The Aruba 8325 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, a database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of past trends. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks.

Flexible cloud-based or on-premises management for unified network operations of wired, WLAN, SD-WAN, and public cloud infrastructure. Designed to simplify day zero through day two operations with streamlined workflows. Switch management capabilities include configuration, onboarding, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting.

For enhanced visibility and troubleshooting, Aruba's Network Analytics Engine (NAE) automatically interrogates and analyzes events that can impact a networks health. Advanced telemetry and automation provide the ability to easily identify and troubleshoot network, system, application and security related issues easily, through the use of python agents, CLI-based agents and REST APIs.

The Time Series Database (TSDB) stores configuration and operational state data, making it available to quickly resolve network issues. The data may also be used to analyze trends, identify anomalies and predict future capacity requirements.

With Aruba NetEdit, IT teams can orchestrate multiple switch configuration changes for smooth end-to-end service rollouts. Aruba NetEdit introduces automation that allows for rapid network-wide changes, and ensures policy conformance post network updates. Intelligent capabilities include search, edit, validation (including conformance checking), deployment, and audit features. Capabilities include centralized configuration with validation, simultaneous viewing and editing of multiple configurations, customized validation tests, automated large-scale configuration deployment, and network health and topology visibility via Aruba NAE integration.

The Aruba 8325 provides an ideal solution for data center, cloud and storage use cases that support top-of-rack server and storage connectivity and scale-out leaf-spine fabrics. AOS-CX adds storage-optimization enhancements to insure the low-latency, lossless network QOS and connectivity characteristics that storage requires.

The ability of AOS-CX to maintain synchronous state across dual control planes allows a simplified carrier-class high availability solution called Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX). Designed using the features from technologies such as Multi-chassis Link Aggregation (MC LAG), Aruba VSX enables a distributed architecture that is highly available during upgrades or control plane events.

This easy-to-use, free-to-download mobile app simplifies connecting and managing Aruba CX switches for any size project. Switch information can also be imported into Aruba NetEdit for simplified configuration management and to continuously validate the conformance of configurations anywhere in the network.

In addition to the Aruba CX Mobile App, Aruba NetEdit and Aruba Network Analytics Engine, the 8325 series offers the following:

• Built-in programmable and easy-to-use REST API interface.
• Management interface control enables or disables each of the following interfaces depending on security preferences: console port, or reset button.
• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations.
• Management security restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide SNMP access; local and remote Syslog capabilities allow logging of all access.