Technology Backgrounder
10GbE 20-port switch
Benefits of the MB8AA3020 20-Port,
10GbE Switch Chip in the Data Center
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.
May 2007
| Contents | |
| Introduction | 2 |
| Congestion Management | 2 |
| VLAN Virtualization | 5 |
| Quality of Service | 5 |
| Reduced Cost | 7 |
| Summary | 8 |
Introduction
Two major trends, server virtualization and the rise of bladed servers, are driving demand for 10GbE in today’s data center.
Traditionally, servers in the data center have been dedicated to single applications like web hosting, storage, database, cluster computing. This has led to physical server proliferation, resulting in very poor server utilization. Virtualization improves server utilization by allowing multiple virtual machines to run on the same physical server. Server consolidation and virtualization now require bandwidth far in excess of a single GbE link, or even multiple GbE links that act as a link aggregation group.
Higher server density also drives adoption of 10GbE in the data center. The move from traditional 1U rack-mounted servers to highly integrated, high-density bladed servers is now well underway, requiring an increase in corresponding bandwidth.
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