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JG815AAE
HP FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900v for VMware ESX 5.x
E-LTU
Overview
The HP FlexFabric 5900v Virtual Switch delivers a high-performance,
standards-based solution to the orchestration of physical and virtual data
center networks in a VMware ESX 5.x environment. The FlexFabric 5900v is a
distributed virtual Switch that operates within the ESX hypervisor kernel,
replacing the native VMware vSwitch.
HP FlexFabric Virtual Switch
Orchestration (VSO) Software coordinates the deployment of network policies from
HP's Intelligent Management Center (IMC) onto an IEEE 802.1Qbg-compliant switch
with the provisioning of virtual machines from VMware's vCenter. This enables
automated delivery of hardware-based network performance, forwarding, security,
and visibility features to each application, ensuring corporate network policy
compliance within a dynamic and virtualized data center.
Features
Management
IMC Connection Manager: maintains Virtual Machine VLAN assignments and
Virtual Station Interface (VSI) type database, containing ACL and QoS templates
to be provisioned by the access switch.
VMware vCenter Plug-In: configures the VSO Virtual Control Engine (VCE) and
binds port groups to the Virtual Machine, enabling the 5900v Virtual Distributed
Switch (VDS) to make the connection between the vNIC and the associated access
switch VSI template.
Data center optimized
IEEE 802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB): supports the Virtual Ethernet Port
Aggregator (VEPA) protocol, ensuring that all VM traffic is processed by the
adjacent physical switch.
Virtual Control Engine (VCE): provides the Virtual Switch Orchestration (VSO)
function, based on an OpenFlow SDN engine, to deliver forwarding table entries
to the Virtual Forwarding Engines (VCE).
Virtual Forwarding Engine (VFE): implements the Virtual Distributed Switch
(VDS) data plane function, installed on each ESXi host via the vCenter
plug-in.
Layer 2 switching
VLAN support and tagging: supports IEEE 802.1Q with 4,094 simultaneous VLAN
IDs
Private VLAN (PVLAN): segregates traffic from multiple ports on the same
VLAN, directing all traffic to a given uplink for enhanced security.
Specifications:
HP VSO SW for 5900v VMware E-L
Networking
