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Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh) for IBM

BladeCenter

IBM BladeCenter at-a-glance guide

The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter is a dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet card that

supports 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps traffic, or up to eight virtual NIC devices. The virtual NICs are configured to

meet the client's mix of network connectivity and throughput demands for today's complex server

application environments. Each physical 10 Gbps port can be divided into four virtual ports with bandwidth

allocation in 100 Mbps increments to the maximum 10 Gbps per physical port.

Figure 1. Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

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This adapter is based on industry-standard PCIe architecture and offers the flexibility to operate as a

Virtual NIC Fabric Adapter or as a dual-port 10 Gb or 1 Gb Ethernet device. Because this adapter

supports up to eight virtual NICs on a single dual-port Ethernet adapter, you see potential benefits in cost,

power/cooling, and data center footprint by deploying less hardware. The adapter enables you to

configure up to 12 NIC devices on a single blade server--eight virtual NICs plus the two onboard NICs

plus two from a CIOv expansion card.

Adapter functionality can be enhanced through the future purchase of feature entitlements to enable

FCoE and iSCSI protocol support, delivering the industry’s first Universal Converged Network Adapter

and a future-proof connectivity solution for IBM BladeCenter.

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Summary of Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter

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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 1 ® emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter ibm bladecenter at-a-glance guide the emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter is a dual-port 10 gb ethernet card that supports 1 gbps or 10 gbps traffic, or up to ei...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 2 part number information table 1. Ordering part number and feature code description part number feature code emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 49y4235 5755 the part number includes the following items: one emulex virtua...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 3 ipv4/ipv6 tcp, udp checksum offload z large send offload (lso) z large receive offload z receive side scaling (rss) z ipv4 tcp chimney offload z vlan insertion and extraction z jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes z load balancing and failover supp...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 4 supported servers the emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) is supported in the ibm bladecenter servers listed in table 2. Table 2. Supported servers expansion card part number emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) 49y4235 n n n y n n n n n n ...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 5 supported bladecenter chassis and i /o modules ibm bladecenter chassis support is based on the blade server type in which the expansion card is installed. Consult the serverproven web site to see which chassis each blade server type is suppo...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 6 in bladecenter h, the ports of cffh cards are routed through the midplane to i/o bays 7, 8, 9, and 10, as shown in figure 3. The bladecenter ht is similar in that the cffh cards are also routed through the midplane to i/o bays 7, 8, 9, and 1...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 7 popular configurations this section shows a configuration that uses the emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh). Figure 4 shows the use of the emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) to route either two physical ports or eight virtual ports to the...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 8 operating system support the emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) supports the following operating systems: microsoft windows server 2003/2003 r2, datacenter edition z microsoft windows server 2003/2003 r2, datacenter x64 edition z microsoft...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 9 notices this information was developed for products and services offered in the u.S.A. Ibm may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries. Consult your local ibm representative for information...
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Emulex virtual fabric adapter (cffh) for ibm bladecenter 10 this document was created or updated on october 19, 2009. Send us your comments in one of the following ways: use the online contact us review form found at: z ibm.Com/redbooks send your comments in an e-mail to: z redbook@us.Ibm.Com mail y...