BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter
The BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module includes the following features and functions:
- Form-factor
- Single-wide high-speed switch module
- Internal ports
- 14 internal auto-negotiating ports: 1 Gb or 10 Gb to the server blades
- Two internal full-duplex 100 Mbps ports connected to the management module
- External ports
- Up to ten 10 Gb SFP+ ports (also designed to support 1 Gb SFP if required, flexibility of mixing 1 Gb/10 Gb)
- One 10/100/1000 Mb copper RJ-45 used for management or data
- An RS-232 mini-USB connector for serial port that provides an additional means to install software and configure the switch module
- Scalability and performance
- Stacking support up to 8 switches
- Autosensing 1 Gb/10 Gb internal and external Ethernet ports for bandwidth optimization
- Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic and full line rate performance of 480 Gbps full duplex
- Media access control (MAC) address learning: automatic update, supports up to 32 Kb MAC addresses
- Up to 128 IP interfaces per switch
- Static, EtherChannel, and LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) link aggregation, up to 100 Gb of total bandwidth per switch, up to 18 trunk groups, and up to eight ports per group
- Support for jumbo frames (up to 12288 bytes)
- Broadcast/multicast storm control
- IGMP snooping for limit flooding of IP multicast traffic (IGMP V1, V2, and V3)
- Configurable traffic distribution schemes over trunk links based on source/destination IP addresses, MAC addresses, or both
- Fast port forwarding and fast uplink convergence for rapid STP convergence
- Availability and redundancy
- VRRP for Layer 3 router redundancy
- IEEE 802.1D STP for providing Layer 2 redundancy with PVRST+
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP) for topology optimization, up to 128 STP instances supported by single switch
- IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP), providing rapid STP convergence for critical delay-sensitive, traffic-like voice or video
- Layer 2 Trunk Failover to support active/standby configurations of network adapter teaming on blades
- Interchassis redundancy (Layer 2 and Layer 3)
- Converged Enhanced Ethernet
- CEE support and connectivity to FCoE
- Connects to a top-of-rack switch for connectivity to a Fibre Channel SAN
- Supports the QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module for IBM BladeCenter, which provides FCoE gateway functionality inside the BladeCenter Chassis.
- VLAN support
- Up to 1024 VLANs supported per switch; VLAN numbers ranging from 1 to 4095 (4095 is used for the management module’s connection only.)
- 802.1Q VLAN tagging support on all ports
- Protocol-based VLANs
- Security
- VLAN-based, MAC-based, and IP-based access control lists (ACLs)
- 802.1X port-based authentication
- Multiple user IDs and passwords
- User access control
- Radius, TACACS+, LDAP
- Quality of service (QoS)
- Up to eight queues per port
- Support for IEEE 802.1p, IP ToS/DSCP, and ACL-based (MAC/IP source and destination addresses, VLANs) traffic classification and processing
- Traffic shaping and re-marking based on defined policies
- Eight weighted round robin (WRR) priority queues per port for processing qualified traffic
- Layer 3 functions
- IP forwarding
- IP filtering with ACLs (up to 4096 ACLs supported)
- VRRP for router redundancy
- Support for up to 128 static routes
- Routing protocol support (Router Information Protocol (RIP) V1; RIP V2; OSPF V1, V2, and V3; BGP-4), up to 1024 entries in routing table
- Support for DHCP Relay
- IPv6 management (full IPv6 support including routing is planned to be released in optional version of firmware in 2009)
- Manageability
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP, V1, V2, and V3)
- HTTP/HTTPS browser GUI
- Industry-standard CLI and BLADEOS/AlteonOS CLI
- Telnet interface for CLI
- SSH V1/V2
- Serial interface for CLI
- Scriptable CLI
- Firmware image update (TFTP and FTP)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization
- BNT BLADEHarmony Manager support
- Monitoring
- Switch LEDs for external port status and switch module status indication
- Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
- Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
- POST diagnostics
- Special functions
- Serial over LAN (SOL)
The switch module supports the following IEEE standards:
- IEEE 802.1D STP with PVRST+
- IEEE 802.1s MSTP
- IEEE 802.1w RSTP
- IEEE 802.1p Tagged Packets
- IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN (frame tagging on all ports when VLANs are enabled)
- IEEE 802.1x port-based authentication
- IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
- IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex Flow Control
- IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR 10Gb Ethernet fiber optics short range
- IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-LR 10Gb Ethernet fiber optics long range
- IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet