HP ProCurve first switches for BladeSystem
In mid-September, our company introduced the first Ethernet switches, designed specifically for use in the HP BladeSystem c-Class blade server chassis.
The release of new HP ProCurve devices closes the gap in the HP product portfolio for building a complete data center infrastructure. Until now, our customers in the BladeSystem c-Class chassis used mostly Cisco Catalyst 3000 Ethernet switches. But, after Cisco released its own UCS blade systems at the beginning of this year (later, rack servers appeared in this series) and began to compete directly with HP in the server market, HP revised its strategy for using network products from OEM partners.
The HP ProCurve 6120G / XG switchboard is designed for customers who are not yet ready to fully transfer their network infrastructure to ten-gigabit Ethernet, or postpone the transition to this technology due to IT budget limitations.
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For those who want to implement a ten-gigabit Ethernet today, we offer the HP ProCurve 6120XG second-level switchboard , which all 24 ports support 10 Gbit / s. This HP ProCurve model at the hardware level supports Converged Enchanced Ethernet (CEE) technology, which is designed to integrate 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel and build a unified data center network infrastructure that provides both data transmission via Ethernet and access to storage systems via Fiber Channel protocols (it is expected that the CEE standard will be approved soon).
Both switch models are also fully compatible with the HP ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager software that automates the organization of network connections and the allocation of network resources in the data center.
Following the HP ProCurve 6120G will be other HP ProCurve switches, optimized for server and HP storage systems.
After the release, UCS and other server vendors are gradually reducing the use of Cisco products in their data center solutions, but unlike HP, these companies do not have their own division that holds strong positions in the market for enterprise-class Ethernet products, so they have to enter into new OEM contracts with traditional Cisco competitors in the network equipment market.
And how do you think, is it important to build the infrastructure of the data center and the network infrastructure of the enterprise on the equipment of one vendor?
The release of new HP ProCurve devices closes the gap in the HP product portfolio for building a complete data center infrastructure. Until now, our customers in the BladeSystem c-Class chassis used mostly Cisco Catalyst 3000 Ethernet switches. But, after Cisco released its own UCS blade systems at the beginning of this year (later, rack servers appeared in this series) and began to compete directly with HP in the server market, HP revised its strategy for using network products from OEM partners.
The HP ProCurve 6120G / XG switchboard is designed for customers who are not yet ready to fully transfer their network infrastructure to ten-gigabit Ethernet, or postpone the transition to this technology due to IT budget limitations.
')
For those who want to implement a ten-gigabit Ethernet today, we offer the HP ProCurve 6120XG second-level switchboard , which all 24 ports support 10 Gbit / s. This HP ProCurve model at the hardware level supports Converged Enchanced Ethernet (CEE) technology, which is designed to integrate 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel and build a unified data center network infrastructure that provides both data transmission via Ethernet and access to storage systems via Fiber Channel protocols (it is expected that the CEE standard will be approved soon).
Both switch models are also fully compatible with the HP ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager software that automates the organization of network connections and the allocation of network resources in the data center.
Following the HP ProCurve 6120G will be other HP ProCurve switches, optimized for server and HP storage systems.
After the release, UCS and other server vendors are gradually reducing the use of Cisco products in their data center solutions, but unlike HP, these companies do not have their own division that holds strong positions in the market for enterprise-class Ethernet products, so they have to enter into new OEM contracts with traditional Cisco competitors in the network equipment market.
And how do you think, is it important to build the infrastructure of the data center and the network infrastructure of the enterprise on the equipment of one vendor?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/74939/
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