Proliant Bl P-Class Gbe Interconnect Switch - HP Xw25p - ProLiant - Blade Workstation Overview

The GbE2 Interconnect Kit contains two hot-plug, fully managed, layer 2 GbE2 Interconnect Switches
and two LAN interconnect modules. The GbE2 Interconnect Kit is available with either copper-based
(CgbE) or fiber-based (FgbE) uplinks.
Each GbE2 Interconnect Switch reduces up to 16 internal server blade network NICs ports to six
external Ethernet ports. Because each external Ethernet port can communicate to all the server blades,
as few as one external ports (per enclosure) may be used to connect to your network.
In addition to providing up to 32-to-1 network cable reduction per server blade enclosure, the GbE2
Interconnect Kit offers the following features:
• Gigabit Ethernet performance on all switch ports.
• Advanced network feature support and system availability including spanning tree per VLAN, 9k
jumbo frames, RADIUS, redundant syslog servers, redundant operating system firmware images and
configuration files in memory.
• Optional pass-through of FC signals for server blades configured with internal FC adapter options.
For more detailed information about the specific set of features supported on this switch, refer to the
interconnect website, http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/interconnects/

ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Switch

The ProLiant BL p-Class GbE Interconnect Kit reduces the number of network cables needed for each
server blade enclosure and consolidates the server blade network adapter signals to 100 Mb/s.
The GbE Interconnect Kit includes two hot-plug, fully managed layer 2 Ethernet switches and two rear-
mounted, 4-port LAN interconnect modules. The GbE Interconnect Kit is available with either copper-
based (C-GbE) or fiber-based (F-GbE) uplinks.
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