HP GbE2 - Manual (Page 20)

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• State information ”dump” for tuning and debugging switch performance available in uuencoded format
• Panic command for immediate state dump to flash memory and automatically switch reboot
Switch security
• Password protected multi-level user accounts supported on all management interfaces
• Configurable user interface idle time-out period
• Ability to disable web-based and Telnet access to the switch user interfaces
• 255 Port-based IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLANs per switch (510 per server blade enclosure)
• Ability to specify the IP-based management network that is allowed to access the switch
• RADIUS RFC 2865 user authentication and authorization
• Unique “safe mode” option to maintain production environment VLAN isolation and security aspects
• Configurable Telnet and HTTP server socket port numbers
• Secure shell (SSH) access to the command line interface
• Secure copy protocol (SCP) to securely upload and download the switch configuration file
Switch availability
• Front-mounted, hot-swappable switch with configuration retention and no need to cable/recable when removing
• Redundant switches per server blade enclosure
• Redundant uplink ports per switch
• Redundant front panel management/diagnostic ports per switch
• Redundant crosslinks for switch to switch communication and failover scenarios within the server blade enclosure
• Redundant pairs of network adapters per server routed to different switches
• Redundant Fibre Channel signals per each server passed through different switch chassis
• Redundant N+N hot-plug redundant power to each switch
• Redundant N+1 on-board cooling per switch
• IEEE 802.3ad automatic multi-link load balancing and link failover (excluding LACP)
• Load balancing of unicast traffic
• ProLiant network adapter teaming
• Redundant configurable community strings and SNMP trap manager hosts
• Redundant default gateways with automatic failover
• Redundant configurable Domain Name Service (DNS) client
• Redundant configurable syslog servers
• Redundant firmware images in memory; either image can be selected as the current runtime version.
• Redundant configuration settings in memory plus a third factory default file; any setting can be selected as the current runtime
version.
Switch investment protection
• Layer 3 routing firmware future internal upgrade capability
• Layer 7 routing and content delivery switching future internal upgrade capability
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink future upgrade capability
• Supports any combination of ProLiant BL p-Class server blades
• Optional pass-through of ProLiant BL20p G2 Fibre Channel signals