Network Management
Network management refers to the process of monitoring and controlling a computer network to ensure its optimal performance, availability, security, and efficiency. Effective network management is essential for organizations to ensure that their network infrastructure is functioning optimally and delivering the desired business outcomes.
Network management involves a range of tasks, including network performance monitoring, network configuration and optimization, network security, and network troubleshooting and repair. Here are some of the key areas involved in network management:
- Network Monitoring: Monitoring the network involves tracking network performance metrics, such as network bandwidth, utilization, latency, and packet loss. Network administrators can use network monitoring tools to monitor the network and detect issues in real-time. This helps to identify potential problems before they escalate into serious issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring optimal network performance.
- Network Configuration and Optimization: Network configuration involves setting up and managing the network infrastructure, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and other network devices. Network optimization involves configuring network devices and protocols to ensure maximum performance and efficiency. For example, using Quality of Service (QoS) can help ensure that critical network traffic, such as VoIP or video streaming, is given higher priority, reducing the risk of congestion and improving performance.
- Network Security: Network security involves protecting the network from external and internal threats, such as viruses, malware, and unauthorized access. This includes implementing firewalls, access controls, and security protocols to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of network resources.
- Troubleshooting and Repair: When issues arise, network administrators must be able to quickly diagnose and fix problems to minimize downtime and restore network functionality. This requires in-depth knowledge of the network infrastructure and advanced troubleshooting skills.
- Reporting and Analysis: Finally, network management involves analyzing network performance data and generating reports on network performance, capacity, and usage. This helps to identify trends and patterns, allowing network administrators to optimize network performance and identify potential issues before they become significant problems.
Scalable Networking Solutions
Scalable networking solutions refer to the ability to design, deploy and manage a network infrastructure that can easily adapt to the changing needs of an organization. Scalability is a critical consideration in network design, as networks must be able to accommodate the growing number of devices, applications, and users while maintaining optimal performance and availability.
Here are some scalable networking solutions that organizations can adopt to ensure that their network infrastructure can keep up with their evolving needs:
- Virtualization: Virtualization is a technique that allows multiple virtual instances of networking devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls to run on a single physical device. This approach enables IT teams to easily scale up or down their network resources as per the organization's requirements.
- Cloud Computing: Cloud computing offers a scalable solution by providing on-demand access to computing resources, including network infrastructure. By deploying network services in the cloud, organizations can quickly scale up or down their networking resources based on their business requirements.
- Software-defined Networking (SDN): SDN allows organizations to easily manage and control their network resources by separating the network control plane from the data plane. This approach offers a more flexible, scalable, and programmable networking solution, enabling organizations to dynamically scale their network resources to meet their evolving needs.
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV): NFV enables network functions such as routing, switching, and security to be virtualized and deployed on commodity hardware. This approach offers a scalable and cost-effective solution, enabling organizations to easily add or remove network functions as per their requirements.
- Automation: Automation can be used to streamline network operations and ensure that network resources are used efficiently. By automating repetitive network management tasks, IT teams can free up time to focus on strategic activities, such as network design, capacity planning, and optimization.
Maximize Connectivity
Maximizing connectivity refers to the ability to ensure that devices and users in a network can communicate and exchange data seamlessly and efficiently. To maximize connectivity, several strategies can be adopted, including:
- Network Design: A well-designed network can maximize connectivity by ensuring that all devices are properly connected, and data can flow seamlessly between them. A robust network design should take into account the topology of the network, the bandwidth requirements, and the location of devices and users.
- Network Infrastructure: The network infrastructure, including switches, routers, and cabling, must be properly configured and maintained to ensure optimal connectivity. The infrastructure must be scalable, resilient, and designed to handle the growing number of devices and users.
- Wireless Connectivity: With the increasing use of mobile devices, ensuring wireless connectivity has become critical. Wireless networks must be properly designed and deployed to ensure optimal coverage, capacity, and security.
- Network Security: Maximizing connectivity also requires ensuring that the network is secure from external and internal threats. Network security must be implemented at every level of the network, including the physical layer, the application layer, and the user level.
- Quality of Service (QoS): QoS allows network administrators to prioritize traffic based on its importance, ensuring that critical traffic receives the necessary bandwidth and network resources. QoS can be used to ensure that real-time traffic, such as voice and video, is given higher priority than non-real-time traffic, such as email or file transfers.
- Network Monitoring: Network monitoring tools can be used to detect and troubleshoot connectivity issues in real-time. Monitoring tools can also be used to identify potential bottlenecks and optimize network performance.
General Information about this HPE 374931-001
- Part Number or SKU# 374931-001
- Manufacturer: HPE
- Interface: PCI- Express
- Type: Network Adapter
Technical Information of 2 Ports Adapter
- Form Factor: Plug-in Card
- Port: 2 Ports Adapter
- PCI Specification Revision: PCI-X 1.0a
- Bus Voltage: 3.3 V
- Connectivity Technology: Wired
- Cabling Type: 4x InfiniBand (SFF-8470)
- Data Link Protocol: InfiniBand
- Data Transfer Rate: 10 GBPS
- Features: Half Duplex Mode, Full Duplex Mode
Expansion & Connectivity for PCI- E Adapter
- Interfaces: 2 x network - MicroGiGaCN
- Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express x8
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature: 32 °F
- Max Operating Temperature: 131 °F
- Humidity Range Operating: 0 - 85%
Network Adapters
A network adapter also called a network interface card is a plug-in card that serves to allow computers to both transmit and receive data on a local network. It is a component of a computer's internal hardware that facilitates communication over a network.
