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devices. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following

topics:

• The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from Fix Central (http://

www.ibm.com/support/xcentral/).

• Power Systems Prerequisites (http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/iprt/home).

• IBM SSIC (System Storage Interoperation Center) (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/

ssic/interoperability.wss).

• The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded

from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/

set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html).

• For support details, see the Linux Alert website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/

lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).

PCIe3 LP 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) copper and RJ45 adapter (FC EL3C or FC EN0L; CCIN 2CC1)

Learn about the specications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL3C or FC

EN0L adapter.

Overview

The PCIe3 LP 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) copper and RJ45 adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation

3, low-prole adapter. The adapter has four-ports and is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged

network adapter (CNA). This adapter provides a PCIe 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is a high-

performance adapter that consolidates trafc for networking and Fibre Channel storage. The adapter is

optimized for cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. Both the FCoE

and network interface controller (NIC) functions are available for all the four ports. Use of the FCoE

requires that you use convergence enhanced Ethernet (CEE) switches. The link aggregation and failover

features of the adapter make it suitable for critical network applications that require redundancy and high

availability.

Important: There is no FCoE support on POWER9 systems.

The four-port adapter provides two 10 Gb FCoE Copper Twin-axial ports and two 1 Gb RJ45 Ethernet

ports. The two 10 Gb FCoE ports are connected by little connector-type (LC) connectors. Each FCoE port

provides Ethernet connectivity with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps (gigabits per second). Each of the 1 Gb

ports provides Ethernet connectivity at a data rate of 1 Gbps and is connected with Ethernet cables. A 10

Mb data rate is not supported. Figure 68 on page 189

shows the FC EN0L adapter.

Restriction: The 1 Gb Ethernet ports do not support data rates of 10 Mbps (megabits per second).

The adapter provides the following features:

• The adapter supports all Fibre Channel and Ethernet topologies.

• The 10 Gb SFP+ ports can function in the NIC or FCoE mode.

• The adapter supports the SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) NIC capability.

• The adapter can function as a Boot adapter.

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