Introduction; Features; Hardware Requirements - Chelsio T5 Installation And User Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Introduction

Thank you for choosing Chelsio T5 Unified Wire adapters. These high speed, single chip,
single firmware cards provide enterprises and data centers with high performance solutions for
various Network and Storage related requirements.
The Terminator 5 (T5) is Chelsio's next generation of highly integrated, hyper-virtualized
40/10GbE controllers. The T5 is built around a programmable protocol-processing engine, with
full offload of a complete Unified Wire solution comprising NIC, TOE, iWARP RDMA, ISCSI,
FCoE and NAT support. It scales true 40Gb line rate operation from a single TCP connection to
thousands of connections, and allows simultaneous low latency and high bandwidth operation
thanks to multiple physical channels through the ASIC.
Ideal for all data, storage and high performance clustering applications, the T5 adapters
enable a unified fabric over a single wire by simultaneously running all unmodified IP sockets,
Fibre Channel and InfiniBand applications over Ethernet at line rate.
Designed for deployment in virtualized data centers, cloud service installations and high
performance computing environments, Chelsio T5 adapters bring a new level of performance
metrics and functional capabilities to the computer networking industry.
1.1.

Features

This driver package has the Chelsio T5 ASIC based 40Gb and 10Gb PCI Express network
adapter driver for OpenIndiana. The driver package installs two kernel modules - t4nex and
cxgbe. The t4nex is the bus nexus driver that attaches to the Chelsio adapter. The cxgbe is the
network driver for each port and attaches to the t4nex bus nexus. Chelsio network interfaces
appear as cxgbeX by default, where X is any number assigned to each interface by the kernel.
The driver supports Jumbo Frames, Transmit/Receive checksum offload, and TCP
segmentation offload (TSO).
1.2.

Hardware Requirements

1.2.1. Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio adapters that are compatible with Chelsio
OpenIndiana Network driver:
T580-CR
T580-LP-CR
T580-SO-CR
T540-CR
T520-LL-CR
Chelsio T5 Network Driver for OpenIndiana
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