IBM RackSwitch G8264T, Product Manual

Page 1: ...d Enhanced Ethernet DCB CEE for support of Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE in addition to ISCSI and NAS The G8264 is also designed to support IBM Virtual Fabric which helps clients significantly redu...

Page 2: ...flow control FCoE by aggregating switch ports before connecting to more costly upstream Fibre Channel gateway devices IBM is a leader in network virtualization offering the on switch IBM VMready softw...

Page 3: ...g RackSwitch G8264 Front to Rear 730964F IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264T Rear to Front 730CR9 IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264T Front to Rear 730CF9 1 Gb options supported only on G8264...

Page 4: ...51 5m LC LC Fiber Cable networking Optical 88Y6854 25m LC LC Fiber Cable networking Optical 88Y6857 1 m IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9427 3 m IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9430 5 m IBM Passive DAC SFP...

Page 5: ...R Transceiver 49Y7884 EB27 10 m IBM QSFP MTP Optical Cable 90Y3519 30 m IBM QSPF MTP Optical Cable 90Y3521 1 m IBM QSFP DAC Break Out Cable 49Y7886 EB24 3 m IBM QSFP DAC Break Out Cable 49Y7887 EB25 5...

Page 6: ...ly spare both G8264 and G8264T 88Y6026 Products are ordered through IBM Storage and Power ordering systems Note Transceivers are not included in the purchase of the switch and all require using the ap...

Page 7: ...ions and their supported distances The module part numbers include the following items One IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 G8264T Generic Rail Mount Kit 2 post IBM serial cable Power cords show...

Page 8: ...reduces data center air conditioning costs by having airflow match the servers in the rack In addition variable speed fans help to automatically reduce power consumption Virtual Fabric Can help custo...

Page 9: ...Aware Networking VMready software on the switch simplifies configuration and improves security in virtualized environments VMready automatically detects virtual machine movement between physical serv...

Page 10: ...he front of the rack matching airflow of IBM iDataPlex Interface options Forty eight ports 10 GbE G8264 SFP and G8264T 10GBase T Four QSFP ports 40 GbE One 10 100 1000 Ethernet RJ45 port for out of ba...

Page 11: ...tween failures MTBF G8264 165 990 hours at 40 C Software features The software features as of 6 8 are as follows Security RADIUS TACACS SCP Wire Speed Filtering Allow and Deny SSH v1 v2 HTTPS Secure B...

Page 12: ...Mode Dense Mode Monitoring Port mirroring ACL based mirroring sFlow Version 5 Virtualization VMready with VI API support vNIC MIB support for SNMP G8264 only Clients IBM System Networking Element Mana...

Page 13: ...data centers could easily support 24 chassis or more per RackSwitch G8264 BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter With support of up to ten 10 Gb SFP ports per switch clients can ea...

Page 14: ...tions for access layer switches like the G8000 or G8052 which support forty eight 1 Gb ports to the servers and four 10 Gb uplinks In either scenario the G8264 provides exceptional value by being able...

Page 15: ...8052 Leaf Switches for 2560 non blocking 1 GbE ports 48x 10 100 1000 server facing ports each 4x 10 GBASE SR fiber uplinks each Four RackSwitch G8264 spine switches for non blocking core Figure 7 show...

Page 16: ...al pipes between the adapter and switch for higher availability and security Not only can customers dynamically allocate I O bandwidth to each virtual NIC Virtual Fabric also provides the ability to c...

Page 17: ...M System x type servers before connecting to an upstream switch The IBM System x servers could leverage a 10GBase T adapter installed like the Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBase T Adapter for IBM...

Page 18: ...d publications For more information see the following IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 product publications Application Guide http www 01 ibm com support docview wss uid isg3T7000464 ISCLI Comma...

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