Highlights
- New products enable a full range of capabilities including Ethernet, iSCSI1, and FCoE1
- Virtualize any 10Gb switch supporting multiple protocols through the switch-independent Virtual Fabric
- Quadruple the number of adapters by server, while reducing switch modules
- Get up to 8 virtual ports operating anywhere between 100Mb and 10Gb
- Benefit from true line-rate 10Gb performance
Overview
As the deployment of server virtualization technologies becomes more prevalent within data centers, more dynamic performance is needed to provide sufficient network I/O bandwidth to satisfy these demands. With Virtual Fabric, IBM can help you break the I/O bottleneck by allowing you to allocate bandwidth where needed, delivering maximum application agility. Offering a full range of virtualization and convergence capabilities, the same network hardware can act as Ethernet, iSCSI, or FCoE, and bandwidth can be allocated in increments from 100Mb to 1Gb. Choose the Emulex adapter and IBM BNT switch for advanced virtualization capabilities, or combine the Broadcom adapter with either of our Brocade or Cisco 10Gb switches for general-purpose virtual fabric capabilities.Features and benefits
Virtual: Multiple virtual ports and protocols including Ethernet, iSCSI, and FCoE, from a single physical port, while allowing shared bandwidth across multiple applications.- Requires fewer adapters and switch modules.
- Helps lower energy consumption.
- Simplified cabling and management.
- Easily integrates into clients’ existing setup (virtual or non-virtual).
- Faster data transfer between virtual machines (VMs) and faster backup in case of disaster recovery.
- Enables more virtual machines per server when compared to equivalent 10Gb adapters.
- Suited for a high performance environment.
- Get the exact number ports and amount of bandwidth as needed by your application.
- Upgrade to hardware iSCSI or FCoE, without losing your existing investment in switches and adapters.
- Easy transition from 1Gb to 10Gb and iSCSI or FCoE.
- Increases network utilization by allowing clients to assign the exact bandwidth needed by different applications.
- Easy recovery from failures even when operating with virtual ports. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager not only makes management easy but also automatically moves the network settings to a spare blade.
Products and resources
| For advanced virtualization capabilities |
|---|
| BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter |
| QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module for IBM BladeCenter |
| Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter |
| Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II for IBM BladeCenter |
| Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter |
| Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced for IBM BladeCenter |
| For general-purpose virtualization capabilities |
|---|
| Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter |
| Cisco Nexus 4001I Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter |
| Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter |
| Broadcom (Gen 2) 10Gb 2-port and 4-port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter Source : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/openfabric/virtualfabric.html |
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