5272-8202 - IBM Power7 E4B, PCIe LP 10GbE CX4 1-port Adapter

IBM Power7 8202-E4B (#5272) - PCIe LP 10GbE CX4 1-port Adapter

This feature is the Low Profile (LP) equivalent of feature number 5732. The 10 Gigabit Ethernet-CX4 PCI Express Adapter is a low profile high performance adapter that transfers data over 4-lanes in each direction over copper cabling supporting a distance up to 15m.The product conforms to the IEEE, 802.3ae 10GBASE-CX4 specification for Ethernet transmission.

Highlights:

Implements iWARP RDMA/RDDP (Remote Direct Data Placement) which adheres to IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards. (Linux Only)

RDMA-enabled NIC (RNIC) specifically optimized for cluster computing (Linux Only)

Full iSCSI software and hardware initiator support. (Linux Only)

Hardware PDU Offload (Linux Only)

iSCSI Header & Data Digest (CRC) generation & checking ( Linux Only)

Attributes provided:

PCIe-V1.1 x8

MSI-X, MSI and support of legacy pin interrupts

10GBASE-CX short-reach copper

IEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE)

IEEE 802.1p priority and 802.1Q VLAN tagging

IEEE 802.3x flow control

Link aggregation, 802.3ad 802.3 compliance

IEEE 802.3ad load-balancing and failover

Ether II and 802.3 encapsulated frames

Multiple MAC addresses per interface

Jumbo frames up to 9.6 Kbytes

TCP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6

TCP segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4 and IPv6

UDP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6

Receive side scaling and packet steering

Line rate packet filtering and attack protection

IETF RDDP and RDMAC iWARP compliance (Linux Only)

APIs: RNIC-PI, kDAPL and Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution(OFED) 1.4 (Linux Only)

Attributes provided: PCI-e-V1.1 x8 Ethernet

Attributes required: 1 Low Profile (LP) slot

For 8202-E4B: (#5272)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 4 (Initial order maximum: 4)

OS level required:

AIX Version 5.3 supported

AIX Version 6.1 supported

AIX Version 7.1 supported

SUSE Linux supported

Red Hat Linux supported

Refer to Software Requirements for specific O/S levels supported

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No

Note:

Maximum of 4 supported in the CEC