Caution Circuit devices are sensitive to static electricity, which can damage their delicate electronics. Dry weather conditions or walking across a carpeted floor may cause you to acquire a static electrical charge. To protect your device, always: • Touch the metal chassis of your computer to ground the static electrical charge before you pick up the NIC.
User’s Manual 1. Introduction 1-1. Overview RP-1200ES+ is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber SFP+ to PCIe x8 bus adapter that fully complies with IEEE 802.3ae 10GBase-SR and 10GBase-LR standards. It provides up to 20Gbps full-duplex bandwidth capacity to support high-end servers.
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If you do not know how to identify a PCIe slot, refer to your system documentation. 3. Select an empty, non-shared PCIe slot and remove the faceplate. Keep the faceplate in a safe place. You may need it for future use. See Figure 2. Note If you cannot locate or know how to find a PCIe slot, refer to the documentation that came with your system.
caution could result in damage to the card. 5. Applying even pressure at both corners of the card, push the adapter card until it is firmly seated in the PCIe slot. Make sure the card is securely seated. See Figure 3. 6.
Plug RP-1200ES+ into PC (A)Program: Run UPD.bat under DOS (B)Erase: Run DisgPXE.bat under DOS 4.3 gPXE booting Server 1. Install OS : XenServer 5.6.0 for example (RP-1200ES+ NIC built-in already) Version : 1.4.2 (Sep 24 2009) Description : Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver 2.
4. It will connect to the DHCP server to obtain a dynamic IP and the location of TFTP boot file to boot the image. 5. LED Indicator Description Color Function Lit when cable connection is good LINK/ACT Green and speed is at 10Gbps. Blinks when any traffic is present.
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Fiber Optic Cable: μ ⎯ 62.5/125, 50/125 m multi-mode μ ⎯ 9/125 m single-mode Data Transfer Mode/Speed: ⎯ Full duplex (Default) ⎯ 10Gbps speed Diagnostics LED on Bracket: ⎯ LINK/ACT ⎯ OS support: Linux, VMware_ESXi4.0, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7, XenServer 5.6 Bus Slot : PCIe 2.0 Compliant...
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