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1. v n Z ZI ZIZ z Z lt Z lt lt lt lt z z z 2 2 z z z 2 lt Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 6 In BladeCenter H the ports of CFFh cards are routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 as shown in Figure 3 The BladeCenter HT is similar in that the CFFh cards are also routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 Blade Server 1 On Board 1GbE OrFy a A ai r l i i Expansion cards Legend Standard iO bays connections High speed lO 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 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter I and Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter I Advanced require that two I O modules be installed in bays 7 and 9 of the BladeCenter H and HT chassis Table 4 Table 4 Locations of I O modules required to connect to the expansion card I O bay 7 I O bay 8 I O bay 9 I O bay 10 Supported I O Not used Supported I O Not used module module Supported I O Not used Supported I O Not used module module MAC addresses are assigned to the expansion card In Virtual Fabric Adapter mode vNIC mode each of the eight virtual ports is assigned a MAC address In 2 port 10 Gb Ethernet mode pNIC mode each of the two physical ports is assigned a MAC addresses Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM Blade2. 4W4408 IBM 10GBase SR SFP Transceiver Up to 20 To communicate outside the chassis you must have either one SFP transceiver or SFP direct attached cable DAC for each of the external 10 Gb ports on the IBM 10Gb High Speed Switch Module that you wish to enable Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 8 Operating environment This adapter complies with temperature rating requirements for BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis and is supported in the following environment e Temperature Operating e 10to 52 C 50 to 125 F at an altitude of O to 914 m 0 to 3 000 ft e 10 to 49 C 50 to 120 F at an altitude of 0 to 3 000 m 0 to 10 000 ft e Temperature Non operating e 40 to 65 C 40 to 149 F at an altitude of O to 12 000 m 0 to 39 370 ft e Humidity e Operating 8 to 80 noncondensing e Non operating 5 to 80 noncondensing Operating system support The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II supports the following operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windo
3. Center 7 Popular configurations This section shows a configuration that uses the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Figure 4 shows the use of the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II to route either two physical ports or eight virtual ports to the IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules installed in the BladeCenter chassis Two IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H chassis All connections between the controller card and the switch modules are internal to the chassis No cabling is needed IBM BladeCenter server IBM BladeCenter H chassis Figure 4 Configuration using the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il Depending on how you configure the switch and expansion card you can get either of these combinations e Eight virtual Ethernet ports either vNIC mode Each virtual port can be configured to operate at 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps up to a total maximum of 10 Gb per physical port The default bandwidth is 2 5 Gb per virtual port e Two 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports pNIC mode The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5 Table 5 Components used when connecting the Emulex adapter to two IBM switch modules Diagram Part number Description Quantity reference machine type 78 0 IBM BladeCenter HS22 90Y3550 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il 8852 or 8740 8750 BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT 46C7191 IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 4
4. M BladeCenter Installation and User s Guide http www ibm com support BladeCenter Ethernet home page http ibm com systems bladecenter hardware openfabric ethernet html IBM RETAIN tip H197476 vNIC support Emulex 10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Fabric Adapters http ibm com support entry portal docdisplay Indocid MIGR 5085659 Emulex product page for the 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter http www emulex com solutions ibm bladecenter virtual fabric emulex virtual fabric adapter html IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide http www redbooks ibm com big IBM Redbooks publication BM BladeCenter Products and Technology SG24 7523 http www redbooks ibm com abstracts sg24 523 html Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II 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 IB
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6. ail ye Redbooks Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il for IBM BladeCenter IBM Redbooks Product Guide The Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter I and Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II are enhancements to the existing IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric portfolio These adapters allow IBM clients to simplify their I O infrastructure by reducing the number of switches needed inside the chassis The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II is a dual port 10 Gb Ethernet card that supports 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps traffic or up to eight virtual NIC vNIC devices The virtual NICs are configured to meet the client s mix of network connectivity and throughput demands for today s complex server application environments Each physical 10 Gbps port can be divided into four virtual ports with bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments to the maximum 10 Gbps per physical port The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Advanced adds FCoE and iSCSI hardware initiator functionality The Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II supports the IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module in IBM Virtual Fabric Mode vNIC1 The card supports Switch Independent Mode vNIC2 with other IBM BladeCenter 10 GbE switch offerings from Cisco and Brocade and the 10Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter Figure 1 shows the adapter Figure 1 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter Did you know This adapter is based on indu
