Datasheet

Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCente
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Part number information
Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code
Description Part number Feature code
Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 81Y3133 A1QR
This part number includes the following items:
Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter
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Documentation CD
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Safety Notices publication
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Features
The expansion card has the following features:
Offers an end-to-end solution up to 10 Gb
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One PCI Express 2.0 x8 host interface for high-speed connection
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Connectivity to high-speed I/O module bays in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis
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Enables two 10 Gb ports from the blade server to the external network
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Based on the Broadcom 10 Gb 57712 controller
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Hardware parity, CRC, ECC, and other advanced error checking
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VLAN insertion and extraction
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Support for jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes
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uEFI preboot eXecutive Environment (PXE) 2.0 network boot support
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Supports load balancing and failover
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Supports IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (vNIC mode and pNIC mode)
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Supports Wake-on-LAN
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Supports SOL and cKVM
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Virtual NIC (vNIC) support is as follows:
Supports IBM Virtual Fabric in Switch Independent Mode - Eight virtual ports (four per physical port),
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uEFI based vNIC configuration
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vNIC port specific quality of service configuration
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Supporting vNIC capability, all included in base function; no firmware key required
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Performance features are as follows:
TCP stateful offload (Microsoft Chimney / TOE)
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TCP and UDP stateless offloads over IPv4 and IPv6
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Interrupt coalescing
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Message Signal Interrupts (MSI, MSI-X)
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RX/TX multiqueue
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VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
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