Popular Configurations - IBM 10GBE Product Manual

Popular configurations

This section shows a configuration that uses the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II.
Figure 4 shows the use of the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II to route either two physical ports or
eight virtual ports to the BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules installed in the BladeCenter chassis.
Two BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H
chassis. All connections between the controller, card, and the switch modules are internal to the chassis.
No cabling is needed.
Figure 4. Configuration using the Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II
Depending on how you configure the switch and expansion card, you can get either of these
combinations:
Eight virtual Ethernet ports (either vNIC mode). Each virtual port can be configured to operate at 100
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Mbps to 10 Gbps, up to a total maximum of 10 Gb per physical port. The default bandwidth is 2.5 Gb
per virtual port.
Two 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports (pNIC mode).
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The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5.
Table 5. Components used when connecting the Emulex adapter to two BNT switch modules
Diagram Part number/
reference machine type
7870
90Y3550
8852 or 8740/8750
46C7191
44W4408
* To communicate outside the chassis, you must have either one SFP+ transceiver or SFP+
direct-attached cable (DAC) for each of the external 10 Gb ports on the BNT 10Gb High Speed Switch
Module that you wish to enable.
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM BladeCenter
Description
IBM BladeCenter HS22
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II
BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT
BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
IBM 10GBase-SR SFP+ Transceiver
Quantity
1 to 14
1 per server
1
2
Up to 20*
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