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Appendix A

Specifications

Physical Characteristics

Power Requirements

TABLE A-3

Physical Characteristics

Dimension

Measurement

Length

167.65 mm (6.6 inches)

Width

68.90 mm (2.713 inches)

Height

Component side = 14.48 mm (0.57 inches) maximum
Solder side = 2.67 mm (0.105 inches) maximum

TABLE A-4

Low-Profile Power Requirements

Specification

Measurement

Power consumption

20.74W typical

24.33W peak

Voltage

12V and 3.3V

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Page 1: ...Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User s Guide Part No 820 0184 14 May 2010 Revision A...

Page 2: ...or any loss costs or damages incurred due to your access to or use of third party content products or services Copyright 2009 2010 Oracle et ou ses affili s Tous droits r serv s Ce logiciel et la docu...

Page 3: ...ding and Installing the Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform 7 To Download the Driver on a Solaris Platform 7 To Remove the Driver from a Solaris Platform 9 Downloading and Installing the Driver...

Page 4: ...oot Over the Network on Solaris x86 and Linux Systems 30 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver Parameters 33 nxge Hardware and Software Overview 33 Setting nxge Driver Parameters on a Solaris Platform...

Page 5: ...er 2 Configuration 53 To Check Layer 3 Configuration 54 Enabling Jumbo Frames in a Linux Environment 54 To Enable Jumbo Frames in a Linux Environment 54 To Show the Driver Statistics in a Linux Enviro...

Page 6: ...67 Performance Specifications 68 Physical Characteristics 69 Power Requirements 69 B Diagnostic Software 71 SunVTS Diagnostic Software 71 Updating SunVTS to Recognize the Adapter 72 To Update SunVTS...

Page 7: ...In this document the term x86 refers to 64 bit and 32 bit systems manufactured using processors compatible with the AMD64 or Intel Xeon Pentium product families For supported systems see the Solaris H...

Page 8: ...Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User s Guide May 2010 Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell machine name C shell superuser machine name Bourne shell and Korn shell Bourne shell and Korn shell superu...

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Page 11: ...should contain the following items Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter with a low profile bracket attached Standard height bracket Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethe...

Page 12: ...ware TABLE 1 1 Hardware and Software Requirements for Sun SPARC and X64 Servers Requirements Hardware or Software Hardware Sun Fire T1000 Sun Fire T2000 Sun Fire V445 Sun Fire V245 Sun Fire V215 Sun F...

Page 13: ...tworking I O virtualization supporting Solaris LDOM 1 0 VMware support planned for mid 07 Hardware based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to networking Up to 16 Receive...

Page 14: ...azardous Substances RoHS directive 2002 95 EC Compliance Model Number ATLS2XGF Product Family Name Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter As Information Technology Equip...

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Page 16: ...6 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User s Guide May 2010...

Page 17: ...e data link interfaces and link aggregations This chapter contains the following sections Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform on page 7 Downloading and Installing...

Page 18: ...yping the following at the command line 5 For x86 systems install the software packages by typing the following at the command line A menu similar to the following displays gunzip nxge tar gz tar xvf...

Page 19: ...ms Executing checkinstall script Using as the package base directory Processing package information Processing system information 4 package pathnames are already properly installed Verifying package d...

Page 20: ...the network interfaces before adding the package by using the ifconfig a command 4 Use the rpm tool to install the driver on SuSe and RedHat Linux nxge 1 0 1 x86_64 rpm ifconfig a grep eth eth0 Link...

Page 21: ...fter the rpm installation enter the following 5 Verify the new network interface instances corresponding to the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter The Sun x8 Express...

Page 22: ...Driver From a Linux Platform To remove the driver packages from a Linux Platform use the rpm e command For 10G ethtool i eth4 driver nxge version 2 0 1 firmware version 2XGF PXE1 47 FCode 3 9 07 04 24...

Page 23: ...achine running either the Solaris x86 Operating System or the Linux x86 Operating System Dynamic Reconfiguration DR is not supported Installing the Adapter If you are installing the Sun x8 Express Dua...

