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IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124

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Summary of Contents for BNT G8124

Page 1: ...etween the adapter and the switch for optimal performance plus higher availability and better security This functionality provides the ability to dynamically allocate bandwidth per vNIC in increments...

Page 2: ...nsceiver 90Y9418 0 6 m Blue Cat5e Cable 40K5679 1 5 m Blue Cat5e Cable 40K8785 3 m Blue Cat5e Cable 40K5581 10 m Blue Cat5e Cable 40K8927 25 m Blue Cat5e Cable 40K8930 10 Gb options IBM BNT SFP SR Tra...

Page 3: ...include a 3 year software license providing entitlement to upgrades over that period Power cables need to be ordered separately at no additional charge Table 2 lists these options Table 2 Additional...

Page 4: ...ch as VMware Citrix Xen and Microsoft Layer 3 functionality The switch includes Layer 3 functionality which provides security and z performance benefits as inter VLAN traffic stays within the chassis...

Page 5: ...RackSwitch G8124E R Rear to Front IBM PN 7309BR6 z Rear to Front airflow ideal for servers or blade chassis with ports in back of rack z IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124E F Front to Rear IBM PN 7309BF7 z Fron...

Page 6: ...z Altitude operating 3 050 m 10 000 feet z Acoustic noise less than 65 dB z Heat dissipation 1100 BTU hour maximum z Software features The software features are Security z RADIUS z TACACS z SCP z Wir...

Page 7: ...rotocol Independent Multicast PIM sparse mode dense mode z Monitoring z Port mirroring z ACL based mirroring z Version 5 z Virtualization z VMready with VI API support z vNIC MIB support for SNMP Mana...

Page 8: ...y fewer items to manage based on industry standards making thing easier to 2 manage with the addition of high availability and better security Better performance significantly more I O bandwidth per s...

Page 9: ...pter installed z IBM BladeCenter using any of the following modules in the chassis z BNT 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter z BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeC...

Page 10: ...tocols industry standard CLI Interoperates with existing network No learning curve Rack optimized server aggregation logical design The design goal is a BLADE G8124 10GbE switch at Dist Layer and G800...

Page 11: ...han 700 ns port to port latency z Link aggregation of trunk connections IEEE 802 3ad z No STP uplink failure detection UFD to enable redundant paths z Figure 5 10 GbE departmental cluster or server ag...

Page 12: ...with BLADE s Active Multipath AMP technology IP storage over 10 GbE Changing the economics of storage G8124 benefits for IP storage applications Figure 7 Lossless Ethernet Fabric z Ultra low latency...

Page 13: ...ference z http www bladenetwork net uuserfilesserfiles file G8124_CR_6 3 pdf isCLI Reference z http www bladenetwork net userfiles file G8124_IS_6 3 pdf Browser based Interface BBI Quick Guide z http...

Page 14: ...aterials for this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk IBM may use or distribute any of the information you supply in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obliga...

Page 15: ...untries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol or indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by...

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