IBM System x3250 M4 At-a-glance Manual

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IBM System x3250 M4 12I/O expansion optionsStandard models offers two PCI Express 2.0 slots (one x4 and one x8). The slot form-factors are:Slot 1: PCIe x4 Gen 2 (for use only by the optional BR10il v2 controller)Slot 2: PCIe x8 Gen 2, full-height, half-lengthNetwork adaptersThe x3250 M4 offers two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. One port is shared with IntegratedManagement Module (IMM).The Integrated NICs have the following features:Intel 82574L chipTCP/UDP, IPv4, and IPv6 checksum offloadsTCP Segmentation/Transmit Segmentation Offloading (TSO)Wake on LAN support802.1Q VLAN tagging supportSupport for jumbo frames up to 9 KBytesNIC Teaming (Load Balancing and Failover) with Intel PROSet softwareThe following table lists additional supported network adapters.Table 10. Network adaptersPart number Description Maximum quantitysupported10 Gb Ethernet49Y4250 Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM System x 1Gigabit Ethernet42C1780 NetXtreme II 1000 Express Dual Port Ethernet Adapter 149Y4220 NetXtreme II 1000 Express Quad Port Ethernet Adapter 149Y4230 Intel Ethernet Dual Port Server Adapter I340-T2 for IBM System x 149Y4240 Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 for IBM System x 1Converged Network Adapters (CNA)*42C1820 Brocade 10 Gb Dual-port CNA for IBM System x 142C1800 QLogic 10 Gb Dual Port CNA for IBM System x 1* Note: Converged Network Adapters require SFP+ optical transceivers or DAC cables that must be purchasedseparately.