Network adapters
The System x3650 M5 supports four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. Optionally, the server supports ML2
adapters that are installed in the custom ML2 slot provided by the PCIe ML2 riser cards (part numbers
00KA504 and 00KA519). This slot supports adapters with either two 10 Gb ports or four Gigabit Ethernet ports
and supports direct connectivity to the IMM2.1 service processor for out-of-band systems management.
The integrated network interface controller (NIC) has the following features:
A Broadcom BCM5719 chip
Four Gigabit Ethernet ports
NIC Teaming (load balancing and failover)
Ethernet features:
Compliant with 1 Gb Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab PHY specifications
Integrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps for multispeed, full, and half-duplex auto-negotiation
Automatic MDI crossover
IEEE 802.3x-compliant flow control support
IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS time synchronization implementation
IEEE802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
I/O Virtualization features:
I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft virtual machine queue (VMQ)
Function Level Reset (FLR)
IEEE 802.1q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tagging support
Stateless offload and performance features:
TCP, IP, and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) checksum offload
TCP segmentation offload (TCO)
Large Send Offload (LSO)
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) and Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
Message Signal Interrupt (MSI) and Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X) support
Support for jumbo frames up to 9600 bytes
The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 19. Network adapters
Description
Part
number
Feature
code
Maximum
supported#
100 Gb Ethernet - PCIe
Mellanox ConnectX-4 2x100GbE/EDR IB QSFP28 VPI Adapter
00MM960 ATRP
1 / 2^
40 Gb Ethernet - ML2
Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter
00FP650
A5RK
1*
40 Gb Ethernet - PCIe Low Profile (supported in low profile and full-high PCIe slots)
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx 1x40GbE QSFP+ Adapter
00MM950 ATRN
3 / 6*
Mellanox ConnectX-3 2x40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter
00D9550
A3PN
3 / 6*
25 Gb Ethernet - ML2
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx ML2 1x25GbE SFP28 Adapter
00MN990 ATZR
1^^
10 Gb Ethernet - ML2
Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT
00D2026
A40S
1
Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+
00D2028
A40T
1*
Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter
00D1996
A40Q
1*
Emulex VFA5.2 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter
00AG560 AT7U
1*
Emulex VFA5 ML2 FCoE/iSCSI License (FoD)
(FoD upgrade for 00D1996 and 00AG560 - one for each adapter)
00D8544
A4NZ
1
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