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182 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual
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Converged Network Adapters
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ATTENTION
For stand-up adapters, use only Brocade-branded SFP laser transceivers supplied with the adapters.
Supported FCoE protocols and
features
• VMware NetIOC
• VMware VM Direct Path I/O
• Look-ahead data split
• LKA (Link Keep Alive) protocol
• 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
• FCP-3 -(initiator mode only)
• 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
• Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery
• Persistent binding
• I/O interrupt coalescing and moderation
• Class 3, Class 2 control frames
• vHBA
Other features
• ASIC Flip-flops Parity Protected
• T10 Data CRC
• ECC Memory Parity Protected
TABLE 19 CNA hardware specifications (continued)
Feature Description