HP 6120XG HP ProCurve Series 6120 Blade Switches Installation and Getting Star - Page 12

Introducing the Switch HP ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch The HP ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch is a blade switch for the HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. The 6120XG Blade Switch supports advanced Layer two switching. This switch can be used to build high speed switched networks between servers in the data center. Figure 4. HP ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch Designed for the c-Class BladeSystem enclosure, the HP ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch provides one 10GBASE-CX4 port and eight SFP+ (10-GbE) uplinks. A robust set of industry standard layer 2 switching functions, QOS metering, security and High Availability features are also included. The HP ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch provides 24 ports with 10 Gbps per channel connectivity, 3 of which are utilized as shared 10 Gbps ports. There are sixteen 10 Gbps downlink ports to the server blades, five dedicated front-panel SFP+ ports, front-panel CX4 port, and two 10 Gbps ports individually selectable as front-panel SFP+ port or inter-switch-links. In the configuration guide these ports are referred to as ISCs. There are two 10 Gbps ports that can be individually selectable as front-panel SFP+ ports or inter-switch links. The inter-switch link (ISL) is an internal port that connects to an identical device in the adjacent interconnect bay in the c-class enclosure. This port is under the control of both the switch and the Onboard Administrator (OA) for the c-class enclosure. The OA automatically enables this port if an identical device is detected in the adjacent bay - there is no user interface for controlling this port via the OA Web interface or CLI. Administrative control of this port is only possible using the ProCurve switch CLI or web GUI. This port is disabled by default in the ProCurve switch factory default configuration. All links conform to IEEE 802.3, SFP MSA, and SFP+ MSA specifications. 4