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Warranty

One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, these cards assume the system’s base

warranty and any warranty upgrade.

Operating system support

The Emulex VFA5.2 adapter family supports the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 with XEN

VMware vSphere 5.1 (ESXi)

VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)

VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi)

Top-of-rack switches

The following 10 Gb Ethernet top-of-rack switches are supported.

Table 7. 10Gb Ethernet Top-of-rack switches

Part number

Description

Switches mounted at the rear of the rack (rear-to-front airflow)
7159BR6

Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E (Rear to Front)

7159G64

Lenovo RackSwitch G8264 (Rear to Front)

7159DRX

Lenovo RackSwitch G8264CS (Rear to Front)

7159CRW

Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 (Rear to Front)

7159GR6

Lenovo RackSwitch G8296 (Rear to Front)

Switches mounted at the front of the rack (front-to-rear airflow)
7159BF7

Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E (Front to Rear)

715964F

Lenovo RackSwitch G8264 (Front to Rear)

7159DFX

Lenovo RackSwitch G8264CS (Front to Rear)

7159CFV

Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 (Front to Rear)

7159GR5

Lenovo RackSwitch G8296 (Front to Rear)

For more information, see the Lenovo Press Product Guides in the 10Gb top-of-rack switch category:

https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb

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Page 1: ...mulex VFA5 2 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP Adapter Figure 1 Emulex VFA5 2 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP Adapter Did you know The Emulex VFA5 2 adapters support three methods to virtualize I O out of the box Virtual Fabric Mode vNIC1 Switch Independent mode vNIC2 and Unified Fabric Port UFP mode With Virtual Fabric up to eight virtual network ports vNICs can be created with a single two port 10 GbE network ada...

Page 2: ...nse for FCoE iSCSI for 00AG560 00JY824 A5UV Emulex VFA5 FCoE iSCSI SW for PCIe Adapter for System x FoD Features on Demand license for FCoE iSCSI for 00AG570 The adapter when shipped as a stand alone option includes the following items One Emulex adapter An attached full height 3U bracket and a low profile 2U bracket that can be substituted if needed Quick Install Guide Warranty information and Im...

Page 3: ...0 Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9430 A1PJ 3 m Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9433 A1PK 5 m Passive DAC SFP Cable 00D6151 A3RH 7 m Passive DAC SFP Cable Active direct attach cables 00VX111 AT2R Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP Cables 00VX114 AT2S Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP Cables 00VX117 AT2T Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP Cables The following figure shows the PCIe adapter Figure 2 Emulex VFA5 2 2x10 GbE SFP PCIe Adapter Emu...

Page 4: ...managed environment Supports automatic firmware downloads and installation for true bare metal provisioning Reduce cost Multiprotocol support for 10 GbE The Emulex VFA5 2 adapter family offers two 10 Gb Ethernet ports and is cost and performance optimized for integrated and converged infrastructures The VFA5 2 offers a triple play of converged data storage and low latency RDMA networking on a comm...

Page 5: ...ll packet network performance vs previous generation adapters which is critical for transaction heavy workloads Desktop like experiences for VDI with up to 1 5 million FCoE or iSCSI I O operations per second IOPS Ability to scale Microsoft SQL Server Exchange and SharePoint using SMB Direct optimized with RoCE More VDI desktops server due to up to 18 higher CPU effectiveness the percentage of serv...

Page 6: ...Pv4 IPv6 TCP UDP and Checksum Offload IPv4 IPv6 TCP UDP Receive Side Scaling RSS IPv4 IPv6 Large Send Offload LSO Programmable MAC addresses 128 MAC vLAN addresses per port Support for HASH based broadcast frame filters per port vLAN insertion and extraction 9216 byte Jumbo frame support Receive Side Scaling RSS Filters MAC and vLAN Remote Direct Memory Access RDMA Direct data placement in applica...

Page 7: ...l CNA and Fibre Channel HBAs 255 N_Port ID Virtualization NPIV interfaces per port Fabric Provided MAC Addressing FPMA support Up to 4096 concurrent port logins RPIs per port Up to 2048 active exchanges XRIs per port iSCSI offload included with 00AG580 and 01CV770 optional via a Features on Demand upgrade for 00AG570 and 00AG560 Full iSCSI Protocol Offload Header Data Digest CRC and PDU Direct dat...

Page 8: ...ames 802 1 Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging 802 1Qaz Enhanced transmission Selection ETS Data Center Bridging Capability DCBX 802 1Qbb Priority Flow Control 802 3ad link Aggregation LACP 802 1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol 802 3ae SR Optics 802 3p Priority of Service IPV4 RFC 791 IPV6 RFC 2460 Emulex VFA5 2 Adapter Family for System x 8 ...

Page 9: ... 2x10 GbE SFP Adapter and FCoE iSCSI SW N N Y Y Y Y N Support for servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors Table 3 Support for servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors Part number Description 00AG570 Emulex VFA5 2 2x10 GbE SFP PCIe Adapter N N Y Y Y Y Y 00AG580 Emulex VFA5 2 2x10 GbE SFP Adapter and FCoE iSCSI SW N N Y Y Y Y Y 00AG560 Emulex VFA5 2 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP Adapter N N N Y Y Y Y 01CV770 E...

Page 10: ...igured through the RackSwitch from 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps up to a total of 10 Gb per physical port The vNICs can also be configured to have zero bandwidth if you must allocate the available bandwidth to fewer than four vNICs per physical port In Virtual Fabric Mode you can change the bandwidth allocations through the switch user interfaces without requiring a reboot of the server vNIC bandwidth alloc...

Page 11: ...nk to the virtual NIC vPort interface In other words host side tagging Access mode Provides a traditional access mode single untagged VLAN to the virtual NIC vPort interface which is similar to a physical port in access mode FCoE mode Provides FCoE functionality to the vPort Auto VLAN mode Auto VLAN creation for Qbg and VMready environments pNIC mode physical NIC mode In pNIC mode the adapter oper...

Page 12: ...ctivity Dedicated Share Dedicated for Tunnel mode Shared for other modes iSCSI FCoE support Yes Yes Yes Function Virtual Fabric Mode vNIC1 Switch Independent Mode vNIC2 UFP Mode Physical specifications ML2 adapter approximate Height 69 mm 2 7 in Length 168 mm 6 6 in Width 17 mm 0 7 in PCIe adapters Height 167 mm 6 6 in Width 69 mm 2 7 in Depth 17 mm 0 7 in Shipping dimensions and weight approximat...

Page 13: ...following 10 Gb Ethernet top of rack switches are supported Table 7 10Gb Ethernet Top of rack switches Part number Description Switches mounted at the rear of the rack rear to front airflow 7159BR6 Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E Rear to Front 7159G64 Lenovo RackSwitch G8264 Rear to Front 7159DRX Lenovo RackSwitch G8264CS Rear to Front 7159CRW Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 Rear to Front 7159GR6 Lenovo RackSwit...

Page 14: ...for network adapters http www lenovo com us en serverproven xseries lan matrix shtml Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter drivers http www emulex com downloads oem qualified lenovo system x rack software kits System x Configuration and Options Guide http www ibm com systems xbc cog Related product families Product families related to this document are the following Ethernet Adapters Emulex VFA5 2 A...

Page 15: ...are not intended for 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 A...

Page 16: ...ty ServerProven System x VMready RackSwitch vNIC The following terms are trademarks of other companies Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U...

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