Page 24: ...f a Sun Fire X4600 system because the heatsink on the adapter will sit against the daughter card of the Sun Fire X4600 system Note When you install the adapter ensure that the optical transceiver has...

Page 25: ...dard height bracket for the low profile adapter 6 Open the retaining clip at the edge of the PCI E opening 7 Holding the adapter by the edges align the adapter edge connector with the PCI E slot Slide...

Page 26: ...ution Do not use excessive force when installing the adapter into the PCI E slot You might damage the adapter s PCI connector If the adapter does not seat properly when you apply even pressure remove...

Page 27: ...installing the optical transceiver and shows the most complicated adapter installation Installing an Optical Transceiver The Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter requ...

Page 28: ...f you are installing an optical transceiver in a Sun Fire T1000 ensure that the label and the edge connector is visible to you 2 Holding the optical transceiver by the edges align the transceiver with...

Page 29: ...the second optical transceiver 6 Detach the wrist strap Caution If you pull the locking handle down when the optical transceiver is installed remove the optical transceiver entirely and reinstall it...

Page 30: ...banner appears press the Stop A key sequence to interrupt the boot process and display the OpenBoot ok prompt 2 List the network devices on your system Checking the properties output for each device...

Page 31: ...03600000 00000000 00100000 local mac address 00 14 4f 6b ce 88 phy type xgf reg 00080000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 03080010 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 03080018 00000000 00000000 00...

Page 32: ...s Guide May 2010 5 Type the following when you finish looking at the properties values Rebooting the System After verifying the adapter installation use the boot r command to perform a reconfiguration...

Page 33: ...rk on a Diskless Client System on page 25 Installing the Solaris Operating System Over a 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network on page 27 Booting Over the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network for Solaris x86 and Linux S...

Page 34: ...ip address with the adapter s IP address Refer to the ifconfig 1M man page and the Solaris documentation for more information If you want a setup that remains the same after you reboot create an etc h...

Page 35: ...diskless client system across a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network you must first install the 10 Gigabit Ethernet software packages into the root directory of the diskless client You can find the 10 Gigabit...

Page 36: ...e server Install the software packages to the client s root directory 4 Create a hostname nxgenumber file in the diskless client s root directory Create an export root client name etc hostname nxgenum...

Page 37: ...Gigabit Ethernet software packages to the install server These software packages are on Sun 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver CD Note Refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide for more information ab...

Page 38: ...s hard drive The package is a folder SUNWnxge v or SUNWnxge u which you can download from the following web site http www sun com download products xml id 44eb1efd 4 On the install server install the...

Page 39: ...install the Sun x8 Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet software on the client system The software installed in Step 4 is required to boot the client system over the 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface You now need to...

Page 40: ...information about editing these files 11 Use the dladm show dev command to show configuration information for all data links or the specified data link By default the system is configured to have one...

Page 41: ...t order of Hard Drive is higher than network devices 8 Refer the boot device order image The reconfiguration boot attaches the driver to the adapter You can now configure the driver parameters for you...

Page 42: ...heck cable PXE MOF Exiting Intel Boot Agent NVIDIA Boot Agent 217 0513 Copyright C 2001 2005 NVIDIA Corporation Copyright C 1997 2000 NVIDIA Corporation PXE E61 Media test failure check cable PXE MOF...

Page 43: ...Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter provides two 10 Gigabit Full Duplex networking interfaces The device driver automatically sets the link speed to 10000 Mbit sec and confo...

Page 44: ...t the system create a platform sun4u kernel drv nxge conf file and add parameter values to this file when you need to set a particular parameter for a device in the system Setting Parameters Using the...

Page 45: ...value which must be specified down to the named dev nxgedriver_instance and assigns the value to the parameter Where X is the driver instance for example dev nxge0 dev nxge1 2 To display the value of...

Page 46: ...g parameters in a nxge conf file To access any man page type the man command plus the name of the man page For example to access man pages for prtconf 1M type ndd dev nxge1 name to get set read only f...

