Product guide

System x3100 M5 19
Network adapters
The x3100 M5 offers two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. One port is shared with Integrated
Management Module II (IMM2), implementing Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI). The
integrated NICs have the following features:
Broadcom BCM5717 chip
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TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support
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Wake on LAN support, Jumbo frame support
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Receive side Scaling (RSS) and Transmit side Scaling (TSS) support
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MSI and MSI-X capability- up to five MSI-X vectors
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VLAN tag support (IEEE 802.1Q), Layer 2 priority encoding (IEEE 802.1p)
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Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) and Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload (hardware based) on Tx/Rx over IPv4/IPv6
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Hardware TCP segmentation offload over IPv4/IPv6
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NIC Teaming (Load Balancing and Failover)
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The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 14. Network adapters
Part number Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
Gigabit Ethernet
90Y9370 A2V4 Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter for System x 2
90Y9352 A2V3 Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter for System x 3
49Y4230 5767 Intel Ethernet Dual Port Server Adapter I340-T2 for System x 3
49Y4240 5768 Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 for System x 3
00AG500 A56K Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter for System x 4
00AG510 A56L Intel I350-T2 2xGbE BaseT Adapter for System x 4
00AG520 A56M Intel I350-T4 4xGbE BaseT Adapter for System x 4
42C1750 2975 PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter 3
10 Gigabit Ethernet
49Y7910 A18Y Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for System x 3
00D8540 A4XH Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA IIIr for System x* 3
95Y3760 A2U2 Emulex VFA III/IIIr FCoE/iSCSI License for System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 00D8540)
3
49Y7960 A2EC Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for System x* 3
49Y7970 A2ED Intel X540-T2 Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for System x 3
00D9690 A3PM Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE Adapter for System x* 3
90Y4600 A3MR QLogic 8200 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA for System x* 3
00Y5624 A3MT QLogic 8200 VFA FCoE/iSCSI License for System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 90Y4600)
3
* Require SFP+ optical transceivers or DAC cables that must be purchased separately.