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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

reference

machine type

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7870

IBM BladeCenter HS22

1 to 14

 

 

 

 

 

90Y3550

Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II

1 per server

 

 

 

 

 

8852 or 8740/8750

BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT

1

 

 

 

 

 

46C7191

BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module

2

 

 

 

 

 

44W4408

IBM 10GBase-SR SFP+ Transceiver

Up to 20*

 

 

 

 

* To communicate outside the chassis, you must have either one SFP+ transceiver or SFP+ direct-attached cable (DAC) for each of the external 10 Gb ports on the BNT 10Gb High Speed Switch Module that you wish to enable.

Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter

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