Managing VLANs from Advanced Partitioned NICs: Dell PowerEdge MX760c Servers Using Advanced NPAR

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  Overview

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  A few key terms and concepts

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  Why VLAN and NPAR management matters

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  A Dell and Broadcom solution

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  Benefits of the Dell and Broadcom Advanced NPAR solution

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  Minimizing implementation of physical NICs with Advanced NPAR on PowerEdge MX

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  The benefits of using SmartFabric mode

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  The benefits of using Full Switch mode

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  Testing the functionality of Advanced NPAR
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  Hardware: Testing Advanced NPAR on Dell PowerEdge MX with Broadcom NICs
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  Overview: Testing Advanced NPAR on Dell PowerEdge MX with Broadcom NICs
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  Testing Advanced NPAR on Dell PowerEdge MX with Broadcom 57504 NICs

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  About Dell OpenManage Enterprise Modular
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  About Dell PowerEdge MX760c compute sleds
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  About the Broadcom 57504 Quad Port 25GbE Blade Mezzanine Card from Dell

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  Converged infrastructure with Advanced NPAR eased network management in our tests