IBM EN2024 Product Manual

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IBM Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter 1I B M ®IBM Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet AdapterIBM Redbooks Product GuideThe IBM Flex System™ EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter is a quad-port Gigabit Ethernet networkadapter. When it is combined with the IBM Flex System EN2092 1Gb Ethernet Scalable Switch, clientscan leverage an end-to-end 1 Gb solution on the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis. The EN2024adapter is based on the Broadcom 5718 controller and offers a PCIe 2.0 x1 host interface withMSI/MSI-X. It also supports I/O virtualization features like VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQtechnologies.Figure 1 shows the adapter.Figure 1. IBM Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet AdapterDid you know?This EN2024 is based on the industry-standard PCIe architecture and is ideal for customers using GigabitEthernet in their network infrastructure. The IBM Flex System compute nodes support up to two of theseadapters for a total of eight NICs per system.