In a more current context, network adapters will refer to an Ethernet adapter where the Ethernet circuitry is built into motherboards of the latest desktops and laptop computers. Other times, a network adapter may also refer to a wireless (Wi-Fi) adapter.
In all instances, the adapter allows a computer to connect with another computer, a server, or other networking devices through a LAN connection. The use of a network adapter is not limited to wired connections as it is used for wireless networks. The adapters for wired networks come with an RJ-45 port that may use either the twisted or untwisted pair cables for network connectivity. For the wireless adapters, the network connection is facilitated through a built-in antenna or an externally connected antenna. Both the wired and wireless network adapters support the popular LAN protocols including TCP/IP. We have 1-port, 2-port, 4-port, 6-port, 8-port, and 16-port options that support speeds of 10, 25, 40, or even 100 Gigabits.
The plug-in network interface cards (NICs) are normally used in high-performance machines especially if a faster Ethernet standard is relatively new and available but is yet to become mainstream. In fact, the major difference between network adapters lies in the network protocol it supports.
We have the different types of network adapters necessary for building computer-to-computer networks that don't have a switch or hub. All the network adapters are fairly inexpensive and readily adaptable to different applications within a network. Some of the common types available are:
Network adapters common types
- Desktop Network Interface Card: This adapter is usually connected to a PCI or PCIe slot, whichever is available on the motherboard of your desktop computer. You will need to open your computer's case and it, therefore, presents the most difficult installation method. The PCIe slot is generally found in new computers.
- PC Card or PCMCIA Card: PCMCIA is the abbreviation for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. The name has undergone changes over time to be referred to as a PC Card or ExpressCard. For dimensions, the PC card is almost similar in size to a credit card but is significantly thicker. The PC card is connected to a PC or PCMCIA card slot in your desktop computer or laptop computer.
- USB adapter: This network adapter is typically a small device, similar to a thumb drive, with a USB interface. Installation is easy and straightforward since it is plugged into the USB port of your desktop or laptop computer or other network devices that have a USB port.
- Wireless game adapters also referred to as media adapters, are connected to older game consoles and home entertainment devices so as to act as a bridge to Wi-Fi capability. They help expand functionality on these entertainment devices through connections to the internet.
Warranty
ALLHDD guarantees that the products will not have defects in material that will affect the product's functionality during the Standard Warranty Period. The warranty period starts when the merchandise/items from our warehouse.
What does ALLHDD.Com warranty cover?
30-days to 3 years warranty:
Replacement or refund. In the case of material defects, we will try to replace the product first. The product will be replaced before the expiration of the original warranty. For any failure of hardware, if we cannot process the replacement of the product(s)/model(s), we will refund the original selling/invoiced price. The shipping costs and sales tax, if any, are non-refundable. ALLHDD retains the right to decide whether the item(s) will process for replacement or refund.
What is not covered by our warranty?
The reason why our warranty does not cover any problem caused by the following conditions:
(a) misuse of hardware; accidental damage; carelessness product(s) damage; shock; temperature beyond the specification of any product; faulty installation; operation; modification of goods;
(b) any misuse outside the instructions in the user manual for any specific product;
(c) damaged caused by other hardware or equipment. The warranty will void if the item is returned with physical damage, damage to the retail box, removed from the box, counterfeit labels/labelled by them, or any modifications of internal and external covers. Data loss or damages to any other equipment we do not cover by our offered warranty.
What is the Manufacturer/Brand Warranty?
In general, a manufacturer's warranty service/support is a written guarantee to the buyer of a product. Its terms assure the replacement or repair of the product, if necessary, within a specified period after the purchase (2-5 years depending on the brand/manufacturer). It is typically included in the price of the product. Products are brand new and sealed and the original manufacturer box is complete with the Manufacturer's genuine warranty. For most of the brand new/retail products that come with the manual and box, exceptions may apply (i.e., Cisco, Juniper Networks).
For the server parts (i.e., Dell, HPE) to get Full coverage of the warranty server must have a full 3- 5 years warranty. However, ALLHDD.COM will cover the warranty duration if any Manufacturer doesn't support the advertised warranty and there is no refund for those.
Final Sale items are non-returnable/refundable in any situation. Any question? please ask our team before the shipment.
Important notes:
We can provide additional warranty service/support for any product you purchase from us if you need additional warranty coverage before finalizing the order from ALLHDD.Com. You need to ask in live chat/help or call us for more information.
Individual product warranty mentioned on each item product description page/detail page.
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Delivery
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- The processing of orders with Ground Shipping can take up to 24-48 hours. But we try to process all orders the same day.
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