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QLogic 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter and CNA for IBM BladeCente
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Technical specifications
The QLogic 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapters have the following specifications.
Host interface
Operate at full 10 Gbps line rate on both ports.
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10 Gbps per-port maximum throughput.
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Based on the QLogic 8200 ASIC.
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PCI Express 2.0 x8 host interface.
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CFFh form factor.
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10 Gb ports operating either in a virtual NIC (vNIC) or physical NIC (pNIC) mode:
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vNIC mode: Up to eight vNICs (up to four vNICs per one 10 Gb port):
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Switch Independent mode of operation.
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Virtual port bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments.
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Up to four vNICs can be configured as a NIC, iSCSI, or FCoE vNICs (up to four NIC vNICs,
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one FCoE vNIC, and one iSCSI vNIC per port) with optional Advanced Upgrade (00Y5622) or
with QLogic 10Gb Virtual Fabric CNA (00Y5618).
pNIC mode: dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet adapter
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With optional Advanced Upgrade (00Y5622) or with QLogic 10Gb Virtual Fabric CNA (00Y5618),
the pNIC mode enables two LAN (10 GbE) ports and four storage ports (2 iSCSI and 2 FCoE).
Supports Serial over LAN (SoL) and concurrent KVM (cKVM).
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IBM Fabric Manager support.
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Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) support.
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Switch Independent vNIC mode is also known as NIC Partitioning or NPAR, where each physical port
appears to the server as four virtual NICs. Bandwidth for each vNIC can be configured from 100 Mbps to
10 Gbps. This vNIC mode extends the existing VLANs to the virtual NIC interfaces. It uses IEEE 802.1Q
VLAN tags to separate data traffic; the VLAN tags are added to the packet by the applications or drivers
rather than by the switch.
Note: The adapter only supports fixed 10 GbE connectivity (no auto-negotiation). 1 Gb Ethernet
connectivity is not supported.
Ethernet specifications
Throughput: 10 Gbps full-duplex line rate per port
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Ethernet frame: 1500 byte or 9600 byte (
j
umbo frame)
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Stateless offload:
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
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Large and giant send offload (LSO and GSO)
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Large receive offload (LRO)
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Receive side scaling (RSS)
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Header-data split
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Interrupt coalescing
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VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
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