IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
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Part number information
The following table shows the part number to order this card.
Table 1. Part number and feature code for ordering
Description
Part number
Feature code
(x-config)
Feature code
(e-config)
IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
90Y3466
A1QY
EC2D
The part number includes the following items:
One IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
A documentation CD containing the adapter user’s guide
The
IBM Important Notices document
Target uses
Financial institutions using high frequency trading or data exchange applications that require low
latency fabrics. This adapter delivers low latency Sockets and RDMA solutions for the ultimate in
application performance.
Web 2.0 and cloud service providers that need high bandwidth and processor off-loads to get the
highest productivity from their data centers.
Data centers deploying virtualized servers with high demands on the I/O infrastructure. With support
for 10 and up to 127 virtual machines, this adapter can satisfy the bandwidth demands of a virtualized
environment.
Features
The IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter has the following features:
RDMA over Converged Ethernet
ConnectX-3 uses IBTA RoCE technology to provide efficient RDMA services, delivering low-latency
and high-performance to bandwidth and latency sensitive applications. With link-level interoperability
in existing Ethernet infrastructure, network administrators can use existing data center fabric
management solutions.
Sockets acceleration
Applications using TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry-leading throughput over 10 GbE. The
hardware-based stateless off-load and flow steering engines in ConnectX-3 reduce the processor
overhead of IP packet transport, freeing more processor cycles to work on the application. Sockets
acceleration software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications.
I/O virtualization
ConnectX-3 EN provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for
virtual machines within the server. ConnectX-3 EN gives data center managers better server
utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing costs, power, and complexity.
