Wake-On-Lan Support; Popular Configurations - IBM Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port At-A-Glance Manual

Wake-on-LAN support

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is supported on all servers listed in Table 2, with the exception of:
BladeCenter HS21
BladeCenter HS21 XM
In addition, when used with the four-port card, WOL is only supported with the switch modules in bays 7
and 9 only. WOL is not supported with bays 8 and 10.

Popular configurations

Figure 4 shows a configuration using the Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh).
This solution enables four 10 Gbps Ethernet connections from each blade server.
Figure 4. 40 Gb solution using the Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
Table 5 provides the components used in this configuration.
Table 5. Components used when connecting Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card
(CFFh) to four BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules
Diagram Part number/
reference machine type
Varies
46M6164
8852 or 8740/8750
46C7191
44W4408
* You must have one transceiver for each 10 Gb port in an I/O module.
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port and 4-port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
Description
IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT
BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
IBM 10 GBase-SR 10 GbE 850 nm Fiber SFP+ Transceiver
Quantity
1 to 14
1 per
server
1
4
Up to 40*
6