IBM Chelsio T420-CR Dual-port (SFP+) 10GbE PCI-E 2.0
Contents
1. l TL ae Redbooks web Doc Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex IBM System x at a glance guide The Chelsio dual port and quad port Unified Wire adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and IBM iDataPlex are 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with PCI Express host bus interface optimized for cloud computing HPC virtualization storage and other data center applications These adapters are based on fourth generation T4 technology from Chelsio provide the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically lower host system CPU communications overhead with on board hardware that offloads TCP IP iSCSI FCoE and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system As a result the server can achieve increased bandwidth lower latency and lower power consumption Figure 1 shows the Chelsio T440 CR Quad Port SFP 10GbE PCI E 2 0 Adapter Sea Figure 1 Chelsio T440 CR Quad Port SFP 10GbE PCI E 2 0 Adapter Did you know Chelsio implements the concept of the unified wire enabling the convergence of server networking storage networking and cluster computing interconnects onto a single fabric that enables TCP UDP ISCSI iWARP and FCoE offload with SR IOV EVB VN Tag and data center bridging DCB These Chelsio adapters are part of the IBM Intelligent Cluster solution IBM Intelligent Cluster is your key to a fully integrated HPC solution IBM clustering solutions include servers s2. PCI E 2 0 Adapter Physical and environmental specifications The specifications are e Dimensions without bracket T420 BCH 4 92 x 6 26 or 12 5 cm x 15 9 cm T420 CR 6 6 in x 2 71 in or 16 8 cm x 6 9 cm T420 SO CR 4 0 in x 2 7 in or 10 2 cm x 6 9 cm T440 CR 6 6 in x 3 95 in or 16 8 cm x 10 0 cm e Operating temp 0 to 55 C or 32 to 131 F e Operating humidity 5 to 95 Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex Figure 4 shows the Chelsio T420 SO CR Dual port SFP 10GbE PCI E 2 0 Adapter Figure 4 Chelsio T420 SO CR Dual port SFP 10GbE PCI E 2 0 Adapter Supported servers The Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE adapters are supported in the IBM Intelligent Cluster program as listed in Table 3 Table 3 Supported servers in the IBM Intelligent Cluster program Part number N i _ o JINDE l n jo o x I d Chelsio T420 CR Dual port SFP 10GbE x3755 M3 x3850 X5 x3550 M3 x3650 M3 x3690 X5 ee x Chelsio T420 SO CR Dual port SFP 10GbE Chelsio T440 CR Quad Port SFP 10GbE Chelsio T420 BCH Dual port 10GbE CFFh Ts ens Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 7 Supported operating systems The Chelsio adapters support the following operating systems Support is for both TOE and NIC mode unless otherwise stated along with OFED stack SR IOV vNIC and other functionalities Red Hat Ent
3. at any time without notice Any references in this information to non IBM Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those Web sites The materials at those Web sites are not part of the materials for this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk IBM may use or distribute any of the information you supply in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you Information concerning non IBM products was obtained from the suppliers of those products their published announcements or other publicly available sources IBM has not tested those products and cannot confirm the accuracy of performance compatibility or any other claims related to non IBM products Questions on the capabilities of non IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products This information contains examples of data and reports used in daily business operations To illustrate them as completely as possible the examples include the names of individuals companies brands and products All of these names are fictitious and any similarity to the names and addresses used by an actual business enterprise is entirely coincidental Any performance data contained herein was determined in a controlled environment Therefore the results obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly Some measurements may have been made on development level systems and there is no guarant
4. ataPlex have the following features PCI Express Gen2 x8 Low latency Supports up to 1M connections Full TCP and UDP offload TCP chimney Full iSCSI FCoE offload Full iWARP RDMA offload EVB VEPA PCI SIG SR IOV Integrated media streaming offload Hardware based firewall in the cloud Traffic filtering and management Applications The Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE adapters are ideally suited for use in the solutions listed below Data center networking Scale up servers and NAS systems Link servers in multiple facilities to synchronize data centers Consolidate LAN SAN and cluster networks Cloud computing Virtualization features to maximize cloud scaling and utilization Runs InfiniBand Fibre Channel apps unmodified on Ethernet Cloud ready functional and management features QoS and traffic management Networked storage Enable high performance NAS systems and Ethernet based IP SANs Develop shared storage systems providing both file level and block level services High performance computing Very low latency Ethernet Increase cluster fabric bandwidth Deploy Ethernet only networking for cluster fabric LAN and SAN Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex Comparison of the adapter cards Table 2 compares the Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE adapters Table 2 Ordering part numbers and feature codes IBM part number 46M2241 46M2245 Number of ports 4x 10 2x 10G Conne
5. ctor type SFP cage BladeCenter CFFh Host interface PCle x8 Gen 2 PCle x8 Gen 2 Form factor Half size BladeCenter CFFh Connection 32K 32K capacity Full TCP offload Yes Yes es Full UDP multicast Yes Y offload Yes Full iWARP RDMA Yes Yes Yes offload es Full iSCSI offload Yes y Yes Full FCoE offload Yes S SR IOV Yes Yes VEB VEPA Op iSCSI Yes Recommended for Unified Wire RDMA Unified wire RDMA Unified Wire RDMA Unified Wire NIC TOE TOE TOE NIC TOE NIC iSCSI FCoE NIC iSCSI FCoE iSCSI FCoE iSCSI FCoE virtualization virtualization virtualization virtualization Specifications The Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE adapters have the specifications listed below Host interface e PCI Express Gen2 x8 e MSI X MSI and support for legacy pin interrupts Network interfaces e 10GBASE SR short reach optics 850 nm e 10GBASE LR long reach optics 1310 nm Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 4 High performance RDMA Low latency and line rate bandwidth Enhanced RDMA primitives IWARP support on Linux OFED Microsoft Network Direct support UDP and multicast offload e UDP Sockets API e Low user to user latency e Multicast replication on ingress or egress Virtualization PCI SIG SR IOV 128 virtual functions VF 8 PF 144 port virtual switch EVB VEPA Flex10 VNTag 336 virtual MAC addresses FCoE Full HBA FCoE initiator or targ
