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Emulex VFA5 Adapter Family for IBM System x

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Содержание Redbooks Emulex VFA5

Страница 1: ...tenant cloud environments I O intensive environments and converged infrastructure environments The ML2 form factor adapter is shown in the following figure Figure 1 Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP...

Страница 2: ...for FCoE iSCSI for 00D1996 00JY824 A5UV Emulex VFA5 FCoE iSCSI SW for PCIe Adapter for IBM System x FoD Features on Demand license for FCoE iSCSI for 00JY820 and FC AS3M The Integrated Adapter is ava...

Страница 3: ...C SFP Cable 00AY764 A51N 2 0 IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 00AY765 A51P 3 m IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9430 A1PJ 5 m IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 90Y9433 A1PK 7 m IBM Passive DAC SFP Cable 00D6151 A3RH Act...

Страница 4: ...a triple play of converged data storage and low latency RDMA RDMA support is planned for 1H 2015 networking on a common Ethernet fabric The Emulex VFA provides customers with a flexible storage proto...

Страница 5: ...on the Emulex XE102 ASIC PCI Express 3 0 x8 host interface Line rate 10 GbE performance Upgradeable to support converged networking FCoE and iSCSI through IBM Features on Demand 2 SFP empty cages to...

Страница 6: ...f Ethernet TCP IP 802 1Qbb Priority Flow Control PFC 802 1 Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS 802 1 Qaz Data Center Bridging Exchange DCBX Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE offload included with 0...

Страница 7: ...Optics 802 3p Priority of Service IPV4 RFC 791 IPV6 RFC 2460 Supported servers The Emulex VFA5 adapter family is supported in the IBM System x servers that are listed in the following tables Table 4...

Страница 8: ...0 GbE SFP Integrated Adapter N Y Y Y Y Y Y N N Y Y The Integrated Adapter is available via configure to order CTO only Table 4 Server compatibility part 3 M4 and X5 systems with v1 processors Part num...

Страница 9: ...of the virtual data paths In vNIC mode each physical port is divided into four virtual ports for a maximum of eight virtual NICs per adapter The default bandwidth for each vNIC is 2 5 Gbps Bandwidth...

Страница 10: ...also has a number of modes associated with it including Tunnel mode Provides Q in Q mode where the vPort is customer VLAN independent very similar to vNIC Virtual Fabric Dedicated Uplink Mode Trunk mo...

Страница 11: ...inimum vNIC bandwidth 100 Mb 100 Mb 100 Mb Server to switch bandwidth limit per vNIC Yes No Yes maximum burst allowed and minimum guarantee Switch to server bandwidth limit per vNIC Yes No Yes maximum...

Страница 12: ...40 F to 158 F o Humidity 5 95 non condensing Warranty One year limited warranty When installed in a System x server these cards assume your system s base warranty and any IBM ServicePac upgrade Suppo...

Страница 13: ...ompat us Not all servers support all operating systems and versions Related publications For more information see these resources Announcement letter Emulex VFA5 PCIe and Integrated Adapters http ibm...

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