IBM BladeCenter HX5 Product Guide

IBM BladeCenter HX5 19
Network adapters
The HX5 offers two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports, based on the Broadcom BCM5709S controller:
Failover, adapter fault tolerance

PXE 2.0 Boot Agent

Wake on LAN

Load balancing or teaming

Some models also have an Emulex Virtual Fabric 10Gb Expansion Card installed as standard in the CFFh
slot. See Table 2 for specific details. For technical details about this card, see the IBM Redbooks®
at-a-glance guide Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter and Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced for IBM
BladeCenter , TIPS0748, available athttp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0748.html?Open
The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 13. Network adapters
Part
number
Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
10 Gb Ethernet
46M6168 0099 Broadcom 10Gb Gen2 2-port Ethernet Exp Cd (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter 1
46M6164 0098 Broadcom 10Gb Gen2 4-port Ethernet Exp Cd (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter 1
81Y3133 A1QR Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 1
81Y1650 5437 Brocade 2 port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 1
90Y3566 A1XH Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II - IBM BladeCenter 1
90Y3550 A1XG Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II - IBM BladeCenter 1
42C1810 3593 Intel 10Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter 1
00Y3280 A3JB QLogic 2-port 10Gb CNA (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter 1
42C1830 3592 QLogic 2-pt 10Gb Converged Network Adapter(CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter 1
1 Gb Ethernet
44W4475 5477 Ethernet Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCenter 1
44W4479 5476 2/4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) 1
Combination Ethernet and Fibre Channel
44X1940 5485 QLogic Eth and 8Gb Fibre Channel Exp Card (CFFh) 1
InfiniBand
46M6001 0056 2-port 40Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) 1

IBM BladeCenter HX5 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	BladeCenter HX5
Category	Server
Language	English