Product guide

IBM NeXtScale nx360 M5 20
Network adapters
The nx360 M5 offers two Gigabit Ethernet ports with the following features:
Broadcom BCM5717 Gigabit Ethernet controller
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TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support
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Wake on LAN support
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Receive side Scaling (RSS) and Transmit side Scaling (TSS) support
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MSI and MSI-X capability (up to five MSI-X vectors)
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VLAN tag support (IEEE 802.1Q)
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Layer 2 priority encoding (IEEE 802.1p)
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Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
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Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload (hardware based) on Tx/Rx over IPv4/IPv6
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Hardware TCP segmentation offload over IPv4/IPv6
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Jumbo frame support
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NIC Teaming (Load Balancing and Failover)
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One port that is shared with IMM2 by using the Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
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The nx360 M5 server supports a Mezzanine LOM Generation 2 (ML2) adapter with a dedicated slot at the
front of the server, as shown in the previous figure. The usage of an ML2 adapter also requires the
installation of the ML2 Riser card. The Riser card and supported adapters are listed in the following table.
Table 14. Mezzanine LOM Gen 2 (ML2) Adapters
Part number Feature code Description
Riser card for ML2 adapters
00FL180 A5JV nx360 M5 ML2 Riser
ML2 Ethernet adapters
00D2026 A40S Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT for IBM System x
00D2028 A40T Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ for IBM System x
00D1996 A40Q Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for IBM System x
00D1994 A40P Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter for IBM System x
00FP650 A5RK Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter for IBM System x
ML2 InfiniBand adapters
00FP650 A5RK Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter for IBM System x
FCoE / iSCSI upgrades - IBM Features on Demand
00D8544 A4NZ Emulex VFA5 ML2 FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
Features on Demand upgrade for 00D1996