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1. fully compatible with Microsoft RSS and NetDMA RDMA over Converged Ethernet RoCE further accelerates application run time RoCE specification provides efficient data transfer with very low latencies on lossless Ethernet networks RoCE enables lowest latency memory transaction with less than 2 us at full bandwidth with small message size This allows very high volume transaction intensive applications typical of financial market firms and other industries where speed of data delivery is paramount to take advantage With the Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh high frequency transaction applications are able to access trading information with shorter times making sure that the trading servers are able to respond first to any new market data and market inefficiencies while the higher throughput enables higher volume trading maximizing liquidity and profitability In data mining or web crawl applications ROCE provides the needed boost in performance to search faster by solving the network latency bottleneck associated with I O cards and the corresponding transport technology in the cloud Various other applications that benefit from RoCE with ConnectX 2 EN include Web 2 0 Content Delivery Network Business intelligence database transactions and various Cloud computing applications Mellanox ConnectX 2 EN s low power consumption less than 3 5 W per port provides customers with high bandwidth and low latency at the lowest cost of2. com support entry portal docdisplay Indocid MIGR 5073016 IBM Redbooks publication BM BladeCenter Products and Technology SG24 7523 http www redbooks ibm com abstracts sg24 523 html Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 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 product 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 COR
3. ul jn Ca Redbooks web Doc Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter at a glance guide The Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter delivers the industry s lowest latency performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with stateless offloads for converged fabrics in enterprise data centers high performance computing and embedded environments Financial services cluster databases web infrastructure and cloud computing are just a few example applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access real time response and increased number of users per server The adapter is based on Mellanox ConnectX 2 EN technology which improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth to the CPU especially in virtualized server environments Figure 1 shows the adapter fat i e s m i i A AN Figure 1 Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Did you know New enhancements such as Data Center Ethernet DCE are being added to Ethernet for better I O consolidations The InfiniBand Trade Association s IBTA RDMA over Converged Ethernet RoCE technology provides efficient low latency RDMA transport over Layer 2 Ethernet The RoE software stack maintains existing and futu
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6. ly 4Q 2011 PXE v2 1 boot support Wake on LAN support available early 4Q 2011 Ethernet support and standards are IEEE Std 802 3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE Std 802 3ad Link Aggregation and Failover IEEE Std 802 3x Pause IEEE 802 1Q 1p VLAN tags and priority Multicast Jumbo frame support 10 KB 128 MAC VLAN addresses per port Data Center Bridging DCB support Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS IEEE 802 1Qaz Quantized Congestion Notification QCN IEEE 802 1Qau Priority based Flow Control PFC IEEE 802 1Qbb Data Center Bridging Capability eXchange DCBX protocol TCP UDP IP stateless offload TCP UDP IP checksum offload TCP Large Send Offload lt 64 KB or Giant Send Offload 64 KB 16 MB for segmentation Receive Side Scaling RSS up to 32 queues Line rate packet filtering Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Additional CPU offloads RDMA over Converged Ethernet support FC checksum offload VMDirect Path support Traffic steering across multiple cores Intelligent interrupt coalescence Compliant to Microsoft RSS and NetDMA Hardware based O virtualization Address translation and protection Dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation Multiple queues per virtual machine Hardware switching between guest OSs Enhanced QoS for vNICs VMware NetQueue support Storage support e Compliant with T11 3 FC BB 5 FCoE frame format Operating environmen
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8. nox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh supports the following operating systems 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 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 10 with Xen for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64 EM64T VMware ESX 4 0 VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 0 VMware ESXi 4 1 Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server in which it is installed See IBM ServerProven for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported by going to the following address http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us Select the blade server and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems Related publications For more information see the following documents Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Installation Guide http ibm com support entry portal docdisplay Indocid MIGR 5087563 IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide http ibm
9. nsion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 6 Popular configurations Figure 4 shows a configuration using the Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh together with two BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Modules This solution enables two 10 Gbps Ethernet connections from each blade server Two BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H chassis All connections between the controller the card and the switch modules are internal to the chassis No internal cabling is needed IBM BladeCenter server IBM BladeCenter H chassis Figure 4 20 Gb solution using Intel 2 port 10 Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh Table 5 lists the components used in this configuration Table 5 Components used when connecting Intel 2 port 10 Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh to two BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Modules Diagram Part Description Quantity reference number machine type IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 90Y3570 Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh server 8852 or 8740 8750 BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT 46C7191 BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Module 444408 IBM 10GBase SR SFP Transceiver Up to 20 The BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module has 10 external ports You must have one transceiver for every external port that you plan to utilize Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 7 Operating system support The Mella
