Introduction

•Industry-standard protocols compatible with other widely-used networking components

•Support for up to sixty-four 802.1Q VLANs, for server grouping and isolation

•A variety of in-band and out-of-band management interfaces

•Support for saving and downloading of switch configurations to a TFTP server, thus allowing for rapid deployment of multiple systems, and backup and restore capabilities

•Failover and redundancy features and components

•Front panel link activity and speed indicators

•Extra ports for management debugging and port mirroring

GbE Interconnect Switch Redundancy

The ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch offers several redundancy and failover features. With these features, the network configuration can be designed to allow for continued network access to each server blade in case of a component or link failure. GbE Interconnect Switch redundancy and failover features include:

•Two separate GbE Interconnect Switches per one ProLiant BL p-Class server blade enclosure

•Two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports and two 10/100 Ethernet uplink ports per GbE Interconnect Switch for designing fully meshed uplink paths to the network backbone

•Server networking connections routed to each of the separate GbE Interconnect Switches for redundant paths to tolerate a switch or port malfunction

•Redundant data path 10/100 Ethernet cross connections between GbE Interconnect Switches

•Spanning Tree Protocol support that eliminates potential problems caused by redundant networking paths and provides for failover with a secondary path in case of primary path failure

•Power and cooling by redundant power supplies and redundant cooling fans within the server blade enclosure

Configuration and Management

The ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch provides the following configuration and management interfaces and tools:

•A menu-driven console interface allows local, Telnet, or Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) access.

•A browser-based GUI allows remote access using a Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote Monitoring (RMON) manageability and monitoring are supported. An SNMP-based scripting utility allows remote configuration of the GbE Interconnect Switch.

Compaq ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch User Guide

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