IBM 42C1800 - QLogic 10Gb CNA - PCI Express 2.0 x4 10Gb Converged Network Adapter

The QLogic 10Gb CNA is a PCI Express 2.0 x4 10Gb Converged Network Adapter and is available for both IBM System x and IBM Power Systems servers. For IBM Power Systems, the adapter is known as the 10 Gb FCoE PCIe Dual Port Adapter (Feature 5708). The adapter connects to SFP+ Multimode Fiber SR optical modules. The System x version also supports SFP+ Active Copper cables, depending on the Ethernet switch used.

This adapter supports 10 Gbps per port maximum bidirectional throughput for high-bandwidth storage (SAN) and networking (LAN) traffic, with full hardware offload for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol processing.

**The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following features:**

- PCI Express 2.0 compliance.

- Operates at PCI Express 2.0 x4 or PCI Express 1.1 x8.

- Transceiver support: System x option: Two SFP+ cages for either SFP+ Fiber SR or SFP+ Active Copper; Power Systems feature: Two QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceivers standard.

- Standard PCI Express half length card with low profile form factor.

- Support for both standard PCI-E slot and low profile PCI-E slot (System x option only).

- Support for 10Gb Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE).

- Support for Fibre Channel over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE).

- Full hardware offload for FC protocol processing.

- Support for IPv4 and IPv6.

- Support for SAN boot over CEE and iSCSI boot.

**Ethernet specifications**

**The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following Ethernet specifications:**

- Throughput: 10Gbps full duplex line rate per port

- Topology: Any 10Gb Ethernet Network

- Ethernet Frame: 1500 byte or 9000 byte (Jumbo Frame)

- Stateless offload features: - IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads; Large and Giant Send Offload (LSO, GSO); Receive Side Scaling (RSS); Header-data split; Interrupt coalescing; NetQueue.

- Enhanced Ethernet features: Priority-based flow control (802.1Qbb rev. 0); Enhanced transmission selection (802.1Qaz rev. 0); DCBX protocol (802.1Qaz rev. 0).

- Compliance: IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet); 802.1q (VLAN); 802.3ad (Link Aggregation); 802.1p (Priority Encoding); 802.3x (Flow Control); 802.3ap (KX/KX4); 802.3ak (CX4); IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG)

IPv4 Specification (RFC 791); IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460); TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768); ARP Specification (RFC 826).

**FCoE specifications**

**The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following FCoE specifications:**

- Performance: 250000 IOPS per port.

- Logins: Support for 2048 concurrent logins and 2048 active exchanges.

- Class of service: Class 3.

- Protocols: FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2).

- Compliance: SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP); Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) profile;

SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2); Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2);

Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3)

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