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FCOE?
Top of Rack Switches
24 x 10g or 1g SFP+ ports
Full specs here
IBM Redbooks | IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8124E
Say they are working, but they are damaged a bit (dropped?)
Might be ok for someone?
IBM Blade Rackswitch G8124 E 24 10 Gigabit Ports SFP 10GB Damaged Working Ports | eBay
and
IBM Blade Rackswitch 24 10 Gigabit Ports SFP 10GB G8124 E Damaged Working Ports | eBay
Benefits
The IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8124E offers the following benefits:
FCOE?
Top of Rack Switches
24 x 10g or 1g SFP+ ports
Full specs here
IBM Redbooks | IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8124E
Say they are working, but they are damaged a bit (dropped?)
Might be ok for someone?
IBM Blade Rackswitch G8124 E 24 10 Gigabit Ports SFP 10GB Damaged Working Ports | eBay
and
IBM Blade Rackswitch 24 10 Gigabit Ports SFP 10GB G8124 E Damaged Working Ports | eBay
Benefits
The IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8124E offers the following benefits:
- High performance: The 10G Low Latency (as low as 570 nanoseconds) switch provides the best combination of extremely low latency, non-blocking line-rate switching and ease of management.
- Lower power and better cooling: The G8124E uses as little power as two 60 W light bulbs, which is a fraction of the power consumption of most competitive offerings. Unlike side-cooled switches, which can cause heat recirculation and reliability concerns, the G8124E rear-to-front cooling design reduces data center air conditioning costs by having airflow match the servers in the rack. In addition, variable speed fans assist in automatically reducing power consumption.
- Virtual Fabric can help customers address I/O requirements for multiple NICs while also helping reduce cost and complexity. Virtual Fabric for IBM allows for the carving up of a physical NIC into multiple virtual NICs (2 - 8 vNICs) and creates a virtual pipe between the adapter and the switch for improved performance, availability, and security while reducing cost and complexity.
- VM aware Networking: VMready software on the switch helps reduce configuration complexity while significantly improving security levels in virtualized environments. VMready automatically detects virtual machine movement from one physical server to another, and instantly reconfigures each VM’s network policies across VLANs to keep the network up and running without interrupting traffic or impacting performance. VMready works with all leading VM providers such as VMware, Citrix, Xen, IBM PowerVM®, and Microsoft.
- Layer 3 functionality: The switch includes Layer 3 functionality, which provides security and performance benefits as inter-VLAN traffic stays within the chassis. This switch also provides the full range of Layer 3 protocols from static routes for technologies such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for enterprise customers.
- Seamless Interoperability: IBM switches interoperate seamlessly with other vendors' upstream switches. For more information, see Tolly Reports: Tolly Functionality and Certification: RackSwitch G8000 and G8124 and Cisco Catalyst Interoperability Evaluation, found at the following website:
Tolly Group: RackSwitch G8000, G8100, and G8124 Functionality Certification and Cisco Catalyst Interoperability Evaluation
- 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, HotLink, Uplink Failure Detection (UFD), 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.