Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM System x
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In Switch Independent Mode the adapter works with any 10 Gb Ethernet switch. Switch Independent
Mode offers the same capabilities as IBM Virtual Fabric Mode in terms of the number of vNICs and
the bandwidth each can be configured to have. Switch Independent Mode extends the existing
customer VLANs to the virtual NIC interfaces. The IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tag is essential to the
separation of the vNIC groups by the NIC adapter or driver and the switch. The VLAN tags are added
to the packet by the applications or drivers at each end station rather than by the switch.
In pNIC mode the expansion card can operate as a standard 10 Gbps Ethernet expansion card, and it
functions with any available 10 Gb switch. In pNIC mode, with the Emulex VFA II FCoE License, the
card operates in a traditional Converged Network Adapter (CNA) mode with two Ethernet ports and
two storage ports (iSCSI or FCoE) available to the operating system.
Standards supported
The following IEEE standards are supported:
IEEE 802.3ae (10 Gbps Ethernet XAUI)
IEEE 802.1q (VLAN)
IEEE 802.1Qbb (Priority flow control)
IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS and Congestion Management)
IEEE 802.1p (QoS/CoS)
IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)
Physical specifications
The adapter has the following physical specifications:
Height: 167 mm (6.60 in)
Width: 69 mm (2.71 in)
Depth: 17.3 mm (0.69 in)
Operating environment
This adapter is supported in the following environment:
Temperature:
Operating: 0° to 55° C (32° to 131° F)
Non-operating: -40° to 70° C (-40° to 158° F)
Humidity: 5 to 95%, non-condensing
Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a System x server, these cards assume your system’s base
warranty and any IBM ServicePac® upgrade.
