Lenovo BladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Product Manual

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External portsUp to ten 10 Gb SFP+ ports (also designed to support 1 Gb SFP if required, flexibility ofmixing 1 Gb/10 Gb)One 10/100/1000 Mb copper RJ-45 used for managementAn RS-232 mini-USB connector for serial port that provides an additional means to installsoftware and configure the switch moduleScalability and performanceStacking support up to 8 switchesAutosensing 1 Gb/10 Gb internal and external Ethernet ports for bandwidth optimizationNon-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic and full line rate performanceof 480 Gbps full duplexMedia access control (MAC) address learning: automatic update, supports up to 32 Kb MACaddressesUp to 128 IP interfaces per switchStatic, EtherChannel, and LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) link aggregation, up to 100 Gb of totalbandwidth per switch, up to 18 trunk groups, and up to eight ports per groupSupport for jumbo frames (up to 9,216 bytes)Broadcast/multicast storm controlIGMP snooping for limit flooding of IP multicast traffic (IGMP V1, V2, and V3)Configurable traffic distribution schemes over trunk links based on source/destination IPaddresses, MAC addresses, or bothFast port forwarding and fast uplink convergence for rapid STP convergenceAvailability and redundancyVRRP for Layer 3 router redundancyIEEE 802.1D STP for providing Layer 2 redundancy with PVRST+IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP) for topology optimization, up to 128 STP instancessupported by single switchIEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP), providing rapid STP convergence for critical delay-sensitive,traffic-like voice or videoLayer 2 Trunk Failover to support active/standby configurations of network adapter teamingon bladesInterchassis redundancy (Layer 2 and Layer 3)VLAN supportUp to 1024 VLANs supported per switch; VLAN numbers ranging from 1 to 4095 (4095 isused for the management module’s connection only.)802.1Q VLAN tagging support on all portsIngress VLAN tagging support to tunnel packets through a public domain without altering theoriginal 802.1QPort-based and protocol-based VLANsPrivate VLANsSecurityVLAN-based, MAC-based, and IP-based access control lists (ACLs)802.1X port-based authenticationMultiple user IDs and passwordsUser access controlRadius, TACACS+, LDAP authentication and authorizationNIST 800-131A EncryptionQuality of service (QoS)Support for IEEE 802.1p, IP ToS/DSCP, and ACL-based (MAC/IP source and destinationaddresses, VLANs) traffic classification and processingTraffic shaping and re-marking based on defined policiesUp to eight weighted round robin (WRR) priority queues per port for processing qualifiedtrafficIPv4/IPv6 ACL meteringBladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module (withdrawn product) 5