Dell Brocade Adapters - Manual (Page 200)

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Fabric Adapters
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• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV), which provides a total of 256 functions. This includes a
maximum of 16 Physical Functions (PFs) and 255 Virtual Functions (VFs) for a dual-port
adapter.
• Support for 2, 0000 MSI-X interrupt vectors.
• Support for INT-X.
PCI system values
All Brocade Fabric Adapters share a common PCI Vendor ID (VID) value to allow drivers and BIOS to
recognize them as supported Fibre Channel and network devices. Adapters are also assigned PCI
subsystem vendor IDs (SVIDs) and subsystem IDs (SSIDs) to allow drivers and BIOS to distinguish
between individual host adapter variants. You can locate PCI device, vendor, and subsystem IDs for
the installed Fabric Adapters through your host’s operating system tools. For example, if using
Windows, use the following steps.
1. Access the Device Manager
2. Open the Properties dialog box for the adapter by right-clicking the adapter and selecting
Properties from the shortcut menu.
3. Select the Details and Driver tabs to locate specific values.
Hardware specifications
The adapter supports features outlined in Table 19 on page 180.
TABLE 13 Fabric Adapter hardware specifications
Feature Description
Port speeds
•
10.312 Gbps for installed 10GbE SFPs
•
16, 8, or 4 Gbps and auto negotiated speeds
per port for installed 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
SFPs
•
8, 4, 2 Gbps, and auto negotiated speeds per
port for installed 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SFPs
SFP transceivers (stand-up
adapters) Ethernet
•
Multimode fiber optic small form factor
pluggable plus (SFP+)
•
Copper SFP+
Fibre Channel
•
Multimode fibre optic SFP
Connectivity
•
Stand-up adapters - LC cable connectors
•
ASIC
•
Provides the Fibre Channel, FCoE, DCB
functionality for the adapter.
•
Two on-board processors, each operating at
400 MHz, which coordinate and process data
in both directions.
•
Hardware acceleration for network and FCoE
functions.
•
AnyIO technology for setting port operating
modes to HBA (Fibre Channel), CNA, or NIC
(Ethernet).