Product Overview; What Is A Converged Network Adapter; What Is An Intelligent Ethernet Adapter; Functionality And Features - Qlogic 8200 Series User Manual

1

Product Overview

What is a Converged Network Adapter?

A Converged Network Adapter is a multifunction adapter that combines the
capabilities of a Fibre Channel adapter, an iSCSI adapter, and an Ethernet NIC. A
Converged Network Adapter provides simultaneous Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and
Ethernet traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link.

What is an Intelligent Ethernet Adapter?

The Intelligent Ethernet Adapter is a multifunction adapter which, by default,
supports one Ethernet function per port and can be expanded to four Ethernet
functions per port.

Functionality and Features

This section provides the following information:




Functional Description

The 8200 Series Adapters are Converged Network Adapters, and the 3200 Series
Adapters are Intelligent Ethernet Adapters (IEA). The 8200 Series Adapters
support 210GbE Enhanced Ethernet, FCoE, and iSCSI. The 3200 Series
Adapters support 210GbE Enhanced Ethernet ports.

Features

The 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters provide the following features:



SN0054671-00 B
"Functional Description" on page 1-1
"Features" on page 1-1
"Supported Operating Systems" on page 1-3
NIC partitioning (NPAR)
Message signaled interrupts (MSI-X)
Device management for LAN and SAN
1-1