5769-8204 - IBM i Model E8A 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI Express A

IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5769) 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI Express Adapter

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI Express Adapter is a low-profile, high performance adapter that uses a LC Duplex type connector and is capable of transferring data a distance of 300m over MMF-850nm Fiber cable. The product conforms to the IEEE, 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR 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 initiator and target mode stack (Linux Only)

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

PDU recovery (Linux Only)

Attributes

MSI-X, MSI and support of legacy pin interrupts

10GBASE-SR short-reach optics

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 OpenFabrics 1.4 (Linux Only)

Attributes provided: PCIe-V1.1 x8 10GBASE-SR short -reach optics adapter

Attributes required: PCI Express slot, Fiber Cable (Optional LC-SC 62.5 micron converter cable, 50 micron LC-SC connections), LC wrap plug-d

For 8204-E8A: IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5769)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 32 (Initial order maximum: 32)

OS level required:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level, or later

IBM i - not supported

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.3 or later

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No

Note: Maximum of 4 per processor.

Note: Minimum Firmware EM340_063_063 or later.