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| The HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch is designed specifically for the data center transitioning from 1Gb to 10Gb. A single switch that lets you use your existing 10/100/1000Mb infrastructure today and step up to 10Gb at your own pace as needs develop. |
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High performance |
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The HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch is perfect for the next generation datacenter requiring high performance at a very attractive price.
- Up to 1.5 million pps per 1Gb port Forwarding rate, (64-byte packets) and 14.8 million pps per 10Gb port.
- The 1:10Gb Ethernet Switch provides wire speed switching for incoming or outgoing traffic, providing up to 68Gb of full duplex switching capacity.
- HP continues its leadership in offering the best price/performance ratio in high performance switching. Compare the performance, features and price against any other vendor switch.
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Comprehensive Layer 2 features |
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The 1:10Gb Ethernet Switch provides a full set of advanced Layer 2 features including extensive support for VLANs, QoS, Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning and Multiple Spanning Tree.
- Network administrators can configure VLANs to logically separate traffic and contain broadcasts - improving the overall performance while improving security. Administrators can easily add or remove users from VLANs based on their department or job functions.
- VLANs can be configured to provide segregation of data - improving bandwidth, performance and limiting traffic to its designated domains. The Switch also provides secured access through SSH v2, protecting against IP spoofing as well as DNS spoofing. The switch enables users to meet their security requirements by providing support for HTTPS, RADIUS and TACACS.
- Quality of Service allows administrators to better control resources and maximize link efficiency.
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Full support for Layer 3 routing |
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By adding Layer 3 routing at the enclosure level, network administrators now have more power, flexibility, and security capabilities at their command. Network traffic can be managed much more efficiently and broadcast traffic between servers can remain within the enclosure. Security features provide added protection for switch configuration data, while packet filtering helps secure and segment sensitive traffic or network access.
- Layer 3 routing can reduce the number of broadcast domains, increasing network performance and efficiency.
- Using layer 3, inter-VLAN routing becomes much more scalable and efficient than equivalent layer 2 networks that rely on spanning tree alone.
- Easier management and troubleshooting is achieved by creating smaller "troubleshooting domains".
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) allows Multiple Switches to process traffic in an active-active configuration, allowing all switches in a VRRP group to process traffic simultaneously, ensuring maximum performance and fast, seamless failover.
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High availability and resiliency |
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The 1:10Gb Ethernet Switch provides a full set of advanced support for high availability and resiliency features such as Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning Tree, Multiple Spanning Tree and Uplink Failure Detection. High availability ensures that mission critical traffic is not impacted in the unlikely case of a switch or power failure. Overall network performance and bandwidth conservation can be boosted with IGMP Snooping, which only forwards multicast traffic to the clients that have expressed interest in receiving such packets. The switch's IGMP Snooping capability not only improves the overall bandwidth but also conserves CPU cycles of the servers, thus avoiding the cost of unnecessary server upgrades.
- Uplink Failure Detection (UFD) supports network adapter teaming, and allows the switch to monitor specific uplink ports to detect link failures. When the switch detects a link failure, it automatically disables specific downlink ports. The corresponding server's network adapter can detect the disabled downlink, and trigger a network-adapter failover to another port on the switch, or another switch in the chassis.
- Compatibility with CiscoŽ EtherChannel for trunking to non-HP devices
- 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) ensures that only one path to a destination is available at any one time by detecting loops and blocking switch ports as required
- 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) provides seamless integration, resiliency and availability for network topologies utilizing Virtual LANs (VLANs) into networks running 802.1s. MSTP enables networks to utilize individual uplinks for separate VLANs, thus improving the overall performance of the network. MSTP also enables Network administrators to map multiple VLANs to a reduced number of Spanning Tree instances to provide multiple forwarding paths and load balancing for data traffic.
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping allows the switch to intercept IGMP packets to build multicast tables for hosts that want to receive or stop receiving multicast streams. Networks that experience heavy multicast traffic benefit from the ability to "prune" the traffic so that it travels only those hosts that require that multicast frames.
- Compatibility with CiscoŽ PortFast feature allows a port to transition rapidly to forwarding state upon bootup, without the usual Spanning Tree calculation period that may cause some applications to time out.
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HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch deployment applications |
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The HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch is an ideal choice for the HP BladeSystem because of its unique ability to support both 1Gb and 10Gb uplinks, port density, price/performance ratio, high availability, and advanced feature sets. This switch also provides advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 features including extensive support for VLANs, QOS, Spanning Tree, Uplink Failure Detection and Link Aggregation (compatible with CiscoŽ EtherChannel).
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