7. e expansion card functions with any available 10 Gb switch or 10 Gb pass thru module installed in I O module bays 7 and 9 In pNIC mode the Advanced adapter or the Advanced upgrade operates in traditional Converged Network Adapter CNA mode with two Ethernet ports and two storage ports iSCSI or FCoE available to the operating system Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 3 Supported servers The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il and Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter I Advanced are Supported in the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2 Table 2 Supported BladeCenter servers Part Feature number code Product description 90Y3550 A1XG Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il 90Y3566 A1XH Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II 00Y3266 ASNV Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II 00Y3264 ASNW Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced Il 49Y4265 2436 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric N Advanced Upgrade N N N Y Y Y Y EEEEEZA EREEESA HE e EOECEZA EEREES Ecce Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 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 o High speed connector to bays 9 amp 10 CFFh expansion card CFFh connector under the expansion card Figure 2 Location on the BladeCenter server planar where the CFFh card is instal
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9. ex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il Advanced e Documentation CD e Important Notices flyer The standard Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Il can be upgraded to the same features as the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II Advanced with the addition of the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Advanced Upgrade option part number 49Y4265 Features Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter Il and Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II have these features e Connection to either 1 Gb or 10 Gb data center infrastructure 1 Gb and 10 Gb auto negotiation e PCI Express 2 0 x8 host interface e CFFh form factor can be combined with a ClOv expansion card on the same blade server e It operates either as an 8 port virtual NIC or as a 2 port 1 10 Gb Ethernet adapter e Virtual port bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments Supports up to eight virtual ports e Wake On LAN support Full duplex FDX capability e Bus mastering support e Direct memory access DMA support e Preboot Execution Environment PXE support e IPv4 IPv6 TCP UDP checksum offload Large send offload LSO Large receive offload Receive side scaling RSS IPv4 TCP Chimney Offload TCP Segmentation Offload e VLAN insertion and extraction Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 2 Jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes Load balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance AFT switch fault tolerance SFT adaptive load balancing ALB teaming
10. formation 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 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 11 This document was created or updated on June 28 2013 Send us your comments in one of the following ways e Use the online Contact us review form found at ibm com redbooks Send your comments in an e mail to redbook us ibm com e Mail your comments 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 tips0828 html Trademarks IBM the IBM logo and ibm com are trademarks or registered trad
11. led Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter Supported BladeCenter chassis and I O modules IBM BladeCenter chassis support is based on the blade server type in which the expansion card is installed Consult the IBM ServerProven website to see in which chassis each blade server type is supported http www ibm com systems info x86servers serverproven compat us Table 3 lists the supported chassis and I O module combinations that the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II supports in either standard physical port mode pNIC or one of the two virtual NIC vNIC modes IBM Virtual Fabric Mode or Switch Independent Mode Table 3 I O modules supported with the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II BladeCenter HT BladeCenter H BladeCenter BladeCenter E BladeCenter MSIM HT Description IBM Virtual Fabric vNIC1 Mode Brocade Converged 10GbE SwichMoaue sovT009 n w Switch Independent vNIC2 Mode BN vua Fabric 10b Swich voae acrior W w BNT Spot 10 Hion speea smen ovoz n n w 106b ememerPass Tu moae sewers n n Ev cones soonswenmoase aevo n w v w Brocsae Converged 100E SwichMoaue eovre n w w pNIC mode IBN vroa Fare roas smen vocne faecon n Pv v on BNT Spon 0ce Hon seeasmen ovoz n N v n v n Moen ememerPass Tru moane aove w N v n v 6 W cones soonsmenmoase faven n N v n v 6 W Brocade Converged 106E Swichoaue sors w n v n
