IBM 10GBE manual Part number information, Features

Part number information

Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code

Description	Part number	Feature code
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter	90Y3550	A1XG
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Advanced for IBM BladeCenter	90Y3566	AIXH
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Advanced Upgrade for IBM BladeCenter	49Y4265	2436

The adapter part number includes the following items:

zOne Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II or Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Advanced

zDocumentation CD

zImportant Notices flyer

The standard Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II can be upgraded to the same features as the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Advanced with the addition of the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Advanced Upgrade option, part number 49Y4265.

Features

Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter II and Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II have these features:

zConnection to either 1 Gb or 10 Gb data center infrastructure (1 Gb and 10 Gb auto-negotiation)

zPCI Express 2.0 x8 host interface

zIBM BladeCenter CFFh form factor, can be combined with a CIOv expansion card on the same blade server

zIt operates either as an 8-port virtual NIC or as a 2-port 1/10 Gb Ethernet adapter:

zVirtual port bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments

zSupports up to eight virtual ports

zWake On LAN support

zFull-duplex (FDX) capability

zBus-mastering support

zDirect memory access (DMA) support

zPreboot Execution Environment (PXE) support

zIPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP checksum offload

zLarge send offload (LSO)

zLarge receive offload

zReceive side scaling (RSS)

zIPv4 TCP Chimney Offload

zTCP Segmentation Offload

zVLAN insertion and extraction

zJumbo frames up to 9000 bytes

zLoad balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance (AFT), switch fault tolerance (SFT), adaptive load balancing (ALB), teaming support, and IEEE 802.3ad

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