topic HP BLc 1/10GbE Cisco 3120X Blade switch in BladeSystem - General

HP BLc 1/10GbE Cisco 3120X Blade switch

n_girish85 — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:27:44 GMT

Hi,

I have a question on HP BLc Cisco 3120X 1/10GbE blade switch.

what is the maximum downlink connection speed that can be configured for each blade server in the c7000 chassis. Suppose if I have 16 blade servers installed in a c7000 chassis and I have two Cisco 3120X switch for redundancy. Then is it possible to configure 10Gbps downlink to each blade server in the chassis so that the communication within the chassis blade servers gets 10Gbps bandwidth ??

Re: HP BLc 1/10GbE Cisco 3120X Blade switch

Hongjun Ma — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:47:07 GMT

3120X has 1G downlink. If you'd like to have 10G local switching between 2 blades. you have 2 options

Virtual Connect Flex-10 or FlexFabric module

Procurve 6120XG blade switch.

Between these two modules, Virtual Connect is much more popular as it's main interconnect module HP server group has been investing.