IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
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1. ConnectX 3 EN Service levels for multiple traffic types can be based on IETF DiffServ or IEEE 802 1p Q allowing system administrators to prioritize traffic by application virtual machine or protocol This powerful combination of QoS and prioritization provides fine grained control of traffic ensuring that applications run smoothly Specifications The IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter has the following specifications Based on Mellanox Connect X3 technology Virtual Protocol Interconnect VPI PCI Express 3 0 1 1 and 2 0 compatible through an x8 edge connector up to 8 GT s CORE Direct application off load GPUDirect application off load RDMA over Converged Ethernet RoCE End to end QoS and congestion control Ethernet encapsulation EolB Wake on LAN WoL support RoHS 6 compliant Power consumption Typical 9 W maximum 11 W Ethernet specifications IEEE 802 3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802 3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802 3ad Link Aggregation and Failover IEEE 802 3az Energy Efficient Ethernet IEEE 802 1Q 1p VLAN tags and priority IEEE 802 1Qau Congestion Notification IEEE P802 1Qbb D1 0 Priority based Flow Control IEEE 1588 Precision Clock Synchronization Jumbo frame support 10 KB 128 MAC VLAN addresses per port Hardware based I O virtualization Single Root IOV Address translation and protection Dedicated adapter resources Multiple queues per virtual machine Enhanced QoS for vNICs V2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64 EM64T VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 1 VMware vSphere 5 VMware vSphere 5 1 IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Regulatory compliance The adapter conforms to the following standards United States FCC 47 CFR Part 15 Subpart B ANSI C63 4 2003 Class A United States UL 60950 1 Second Edition IEC EN 60950 1 Second Edition FCC Verified to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Class A Canada ICES 003 issue 4 Class A UL IEC 60950 1 CSA C22 2 No 60950 1 03 Japan VCCI Class A Australia New Zealand AS NZS CISPR 22 2006 Class A IEC 60950 1 CB Certificate and CB Test Report Taiwan BSMI CNS13438 Class A Korea KN22 Class A KN24 Russia GOST ME01 IEC 60950 1 GOST R 51318 22 99 GOST R 51318 24 99 GOST R 51317 3 2 2006 GOST R 51317 3 3 99 IEC 60950 1 CB Certificate and CB Test Report CE Mark EN55022 Class A EN60950 1 EN55024 EN61000 3 2 EN61000 3 3 CISPR 22 Class A Physical specifications The dimensions and weight of the adapter are as follows Width 100 mm 3 9 in Depth 80 mm 3 1 in Weight 13 g 0 3 Ib Shipping dimensions and weight approximate Height 58 mm 2 3 in Width 229 mm 9 0 in Depth 208 mm 8 2 in Weight 0 4 k
3. number information The following table shows the part number to order this card Table 1 Part number and feature code for ordering Description Part number Feature code Feature code x config e config IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 90Y3466 A1QY EC2D The part number includes the following items e One IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter e Adocumentation CD containing the adapter user s guide e The BM Important Notices document Target uses e Financial institutions using high frequency trading or data exchange applications that require low latency fabrics This adapter delivers low latency Sockets and RDMA solutions for the ultimate in application performance e Web 2 0 and cloud service providers that need high bandwidth and processor off loads to get the highest productivity from their data centers e Data centers deploying virtualized servers with high demands on the I O infrastructure With support for 10 and up to 127 virtual machines this adapter can satisfy the bandwidth demands of a virtualized environment Features The IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter has the following features e RDMA over Converged Ethernet ConnectX 3 uses IBTA RoCE technology to provide efficient RDMA services delivering low latency and high performance to bandwidth and latency sensitive applications With link level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure network adm
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5. Mware NetQueue support IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 3 Additional processor off loads e RDMA over Converged Ethernet e TCP UDP IP stateless off load e Intelligent interrupt coalescence FlexBoot Technology e Flexible multiprotocol remote boot technology e Remote boot over Ethernet e Remote boot over iSCSI Supported servers The following table lists the IBM Flex System compute nodes that support the EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Table 2 Supported servers Description a Description Partnumber number IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet me Yes Yes No Adapter See IBM ServerProven at the following web address for the latest information about the expansion cards that are supported by each blade server type http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us I O adapter cards are installed in the slot in supported servers such as the x240 as highlighted in the following figure Figure 2 Location of the I O adapter slots in the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 4 Supported I O modules The EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter supports the I O modules listed in the following table One or two compatible switches must be installed in the corresponding I O bays in the chassis Installing two switches means that both ports of the adapter are enabled Table 3 I O modules supported with the EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Ad
