1–Product Overview Adapter Specifications

Table 1-7. FCoE Specifications (Continued)

Feature

Description

 

 

N_Port ID

Supports 256 virtual ports per physical port, optimized for

Virtualization

virtualization

 

 

Topology Support

Point-to-point and switched fabric

 

 

Logins

Supports 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 concurrent exchanges

 

 

Boot from SAN

Supports booting the server with an operating system that resides

 

on the SAN instead of on a local hard disk drive

 

 

Class of Service

Class 3

 

 

Compatibility

Viewed as a Fibre Channel adapter by the operating system.

 

Compatible with existing Fibre Channel driver stack and legacy

 

applications

 

 

Features

Overlapping protection domains (OPD)

 

Out-of-order frame re-assembly (OoOFR)

 

Intelligently interleaved direct memory access (iiDMA)

 

Persistent binding

 

Fibre Channel over Ethernet initialization protocol (FIP) version 1.0

 

Hardware assisted firmware tracing (HAFT)

 

MSI-X with 256 vectors

 

 

 

Table 1-8. Ethernet Specifications

 

 

 

Specification

 

Description

 

 

 

Throughput

 

10Gbps

 

 

 

Stateless offload

 

IP, TCP, and user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum

 

 

offloads

 

 

Large and giant send offload (LSO, GSO)

 

 

Receive side scaling (RSS)

 

 

Header-data split

 

 

Interrupt coalescing

 

 

NetQueue

 

 

 

Ethernet Frame

 

1500 byte or 9000 byte (jumbo frame)

 

 

 

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