PCIe3 4-port (2x10 Gb FCoE, 2x1 GbE) SFP+ adapter (FC EL38, FC EL56, FC EN0H, and FC EN0J;
CCIN 2B93)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL38, FC
EL56, FC EN0H, and FC EN0J adapters.
Overview
The FC EL38 and FC EN0J are low-profile adapters. The FC EL56 and FC EN0H are full-height adapters
that are low-profile capable.
The PCIe3 4-port (2x10 Gb FCoE, 2x1 GbE) SFP+ adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3 adapter.
The adapter has four-ports and is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter
(CNA). This adapter provides a PCIe 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is a high-performance adapter
that consolidates traffic for networking and Fibre Channel storage. The adapter is optimized for cloud
computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. Both FCoE and network interface
controller (NIC) functions are available for both FCoE ports. Use of the FCoE requires that you use
convergence enhanced Ethernet (CEE) switches. The link aggregation and failover features of the adapter
make it suitable for critical network applications that require redundancy and high availability.
Important: There is no FCoE support on POWER9 systems.
The four-port adapter provides two 10 Gb FCoE small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) SR optical ports and
two 1 Gb RJ45 Ethernet ports. The two 10 Gb FCoE ports are connected by little connector-type (LC)
connectors. Each FCoE port provides Ethernet connectivity with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps (gigabits
per second). Each of the 1 Gb ports provides Ethernet connectivity at a data rate of 1 Gbps and is
connected with Ethernet cables. A 10 Mb data rate is not supported. Figure 63 on page 182 shows the FC
EN0H adapter.
Restriction: The 1 Gb Ethernet ports do not support data rates of 10 Mbps (megabits per second).
The adapter provides the following features:
• The adapter is a PCIe3 FCoE or NIC network convergence adapter.
• The 10 Gb SFP+ ports can function in the NIC or FCoE mode.
• The adapter supports the Single Root IO Virtualization (SRIOV) function.
• The adapter can function as a Boot adapter.
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