6. We Redbooks IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter IBM Redbooks Product Guide The IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter delivers high bandwidth and industry leading Ethernet connectivity for performance driven server and storage applications in enterprise data centers high performance computing HPC and embedded environments Clustered databases web infrastructure and high frequency trading are just a few applications that achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access real time response and more users per server Based on Mellanox ConnectX 3 EN technology this adapter improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the processor The following figure shows the IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Figure 1 IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Did you know Mellanox networking adapters deliver industry leading bandwidth with ultra low sub microsecond latency for performance driven server clustering applications Combined with the IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switch your organization can achieve efficient computing by off loading the processor protocol processing and data movement overhead such as RDMA and Send Receive semantics allowing more processor power for the application IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 1 Part
7. apter Supports the Description Part number EN4132 adapter IBM Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch 00D5823 IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093R 10Gb Scalable Switch 95Y3309 IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switch 494270 IBM Flex System EN4091 10Gb Ethernet Pass thru 88Y6043 IBM Flex System EN2092 1Gb Ethernet Scalable Switch 494294 The following table shows the connections between adapters installed in the compute nodes to the switch bays in the chassis Table 4 Adapter to I O bay correspondence I O adapter slot in the server Port on the adapter Corresponding I O module bay in the chassis Slot 1 Slot 2 The connections between the adapters installed in the compute nodes to the switch bays in the chassis are shown in the following figure IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 5 Each line between an I O adapter and a switch is four links Figure 3 Logical layout of the interconnects between I O adapters and I O modules Supported operating systems The EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter supports the following 64 bit operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server with Xen x64 Edition
8. g 0 89 Ib IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Popular configurations The EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter is designed to be used with the IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switch The following figure shows one EN4132 adapter installed in slot 2 an x240 Compute Node which in turn is installed in the chassis Two IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switches are installed in VO bays 3 and 4 Switch 1 3 2 4 BI S Hh NEA E i AG J EN a Internal connections i i through the chassis midplane Figure 4 Example configuration The following table lists the parts that are used in the configuration Table 5 Components used when connecting the EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter to EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switches IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable 1or2 Switch IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 8 Related publications For more information see the following resources IBM Flex System Fabric EN4093 10Gb Scalable Switch Product Guide http www redbooks ibm com abstracts tips0864 html IBM Flex System EN4091 10Gb Ethernet Pass thru Product Guide http www redbooks ibm com abstracts tips0865 html IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node Product Guide http www redbooks ibm com abstracts tips0860 html EN4 132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Installation and User Guide http www ibm com
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11. inistrators can use existing data center fabric management solutions e Sockets acceleration Applications using TCP UDP IP transport can achieve industry leading throughput over 10 GbE The hardware based stateless off load and flow steering engines in ConnectX 3 reduce the processor overhead of IP packet transport freeing more processor cycles to work on the application Sockets acceleration software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications e O virtualization ConnectX 3 EN provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines within the server ConnectX 3 EN gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing costs power and complexity IBM Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter 2 Precision data centers ConnectX 3 EN IEEE 1588 precision time protocol circuitry synchronizes the host clock to the data center master clock for accurate data delivery time stamping and data center SLA measurements The hardware based mechanisms ensure high accuracy and low jitter Storage acceleration A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost performance advantages over multifabric networks Standard block and file access protocols can use RDMA for high performance storage access Quality of Service Resource allocation per application or per VM is provided and protected by the advanced QoS supported by
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