HP DL360 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers - Page 1

10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industrystandard servers Technology brief, 2nd edition Abstract...2 Introduction...2 Why 10GbE technology is important ...2 Current network architecture ...2 Types of data ...2 Network and interconnect types...3 Small Computer System Interface...3 Ethernet...4 Fibre Channel ...4 InfiniBand ...4 10GbE networks...4 Full duplex operation ...4 Latency ...5 HP supported 10GbE media standards 5 Physical medium dependent connections for 10GbE 5 Transceiver modules ...6 10GbE connection standards...6 Converged network fabrics with 10GbE 6 iSCSI ...7 Fibre Channel over Ethernet ...8 HP approach to10GbE implementation 9 HP Dual Port 10GbE Server Adapters 9 Virtualization and Virtual Connect...10 Server Virtualization ...10 NIC virtualization ...10 Flex-10 for Virtual Connect ...10 Summary ...13 Appendix: Glossary ...14 For more information...16 Call to action ...16