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13. stry standard PCle architecture and offers the flexibility to operate as a Virtual NIC Fabric Adapter or as a dual port 10Gb or 1Gb Ethernet device Because this adapter supports up to eight virtual NICs on a single dual port Ethernet adapter you see benefits in cost power cooling and data center footprint by deploying less hardware The adapter enables you to configure up to 12 NIC devices on a single blade server eight virtual NICs with the Emulex 10 GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II plus the two onboard NICs plus two from a ClOv expansion card Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 1 Part number information Table 1 Ordering part number and feature code Description Feature code Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II IBM BladeCenter 90Y3550 A1XG Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter I Advanced IBM BladeCenter 90Y3566 AIXH Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II IBM BladeCenter 00Y3266 A3NV Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II IBM BladeCenter 00Y3264 A3NW Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Advanced Upgrade for IBM BladeCenter 49Y4265 2436 These options are refreshed offerings of the existing VFA Il adapters The new adapters support pNIC vNIC1 and VNIC2 out of box while the existing adapters require the firmware upgrade to support vNIC2 functionality pNIC and VNIC1 is supported out of box The adapter part number includes the following items e One Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II or Emul
14. support and IEEE 802 3ad Enhanced Ethernet draft e Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS P802 1Qaz e Priority based Flow Control PFC P802 1Qbb e Data Center Bridging Capabilities eXchange Protocol CIN DCBX and CEE DCBX P802 1Qaz The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II provides FCoE and iSCSI hardware initiator support Supports Serial over LAN SoL and concurrent KVM cKVM Supports two vNIC modes IBM Virtual Fabric Mode and Switch Independent Mode Modes of operation The original Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter can be configured in pNIC or vNIC mode The new Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II now offers two vNIC modes of operation in addition to pNIC mode IBM Virtual Fabric Mode which is the same as vNIC mode on original Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter This mode only works in conjunction with IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module installed in I O module bays 7 and 9 in the chassis In this mode the Emulex adapter communicated with the switch module to obtain vNIC parameters using DCBX Also a special tag within each data packet is added and later removed by the NIC and switch for each vNIC group to maintain separation of the virtual channels In vNIC mode each physical port is divided into four virtual ports providing a total of eight virtual NICs per adapter The default bandwidth for each vNIC is 2 5 Gbps Bandwidth for each vNIC can be configured at the IBM switch from 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps up to a
15. total of 10 Gb per physical port The vNICs can also be configured to have 0 bandwidth if you must allocate the available bandwidth to fewer than eight vNICs In IBM Virtual Fabric Mode you can change the bandwidth allocations through the IBM switch user interfaces without requiring a reboot of the server When storage protocols are enabled on the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II six ports are Ethernet and two ports are either iSCSI or FCoE Switch Independent Mode where the adapter works with the following switches IBM Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module Cisco Nexus 40011 Switch Module Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module 10Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module and a top of rack TOR switch These switches must be installed in I O module bays 7 and 9 in the chassis Beyond the way that the adapter communicates with the switch Switch Independent Mode offers the same capabilities as IBM Virtual Fabric Mode in terms of the number of vNICs and the bandwidth each can be configured to have Switch Independent Mode extends the existing customer VLANs to the virtual NIC interfaces The IEEE 802 1Q VLAN tag is essential to the separation of the vNIC groups by the NIC adapter or driver and the switch The VLAN tags are added to the packet by the applications or drivers at each end station rather than by the switch In pNIC mode the expansion card can operate as a standard 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps 2 port Ethernet expansion card When in pNIC mode th
16. ws Server 2008 Datacenter x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x86 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition SUSE LINUX Enterprise Real Time 10 AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 solaris 10 Operating System VMware ESX 3 5 VMware ESX 4 0 VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 1 VMware vSphere 5 Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server on which it is installed See the IBM ServerProven Web site for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported Select the blade server and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems http www ibm com systems info x86servers serverproven compat us Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter 9 Related publications For more information refer to the following resources Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IB
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