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Benefits
The Flex System EN2092 1Gb Scalable Switch is considered particularly suited for these clients:
Clients who want to leverage GbE in their infrastructure
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Clients who are implementing a virtualized environment and require multiple GbE ports
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Clients who require investment protection for 10 Gb external ports
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Clients who want to reduce TCO and improve performance while maintaining high levels of
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availability and security
Clients who want to avoid or minimize oversubscription, which can result in congestion and loss of
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performance
Clients who want to implement a converged infrastructure with NAS or iSCSI
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The switch offers the following key benefits:
Increases network performance
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With the growth of virtualization and the evolution of cloud, many of today's applications require low
latency and high-bandwidth performance. The EN2092 delivers non-blocking architecture with 176
Gbps throughput and full line rate performance, making it ideal for managing dynamic workloads
across the network. In addition, the switch provides a rich Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set that is ideal
for many of today's data centers, plus it offers a combined external bandwidth of 60 Gb.
Pay as you grow investment protection and lower total cost of ownership
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The EN2092's flexible port mapping allows you to reallocate ports as you need which helps reduce
acquisition and operational costs. The base switch configuration includes 24x 1 GbE port licenses
that can be assigned to internal 1 GbE connections and 1 GbE or even 10 GbE (by using ten 1 GbE
licenses per one 10 GbE port) external ports. You then have the flexibility of turning on more 1 GbE
connections to the compute node and more 1 GbE or 10 GbE external ports when you need them
using Lenovo's Features on Demand licensing capabilities that provide "pay as you grow" scalability
without the need to buy additional hardware.
Cloud ready
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Delivering advanced virtualization awareness helps simplify management and automates VM mobility
by making the network VM aware with VMready® which works with all the major hypervisors. For
companies using VMware or Linux KVM, SDN VE offerings (sold separately) enable network
administrators to simplify management by having a consistent virtual and physical networking
environment. Network policies migrate automatically along with virtual machines (VMs) to ensure that
security, performance, and access remain intact as VMs move from compute node to compute node.
Support for Switch Partition (SPAR) allows clients to virtualize the switch with partitions that isolate
communications for multi-tenancy environments.
Simplifies network infrastructure
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The EN2092 1Gb Scalable Switch simplifies deployment and growth by using its innovative scalable
architecture. This architecture helps increase return on investment by reducing the qualification cycle,
while providing investment protection for additional I/O bandwidth requirements in the future. The
extreme flexibility of the switch comes from the ability to turn on additional ports as required, both
down to the compute node and for upstream connections (including 10 GbE). Also, as you consider
migrating to a converged LAN and SAN, the EN2092 switch can be leveraged in either an iSCSI or
NAS converged environment.
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