IBM System x3100 M5 - Network Adapters

IBM System x3100 M5 Product Guide 18
Network adapters
The x3100 M5 offers two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. One port is shared with Integrated
Management Module II (IMM2), implementing Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI).
The integrated NICs have the following features:
Broadcom BCM5717 chip
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TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support
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Wake on LAN support
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Receive side Scaling (RSS) and Transmit side Scaling (TSS) support
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MSI and MSI-X capability- up to five MSI-X vectors
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VLAN tag support (IEEE 802.1Q)
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Layer 2 priority encoding (IEEE 802.1p)
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Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
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Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload (hardware based) on Tx/Rx over IPv4/IPv6
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Hardware TCP segmentation offload over IPv4/IPv6
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Jumbo frame support
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NIC Teaming (Load Balancing and Failover)
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One port that is shared with IMM2 using Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
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The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 14. Network adapters
Part number Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
Gigabit Ethernet
90Y9370 A2V4 Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter for IBM System x 2
90Y9352 A2V3 Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter for IBM System x 3
49Y4230 5767 Intel Ethernet Dual Port Server Adapter I340-T2 for IBM System x 3
49Y4240 5768 Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 for IBM System x 3
42C1750 2975 PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter 3
10 Gigabit Ethernet
49Y7910 A18Y Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for IBM System x 3
00D8540 A4XH Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA IIIr for IBM System x* 3
95Y3760 A2U2 Emulex VFA III/IIIr FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 00D8540)
License
49Y7960 A2EC Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for IBM System x* 3
49Y7970 A2ED Intel X540-T2 Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for IBM System x 3
00D9690 A3PM Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE Adapter for IBM System x* 3
90Y4600 A3MR QLogic 8200 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA for IBM System x* 3
00Y5624 A3MT QLogic 8200 VFA FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 90Y4600)
License
* Require SFP+ optical transceivers or DAC cables that must be purchased separately.