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Cisco Catalyst Switch Modules 3110G and 3110X for IBM BladeCenter

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Summary of Contents for 3110X - Cisco Catalyst Switch

Page 1: ...ackbone switches or routers Built upon Cisco s market leading hardware and IOS software the switches are designed to deliver scalable high performance highly resilient connectivity while reducing serv...

Page 2: ...anced IP Services S W Upgrade License provides support for IPv6 forwarding and routing It z is available through a Cisco Systems reseller only The switch module part numbers include the following item...

Page 3: ...vailable for order from Cisco Systems resellers as listed in Table 2 USB style serial port This is the Cisco console port and offers an out of band management path z if desired A USB to DB 9 cable is...

Page 4: ...Protocol NTP for providing a consistent time stamp to all switches from an z external source Directed unicast requests to a Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP server for obtaining software z upgrades...

Page 5: ...ancy VLAN support z Support for 1005 total VLANs These VLANs can be any VLAN ID from 1 4094 except 1001 z 1005 which are reserved by Cisco Cisco Inter Switch Link ISL and IEEE 802 1Q trunking protocol...

Page 6: ...entication with port security for authenticating the port and z managing network access for all MAC addresses including that of the client IEEE 802 1X port based authentication with voice VLAN to allo...

Page 7: ...IP enhancement for port based trust of z DSCP and priority queuing for egress traffic Egress policing and scheduling of egress queues four egress queues on all switch ports z support for strict priori...

Page 8: ...transport communicates with IPv6 peers and z advertises IPv6 routes an advanced IP services feature set is required Support for IPv6 Access Control Lists ACLs an advanced IP services feature set is z...

Page 9: ...uired IEEE standards z The Cisco Catalyst Switch Modules 3110G and 3110X support the following IEEE standards IEEE 802 1d Spanning Tree Protocol STP z IEEE 802 1s Multiple STP MSTP z IEEE 802 1w Rapid...

Page 10: ...e Switch sample topology A VBS stack has the following major characteristics Up to nine physical switches can be combined in one stack one master switch and up to eight z member switches Two dedicated...

Page 11: ...level and the blade appears to be connected to the single switch Uplink sharing can help simplify design by reducing the number of external links going out of the rack z that is not all switches in th...

Page 12: ...1 4 and with the addition of the Multi Switch Interconnect Module MSIM in the BladeCenter H can also fit in a high speed I O bay bays 7 10 These switch modules are not supported with MSIM HT in high s...

Page 13: ...e internal to the chassis The two switches are connected together with StackWise Plus cables to form a single Virtual Blade Switch Figure 3 Using Cisco Catalyst Switch Module 3110 to route the integra...

Page 14: ...ule 3110 to route the four Ethernet ports from the integrated controller and a CFFv or CIOv expansion card Table 7 lists the components that are used in the four port configuration shown in Figure 4 T...

Page 15: ...nts that are used in the eight Ethernet ports per server configuration shown in Figure 5 Table 8 Components used in the eight Ethernet ports per server configuration Diagram reference Part number mach...

Page 16: ...e 6 Front panel of the Cisco Catalyst Switch Module 3110G left and 3110X right The front panel contains the components identified in Table 9 Table 9 Front panel callouts Callout Description 1 8 Stack...

Page 17: ...lyst Switch Module 3110X network cables 10GBASE SR cables are listed in Table 10 Table 10 10GBASE SR cabling specifications Wavelength Cable type Core size microns Modal bandwidth MHz km Maximum cable...

Page 18: ...Catalyst Switch Module 3110 and 3012 Software Configuration Guide z Cisco Catalyst Switch Module 3110G 3110X and 3012 Hardware Installation Guide z Cisco Catalyst Switch Module 3110G 3110X and 3012 G...

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