[c-nsp] Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module (CGESM) fortheHPBladeSystem

[Dave Temkin]

I just installed 24 of these things and they do work well.

The X-link between the two (ports 17 and 18) can be used for whatever -
uplink redundancy, internal VLAN for the blades, etc...  I set it up to be
used as a backbone for non-critical management (ie, one of the switches
has an uplink to the management environment, and then the other switch has a
trunk connection to switch 1 for the mgmt VLAN - saves a physical uplink
port.



-- 
David Temkin

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 nick.nauwelaerts at thomson.com wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Olav Langeland
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 03:58 PM
> > To: lists at hojmark.org; Danielsen.Peter Christian PED;
> > cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
> > (CGESM) fortheHPBladeSystem
> >
> > I agree 100% regarding the comments about CGESM. If price is
> > acceptable
> > they are overall a better choice than GBE/GBE2, and especially good if
> > you are using them in a Cisco environment. They are basically Cisco
> > Catalyst switches, just funny looking and inside a HP Blade
> > enclosure :)
>
> I've got one of them here at the moment for a test setup. Quite nice for
> what I've seen of them, based on some ios 12.2.25S image. I am bugged by
> the fact that I have to download the images from HP instead of cisco,
> but whatever.
>
> Still waiting on the other 3 for our final setup, I'd like to know what
> the connection between the 2 CGESMs can be used for. As for now the 4
> gigabit uplinks bundled also provide us with plenty of bandwidth. And
> most important, no cable mess.
>
> // nick
>
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