Popular Configurations - IBM RackSwitch G8332 Product Manual

Table 2. Software features (part 3 of 3)
Item
Monitoring
Virtualization
Clients
Standard protocols

Popular configurations

This section describes some configurations for the RackSwitch G8332.
40 G aggregation switch for east-west traffic
As more clients seek to flatten their networking to use more of an east-west traffic flow that is required by
many of today's applications and especially virtualized environments, the RackSwitch G8332 is an ideal
tier-two switch for connecting multiple access switches or interconnect modules.
One example is when the RackSwitch G8332 is combined with IBM RackSwitch G8264 by using SFP+ or
G8264T using 10Gbase-T to the compute nodes, where clients can easily support up to 1536 nodes on 10
Gigabit Ethernet network with as few as a 3:1 oversubscription. Alternatively, clients can also build a
smaller network by using the G8264CS while using the Omni Port to connect to their FC/FCoE SAN, as
shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4.
Figure 3. Aggregation switch for east-west traffic
IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8332
Description
Port mirroring
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ACL-based mirroring
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ACL logging
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Processor logging
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sFlow
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UDLD
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VMready
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System Networking Switch Center (SNSC)
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isCLI (Cisco-like)
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Browser-based client or Telnet
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DHCP Client
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DHCP Relay
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LLDP
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160K MAC Table
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9 K Jumbo Frames
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802.3X Flow Control
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802.1x
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Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
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