IBM BladeCenter PS703 Technical Overview And Introduction

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24 IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Technical Overview and IntroductionQLogic 1 Gb Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh)The QLogic 1Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card, feature #8271, is a CFFhhigh speed blade server expansion card with two 8Gb Fibre Channel ports and two 1 GbEthernet ports. It provides QLogic 2532 PCI-Express ASIC for 8 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel andBroadcom 5709S ASIC for 1 Gb 2-port Ethernet. This card is used in conjunction with theMulti-Switch Interconnect Module and is installed in the left position of the MSIM and a FibreChannel capable I/O module is installed in the right position of the MSIM. Both switches donot need to be present at the same time because the Fibre Channel and Ethernet networksare separate and distinct. It can be combined with a CIOv I/O card on the same high-speedblade server.The card has the following features: Broadcom 5709S ASIC with two 1Gb Ethernet ports PCI Express host interface BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (BOFM) support TCPIP checksum offload TCP segmentation offload Full-duplex (FDX) capability QLogic 2532 ASIC with two 8Gb Fibre Channel ports Support for FCP-SCSI and FCP-IP Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login) Support for Fibre Channel service (classes 2 and 3) Support for NPIV when installed in PS703 and PS704 blade servers Support for remote startup (boot) operations Support for BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager Support for Fibre Device Management Interface (FDMI) standard (VESA standard) Fibre Channel 8 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 2 Gbps auto-negotiationFor more information, see the IBM Redbooks at-a-glance guide at the following web page:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0690.html?OpenQLogic 1 Gb Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh)The QLogic Ethernet and 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card, feature #8252, is a CFFh highspeed blade server expansion card with two 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports and two 1 Gb Ethernetports. It provides QLogic 2432M PCI-Express x4 ASIC for 4 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel andBroadcom 5715S PCI-Express x4 ASIC for 1 Gb 2-port Ethernet. This card is used inconjunction with the Multi-Switch Interconnect Module and is installed in the left position ofthe MSIM and a Fibre Channel capable I/O module is installed in the right position of theMSIM. Both switches do not need to be present at the same time because the Fibre Channeland Ethernet networks are separate and distinct. It can be combined with a CIOv I/O card onthe same high-speed blade server.The card has the following features: Support for FCP-SCSI and FCP-IP Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login) Support for remote startup (boot) operations Support for BladeCenter Open Fabric ManagerFor more detail see the IBM Redbooks publication IBM BladeCenter Products andTechnology, SG24-7523, available at the following web page:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247523.html?Open