Dell Networking s4100 Series Spec Sheet
Dell Networking s4100 Series Spec Sheet
The S4100-ON 10GbE switches comprise DellTechnologies’ Maximum performance and functionality
latest disaggregated hardware and software data center
The S4100-ON series are high-performance, multifunction,
networking solutions, providing state-of-the-art 100GbE
1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE and 8/16/32G FC top-of-rack (ToR)
uplinks, fibre channel connectivity and a broad range of
switches purpose-built for applications in high-performance
functionality to meet the growing demands of today’s data
data center, cloud and computing environments.
center environment. These innovative, next-generation top-
Architectural features to optimize data center network
of-rack open networking switches offer optimum flexibility
flexibility, efficiency and availability include IO panel to
and cost-effectiveness for the enterprise, midmarket and
PSU airflow or PSU to IO panel airflow for hot/cold aisle
tier 2 cloud service providers with demanding compute and
environments and redundant, hot-swappable power supplies
storage traffic environments.
and fans.
The compact S4100-ON models provide industry-leading
density with up to 48 ports of 10GbE or up to 48 ports of
10GBaseT ports, 2 ports of 40GbE and 4 ports of 100GbE Key applications
in a 1RU form factor. The S4148U-ON model can support • Organizations looking to enter the software-defined data
up to 28 8/16G fibre channel ports, or 16 ports of 32G* fibre center era with a choice of networking technologies
channel ports. The S4112-ON is a half-rack width model that designed to maximize flexibility
supports up to 12 ports of 10GbE or 12 ports 10GBaseT,
and 3 ports of 100GbE. • Multi-functional 1/10/25/40/50/100 GbE switching
in High Performance Computing Clusters or other
Using industry-leading hardware and a choice of Dell EMC
business-sensitive deployments requiring the highest
SmartFabric OS10 or select 3rd party network operating
bandwidth. High-density 1/10 GbE ToR server access in
systems and tools, the S4100-ON Series offers flexibility
high-performance data center environments
by provision of configuration profiles and delivers non-
blocking performance for workloads sensitive to packet loss. • iSCSI and FC storage deployment, including DCB
The compact S4100-ON models provide multirate speed, converged lossless transactions
enabling denser footprints and simplifying migration to
• Small-scale data center fabric implementation via the
100Gbps. Also unique to the S4100-ON series is the ability
S4100-ON switch in leaf and spine along with S-Series
to meet the demands of converged and virtualized data
1/10GbE ToR switches
centers by offering unified ports (S4148U) and hardware
support for L2 and L3 VXLAN Gateway. Priority-based flow • VXLAN layer 2/layer 3 gateway support
control (PFC), data center bridge exchange (DCBX) and
enhanced transmission selection (ETS) make the S4100-ON
ideally suited for DCB environments. Dell EMC PowerSwitch Key features
S4100-ON switches support the open source Open Network • 1RU high-density 10/40/100 GbE ToR switches with
Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of Dell up to 48 ports of 10 GbE (SFP+) or up to 48 ports of
EMC SmartFabric OS10 networking operating system, as 10GBaseT ports, or up to 28 ports of 8/16 fibre channel,
well as of alternative network operating systems. two ports of 40 GbE (QSFP+), and up to four ports
of 100GbE (QSFP28) or four ports of 8/16/32G fibre
channel
• The S4112 is a 1RU, half-rack width 10/100GbE ToR
switch with up to 12 ports of 10GbE (SFP+) or up to
12 ports of 10GBaseT ports, and up to three ports of
* Not line rate
100GbE (QSFP28)
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• Multi-rate 100GbE ports support 10/25/40/50 GbE. Key Features with Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10
40GbE ports support 10GbE. 10GbE ports support
1GbE. Up to four different simultaneous speeds are • Consistent DevOps framework across compute, storage
possible in a given profile. and networking elements
• Supports dynamic reconfiguration of unified ports on • Standard networking features, interfaces and scripting
S4148U product as 10GbE or 8/16G FC on SFP+ ports, functions for legacy network operations integration
and 25GbE or 16/32Gb FC on QSFP28 ports • Standards-based switching hardware abstraction via
• 1.76Tbps (full-duplex) non-blocking, cut-through Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)
switching fabric delivers line-rate performance under full • Pervasive, unrestricted developer environment via
load on S4148F-ON, S4148FE-ON, S4148T-ON and Control Plane Services (CPS)
S4148U-ON.
