RackSwitch products from BLADE take a breakthrough approach that is becoming known as “Rackonomics” to reduce the total cost of ownership of data center infrastructures, overcome network overload and enable scale-out data center economies.
For the first time, data center architects can standardize on a unified and affordable rack-level, or top of rack, network infrastructure to provision and scale out Web 2.0 environments, high-performance clusters and virtualized data centers.
BLADE’s new 1U RackSwitch product family extends virtualization by mirroring the benefits of server virtualization within the network at the rack level, saves energy through rack-friendly cooling and alleviates management pain by removing complexity through simplified management and fabric convergence. RackSwitch Product Summary
BLADE switches feature VMready software that 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 and Microsoft. > Read more
VIRTUAL: Networking Virtualization switch-resident software SmartConnect™: Worlds first
rack-level network virtualization VMready™: Removes stress on network caused by virtualization (e.g. migrating network
security policies). Read more
COOLER: First server and storage rack-optimized switch
Airflow to match server and storage racks, not wiring closets
EASIER: Simple management BLADEHarmony™ Manager for centrally managing thousands of BLADE switches
Converged fabric with 10G Ethernet avoids dealing with multiple networks.
Why is Blade your logical datacenter networking choice
1 Leader in 10 GbE datacenter networking
2 Ranked # 3 10 GbE switch vendors on the world
3 Your BLADE server will have BLADE technology embedded
4 Latency up to 390 ns
5 Power efficient, most energy efficient networking product on the market
6 L2 / L3 Features like IP PIM, HW ACLs, Private VLANs, QoS (prioritization),
DSCP remarking, VRRP, IGMPv3, IGMP snooping, PVRST+ and MSTP, Uplink Failure
Detection, BPDU guard, Uplinkfast
7 BLADEHarmony™ Manager software for robust network management capabilities,
for multiple blade server blade chassis, or large multi-top-of-rack deployments.
Just point and click to administer and monitor switches in a a web-based, client/server
management application, integrated with Frameworks and vCenter.
8 VMready, to make your virtual infrastructure networking aware.
Smooth and save migration from a single point.
9 Leader in the Financial market, like New York Stock Exchange.
10 Futureproof, Convergent networking, FCoE, DCE, CEE, optimised for (IP) SAN.
Is there a future for network Chasis ?
For years we have been thinking that for larger networks a chassis switch was needed as core / spine. We expect that aggregation and stacking of Top of Rack switches is more flexible and beneficial. The new core will be designed by adding switches together, faster, cheaper and more reliable. Recent networking technologies enable high port number with all the required features. Be flexible with Top of Rack building block, benefit of all the L2 & L3 features and benefit of loadbalancing & redundancy! The new core is aggregating switches, simple, flexible and fast ! Step by step smooth migration by design to higher bandwidth. Reusable building blocks to protect your investments!