10. ownership I O virtualization ConnectX 2 EN supports hardware based I O virtualization providing dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines VM within the server ConnectX 2 EN gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing costs power and complexity Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 2 Quality of service Resource allocation per application or per VM is provided by the advanced QoS supported by ConnectX 2 EN Service levels for multiple traffic types can be based on IETF DiffServ or IEEE 802 1p Q along with the Data Center Bridging enhancements allowing system administrators to prioritize traffic by application virtual machine or protocol This powerful combination of QoS and prioritization provides the ultimate fine grained control of traffic ensuring that applications run smoothly in today s complex environment Specifications The Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh has the following specifications CFFh form factor Two full duplex 10 Gb Ethernet ports PCI Express x8 Gen 2 host interface Mellanox ConnectX 2 EN ASIC Connectivity to high speed I O module bays in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis Features Stateless Offload Priority Flow Control FCoE Ready Power consumption 6 4 W typical Stateless iSCSI offload BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager support available ear
11. re application compatibility for bandwidth and latency sensitive clustering applications With link level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure network administrators can leverage existing data center fabric management solutions with this adapter Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 1 Part number information The part number to order this card is shown in Table 1 Table 1 Ordering part number and feature code Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 90Y3570 AINW These part numbers include the following items e One Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh e Documentation CD that contains the nsta ation and User s Guide e Important Notices document Features and benefits The Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh has the features discussed below Performance Based on ConnectX 2 EN technology the Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh provides a high level of throughput performance for all network environments by removing I O bottlenecks in mainstream servers that are limiting application performance Blade servers in the BladeCenter H and HT chassis can fully utilize both 10 Gbps ports and achieve up to 40 Gbps duplex bandwidth Hardware based stateless offload engines handle the TCP UDP IP segmentation reassembly and checksum calculations that would otherwise burden the host processor These offload technologies are
12. t This card is supported in the following environment e Temperature 0 C to 55 C 32 F to 131 F e Operating power Approximately 6 4 watts e Dimensions Approximately 15 9 cm x 12 5 cm 6 26 in x 4 92 in Warranty One year limited warranty When installed in a BladeCenter server the card assumes the system s base warranty and any IBM ServicePac upgrade Supported servers The Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh is supported in the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2 Table 2 Supported servers Part Expansion card number Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet 90Y3570 Expansion Card CFFh PS700 1 2 at w we Wn as alm w EC ECE jse fse Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 4 Figure 2 shows where the CFFh card is installed in a BladeCenter server ClOv connector for further VO expansion High speed connector to bays 7 amp 5 High speed connector to bays 9 amp 10 CFFh connector under CFFh expansion card the expansion card Figure 2 Location on the BladeCenter server planar where the CFFh card is installed Supported BladeCenter chassis and O modules IBM BladeCenter chassis support is based on the blade server type in which the expansion card is installed Consult IBM ServerProven to see which chassis each blade server type is supported at http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us Table 3 lists
13. the supported chassis and I O module combinations that the card supports Table 3 I O modules supported with the Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh amp a Q a E A E BNT Virtual Fabric 10 Gb Switch Module 46C7191 BNT 6 port 10 Gb High Speed Switch Module 39Y9267 10 Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module 46M6181 Cisco Nexus 40011 Switch Module 46M6071 BadeContor E _ BB CZI BadeContor t BB CZI Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter In BladeCenter H the ports of CFFh cards are routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 Figure 3 The BladeCenter HT works in a similar way because the CFFh cards are also routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 A Expansion cards Legend Standard lO bays connections High speed I O bays connections Bridge modules VO bays connections Mid Plane Figure 3 IBM BladeCenter H I O topology showing the I O paths from CFFh expansion cards The Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card CFFh requires that two I O modules be installed in bays 7 and 9 of the BladeCenter H or HT chassis Table 4 Table 4 Locations of I O modules required to connect to the expansion card Expansion card I O bay 7 I O bay 8 I O bay 9 I O bay 10 Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Supported I O Not used Supported I O Not used Card CFFh module module Mellanox 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Expa
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