Controller

• BladeEngine 3

Standards

• PCI Express base spec 2.0
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface, rev. 1.2
• IBM Blade Server Base Specification for I/O cards
• IEEE 802.3ae (10GBASE Ethernet ports)
• IEEE 802.1q (virtual LANs)
• IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation)
• IEEE 802.3x (flow control)
• IEEE 802.1p (quality/class of service)
• IEEE 802.1Qaz (enhanced transmission selection)
• IEEE 802.1Qaz (data center bridging capabilities exchange)
• IEEE 802.1Qau (congestion notification)
• IEEE 802.1Qbb (priority-based flow control)
• IEEE 802.1ab (link layer discovery protocol)

Architecture

• Dual-channel, 10Gb/s Ethernet Link speed
• PCIe Express 2.0 (x8, 5GT/s), MSI-X support
• IBM BladeCenter CFFh Form Factor
• Integrated data buffer and code space memory

Ethernet Features

• IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP checksum offload
  • Large Send Offload (LSO)
  • Large Receive Offload
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • IPV4 TCP Chimney Offload
• VLAN insertion and extraction
• Jumbo frames up to 9000 Bytes
• Interrupt coalescing
• Load balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance (AFT), switch fault tolerance (SFT), adaptive load balancing (ALB), teaming support and IEEE 802.3ad

iSCSI Features

• Target discovery methods
• Authentication modes
• INT 13 Boot

FCoE Features

• Common driver for VFAs and HBAs
• 64 N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) interfaces (total for adapter)
• Support for FIP and FCoE Ether Types
• Fabric Provided MAC Addressing (FPMA) support
• 1024 concurrent port logins (RPIs) per port
• 1024 active exchanges (XRIs) per port

Comprehensive OS Support

• Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Novell SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi

Hardware Environments

• IBM HS23 Blade Server

Environmental Requirements

• Operating temperature: 0° to 55° C (32° to 131° F)
• Storage temperature: -40° to 70° C (-40° to 158° F)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing

Agency Approvals

The following approvals will be obtained prior to production shipment

• UL recognized to UL 60950-1
• CUR recognized to CSA22.2, No. 60950-1-03
• Baurt-certified to EN60950-1
• FCC Rules, Part 15, Class A
• ICES-003, Class A
• EMC Directive 2004/108/EEC (CE Mark)
  • EN55022, Class A
  • EN55024
• Australian EMC Framework (C-Tick Mark)
  • AS/NZS CISPR22, Class A
• VCCI (Japan), Class A
• KCC (Korea), Class A
• BSMI (Taiwan), Class A
• EU RoHS Compliant (Directive 2002/95/EC)
• China RoHS Compliant

Ordering Information

• Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter HS23: 81Y3120