Wake-On-Lan Support; Popular Configurations - IBM RedBooks Broadcom 10Gb 2-Port and 4-Port Ethernet ExpansionCards 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 10Gb 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh). This
solution enables four 10Gbps Ethernet connections from each blade server.
Figure 4. 40 Gb solution using the Broadcom 10Gb 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5.
Table 5. Components used when connecting Broadcom 10Gb 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) to
four BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules
Diagram Part
reference number/machine
type
Varies
44W4465
8852 or 8740/8750
46C7191
44W4408
* You must have one transceiver for each 10Gb port in an I/O module.
Broadcom 10Gb 2-Port and 4-Port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
Description
IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server
Broadcom 10Gb 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT
BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
IBM 10GBase-SR 10GbE 850 nm Fiber SFP+ Transceiver
Quantity
1 to 14
1 per
server
1
4
Up to 40*
6