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Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCente
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Popular configurations
This section shows a configuration that uses the Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
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Figure 4 shows the use of the Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter to route either two physical
ports or eight virtual ports to the BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules installed in the BladeCenter
chassis. Two BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the
BladeCenter H chassis. All connections between the controller, card, and the switch modules are internal
to the chassis. No cabling is needed.
Figure 4. Configuration using the Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
Depending on how you configure the switch and expansion card, you can get either:
Eight virtual Ethernet ports (vNIC mode). Each virtual port can be configured to operate at 100 Mbps
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to 10 Gbps, up to a total maximum of 10 Gb per physical port. The default bandwidth is 2.5 Gb per
virtual port.
Two 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports (pNIC mode).
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The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5.
Table 5. Components used when connecting Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter to two BNT
Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules
Diagram
reference
Part number/
machine type
Description Quantity
7870 IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 1 to 14
81Y3133 Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter 1 per server
8852 or 8740/8750 BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT 1
46C7191 BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 2
44W4408 IBM 10GBase-SR SFP+ Transceiver Up to 20*
* To communicate outside the chassis, you must have either one SFP+ transceiver or SFP+
direct-attached cable (DAC) for each external 10 Gb port on the BNT 10Gb High Speed Switch Module
that you want to enable.