Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch (VMS) is a high-port density, flexible and scalable data center aggregation switching solution that provides up to 720 ports of 40 gigabits per second with latency lower than two microseconds, while reducing capital expenses by up to 85 percent and power consumption by up to 90 percent. Moreover, Mellanox VMS maintains up to over 90 percent of the aggregation bandwidth at the time of a switch failure, compared to traditional chassis-based switches. It is constructed by connecting Mellanox’s SwitchX-2 based 40 and 56 Gigabit Ethernet systems connected in a non-blocking topology and managed with the widely-used Puppet and Chef management applications.
