IBM System x3550 M4 Product Guide

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Network adapters
The x3550 M4 supports four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Integrated NICs have the following features:
An Intel I350AM4 chip
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Four GbE ports
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TCP Offload Engine (TOE) support
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Wake on LAN support
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802.1Q VLAN tagging support
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IPv6 support
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NIC Teaming (load balancing and failover)
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Optionally, two 10 Gb Ethernet ports can be added by installing the a dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet mezzanine
card as listed in the following table. Mezzanine cards use a dedicated connector on the system board and
do not consume a PCI expansion slot.
The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 13. Network adapters (Part 1)
Part number Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
10 Gb Ethernet Mezzanine cards (does not consume a PCI expansion slot)
90Y6454† A22H QLogic Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA for IBM System x 1†
90Y5179 A2TF QLogic Embedded VFA FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
(Features on Demand Upgrade for 90Y6454)
1
90Y6456* A22J Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA III for IBM System x 1
00Y7730** A4MC Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA IIIr for IBM System x 1
90Y5178 A2TE Emulex Embedded VFA III FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x
(Features on Demand Upgrade for 90Y6456 or 00Y7730)
1
49Y7980 A3JS Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x 1
49Y7990 A3JT Intel X540 Dual Port 10GBase-T Embedded Adapter for IBM System x 1
InfiniBand Mezzanine cards (does not consume a PCI expansion slot)
00D4143 A36R IBM Dual Port FDR Embedded Adapter 1
40 Gb Ethernet
00D9550 A3PN Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E Adapter for IBM System x 2
InfiniBand
95Y3750 A2MY Mellanox ConnectX-2 Dual-port QSFP QDR IB Adapter for IBM System x 2
00D9550 A3PN Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E Adapter for IBM System x 2
† The QLogic Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Embedded VFA and QLogic 8200 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA both require
the x3550 M4 Thermal Solution Kit, 00Y7117 or the second processor (with additional system fans).
* Supported in E5-2600 processor-based models only
** Supported in E5-2600 v2 processor-based models only

IBM System x3550 M4 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	System x3550 M4
Category	Server
Language	English