• OS10 Enterprise Edition software enables Dell
• 960Gbps (full-duplex) non-blocking, cut-through Technologies layer 2 and 3 switching and routing
switching fabric delivers line-rate performance under full protocols with integrated IP services, quality of service,
load on S4128F-ON and S4128T-ON manageability and automation features
• 840Gbps (full-duplex) non-blocking, cut-through • OS10 supports Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE
switching fabric delivers line-rate performance under full 1588v2) to synchronize clocks on network devices.
load on S4112F-ON and S4112T-ON
• Leverage common open source tools and best practices
• VXLAN gateway functionality support for bridging and (data models, commit rollbacks)
routing the non-virtualized and the virtualized overlay
networks with line rate performance • Increase VM Mobility region by stretching L2 VLAN
within or across two DCs with unique VLT capabilities
• Converged Network support with DCB
• Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet Switching with QoS, ACL
• IO panel to PSU airflow or PSU to IO panel airflow and a full complement of standards based IPv4 and IPv6
• Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans features including OSPF, BGP and PBR
(S4112-ON has redundant, fixed power supplies and • Enhanced mirroring capabilities including local mirroring,
fans) Remote Port Mirroring (RPM), and Encapsulated
• Support for 10GBASE-LRM optics over OM1/OM2 Remote Port Mirroring (ERPM)
fiber on S4148FE-ON product (not supported on other • Converged network support for Data Center Bridging,
products in S4100 product family) with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz),
• IEEE 1588v2 supported on 48 port models DCBx and iSCSI TLV Enhanced mirroring capabilities
including local mirroring, Remote Port Mirroring (RPM),
and Encapsulated Remote Port Mirroring (ERPM)
• Converged network support for Data Center Bridging,
with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz),
DCBx and iSCSI TLV
48xSFP+ 48x10GbT
12xSFP+ 12x10GbT 28xSFP+ 28x10GbT
Ports 2xQSFP+ 2xQSFP+
3xQSFP28 3xQSFP28 2xQSFP28 2x QSFP28
4xQSFP28 4xQSFP28
24 24 36 72 72
36
(12 SFP+ (12 10GbT (28 10GbT (48 SFP+ (48 10GbT
(28 SFP+ and
Max 10GbE density and 12 via and 12 via and 8 via and 24 via and 24 via
8 via QSFP28
QSFP28 QSFP28 QSFP28 QSFP28 QSFP28
breakout)
breakout) breakout) breakout) breakout) breakout)
Max thermal output 614 BTU/h 682 BTU/h 886 BTU/h 1,023 BTU/h 1261 BTU/h 1,500 BTU/h
Supported
Product Description
S4112F, 12x 10GbE SFP+, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O Panel to PSU
Airflow
S4112F, 12x 10GbE SFP+, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O PSU to I/O Panel
Airflow
S4112T, 12x 10GBASE-T, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O Panel to PSU
Airflow
S4112T, 12x 10GBASE-T, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O PSU to I/O Panel
Airflow
S4112F, 12x 10GbE SFP+, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x DC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O Panel to PSU
Airflow
S4112F, 12x 10GbE SFP+, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x DC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O PSU to I/O Panel
Airflow
S4112T, 12x 10GBASE-T, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x DC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O Panel to PSU
Airflow
S4100-ON S4112T, 12x 10GBASE-T, 3x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x DC Fixed PSU, 3x Fixed Fan, I/O PSU to I/O Panel
Airflow
S4128F, 28x 10GbE SFP+, 2x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, I/O Panel to PSU Airflow
S4128F, 28x 10GbE SFP+, 2x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, PSU to I/O Panel Airflow
S4128T, 28x 10GBASE-T, 2x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, I/O Panel to PSU Airflow
S4128T, 28x 10GBASE-T, 2x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module , PSU to I/O Panel Airflow
S4148F, 48x 10GbE SFP+, 2x QSFP+, 4x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, I/O Panel to
PSU Airflow
