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Physical specifications

The adapters have the following physical specifications:

Dimensions and weight (approximate):

Width: 100 mm (3.9 in.)

Depth: 80 mm (3.1 in.)

Weight: 13 g (0.3 lb)

Shipping dimensions and weight (approximate):

Height: 58 mm (2.3 in.)

Width: 229 mm (9.0 in.)

Depth: 208 mm (8.2 in.)

Weight: 0.4 kg (0.89 lb)

Agency approvals

The adapters conform to the following standards:

IEC/EN 60950-1:2006
ETSI EN 300 019-2-2
IEC 60068-2- 64, 29, 32

Related publications

For more information, see the following resources:

Flex System Information Center (User's Guides for servers and options)

http://flexsystem.lenovofiles.com/help/index.jsp

Flex System Interoperability Guide

http://lenovopress.com/fsig

Flex System Products and Technology Guide:

http://lenovopress.com/sg248255

ServerProven for Flex System

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/flexsystem.shtml

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

40 Gb Embedded Connectivity
Blade Network Adapters

Mellanox ConnectX-3 and EN6132 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapters for Flex System

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Summary of Contents for 7ZT7A00502

Page 1: ... Converged Ethernet and Send Receive semantics which allows more processor power for the application The EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 Flex System EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter Did you know The 40 Gb Ethernet solution that is offered by Flex System can deploy more workloads per server without running into I O bottlenecks If there are failures or server mai...

Page 2: ...to servers and storage Industry leading throughput performance with low latency Ideal for clients running Ethernet infrastructure in high speed trading Web 2 0 virtualization and cloud computing Enables clients to maximize compute usage by removing I O bottlenecks Improved application productivity and efficiency with support for protocol offload and RDMA over Converged Ethernet Support for industr...

Page 3: ... 802 3x standard flow control to allow the switch to pause traffic based on the 802 1p priority value in each packet s VLAN tag Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS IEEE 802 1Qaz provides a method for allocating link bandwidth based on the 802 1p priority value in each packet s VLAN tag Hardware based I O virtualization Jumbo frame support up to 10 KB 802 1Q VLAN tagging NIC teaming and failover st...

Page 4: ...orts the I O modules that are listed in the following table Table 3 Supported I O modules Part number Feature code Description 90Y9346 A3HJ Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet Switch Other I O modules Other I O modules that are not listed in Table 3 are not supported The supported I O modules are installed in the I O bays in the rear of the Flex System Enterprise Chassis as shown in the following fig...

Page 5: ...e compute nodes to the supported I O modules that are installed in the chassis I O bays are shown in the figure below The figure also shows both half wide compute nodes such as the SN550 with two adapters and full wide compute nodes such as the SN850 with four adapters Mellanox ConnectX 3 and EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapters for Flex System 5 ...

Page 6: ... when the adapter is installed in slot A2 or A4 In the compute nodes that have an integrated dual port 10 GbE network interface controller NIC NIC ports are routed to bays 1 and 2 with a specialized periscope connector and the adapter in slot A1 is not required However when needed the periscope connector can be replaced with the EN6132 adapter In such a case integrated NIC is disabled The followin...

Page 7: ...ort 2 Yes Slot 4 full wide compute nodes only Port 1 Yes Port 2 Yes The adapters are installed in slots in a supported compute node The following shows the locations of the slots in the x240 Compute Node The positions of the adapters in the other supported compute nodes are similar Figure 4 Location of the I O adapter slots in the Flex System x240 Compute Node Supported operating systems Mellanox ...

Page 8: ...ws Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 1 VMware vSphere 5 0 ESXi VMware vSphere 5 1 E...

Page 9: ...32 Related publications For more information see the following resources Flex System Information Center User s Guides for servers and options http flexsystem lenovofiles com help index jsp Flex System Interoperability Guide http lenovopress com fsig Flex System Products and Technology Guide http lenovopress com sg248255 ServerProven for Flex System http www lenovo com us en serverproven flexsystem...

Page 10: ...r use in implantation or other life support applications where malfunction may result in injury or death to persons The information contained in this document does not affect or change Lenovo product specifications or warranties Nothing in this document shall operate as an express or implied license or indemnity under the intellectual property rights of Lenovo or third parties All information cont...

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