The expansion card has the following specifications.
Operating-system support
The following operating systems support the expansion card:
v Microsoft
v Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64)
v Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (x64 only)
v Red Hat Linux
v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
v VMware
Option package contents
The expansion-card option package contains the following items:
v An Intel 10Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
v Important Notices document
v Warrany Information document
v Intel 10Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
Related documentation
The following documentation is provided on the IBM Documentation CD:
v This Installation Guide
v IBM Safety Information
v IBM Systems Environmental Notices and User Guide
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Intel 10Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh): Installation Guide
Table 1. Expansion-card specifications
Type
Host data transfer
Form-factor
Dimensions
Operating power
Communication module
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Windows
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Advanced Server
Documentation CD
This multilingual safety document provides translated versions of the caution
and danger statements that appear in the documentation for your server. Each
caution and danger statement has an assigned number, which you can use to
locate the corresponding statement in your native language.
This multilingual document lists environmental notices for your product.
Specification
PCI Express Generation 2
BladeCenter CFFh
Approximately 15.9 cm x 12.5 cm (6.26 in. x 4.92 in.)
Approximately 15 watts
v I/O advanced technology (IOAT) acceleration
v Full fast-path TCP offload
v TCP/IP checksum offload
v TCP/IP segmentation offload
Server 2003 (x86 and x64)