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Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

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Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

IBM Redbooks Product Guide

The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are a family of high performance PCI Express 
adapters. With five adapters to choose from, the NetXtreme I and NetXtreme II adapter family offers a 
variety of features including up to four ports per adapter, VLAN support, broad operating system support, 
TOE, iSCSI, and virtualization support.

Figure 1 shows the Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter.

Figure 1. Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter

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The NetXtreme Quad Port Ethernet Adapter is an ideal way to implement a virtualization solution using 
your existing Gigabit Ethernet network. With four copper-based Gigabit ports on a single PCI Express 2.0 
x4 interface, the adapter provides the density and capacity you need to support large numbers of 
virtualized systems on one server. 

Содержание Broadcom NetXtreme

Страница 1: ...orts per adapter VLAN support broad operating system support TOE iSCSI and virtualization support Figure 1 shows the Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter Figure 1 Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port...

Страница 2: ...single port is PCI Express 1 1 Jumbo Frames support 9600 bytes frames IEEE 802 1q VLAN support provides enhanced network management and efficiency I O virtualization IOV support for VMWare NetQueue a...

Страница 3: ...Yes Yes Yes No PCIe Lanes x4 x4 x1 x4 x4 TOE support No Yes ports 0 1 only No Yes both ports Yes iSCSI offload No software Initiator Yes No software Initiator Yes No software Initiator Stateless offlo...

Страница 4: ...pecifications The NetXtreme II cards have the following physical specifications Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter Length 109 mm 4 3 Height 69 mm 2 7 Depth 19 mm 0 74 in Broadcom NetXtreme I Q...

Страница 5: ...mm 0 70 in Figure 3 shows the Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter Figure 3 Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter Operating environment The adapters are supported in the following environme...

Страница 6: ...arranty One year limited warranty When installed in a System x server these cards assume your system s base warranty and any IBM ServicePac upgrade Supported servers The NetXtreme II adapters are supp...

Страница 7: ...22 2 950 95 VCCI AS NZSCISPR 22 C tick RRL for KC BSMI UL 94 V RoHS Supported operating systems The NetXtreme adapters support the following operating systems Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Microso...

Страница 8: ...pport matrix Click the check mark that is associated with the System x server in question to see the details of operating system support Related publications For more information refer to the followin...

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