ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch Overview

Appendix: Summary of features of the ProLiant BL p-Class

GbE Interconnect Kit

Switch performance

• Non-blocking full wire speed architecture

• Store and forward mode layer 2 switching standard

• Support for 3rd party external layer 7 content delivery switch / appliance

• Support for F5 BIG-IP Blade Controller load balancer and traffic management

• Frame forwarding throughput of 1.488 million packets per second (per Gigabit port)

• Frame forwarding throughput of 0.1488 million packets per second (per Fast Ethernet port)

• 7.2 million packets per second maximum external port (uplink) frame forwarding throughput per server blade enclosure (64-

byte packets)

• 9.6 Gb/s External port (uplink) bandwidth per server blade enclosure (full duplex)

• 32 MB Main, 6 MB flash, and 16 MB packet buffer memory per switch (packet buffer memory shared between ports)

• Auto-negotiation and auto-sensing with full-duplex support and ability to manually force port speed and duplex mode

• Auto-MDI/MDIX on all ports enabled with auto-negotiation

• 8,191 MAC addresses per switch with automatic MAC address learning

• ARP for IP to MAC address resolution

Switch network features

• IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet, IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3z

1000Base-SX

• IEEE 802.1D spanning tree protocol (mono-spanning tree)

• Spanning tree bypass fast forwarding mode on a per port basis (Cisco PortFast equivalent)

• Enable/disable and configure spanning tree port cost and priority on a per port basis

• IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation (excluding LACP) supporting up to 6 multilink trunk groups with 8 ports per group;

compatible with Cisco EtherChannel trunking (Fast EtherChannel, Gigabit EtherChannel)

• 256 IEEE 802.1Q port based VLANs per switch

• IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Ethernet frame extensions for 802.1Q tagging on a per port basis

• Tagged and untagged ports as members of a VLAN

• GARP VLAN registration protocol (GVRP) providing 802.1Q compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic VLAN creation

• IEEE 802.1p QoS with 4 classes of service mapped to 8 priority levels

• IGMP snooping v1 and v2, configurable to a non-querier mode

• IGMP state enabling and disabling on a per VLAN basis

• IGMP response report delay and query interval configuring

• 191 Maximum concurrent multicast groups (127 dynamically learned by IGMP, 64 static multicast)

• Broadcast, multicast, and unknown packet storm control with a configurable threshold value

• IEEE 802.3x flow control with manual configuration capability

• Primary and secondary SNTP (simple network time protocol) server with time zone support and automatic daylight savings

adjustment

Switch deployment and configuration

• Supports any combination of ProLiant BL p-Class server blades

• Default pre-configuration for immediate plug-in operation in the server blade enclosure

• Communicate to any and all server blade network adapters from any Ethernet external port

• Manage both switches, access all iLO ports, and execute PXE from any external Ethernet port

• Web-based interface accessible from any switch Ethernet port

• Menu driven console interface accessible from any switch port