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Fault tolerance: These switches learn alternate routes automatically and perform faster convergence
in the unlikely case of a link, switch, or power failure. The switch uses proven technologies, such as
L2 trunk failover, advanced VLAN-based failover, VRRP, Hot Links, IGMP V3 snooping, and OSPF.
Converged fabric: The switch is designed to support CEE/DCB and connectivity to FCoE gateways.
CEE helps enable clients to combine storage, messaging traffic, VoIP, video, and other data on a
common data center Ethernet infrastructure. FCoE helps enable highly efficient block storage over
Ethernet for consolidating server network connectivity. As a result, clients can deploy a single server
interface for multiple data types, which can simplify both deployment and management of server
network connectivity, while maintaining the high availability and robustness required for storage
transactions.
Transparent networking capability: With a simple configuration change to Easy Connect mode, the
RackSwitch G8124E becomes a transparent network device, invisible to the core, eliminating network
administration concerns of Spanning Tree Protocol configuration/interoperability, VLAN assignments
and avoids any possible loops. By emulating a host NIC to the data center core, it accelerates the
provisioning of VMs by eliminating the need to configure the typical access switch parameters.
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