Page 47: ...The last part in double quotes is the driver name To identify a PCI E device unambiguously in the nxge conf file use the name parent name and the unit address for the device Refer to the pci 4 man pa...

Page 48: ...lt is 1 adv_1000fdx_cap 1 adv_100fdx_cap Advertise 100mbps Full duplex capability default is 1 adv_100fdx_cap 1 adv_10fdx_cap Advertise 10mbps Full duplex capability default is 1 adv_10fdx_cap 1 adv_a...

Page 49: ...fine how each IP class is configured Configuration options range from whether TCAM lookup ie is enabled to flow hash generation This parameters also control how the flow template is constructed and ho...

Page 50: ...set a parameter for a particular nxge interface Using jumbo support as an example Use the following command to find out the device paths for nxge more etc path_to_inst grep nxge For example if you se...

Page 51: ...atform or an AMD CPU based platform To Improve Performance on an UltraSPARC CPU Based Sun Platform 1 Improve performance by adding the following etc system file Increasing the MSI improves the Rx perf...

Page 52: ...an AMD CPU Based Sun Platform 1 Enable soft rings and change to a higher value than the default of 2 by adding the following to the etc system file Bulk throughput for Rx can be significantly improved...

Page 53: ...he Solaris TCP IP Stack To obtain higher throughput add the following to a startup script ndd set dev tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 8192 ndd set dev tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 8192 ndd set dev tcp tcp_max_buf 4...

Page 54: ...AME ethtool A DEVNAME autoneg on off rx on off tx on off ethtool c DEVNAME ethtool C DEVNAME adaptive rx on off adaptive tx on off rx usecs N rx frames N rx usecs irq N rx frames irq N tx usecs N tx f...

Page 55: ...VNAME magic N offset N value N ethtool k DEVNAME ethtool K DEVNAME rx on off tx on off sg on off tso on off ethtool r DEVNAME ethtool p DEVNAME d ethtool t DEVNAME online offline ethtool s DEVNAME spe...

Page 56: ...set rx usecs to smaller value For bulk traffic it is recommended to use larger values of rx usecs and control the rate with rx frames rx frames irq controls the maximum number of rx packets processed...

Page 57: ...usecs 0 sample interval 0 pkt rate low 0 pkt rate high 0 rx usecs 20 rx frames 512 rx usecs irq 0 rx frames irq 512 tx usecs 0 tx frames 0 tx usecs irq 0 tx frames irq 0 rx usecs low 0 rx frame low 0...

Page 58: ...er 2 To get a particular variable use the nxge_config if_name get param_name usr local bin nxge_config eth4 get The tunable parameters exported by this device are class_opt_ipv4_tcp Read Write class_o...

Page 59: ...s the big gainer net ipv4 tcp_sack 0 sets min default max TCP read buffer default 4096 87380 174760 net ipv4 tcp_rmem 10000000 10000000 10000000 sets min pressure max TCP write buffer default 4096 163...

Page 60: ...50 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User s Guide May 2010 2 Set up the sysctl utility sysctl p etc sysctl_nxge conf...

Page 61: ...ronment on page 54 Jumbo Frames Overview Configuring Jumbo Frames enables the Ethernet interfaces to send and receive packets larger than the standard 1500 bytes However the actual transfer size depen...

Page 62: ...statistics of a VLAN interface for example kstat nxge 1 grep rdc_packets rdc_packets 798982054 rdc_packets 792546171 rdc_packets 803941759 rdc_packets 805674872 rdc_packets 798714912 rdc_packets 79929...

Page 63: ...3 Set the maximum MTU for maximum performance To Check Layer 2 Configuration View the maximum transmission unit MTU configuration of an nxge instance at any time with the kstat command The kstat mac_m...

Page 64: ...s Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter interface where xxx xxx xx xxx is the IP address of the interface 3 Set the MTU for maximum performance Where x is the instance number of the i...

