Installation guide
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FEATURE
DESCRIPTION
Ethernet and NIC support
Standard Ethernet and Enhanced Ethernet support for:
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
IEEE 802.1p
IEEE 802.3x
IEEE 802.1Qbb
IEEE 802.1Qaz
DCBX
Controller hardware support for:
Jumbo frames support for frame sizes of at least 9 Kbytes
Hardware TCP/UDP checksum generation
Hardware IPv4/IPv6 checksum offload
Hardware Large Segmentation Offload
Hardware Header and Data Split
Full duplex operation
Up to 128 MAC addresses
Unicast and multicast address filtering
VMware
NetQueue
Packet filtering based on MAC address or VLAN tag
Microsoft receive-side scaling (RSS)
NIC teaming
PCI hot-plug
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot
FCode
Operating System and Technology Requirements
The Sun Storage 10GbE FCoE PCIe Converged Network Adapter requires the operating system (OS) and
technology versions listed in Table 3. Please note that this guide shows Oracle Solaris OS support only. You can
obtain the latest patches at: http://support.oracle.com.
TABLE 3 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEM/TECHNOLOGY VERSIONS (MINIMUM)
OPERATING SYSTEM/TECHNOLOGY
SUPPORTED VERSIONS (MINIMUM)
Oracle Solaris 10 OS for the Oracle x86 (64-bit) platform
Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 with patches 143958-03 and 144487-03
Oracle Solaris 10 OS for the SPARC (64-bit) platform
Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 with patches 143957-03 and 144486-03
System Interoperability
This section provides information about platforms, storage systems, switches, and software that are compatible
with the heterogeneous Fibre Channel and Ethernet network design of the Sun Storage 10GbE FCoE PCIe
Converged Network Adapter. This section contains the following topics:
Host Platform Support
Storage Support