Specifications - IBM RedbooksQLogic 8200 Product Manual

Specifications

The QLogic 8200 VFA family adapters have the following specifications:
Ethernet specifications
Throughput: 10 Gbps full-duplex line rate per-port
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Ethernet frame: 1500 byte or 9600 byte (jumbo frame)
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Stateless offload:
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
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Large and giant send offload (LSO and GSO)
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Large receive offload (LRO)
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Receive side scaling (RSS)
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Header-data split
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Interrupt coalescing
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VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
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Wake on LAN
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Enhanced Ethernet
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Priority-Based Flow Control (802.1Qbb)
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Enhanced Transmission Selection (802.1Qaz)
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DCBX Protocol (802.1Qaz)
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Compliance
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IEEE: 802.3ae (10 Gb Ethernet)
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802.3ap (10GBASE-KR)
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802.1q (VLAN)
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802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
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802.1p (Priority Encoding)
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802.3x (Flow Control)
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IPv4 (RFQ 791)
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IPv6 (RFC 2460)
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FCoE specifications
Logins: Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active exchanges
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Port virtualization: N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)
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Compliance:
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SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP)
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Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile
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SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2)
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Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2)
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Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3)
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FCoE and FIP (FC-BB-5)
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iSCSI Specifications
Compliance
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RFC 3347 (iSCSI Requirements and Design Considerations)
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CHAP
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iSNS
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SLP
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QLogic 8200 Virtual Fabric Adapter Family for IBM System x 5