Popular configurations
This section shows a configuration that uses the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II.
Figure 4 shows the use of the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II to route either two physical ports or eight virtual ports to the BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules installed in the BladeCenter chassis. Two BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H chassis. All connections between the controller, card, and the switch modules are internal to the chassis. No cabling is needed.
Figure 4. Configuration using the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II
Depending on how you configure the switch and expansion card, you can get either of these combinations:
zEight virtual Ethernet ports (either vNIC mode). Each virtual port can be configured to operate at 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps, up to a total maximum of 10 Gb per physical port. The default bandwidth is 2.5 Gb per virtual port.
zTwo 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports (pNIC mode).
The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5.
Table 5. Components used when connecting the Emulex adapter to two BNT switch modules
Diagram | Part number/ | Description | Quantity |
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| 7870 | IBM BladeCenter HS22 | 1 to 14 |
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| 90Y3550 | Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II | 1 per server |
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| 8852 or 8740/8750 | BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT | 1 |
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| 46C7191 | BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module | 2 |
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| 44W4408 | IBM | Up to 20* |
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* To communicate outside the chassis, you must have either one SFP+ transceiver or SFP+
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter | 7 |