HP has the Procurve for BladeSystem

The division of network equipment. ProCurve. Hewlett-Packard Company in the middle of September, presented its first switch is designed for installation in the chassis of blades HP BladeSystem c-Class. It is worth noting that so far HP has for its blade switches, Gigabit Ethernet- Cisco Catalyst, but after Cisco's server market with its own blade server platform the company phased out the cooperation with this partner, began to actively promote its Procurve as a solution for network .

New HP ProCurve Switch desyatigigabitny Blade Switch 6120 is equipped with sixteen ports downlink and eight-port SFP uplink. It provides the standard functions of switching the second level to the measurement of quality of service QoS, security and fault tolerance, and at the hardware level in the future can implement technology support Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), which is designed to integrate Ethernet and Fiber Channel, and building a unified network infrastructure, data center. The switch is also fully compatible with Procurve Data Center Connection Manager, automate the organization of network connections and the allocation of network resources in the data center. In addition, according to Hewlett-Packard, ProCurve 6120 Blade Switch can be easily integrated into existing data center network infrastructure that uses an obsolete network equipment from other manufacturers. In one BladeSystem c7000 rack can be set up to eight such switches.