Emulex OneConnect OCe10102 CNA Installation Manual
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Introduction
This manual describes the Emulex
®
OneConnect
™
OCe10102 multi-protocol PCI-Express Converged
Network Adapter (CNA) for 10 Gigabit Enhanced Ethernet (EE) fabric. Emulex CNAs provide both
traditional networking interface card (NIC) and iSCSI functionality and storage networking functionality
as well as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functionality for convergence of Fibre Channel (FC)
traffic onto 10 Gigabit EE fabric.
Emulex CNAs combine two major functional components: a 10 Gigabit networking MAC and an FC IOC
to interface with a unified lossless Ethernet switch. The CNA serves as a common interface for both
storage and IP traffic retaining familiar FC and networking software stacks, OS drivers, and
management. The supported PCIe connector is an x8. Each CNA is compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification 2.0.
Figure 1: The Emulex OCe10102 CNA
Major Features
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Single 8-lane standard Generation 2, PCIe interface
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Low-profile PCIe form factor PCBA: 6.600 inches by 2.713 inches
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Comes with full height I/O bracket installed for low profile cards
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Optional low profile I/O bracket is included
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Optical 10 GbE network interface LC connectors
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Copper 10 GbE SFP+ direct-attach connectors
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On-board flash memory: 8M bytes for FC controller program storage
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On-board configuration EEPROM to set FCoE or iSCSI modes of operation (Not changeable in
the field)
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Uses standard Emulex SLI drivers
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Interoperates with existing FC SAN infrastructures - switches, arrays, SRM tools (including
Emulex utilities), SAN practices, and so forth
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Unified Ethernet to FC SAN connectivity provided by FCoE switch
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Provides 10 Gb MAC features such as MSI-X support, jumbo frames (9024 bytes) support,
VLAN tagging (802.1Q, PER priority pause / priority flow control), and advanced packet filtering