Pcie3 4-Port (10 Gb Fcoe And 1 Gbe) Copper And Rj45 Adapter - IBM Power System Series Manual

Form factor
Short, regular sized bracket. EL38 and EN0J are low-profile, EL56 and EN0H are full-height, low-
profile capable.
Cables
SR SFP+ optical fiber cables and Cat5 Ethernet cables.
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).
PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) Copper and RJ45 Adapter (FC EL3C, FC EL57, FC EN0K, and FC
EN0L; CCIN 2CC1)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL3C, EL57,
EN0K, or EN0L adapters.
Overview
The FC EL3C and FC EN0L are low-profile adapters. The FC EL57 and FC EN0K are regular-height adapters
that are low-profile capable.
The PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) Copper and RJ45 Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3
adapter. The adapter has four-ports and is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network
adapter (CNA). This adapter provides a PCIe 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is a high-performance
adapter that consolidates traffic for networking and Fibre Channel storage. The adapter is optimized for
cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. The 10 Gb ports have the
CNA (both the NIC and the FCoE) functionality. The 1 Gb ports have the Ethernet capability. Use of the
FCoE requires that you use convergence enhanced Ethernet (CEE) switches. The link aggregation and
failover features of the adapter make it suitable for critical network applications that require redundancy
and high availability.
Important: There is no FCoE support on POWER9 systems.
The four-port adapter provides two 10 Gb FCoE Copper Twin-axial ports and two 1 Gb RJ45 Ethernet
ports. The 10 Gb ports are SFP+ ports and do not include a transceiver for the regular-height adapters.
The two 10 Gb FCoE ports are connected by little connector-type (LC) connectors for the low-profile
adapters. Each FCoE port provides Ethernet connectivity with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps (gigabits per
second). Each of the 1 Gb ports provides Ethernet connectivity at a data rate of 1 Gbps and is connected
with Ethernet cables. A 10 Mb data rate is not supported. Figure 65 on page 185 shows the FC EL57 and
EN0K adapter. Figure 66 on page 186 shows the FC EL3C and FC EN0L adapter.
Restriction: The 1 Gb Ethernet ports do not support data rates of 10 Mbps (megabits per second).
The regular-height adapter is Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capable. The adapter can function as
a boot adapter. The adapter supports all Fibre Channel and Ethernet topologies.
The low-profile adapter provides the following features:
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