Part Number Information - IBM Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port At-A-Glance Manual

Part number information

Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code
Description
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
These part numbers include the following items:
One 2-port card (part number 46M6168) or one 4-port card (part number 46M6164)
Documentation CD that contains the
Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter Installation and User's Guide
Safety Notices publication
Features
The expansion card has the following features and benefits:
Offers an end-to-end solution up to 10 Gb
Based on the Broadcom 57711 module
One (two-port card) or two (four-port card) PCI Express 2.0 x8 host interfaces for high-speed
connection
Connectivity to high-speed I/O module bays in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis
Enables two or four 10 Gb ports from the blade server to the external network
Supports failover
Supports IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
Supports iSCSI BladeBoot
Supports Wake-on-LAN
Out-of-box support for SOL and cKVM over the high-speed network
Performance features:
TCP offload engine (TOE)
Full fast-path TCP offload
TCP/IP checksum offload
TCP/IP segmentation offload
Improved performance over the Broadcom BCM57710 module
The expansion card has the following specifications:
BladeCenter form factor: CFFh
Host data transfer: PCI Express 2.0 x8
One x8 interface for the two-port card
Two x8 interfaces for the four-port card
Operating power: Less than 15 watts
Communication module: Broadcom BCM57711
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port and 4-port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port and 4-port Ethernet Expansion
Part number Feature code
46M6168 0099
46M6164 0098
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