Voltaire® Vantage™ 8500
Features & Benefits
- Provides linearly scalable, non-blocking 10GbE data center connectivity for up to 3400 servers
- High density, low power 10GbE data center switch
- Delivers ultra-low latency of less than 1 microsecond (port-to-port)
- Supports virtual machines with isolation and offers fabric-wide QoS per virtual machine
- Complies with IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards and FCoE
- Lossless with dynamic congestion management and monitoring
- Seamlessly integrates with third-party top-of-rack switches and 1GbE and 10GbE adapters
10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching for Scale-Out Data Centers and Cloud Computing Fabrics
The Voltaire Vantage 8500 switch is a completely modular, high-performance, high density Layer-2 core switch, optimized for enterprise data center and cloud computing environments. It features the industry’s most power-efficient and lowest latency capabilities on Ethernet, enabling new levels of efficiency, scalability and real-time application performance, while at the same time consolidating multiple/redundant network tiers and significantly reducing infrastructure expenses.
The Voltaire Vantage 8500 is the industry’s largest non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch. With up to 288 ports of 10GbE connectivity, the Voltaire Vantage 8500 switch features an impressive 11.52 Tb/s non-blocking backplane, allowing applications to perform at maximum bandwidth and efficiency.
The Voltaire Vantage 8500 uses Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) technology to provide InfiniBand-like capabilities such as a lossless switching fabric, and supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) traffic, Ethernet multi-pathing, I/O virtualization, and fabric-wide congestion management and QoS. The switch is interoperable with standards-based switches, 1GbE and 10GbE network adapter cards, and third-party management and virtualization solutions enabling a best-of-breed, cost effective data center network.
Enabling Linear Scalability & Data Center Virtualization
The Voltaire Vantage 8500 delivers scalability, efficiency, and fabric virtualization capabilities to meet the growing needs of next generation data centers.
Using Voltaire’s technology, up to 12 Voltaire Vantage 8500 switches can be clustered together to form a 3400 port non-blocking switching fabric. The Voltaire Vantage 8500 delivers optimal fabric utilization and performance by enabling scale-out and Layer-2 multi-pathing while remaining transparent to external servers and switching gear. As a result the cost of expanding the size of the data center is significantly reduced, while providing constant and high bandwidth per node.
The Vantage 8500 also allows users to manage roaming Virtual Machine ports, assign them unique policies, monitor them as if they were physical ports, and form multiple virtual fabrics with unique behavior and resource assignments. Its powerful operating system, VT-OS, allows multiple simultaneous sessions and granular access control to virtual or physical switch elements.
Scale-out Manageability
To enable clustering based on commodity elements, a systems administrator must overcome the complexity of managing large-scale clusters. VT-OS comprises Layer-2 protocol stack and advanced chassis management capabilities to automate regular administrative tasks while offering a user-friendly CLI, GUI, and SNMP interface.
Complementing VT-OS is Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) software management platform, which enables fabric-wide, application-centric cluster management of the Voltaire Vantage 8500 cluster. UFM software also provides management for third-party switches in conjunction with other data center management applications.
