User Guide

Part number information
Table 1 shows the part number to order this card.
Table 1. Part number and feature code for ordering
Description Part number Feature code
(x-config / e-config)
QLogic Eth and 8Gb Fibre Channel Exp Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter 44X1940* 5485 / 8271
QLogic Enet and 8Gb FC Exp Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter 00Y3270* A3JC / None
* Withdrawn from marketing.
The part number includes the following items:
One QLogic Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter
The documentation CD
The Important Notices document
Features
The QLogic Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) has the following features:
Specifications
CFFh form factor
PCI Express x8 host interface
Broadcom 5709S ASIC with two 1 Gb Ethernet ports
QLogic EP2532 ASIC with two 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports routed to the bays 7 and 9 of the MSIM
Two 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports routed to the bays 8 and 10 of the MSIM
Support for BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
Support for direct memory access (DMA)
Ethernet features
Full-duplex (FDX) capability, enabling simultaneous transmission and reception of data on the
Ethernet local area network (LAN).
Failover and load balancing NIC teaming support
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) support
Fibre Channel features
8/4/2 Gbps speeds with auto-negotiation (4.2480/2.1240/1.0625 Gbps)
200,000 IOPS per port
1,600 MBps (full duplex) per port
Fast!UTIL BIOS utility program to customize the configuration parameters
Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login)
Support for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) connection (FL-port fabric login)
Support for Fibre Channel service (classes 2 and 3)
Multi-ID and Node port (N_Port) virtualization (NPV) allows a single port to acquire multiple
N_Port IDs.
Support for remote startup (boot) operations
Persistent binding
Logical unit number (LUN) masking
Fibre Channel standard compliance
SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP)
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, Second Version (FCP-2)
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH, FC-PH-2, FC-PH-3)
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL, FC-AL-2)
Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment (FC-FLA)
QLogic Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter (withdrawn product) 2