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Key Features Supported with X-Series Switches

For more information on these features, refer to the SonicWall SonicOS X-Series Solution Deployment Guide located on the Support portal at https://www.sonicwall.com/support/technical-documentation/ and choose TZ Series in the Select A Product field.

  • Provisioning an X-Series switch as an extended switch
  • PortShield functionality
  • Configuring extended switch Interface settings
  • Managing basic extended switch global parameters
  • Managing the extended switch using GMS

  • High Availability (HA) with PortShield functionality\

    Support for PortShield functionality in HA mode is available using Common Uplink. In this configuration, a link between the active/standby appliance and the switch serves as a common uplink to carry all the PortShield traffic. In this configuration, appliance interfaces that serve as PortShield hosts should be connected to a separate switch and not the same switch connected to the active and standby units. This avoids looping of packets for the same PortShield VLAN. The PortShield members can be connected to ports on the switch that is controlled by the active/standby appliance.

  • Diagnostics support for extended switch
  • Support for VLANs in a common uplink with SPM configuration
  • Support for VLANs in a dedicated uplink configuration

  • Single Point of Management over Common Uplink for VLAN Traffic

    VLANs are also supported with Common Uplink. This allows a single link between the appliance and the switch to carry management traffic of the appliance managing the switch plus PortShield traffic for the Interface Disambiguation through VLAN (IDV) VLANs corresponding to the firewall interfaces plus traffic for the VLAN sub-interfaces present under the Common Uplink interface.

    Overlapping VLANs cannot exist under firewall interfaces configured as dedicated uplinks or common uplinks to the same switch. This is because the VLAN space is global on the switch.

    PortShield of Extended Switch Interfaces to Common Uplink Interfaces without selecting any VLANs for access/trunk configuration is not supported.

  • PoE/PoE+ and SFP/SFP+ functionality for appliances by certain X-Series switches.
  • Batching configuration messages – To facilitate support of the X-Series switches, configuration messages can be batched before being sent to a switch.

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