Page 65: ...HWaddr 00 14 4F 6C 78 E9 inet addr 38 38 9 42 Bcast 38 38 9 255 Mask 255 255 255 0 inet6 addr fe80 214 4fff fe6c 78e9 64 Scope Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU 9194 Metric 1 RX packets 748274 e...

Page 66: ...atistics use the grep command on the output of ethtool S ethtool S eth9 grep tx_pac tx_packets 8645339 tx_packets 3418334 tx_packets 26 tx_packets 0 tx_packets 22 tx_packets 401791 tx_packets 1466540...

Page 67: ...on allows one or more network links to be aggregated together to form a link aggregation group This link aggregation group appears to MAC clients as a regular link Link aggregation is defined by IEEE...

Page 68: ...ey 33 without specifying mode As the command returns one line appears in etc aggregation conf file and indicates that the default mode is off as shown in the following example ifconfig down unplumb nx...

Page 69: ...dcast up ifconfig aggr33 aggr33 flags 1000843 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST IPv4 mtu 1500 index 8 inet 192 168 1 1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192 168 1 255 ether 0 3 ba d8 9d e8 dladm show aggr key 3...

Page 70: ...e bonding device max_bonds is the number of bond interfaces to be created mode specifies the bonding policies miimon is the frequency in milliseconds that MII link monitoring will occur Refer to Linux...

Page 71: ...rther configuration is necessary Overview of VLANs VLANs enable you to split your physical LAN into logical subparts providing an essential tool for increasing the efficiency and flexibility of your n...

Page 72: ...sisting of the Main Server Client 3 and Client 5 This represents an engineering group VLAN 2 includes the Main Server Clients 1 and 2 by means of a shared media segment and Client 5 This is a software...

Page 73: ...10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter installed It is connected to switch port 10 Both the adapter and the switch port are configured for VLANs 1 and 2 and have tagging enabled VLAN taggi...

Page 74: ...mber file for each VLAN that will be configured for each adapter on the server Use the following naming format which includes both the VID and the physical point of attachment PPA VLAN logical PPA 100...

Page 75: ...ure VLANs in a Linux Environment 1 Ensure that the nxge module is loaded ifconfig nxge123000 plumb up ifconfig nxge224000 plumb up ifconfig a lo0 flags 1000849 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST IPv4 mtu 8...

Page 76: ...le Adapter interface where xxx xxx xx xxx the IP address of the interface 3 Insert the VLAN module 4 Add the VLAN instance VID 5 Configure the nxge VLAN eth2 in this example where xxx xxx xx xxx the I...

Page 77: ...s the following sections Connectors on page 67 Performance Specifications on page 68 Physical Characteristics on page 69 Power Requirements on page 69 Connectors FIGURE A 1 shows the connector for the...

Page 78: ...10GBase SR Depending on fiber quality up to 300 meters for high bandwidth multimode fiber 10GBase LR Depending on fiber quality 10km maximum Fiber type 10GBase SR multimode 10GBase LR single mode TAB...

Page 79: ...cs Dimension Measurement Length 167 65 mm 6 6 inches Width 68 90 mm 2 713 inches Height Component side 14 48 mm 0 57 inches maximum Solder side 2 67 mm 0 105 inches maximum TABLE A 4 Low Profile Power...

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Page 81: ...and devices The SunVTS software operates primarily from a graphical user interface enabling test parameters to be set quickly and easily while a diagnostic test operation is being performed Note SunV...

Page 82: ...VTS to Recognize the Adapter 1 Plug in a loopback cable 2 Ensure that the SunVTS software and the nxge driver are installed on your system 3 Add the following lines to the opt SUNWvts lib conf netlbte...

Page 83: ...evice be configured offline before running the test Use the ifconfig 1M command to bring the Ethernet device down before running netlbtest To Use the netlbtest 1 Ensure that the SunVTS software and th...

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Page 85: ...ifconfig command 24 installing the adapter without DR 13 installing the Solaris operating environment over the network 27 N ndd utility 35 P parameter values how to modify and display 35 S setting nx...

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