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The ESX Family has impressive Technical
Specifications : |
| Hardware Architecture
Up to10/20 Gbps full-duplex, non-blocking distributed fabric; three-tier Integrated
Network Services Switching architecture; independent scaling and protection of management,
control, and data planes; application and service agent plug-ins; open, extensible
multi-service platform based on Windows NT® embedded OS
Network Services Controller
Intel Pentium II-based controller running Windows
NT Server
Modules and Line Cards
 | • 10/100TX: 48 to 192/384 ports; auto-sense 10/100 |
| • 100FX: 24 to 96/192 ports |
| • 1000SX: 6 to 24/48 ports |
| • Up to 400 MB of packet buffering |
| • Multi-link trunking: up to 16 Gigabit or 10/100 links
per trunk |
Output Buffers
1 MB per 100 Mbit port, 10 MB per Gigabit port
Scalability
Maximum Number of MAC Addresses . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .20K
Maximum Number of Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16K
Maximum Number of ARP Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2K
Maximum Number of VCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20K
Maximum Number of LECs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Bandwidth Management
Wire speed L2/L3/L4 stateful application
classification; up to 4 QoS queues on all Ethernet ports
Management Interfaces
In-band Ethernet, Out-of-band Ethernet and serial
interface connector per card
Performance
Up to 38 Mpps IP routing; Layer-2 = Layer-3 =
Layer-4 = Wire speed; perfect parallel hardware multicast; less than 15uS transit latency |
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