Product guide

NeXtScale nx360 M4 29
Network adapters
The nx360 M4 offers two Gigabit Ethernet ports with the following features:
Intel I350 Gb Ethernet controller
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IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 10BASE-T applications (802.3,
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802.3u, and 802.3ab)
IPv6 Offloads: Checksum and LSO
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Wake on LAN support
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Virtualization: I/OAT, VMDq (8 queues per port), and SR-IOV (PCI SIG compliant)
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16 TX & 16 RX queues per port
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Supports MSI-X
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Supports SGMII, SCTP, NC-SI
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Supports IEEE 1588 (TimeSynch) per packet
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Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet
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The nx360 M4 server also supports an additional mezzanine card with a dedicated PCIe x8 slot at the
front of the server, as shown in Figure 2. The supported adapters are listed in the following table.
Table 21. Mezzanine adapters
Part number Feature code Description
10 Gb Ethernet Mezzanine Card
00Y7730 A4MC Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA IIIr for System x
90Y5178 A2TE Emulex Mezz VFA III/IIIr FCoE/iSCSI License for System x (FoD)
(Features on Demand upgrade for 00Y7730)
49Y7980 A3JS Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter for System x
49Y7990 A3JT Intel X540 Dual Port 10GBase-T Embedded Adapter for System x
90Y6454 A22H QLogic Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA for System x
90Y5179 A2TF QLogic Embedded VFA FCoE/iSCSI License for System x (FoD)
(Features on Demand upgrade for 90Y6454)
InfiniBand Mezzanine Card
00AM476 A4WA Dual Port FDR10/QDR embedded adapter for nx360 M4
00D4143 A36R Dual Port FDR Embedded Adapter