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Form factor
Short, with full-height tailstock ( FC EC66)
Short, low-profile (FC EC67)
Attributes provided
PCI Express 4.0 (up to 16GT/s) x16
PCIe Gen 4.0 compliant (1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 compatible)
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
Dual-port of 100 Gb/s Ethernet per port
NIC and RoCE are concurrently supported
RoCE supported on linux and AIX (7.2, and later)
NIC supported on all OSes
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
LSO, LRO, and checksum offload
NIM boot support
The adapter is based on the Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapter, which uses the ConnectX-5 EN Network
Controller
Backward compatible with 40 Gb Ethernet when using compatible cables and transceivers
Improves performance and scalability by offloading the CPU from I/O networking tasks
Minimizes CPU overhead by more efficiently using memory access
Operating system or partition requirements
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching
devices. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following
topics:
• The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from Fix Central (http://
www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/).
• Power Systems Prerequisites (http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/iprt/home).
• IBM SSIC (System Storage Interoperation Center) (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/
ssic/interoperability.wss).
• The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded
from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/
set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html).
• For support details, see the Linux Alert website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
Broadcom HBA 9300-8i PCIe3 x8 adapter with 2 mini SAS cables (FC EK41)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) FC EK41
adapter.
Overview
The Broadcom HBA 9300-8i PCIe3 adapter is a PCIe generation 3 (Gen3) x8 adapter. The adapter
provides increased connectivity and maximum performance for high-end servers and appliances. The FC
EK41 is a full height adapter.
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