of vCPUs per Data Plane Performance Throughput Expectation Range
KEEPALIVED-MIB 1 Up to 500 Mbps
OSPF-MIB RFC 1850
PIM-MIB RFC 2934 2 Up to 1 Gbps

IGMP-MIB RFC 2933 3 Up to 10 Gbps

MLD-MIB RFC 3019
RFC1213-MIB RFC 1213
SNMPv2-MIB RFC 3418 Table 4. Hardware and software profile used in Table 3.
TCP-MIB RFC 4022 Hardware Software
UDP-MIB RFC 4113
IP-FORWARD-MIB RFC 4292 CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v2 at Brocade vRouter: Version 3.2.1R6 and above
2.70 GHz Hypervisor: QEMU 1.7.91
IP-MIB RFC 4293
Total memory size: 128 GB Hyper-threading: Enabled
OSPF-MIB RFC 4750
NIC: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit VT-d: Enabled
PIM-MIB RFC 2934 SFI/SFP+ Huge pages memory backing: Enabled
RFC1213-MIB RFC 1213 Network Connection (rev 01) PCI passthrough: Enabled
RFC 2787 VRRP-MIB RFC 2787
Hard disk drive space: 8 GB
RIPv2-MIB RFC 1724
RAM allocation: 4 GB
VPN Link Status MIB
Notes:
UCD-DISKIO-MIB
• Testing performed by Brocade in a controlled lab environment.
• Performance expectation is based on the hardware and software profile indicated in Table 3.
Please refer to the Brocade vRouter Configuration • Performance will vary based on compute, memory, hypervisor, vSwitch, configuration, and general network conditions.
Guide and Release Notes for the most current list of • Lab results showed < 0.01 % packet loss with the hardware and software profile shown in Table 4. Results utilize huge pages
supported RFCs and MIBs. and PCI passthrough for the Brocade vRouter Virtual Machine. Results would vary depending on hardware, configuration,
software version, hyper-threading, and traffic profile.

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