- Variable use in each of the 8 connection bays at the rear side of a system unit
- Unites switch as well as IBP functionality
- Prepared for stacked operation up to eight-fold
The PRIMERGY Ethernet switch/IBP 36/8+2 is an integrated 1Gb connection bladeor use in the PRIMERGY BX900 chassis. It can be installed in each of the 8 fabric slots and offers 36 x 1Gb down-link ports to the midplane for the connection to the server blades. The module comes with 8 x 1Gb plus 2 x 10Gb up-link ports, layer 2+ functions are supported.
The intelligent blade panel function combines the switch advantage of cable and port consolidation with the pass-thru advantages of working fully (VLAN) transparent and lacking of any protocol compatibility issues. Server blade LAN ports may be grouped together with one or more external ports into independent named port groups. Using the so-called management VLAN grouping feature, a separate VLAN-based management access to each server blade may be assigned. This connection blade is prepared for easy creation of large homogeneous IO domains by combining up to 8 modules within one or more BX900 system units.