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Fabric Adapters
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Supported FCoE protocols and
features
• VMware VM direct path I/O support
• LKA (Link Keep Alive) protocol
• Look ahead split
• preFIP, FIP 1.03, and FIP 2.0 (FC-BB5 rev. 2
compliant)
• FIP discovery protocol for dynamic FCF
discovery and FCoE link management.
• FPMA and SPMA type FIP fabric login.
• FCoE protocols
• FC-SP
• FC-LS
• FC-GS
• FC-FS2
• FC-FDMI
• FC-CT
• FCP
• FCP-2
• FCP-3
• FC-BB-5
• FCoE checksum offload
• SCSI SBC-3
• NPIV
• IP-over-FC (IPoFC)
• Target rate limiting
• Boot Over SAN (including direct-attached)
• Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery
• Persistent binding
• I/O interrupt coalescing and moderation
• Class 3, Class 2 control frames
Fibre Channel Protocols and
features
• SCSI over FC (FCP)
• FCP2
• FCP3
• FC-SP Authentication
• NPIV
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Target Rate Limiting
• Boot Over SAN
• Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery
• I/O Interrupt Coalescing
• T10 Data CRC
• Multiple Priority (VC_RDY)
• Frame-Level Load Balancing
• Persistent Binding
• Fabric-Based Configuration
• vHBA
Other adapter features
• ASIC Flip-flops Parity Protected
• T10 Data CRC
• ECC Memory Parity Protected
TABLE 13 Fabric Adapter hardware specifications (continued)
Feature Description
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