Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual Transceiver Requirements, FCoE Specifications, Feature Description

		1–Product Overview
		Adapter Specifications
Table 1-5. Physical and Electrical Specification
Specification	Description
BIOS Support	QLogic adapters support the following boot images (boot
	from SAN and PXE boot):
	 PCI BIOS version 2.1 and 3.0
	 UEFI specification 1.10 and 2.x.
	 FCode for SPARC®-based systems

Table 1-6. Transceiver Requirements

	Active	Passive	SR Optics	Optics Not
Adapter			Sold by	Sold by
	Copper	Copper
			QLogic	QLogic
QLE8150	Supported a	Supported a	Unsupported b	Unsupported c
QLE8152
QLE8140-SR	Unsupported b	Unsupported c	Supported	Unsupported c
QLE8142-SR

QLogic 8100 Series Adapters are not backward compatible with <10Gbps SFP+ modules or copper cables.

aQLogic-approved active copper cables only. Refer

http://www.qlogic.com/Products/CU_Cables.aspx for a list of approved cables from switch vendors.

bThe adapter port will function; however, QLogic provides no warranty or technical support for this configuration.

cThe adapter port will not function.

	Table 1-7. FCoE Specifications
Feature	Description
Performance	250,000 IOPs per port to handle enterprise class transactional
	workloads
Throughput	1000MBps per port, half duplex
	2000MBps per port, full duplex
Full FCoE	Enables all FCoE protocol processing to be offloaded from the host
hardware offload	CPU to the adapter saving precious host CPU cycles for
	application processing.

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