Specifications

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򐂰 Manageability:
– Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP V1, V2, and V3).
– HTTP and HTTPS Browser-Based Interface (BBI).
– Industry standard CLI and IBM Networking OS/AlteonOS CLI.
– Telnet interface for CLI.
– SSH v1/v2.
– Serial interface for CLI.
– Scriptable CLI.
– Firmware image update (Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and File Transfer
Protocol (FTP)).
– Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization.
– IBM System Networking Element Manager support.
򐂰 Monitoring:
– Switch LEDs for external port status and switch module status indication.
– Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic that passes through the switch.
– Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature.
– Power-On Self Test (POST) diagnostic tests.
򐂰 Special functions: Serial over LAN (SOL).
򐂰 Virtualization features:
– VMready.
– Virtual Fabric Adapter vNIC support.
򐂰 Converged Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE features:
– FCoE allows Fibre Channel traffic to be transported over Ethernet links.
– FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping to enforce point-to-point links for FCoE
traffic outside the regular Fibre Channel topology.
– Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE 802.1Qbb) extends the 802.3x standard flow
control to allow the switch to pause traffic, based on the 802.1p priority value in each
packet VLAN tag.
– Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) (IEEE 802.1Qaz) provides a method for
allocating link bandwidth, based on the 802.1p priority value in each packet VLAN tag.
– DCBX (IEEE 802.1AB) allows neighboring network devices to exchange information
about their capabilities.
– Supports the QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module for IBM BladeCenter, which
provides FCoE gateway functionality inside the BladeCenter chassis.
VMready is a unique solution that enables the network to be virtual machine aware. The
network can be configured and managed for virtual ports (v-ports), rather than just for
physical ports. With VMready, as VMs migrate across physical hosts, so do their network
attributes. Virtual machines can be added, moved, and removed, while retaining the same
ACLs, QoS, and VLAN attributes. VMready allows for a
define-once-use-many configuration
that evolves as the server and network topologies evolve. VMready works with all
virtualization products, including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM, without modification of
virtual machine hypervisors or guest operating systems. It is available as part of release 6.1
(and higher).