Pcie3 4-Port 10 Gbe Sfp+ Copper Adapter - IBM Power System Series Manual

• 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 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter (FC EN17 and FC EN18; CCIN 2CE4)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EN17 and FC
EN18 adapter.
Overview
The FC EN17 and EN18 are the same adapter. FC EN17 is a full-height adapter, and FC EN18 is a low-
profile adapter. The names of these two adapters are:
• FC EN17: PCIe3 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter
• FC EN18: PCIe3 LPX 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter
The PCIe3 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ copper adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3, x8, short form-factor
adapter. The adapter provides four 10 Gb small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) ports into which copper
twinax transceivers will be placed. See Figure 79 on page 211. Active copper twinax cables up to 5 meter
in length are supported such as provided by feature codes EN01, EN02 or EN03. A transceiver is included
with these cables. See "Cables" on page 212 for details. The adapter supports the Ethernet network
interface controller (NIC) function and also provides SR-IOV NIC support. SR-IOV capability for the NIC
function is supported with the appropriate firmware and operating system level for any of the four ports.
Enabling the SR-IOV function requires an HMC.
The adapter provides the following features:
• Four 10 Gb ports that can function in the NIC mode
• AIX Network Installation Management (NIM) support
• The adapter supports interrupt moderation to deliver increased performance while significantly
reducing processor utilization
• The adapter supports multiple media-access control (MAC) per interface.
• The adapter supports integrated media-access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY).
• The adapter supports the following standards for the different ports and functions:
– IEEE 802.3ae in the 10 GbE ports
– 802.3ab in the 1 GbE ports
– Ether II and IEEE 802.3 for encapsulated frames
– 802.1p for setting up priority levels in tagged VLAN frames
– 802.1Q for VLAN tagging
– 802.3x for flow control
– 802.3ad for load-balancing and failover
– IEEE 802.3ad and 802.3 for link aggregation
• The adapter provides message signal interrupts (MSI), MSI-X, and support of legacy pin interrupts.
• The adapter supports jumbo frames up to 9.6 KB.
• The adapter supports TCP checksum offload transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagram
protocol (UDP), TCP segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4 and IPv6.
• Supports TCP segmentation or large send offload
• Supports EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM
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