S4148F, 48x 10GbE SFP+, 2x QSFP+, 4x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, PSU to I/O
Panel Airflow
S4148T, 48x 10GBASE-T, 2x QSFP+, 4x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, I/O Panel to
PSU Airflow
S4148T, 48x 10GBASE-T, 2x QSFP+, 4x 100GbE QSFP28, 2x AC PSU, 4x Fan module, PSU to I/O
Panel Airflow
S4100, AC Power Supply, IO Panel to PSU Airflow
S4100, AC Power Supply, PSU to IO Panel Airflow
Redundant power supplies S4100, DC Power Supply, IO Panel to PSU Airflow (available as custom kit)
(not applicable to S4112) S4100, DC Power Supply, PSU to IO Panel Airflow (available as custom kit)
S4100, HV DC Power Supply, IO Panel to PSU Airflow
S4100, HV DC Power Supply, PSU to IO Panel Airflow
S4100 fan module, IO Panel to PSU Airflow
Fans (not applicable to S4112)
S4100 fan module, PSU to IO Panel Airflow
Technical specifications
Physical Performance 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T)
1 RJ45 console/management port with RS232 Packet buffer memory: 12MB 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
signaling CPU memory: 4GB 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBase-X)
1 RJ45 micro-USB-B console port MAC addresses: 272K (in Scaled L2 mode) 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GBase-X)
1 RJ45 10/100/1000Base-T management PVST: 128 instances 802.3i Ethernet (10Base-T)
Ethernet port ARP table 200K (in Scaled 802.3u Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX)
Size: 1 RU, 1.75”(h) x 17”(w) x 18”(d) (4.4cm (h) L3 host mode) 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet (1000BaseX)
x 43.1cm (w) x 45.7cm (d)) IPv4 routes: 200K (in Scaled 802.1D Bridging, STP
S4112: 1.7”(h) x 8.28”(w) x 18”(d) (4.125cm L3 routes mode) 802.1p L2 Prioritization
(h) x 20.9cm (w) x 45cm (d) IPv6 hosts: 64K 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, GVRP
Power supply: 100–240 VAC 50/60 Hz IPv6 routes: 130K (in Scaled L3 routes mode) 802.1Qbb PFC
Power supply (DC), applicable to S4412: rated Multicast hosts: 8K 802.1Qaz ETS
-40 to -72 VDC Link aggregation: 32 links per group, 128 802.1X Network Access Control
Max. current draw per system: 6A/5A at groups 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T) or
100/120V Layer 2 VLANs: 4K breakout
AC; 3A/2.5A at 200/240V AC Layer3 VLANs: 500 802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN Tagging
S4112: 2A/1.7A at 100/120V AC; 1A/0.8A at MSTP: 32 instances 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
200/240V AC LAG load balancing: Based on layer 2, IPv4 or 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBase-X)
S4112 (DC): -40V/5A, -48V/4.2A, -72V/2.8A IPv6 headers 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GBase- SR4,
Max. operating specifications: L2 Ingress ACL: 6K 40GBase-CR4, 40GBase-LR4,
Operating temperature: 41° to 104° F L2 Egress ACL: 1K 100GBase-SR10, 100GBase-LR4,
(5° to 40° C) IPv4 Ingress ACL: 6K 100GBase-ER4) on optical ports
Operating humidity: 5 to 85% (RH), IPv4 Egress ACL: 1K 802.3bj 100 Gigabit Ethernet
non-condensing IPv6 Ingress ACL: 3K 802.3u Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX) on mgmt
Max. non-operating specifications: IPv6 Egress ACL: 500 ports
Storage temperature: -40° to 149°F Storage performance parameters 802.3x Flow Control
(-40° C to 65° C) iSCSI Sessions: 255 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-X) with
Storage humidity: 5 to 95% (RH), iSCSI Target: 16 QSA ANSI/TIA-1057 LLDP-MED
non-condensing F-Port: Max F-Port Sessions: 526 Jumbo MTU support 9,216 bytes
F-Port: Max members in a zone: 526
Redundancy Layer2 Protocols
Hot swappable redundant power (not applicable Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 Software 802.1D Compatible
to S4112) Specifications 802.1p L2 Prioritization
Hot swappable redundant fans (not applicable 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
to S4112) IEEE Compliance 802.1s MSTP
Fixed, redundant power supply and fan for 802.1AB LLDP 802.1w RSTP
S4112 TIA-1057 LLDP-MED 802.1t RPVST+
802.1s MSTP 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
802.1w RSTP
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