Product specifications

Deploying a Converged Storage Network Using a Cisco FCoE Switch
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FEATURE
DESCRIPTION
Ethernet and NIC support
Standard Ethernet and Enhanced Ethernet support for:
 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
 IEEE 802.1p
 IEEE 802.3x
 IEEE 802.1Qbb
 IEEE 802.1Qaz
 DCBX
Controller hardware support for:
 Jumbo frames support for frame sizes of at least 9 Kbytes
 Hardware TCP/UDP checksum generation
 Hardware IPv4/IPv6 checksum offload
 Hardware large segmentation offload
 Hardware header and data split
 Full duplex operation
 Up to 128 MAC addresses
 Unicast and multicast address filtering
 VMware NetQueue
 Packet filtering based on MAC address or VLAN tag
 Microsoft receive-side scaling (RSS)
 NIC teaming
 PCI hot-plug
 Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot
 FCode
Operating System and Technology Requirements
The converged network adapter requires the operating system (OS) and technology versions listed in
Table 3. Please note that this guide shows Oracle Solaris OS support only. You can obtain the latest
patches at http://support.oracle.com.
TABLE 3 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEM/TECHNOLOGY VERSIONS (MINIMUM)
OPERATING SYSTEM/TECHNOLOGY
SUPPORTED VERSIONS (MINIMUM)
Oracle Solaris 10 OS for the Oracle x86 (64-bit) platform
Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 with patches 143958-03 and 144487-03
Oracle Solaris 10 OS for the SPARC (64-bit) platform
Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 with patches 143957-03 and 144486-03