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 00AG580 and 01CV770; optional via a Features
on Demand upgrade for 00AG570 and 00AG560):
Hardware offloads of Ethernet TCP/IP
ANSI T11 FC-BB-5 Support
Programmable Worldwide Name (WWN)
Support for FIP and FCoE Ether Types
Supports up to 255 NPIV Interfaces per port
FCoE Initiator
Common driver for Emulex Universal 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 data placement of SCSI data
2048 Offloaded iSCSI connections
iSCSI initiator and concurrent initiator /target modes
Multipath I/O
OS-neutral INT13 based iSCSIboot and iSCSI crash memory dump support
RFC 4171 Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
Standards
Emulex VFA5.2 Adapter Family for System x
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