This Lenovo RackSwitch G8332 provides low latency, lossless performance and a feature-rich design with key virtualization features, such as Converged Enhanced Ethernet / Data Center Bridging, high availability, and enterprise class Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions. The RackSwitch G8332 also delivers excellent cost savings in terms of acquisition costs, energy costs, operational expenses, and ease of use and management. The RackSwitch G8332 has 32 QSFP+ ports and is suitable for clients who use 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity (or both). With extra low latency and high throughput, the RackSwitch G8332 is an ideal offering for latency-sensitive applications, such as high-performance computing, financial applications, hosting environments, and cloud designs.
High performance
This 40 Gigabit Ethernet low latency switch with extra high throughput provides the outstanding combination of low latency, non-blocking switching, and ease of management. The RackSwitch G8332 is also a single ASIC design, which promises consistent low port-to-port latency.
Low power and good cooling
The RackSwitch G8332 uses a little amount of power. Its convenient cooling design reduces data center air conditioning costs by having airflow match the servers in the rack. In addition, variable speed fans help to automatically reduce power consumption.
High availability
The RackSwitch G8332 comes with hot-swap redundant power supplies and fans, which make the switch highly reliable and easy to service if there is a failure.
Layer 3 functionality
The switch includes Layer 3 functionality, which provides many security and performance benefits. This switch also provides the full range of Layer 3 protocols from static routes for technologies, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for enterprise customers.
Seamless interoperability
The G8332 switch interoperates seamlessly with other vendors' upstream switches.
Fault tolerance
The G8332 switch learns alternative routes automatically and performs faster convergence if there is a link, switch, or power failure. The RackSwitch G8332 uses technologies, such as L2 trunk failover, advanced VLAN-based failover and VRRP.
Multicast
Multicast supports IGMP Snooping v1, v2, and v3 with 3K IGMP groups, and Protocol Independent Multicast, such as PIM Sparse Mode or PIM Dense Mode.
Easy management
Network Address Translation allows a single device, such as a router, to act as an agent between the Internet and a local network. Therefore, only a single, unique IP address is required to represent an entire group of local IP addresses to the external network. In addition to reducing the number of public IP addresses that are required, NAT provides security by acting as a firewall between internal and external networks.
