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Product
Overview
The X3100 Series of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) PCI Express adapters are the latest
addition to Neterion’s V-NIC™ product line. The X3100 Series controller is designed to
provide highly reliable, high-performance networking and storage connectivity for
datacenter servers and mass storage arrays.
Key features include:
High performance Ethernet networking.
Fully integrated, independent, hardware-based data channels.
Neterion IOQoS™ I/O Virtualization (IOV) technology.
Advanced protocol offloads for TCP, IP, and UDP.
System
Requirements
Supported
Operating
Systems
The following operating systems are officially supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11
Sun Solaris 10+
VMWare ESX Server 3.5, 4.0
RHEL and SLES XEN
Citrix XEN
Supported
Hardware
Platforms
CPU
Requirements
The following system platforms are officially supported:
x86-64 (Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron)
Sparc (Sun)
X3100 Series Controllers feature a unique multi-path architecture that takes advantage of
multi-core CPU architectures. For this reason, we recommend multi-core CPUs.
Slot
Requirements
X3100 Series Controllers are designed around the PCI Express protocol and are intended to
fit into a x8 PCIe connector. The adapter may be up-plugged into x16 slots. The adapter
is also compatible with x8 slots that are wired x4 – the PCIe sub-system will automatically
negotiate to x4 bus widths.
Table
of
Contents
Table of Contents ....................................................................................... 3
Introduction .............................................................................................. 5
Identifying Your Adapter ............................................................................ 5
Product Overview ....................................................................................... 6
System Requirements ................................................................................... 6
Supported Operating Systems ...................................................................... 6
Supported Hardware Platforms ..................................................................... 6
Installation and Support ................................................................................ 7
Hardware Installation ................................................................................ 7
Driver Installation .................................................................................... 8
Getting Support ....................................................................................... 8
Safety and Handling ..................................................................................... 9
Safety Precautions .................................................................................... 9
Handling ................................................................................................ 9
Device Specifications ................................................................................. 10
Bus and environmental ............................................................................ 10
Cabling ............................................................................................... 10
Certifications for Models X3110 and X3120 ..................................................... 10
