HP BladeSystem PC Blade Switch Installation Guide

A Feature Summary
Switch Performance
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Non-blocking full wire speed architecture
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Store and forward mode layer 2 switching standard
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Auto-negotiation and auto-sensing with full-duplex support and ability to manually force port speed
and duplex mode
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Auto-MDI/MDIX on all ports enabled with auto-negotiation
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16K MAC addresses per switch with automatic MAC address learning
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ARP for IP to MAC address resolution
Switch Network Features
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IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet, IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-
T Ethernet
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IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.s, and IEEE 802.w spanning tree protocol (mono-spanning tree)
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Spanning tree bypass fast forwarding mode on a per port basis (recommend disabling for CCI
solutions)
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Spanning Tree RSTP-to-MSTP Compatibility feature (allows interoperability with PVST/PVST+) is
enabled by default
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IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation (excluding LACP) supporting up to 8 multilink trunk groups with 8
ports per group; compatible with Cisco EtherChannel trunking (Fast EtherChannel, Gigabit
EtherChannel)
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IEEE 802.1Q addressable VLAN ID range 1–4094
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IEEE 802.3ac VLAN Ethernet frame extensions for 802.1Q tagging on a per port basis
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Ports may be tagged or untagged members of a VLAN
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GARP VLAN registration protocol (GVRP) providing 802.1Q compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic
VLAN creation
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IEEE 802.1p QoS with 8 classes of service mapped to 8 priority levels
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IGMP snooping v1 and v2
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IGMP state enabling and disabling on a per VLAN basis
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