Planning and hardware selection
In this chapter, we cover networking planning considerations for the IBM Flex System platform in a data center to meet availability, performance, scalability, and systems management goals.
We describe the following topics from a planning perspective:
•Hardware selection and interoperability
•Virtual local area networks (VLANs)
•Scalability and performance
•High availability
•Virtual Fabric virtual network interface card (vNIC) capabilities
•Management
3.1 Hardware selection and interoperability
In this section, ...
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