Supermicro’s industry-leading blade server product family is enhanced by a user-friendly software utility for managing every aspect of network configuration within each SuperBlade or MicroBlade enclosure and across multiple enclosures.

The new Supermicro Blade Network Manager (BNM) is a part of Supermicro’s blade management software suite designed to reduce IT management overhead and minimize network configuration errors within a MicroBlade or SuperBlade enclosure.

BNM provides a single pane of glass to monitor and manage the network configurations across multiple SuperBlade and MicroBlade enclosures in a data center environment. It provides an overview of the networking topology from each blade server’s perspective and helps to easily manage the Ethernet Blade switches and to diagnostic networking configuration issues.

Volume provisioning of blade server networking can be achieved using templates. Users can define configuration parameters based on type of workload within an enclosure, and save as a configuration template. When new enclosures are added to the environment, the same configuration can be applied and repeated at scale. In addition, multiple configuration templates can be created that are each optimized for different types of workloads.

BNM is a software solution that can be deployed on a physical or virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux, and can be managed through a secure web interface. The BNM software framework is architected with open standards and is flexible enough to be incorporated into existing infrastructure management tools.

BNM communicates with blade networking switches through a RESTful interface. Blade switches autodiscover the BNM management agent which enables additional software functionality including auto provisioning of Multi Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG).

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