Owner's manual

83320-580-00 Rev. J 10/13 3
DATA SHEET
Host Bus Interface Specifications
Bus Interface
• PCI Express
®
Gen2 x8
Host Interrupts
• INTx, MSI, and MSI-X
I/O Virtualization (VMflex)
• NIC partitioning (NPAR)
Compliance
• PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 2.0; PCI Express
Card Electromechanical Specification, rev. 2.0; PCI Bus
Power Management Interface Specification, rev. 1.2
Ethernet Specifications
Throughput
• 10Gbps full-duplex line rate per port
Ethernet Frame
• 1500 byte or 9600 byte (jumbo frame)
Stateless Offload
• IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
• Large and giant send offload (LSO, GSO)
• Large receive offload (LRO)
• Receive side scaling (RSS)
• Interrupt coalescing
• VMware
®
NetQueue
• Microsoft
®
VMQ
Compliance
• IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet), 802.1q (VLAN),
802.3ad (Link Aggregation), 802.1p (Priority Encoding),
802.3x (Flow Control), IPv4 (RFQ 791), IPv6 (RFC 2460)
Tools and Utilities
Management Tools and Device Utilities
• QConvergeConsole: a unified management tool (GUI
and CLI) for Fibre Channel/Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE), iSCSI, and networking
• Native OS management tools for networking
Boot Support
• PXE
Operating Systems
• For the latest applicable operating system information,
see http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com.
Physical Specifications
Ports
• QLE3240: single 10Gbps Ethernet
• QLE3242: dual 10Gbps Ethernet
Form Factor
• Low-profile PCIe
®
card: (6.6 in. × 2.54 in.)
• Custom form factors also available
Environment and Equipment Specifications
Temperature
• Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F
• Storage: –20°C/–4°F to 70°C/158°F
Humidity
• Relative (noncondensing): 10% to 90%
• Storage: 5% to 95%
Maximum Cable Distances
• QLE324x-SR: 300m, OM3 multimode fibre
• QLE324x-LR: 10Km, single mode fibre
• QLE3242-RJ: 100m, CAT7, CAT6a
Agency Approvals
Safety
• US, Canada, Europe
EMI and EMC (Class A)
• US, Canada, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Japan,
Korea
Ordering Information
QLE3242-CU (dual port)
• Ships without transceivers. Intended for use with
copper cables (not included). A list of approved copper
cables is posted at http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/
Documents/LineCards/Copper_Cables_Support_
Matrix_Line_Card.pdf
QLE3240-SR (single port)
QLE3242-SR (dual port)
• Ships with SR optical transceivers installed
QLE3240-LR (single port)
QLE3242-LR (dual port)
• Ships with LR optical transceivers installed
QLE3242-RJ (dual port)
• Ships with RJ45 connectors (10GBase-T). Intended for
use with twisted pair copper cabling (not included).