6. ee that these measurements will be the same on generally available systems Furthermore some measurement may have been estimated through extrapolation Actual results may vary Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment COPYRIGHT LICENSE This information contains sample application programs in source language which illustrate programming techniques on various operating platforms You may copy modify and distribute these sample programs in any form without payment to IBM for the purposes of developing using marketing or distributing application programs conforming to the application programming interface for the operating platform for which the sample programs are written These examples have not been thoroughly tested under all conditions IBM therefore cannot guarantee or imply reliability serviceability or function of these programs Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2011 All rights reserved Note to U S Government Users Restricted Rights Use duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 9 This document was created or updated on April 25 2011 Send us your comments in one of the following ways e Use the online Contact us review form found at ibm com redbooks e Send your comments in an e mail to redbook us ibm com e Mail your comme
7. erprise Linux 5 update 4 kernel RHEL5 4 2 6 18 164 el5 32 bit and 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 5 kernel RHEL5 5 2 6 18 194 el5 32 bit and 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base kernel RHEL6 2 6 32 71 el6 32 bit and 64 bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 kernel SLES11SP1 2 6 32 12 0 7 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit See the Chelsio driver readme file bundled with driver and available on the driver download website for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs that are supported Go to http www chelsio com support for all Chelsio driver downloads Related publications For more information see the following resources e Chelsio Adapters driver download installation configuration troubleshooting and support http service chelsio com ibm html e IBM System Cluster 1350 Information Center http publib boulder ibm com cluster Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U S A IBM may not offer the products services or features discussed in this document in other countries Consult your local IBM representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area Any reference to an IBM product program or service is not intended to state or imply that only that IBM produc
8. et Open FCoE Offload initiator CRC32 offload generation and verification Ingress and egress access control list ACL iSCSI acceleration Full iSCSI initiator and target mode stack CRC32 offload generation and verification ISCSI proxy switching based on SCSI CDB Full HBA offload TCP IP full offload Full TCP implementation including IPv4 and IPv6 Microsoft Chimney support Extensive RFC compliance fully featured stack Full TCP proxy between any set of connections VLAN support of up to 4096 different VLAN IDs Load balancing and failover capabilities Stateless offloads TCP UDP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6 TSO LSO and GSO for IPv4 and IPv6 VLAN filtering insertion and extraction Line rate packet filtering and attack protection Fine granularity time stamping down to 4 ns Ethernet routing packet header rewrite Packet tracing and packet sniffing Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex Ethernet standards support IEEE 802 3ae 10 GbE IEEE 802 3z 1 GbE compliant IEEE 802 IP priority IEEE 802 1Q VLAN tagging IEEE 802 1Qbg EVB VEPA IEEE 802 1Qbh VNTag IEEE 802 3x flow control IEEE 802 3ad load balancing and failover Ether Il and 802 3 encapsulated frames Multiple MAC addresses per interface Jumbo frames up to 9 6 Kbytes Figure 3 shows the Chelsio T420 CR Dual port SFP 10GbE PCI E 2 0 Adapter J Figure 3 Chelsio T420 CR Dual port SFP 10GbE
9. nts to IBM Corporation International Technical Support Organization Dept HYTD Mail Station P099 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie NY 12601 5400 U S A This document is available online at http www ibm com redbooks abstracts tips0825 html Trademarks IBM the IBM logo and ibm com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at http www ibm com legal copytrade shtml The following terms are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both 1350 BladeCenter IBM iDataPlex Redpaper Redbooks logo System x The following terms are trademarks of other companies Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 10
10. t program or service may be used Any functionally equivalent product program or service that does not infringe any IBM intellectual property right may be used instead However it is the user s responsibility to evaluate and verify the operation of any non IBM product program or service IBM may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject matter described in this document The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents You can send license inquiries in writing to IBM Director of Licensing IBM Corporation North Castle Drive Armonk NY 10504 1785 U S A The following paragraph does not apply to the United Kingdom or any other country where such provisions are inconsistent with local law INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION PROVIDES THIS PUBLICATION AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON INFRINGEMENT MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Some states do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transactions therefore this statement may not apply to you This information could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors Changes are periodically made to the information herein these changes will be incorporated in new editions of the publication IBM may make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication
11. torage and industry leading interconnects that are factory integrated fully tested and delivered to your door ready to plug into your data center all with a single point of contact for support Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 1 Part number information Table 1 lists part numbers and feature codes Table 1 Ordering part number and feature code IBM part Feature number code 46M2237 3025 81Y8021 AOR2 46M2241 3026 46M2245 3027 fight hatte rari TM i ll Ml Figure 2 Chelsio T420 BCH Dual port 1OGbE CFFh Expansion Card Features Chelsio is enabling a unified wire for LAN SAN and cluster traffic This unified wire was made possible by the high bandwidth and low latency of 1OGbE combined with storage and cluster protocols operating over TCP IP iSCSI FCoE and iWARP respectively In parallel operating systems and hypervisors have incorporated native support for iSCSI and database applications now support file based storage protocols such as NFS as an alternative to SANs Expanding its unified wire approach Chelsio has added Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE hardware support to the new T4 based adapters FCoE provides a transition path from legacy SANs to converged networks Chelsio T4 based 10GbE Unified Wire Adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iDataPlex 2 Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE adapters for IBM Intelligent Cluster and iD
Download Pdf Manuals
Related Search