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Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter at-a-glance guide User Manual

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Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

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The converged switch modules have the following features:

Eight external 10 Gb Converged Enhanced Ethernet ports

Eight external auto-negotiated Fibre Channel ports (2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 8 Gbps)

14 internal auto-negotiated 10 GbE ports (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps)

Two internal full-duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces for management purposes

One external RS232 console port with a mini-USB interface for serial console management

One external 10/100/1000 Mb RJ45 Ethernet copper port for management

CEE features

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC): IEEE 802.1Qbb

Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS): IEEE 802.1Qaz

Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)

Layer 2 features

Layer 2 Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs): 4096

VLAN Encapsulation 802.1Q

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

Multiple Spanning Tree MSTP (802.1s): 16 instances

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) IEEE- 802.3ad

Brocade enhanced frame-based trunking

Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information

Pause Frames (802.3x)

Storm Control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) RFC 826

Layer 2 security

Ingress Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs

VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

ACL statistics

Port-based Network Access Control: IEEE 802.1X

Layer 2 Quality of Service (QoS)

Eight priority levels for QoS

IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)

Eight hardware queues per port

Per-port QoS configuration

CoS trust: IEEE 802.1p

Per-port Virtual Output Queuing

CoS-based egress queuing

Egress strict priority queuing

Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)

Layer 3 features

Static IP routes

External Fibre Channel ports that can operate as F_ports (fabric ports), FL_ports (fabric loop ports),

or E_ports (expansion ports)