AD386A PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card Overview

Product Overview

Interoperability: Supported Systems and Switches

Supported Systems

For the latest list of systems that support using the AD386A 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, please see the Ethernet Support Matrix

at: http://docs.hp.com/en/supportmatrixEthernetver2.pdf/supportmatrixEthernetver2.pdf

Supported Switches

As of April 15, 2008, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet card has been tested for interoperability and is known to interoperate well with

the following 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches:

•Cisco Catalyst 6500.

• Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. (FLA) and PFU Systems, Inc. XG800 and XG1200.

• HP ProCurve 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.

Installation Recommendations and Restrictions

When installing the 10 Gigabit Ethernet card, be aware of the following recommendations and restrictions:

• Slot placement.

— Do not place the card in slots 3 or 4 (the switched slots) in rx3600 and rx6600 servers; the AD386A is not supported

in the switched slots on those 2 servers.

— To achieve best performance, HP recommends putting the card into one of the highest-performing (or “dual-rope”)

PCIe slots. To identify which slots are the highest performing slots in a particular system, please refer to the hardware

users’ guide for each system or to the I/O Slot Matrix - Entry Level Integrity Servers

http://docs.hp.com/en/hw.html#System%20Administration.

— Not supported on platforms where all slots are only PCI slots or PCI-X slots.

• HP recommends allocating at least 512MB of memory and 1 CPU per AD386A 10GigE card.

• Please see the Ethernet Support Matrix for the number of cards supported per server.

• The initial release of the card’s driver does not support Ignite-UX. Support for install kernel with icxgbe driver will be

added in a future release.

• To configure the AD386A on HP-UX 11i v2 using SAM, please install patch PHCO_36563 (or later).