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Feature code
EB5T
EB5U
EB5V
EB5W
EB5X
EB5Y
EB2B
EB2H
ECBN
EB27
Attributes provided
The adapter is based on the Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapter, which uses the ConnectX-4 EN Network
Controller
Ethernet only supported in Ethernet or RoCE mode
PCIe3 compliant (1.1 and 2.0 compatible)
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
NIC and RoCE are concurrently supported
RoCE supported on Linux and AIX (7.2, and later)
NIC supported on all operati
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
LSO, LRO, and checksum offload
NIM boot support
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).
34 Power Systems: Installing the System and Ordered Parts for the IBM Power System AC922 (8335-GTX)
Description
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 10 M
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 15 M
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 20 M
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 30 M
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 50 M
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 100 M
1 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
3 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
5 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
QSFP+ 40G BASE-SR transceiver