Features

The Brocade 10Gb CNA for IBM System x has the following features:

• PCI Express x8 2.0 Generation 2 compliance
• Two SFP+ cages for either SFP+ Fiber SR or SFP+ Active Copper
• Standard PCI Express half length card with low profile form factor
• Support for both standard PCI-E slot and low profile PCI-E slot
• Support for 10Gb Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
• Support for FC over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE)
• Full hardware offload for FC protocol processing
• Support for IPv4 and IPv6
• Support for SAN boot over CEE, PXE boot, and iSCSI boot

The Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver has the following features:

• Laser Class 1 compliance
• Support for the SFP+ cages on the 42C1820 adapter
• Standard SFP+ form factor for multimode Fiber SR

Specifications

The Brocade 10Gb CNA for IBM System x has the following specifications:

• Connectivity: Supports direct-attach copper cabling or Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver (49Y4216)
• Performance: 500,000 IOPS per port; Support for 2048 logins and 4096 exchanges
• Host interface: PCI Express 2.0 x8
• Stateless offload:
  • IPv4/IPv6,
  • TCP and UDP checksum offload
  • IPv4 header checksum offload
  • TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • Large Send Offload (LSO)
  • Header data split
  • VLAN insertion/stripping
  • VLAN filtering

• Throughput: 10 Gbps full-duplex line rate
• Topology: Any 10 Gb Ethernet network
• Power dissipation: 12 W (Max)
• Transceivers: 10 Gbps small form factor pluggable (SFP+)
• Bracket size: Standard: 1.84 cm × 12.08 cm (.73 in × 4.76 in)
• Low profile: 1.84 cm × 8.01 cm (.73 in × 3.15 in)
• Management suite: Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)
• Form factor: Low-profile MD2 form factor PCI Express Card
• Dimensions: 16.77 cm × 6.89 cm (6.60 in × 2.71 in)