Features

The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following features:

• PCI Express 2.0 compliance
• Operates at PCI Express 2.0 x4 or PCI Express 1.1 x8
• Transceiver support:
  • System x option: Two SFP+ cages for either SFP+ Fiber SR or SFP+ Active Copper
  • Power Systems feature: Two QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceivers standard
• Standard PCI Express half length card with low profile form factor
• Support for both standard PCI-E slot and low profile PCI-E slot (System x option only)
• Support for 10Gb Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
• Support for Fibre Channel over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE)
• Full hardware offload for FC protocol processing
• Support for IPv4 and IPv6
• Support for PXE boot (firmware 1.01.94 or later)
• Support for SAN boot over CEE and iSCSI boot

Ethernet specifications

The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following Ethernet specifications:

• Throughput: 10 Gbps full duplex line rate per port
• Topology: Any 10Gb Ethernet Network
• Ethernet Frame: 1500 byte or 9000 byte (Jumbo Frame)
• Stateless offload features:
  • IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
  • Large and Giant Send Offload (LSO, GSO)
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • Header-data split
  • Interrupt coalescing
  • NetQueue

• Enhanced Ethernet features:
  • Priority-based flow control (802.1Qbb rev. 0)
  • Enhanced transmission selection (802.1Qaz rev. 0)
  • DCBX protocol (802.1Qaz rev. 0)

• Compliance
  • IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet)
  • 802.1q (VLAN)
  • 802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
  • 802.1p (Priority Encoding)
  • 802.3x (Flow Control)
  • 802.3ap (KX/KX4)
  • 802.3ak (CX4)
  • IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG)
  • IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)
  • IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)
  • TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)
  • ARP Specification (RFC 826)

FCoE specifications

The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following FCoE specifications:

• Performance: 250,000 IOPS per port
• Logins: Support for 2048 concurrent logins and 2048 active exchanges
• Class of service: Class 3
• Protocols: FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2)
• Compliance:
  • SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP)
  • Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) profile
  • SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2)
  • Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2)
  • Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3)