B1600 Chassis network question

From: Steph (stephanos_at_lineone.ten)
Date: 10/21/04

  • Next message: Fredrik Lundholm: "Re: B1600 Chassis network question" 
    Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:23:07 +0100

    Hi all,

    I've got a question I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light
    onto for me about the B1600 chassis. We're looking at Blades as as a
    possibility to replace a raft of Netras and Intel boxes which are taking
    up too much space & power.

    Basically, in our current network topology, each server has 4 interfaces,
    and is in two networks; Each server having a redundant connection
    to another switch for the network in case we lose a switch or NIC. This
    is all managed using the usual interface failover script.

    Onto the question. I understand that the B1600 can support two internal
    switches, and that these can operate in a redundant fashion; my question
    is whether or not we can run two fully redundant VLANs (for each
    network) on those switches and still fully populate the chassis. (I
    appreciate this wouldn't help us if we lose a 'NIC' on a blade, but I'm
    far more worried about losing a switch)

    Putting it another way, are there enough internal 'ports' on the switches
    to support more than 8 blades in a dual-homed, redundant configuration?

    Apologies if the question sounds confused; but I'm new to blades as a
    technology and I've been thinking about this too hard.

    Many thanks,

    Steph

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