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1. platforms You may copy modify and distribute these sample programs in any form without payment to IBM for the purposes of developing using marketing or distributing application programs conforming to the application programming interface for the operating platform for which the sample programs are written These examples have not been thoroughly tested under all conditions IBM therefore cannot guarantee or imply reliability serviceability or function of these programs Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2011 All rights reserved Note to U S Government Users Restricted Rights Use duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 9 This document was created or updated on July 12 2011 Send us your comments in one of the following ways e Use the online Contact us review form found at ibm com redbooks e Send your comments in an e mail to redbook us ibm com e Mail your comments to IBM Corporation International Technical Support Organization Dept HYTD Mail Station P099 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie NY 12601 5400 U S A This document is available online at http www ibm com redbooks abstracts tips0827 html Trademarks IBM the IBM logo and ibm com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM2. ul ye Ca Redbooks web Doc Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter at a glance guide The Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter is a part of IBM s comprehensive networking portfolio of 1 GbE and 10 GbE adapters and delivers industry leading performance and scalability per watt reducing requirements for power and cooling Protocol offloads enable efficient use of computing resources support more virtual machines per CPU and reduce the number of servers required to support data center demands These adapters allow IBM clients to simplify their I O infrastructure by reducing the number of switches needed inside the chassis The Broadcom 2 port 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter can be configured to operate in virtual NIC mode where up to eight virtual NIC devices can be enabled Each physical 10 Gbps port can be divided into four virtual ports with bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments to the maximum 10 Gbps per physical port Figure 1 shows the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Figure 1 Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Did you know The Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter can operate in pNIC mode as regular 1Gb or 10Gb Ethernet adapter or in switch independent vNIC mode where it can be divided into up to eight virtual adapters up to four per physical port which can be used either with
3. configuration VNIC port specific quality of service configuration Supporting vNIC capability all included in base function no firmware key required Performance features are as follows TCP stateful offload Microsoft Chimney TOE TCP and UDP stateless offloads over IPv4 and IPv6 Interrupt coalescing Message Signal Interrupts MSI MSI X RX TX multiqueue VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 2 Modes of operation The Broadcom 2 port 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter supports two modes Switch Independent Virtual NIC VNIC Mode and the regular physical NIC pNIC mode e Switch Independent vNIC Mode In vNIC mode each physical port appears to the blade server as four virtual NICs The default bandwidth for each vNIC is 2 5 Gbps Bandwidth for each vNIC can be configured from 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps The total bandwidth of the four vNICs per port cannot exceed 10 Gbps however the Broadcom adapter supports oversubscription whereby the aggregate bandwidth can be as high as 40 Gbps 4x10 Gbps allowing any of the vNICs to consume as much as 10 Gbps where there is no contention or less when there is based on the weight assigned to that vNIC vNICs can also be configured to have 0 bandwidth if you must allocate the available bandwidth to fewer than eight vNICs The adapter works with the following switches e BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module e Cisco Nexus 4001 Switch Mod
4. controller card and the switch modules are internal to the chassis No cabling is needed IBM BladeCenter server IBM BladeCenter H chassis Figure 4 Configuration using the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter Depending on how you configure the switch and expansion card you can get either e Eight virtual Ethernet ports vNIC mode Each virtual port can be configured to operate at 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps up to a total maximum of 10 Gb per physical port The default bandwidth is 2 5 Gb per virtual port e Two 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports pNIC mode The components used in this configuration are listed in Table 5 Table 5 Components used when connecting Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter to two BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules Diagram Part number Description Quantity reference machine type 7870 IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 81Y3133 Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter 8852 or 8740 8750 BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT 46C7191 BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 44W4408 IBM 10GBase SR SFP Transceiver To communicate outside the chassis you must have either one SFP transceiver or SFP direct attached cable DAC for each external 10 Gb port on the BNT 10Gb High Speed Switch Module that you want to enable Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 7 Operating system support The Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter supports the following operat
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8. ing systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x64 Edition SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 1 Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server in which it is installed See IBM ServerProven for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported Select the blade server and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems http www ibm com systems info x86servers serverproven compat us Related publications For more information refer to these documents e Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Installation and User s Guide http www ibm com support e IBM Redbooks publ
9. integrated switches such as the BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module and the Cisco Nexus 4001 Switch Module or with other top of rack switches via the 10 Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 1 Part number information Table 1 Ordering part number and feature code Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 81Y3133 A1QR This part number includes the following items e Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter e Documentation CD e Safety Notices publication Features The expansion card has the following features Offers an end to end solution up to 10 Gb One PCI Express 2 0 x8 host interface for high speed connection Connectivity to high speed I O module bays in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis Enables two 10 Gb ports from the blade server to the external network Based on the Broadcom 10 Gb 57712 controller Hardware parity CRC ECC and other advanced error checking VLAN insertion and extraction Support for jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes uEFI preboot eXecutive Environment PXE 2 0 network boot support Supports load balancing and failover Supports IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager vNIC mode and pNIC mode Supports Wake on LAN Supports SOL and cKVM Virtual NIC vNIC support is as follows Supports IBM Virtual Fabric in Switch Independent Mode Eight virtual ports four per physical port uEFI based vNIC
10. onnector for further VO expansion High speed connector to bays 7 amp 5 High speed connector to bays 9 amp 10 CFFh expansion card CFFh connector under the expansion card Figure 2 Location on the BladeCenter server planar where the CFFh card is installed IBM BladeCenter chassis support is based on the blade server type in which the expansion card is installed Consult IBM ServerProven to see which chassis each blade server type is supported in http www ibm com systems info x86servers serverproven compat us Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Supported I O modules Table 3 lists the I O modules that can be used to connect to the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter _ X Table 3 I O modules supported with the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter amp T 5 a LS pNIC mode _ BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 46C7191 Cisco Nexus 40011 Switch Module 46M6071 10 Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module for IBM BladeCenter 46M6181 BNT 6 port 10 Gb High Speed Switch Module 399267 Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module 69Y 1909 vNIC mode Switch Independent Mode BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 46C7191 N Cisco Nexus 40011 Switch Module The I O module listed in Table 3 is supported in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis only HT Z Z zZ RR EEEE reee Z Z cE e ale fefefe ece RR ERRER reer ele ijel een Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Vir
11. trademarked terms are US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published Such trademarks may also be registered or common law trademarks in other countries A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at http www ibm com legal copytrade shtml The following terms are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both BladeCenter IBM Redbooks Redbooks logo ServerProven The following terms are trademarks of other companies BNT and Server Mobility are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blade Network Technologies Inc an IBM Company Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 10
12. tual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 5 In BladeCenter H the ports of CFFh cards are routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 as shown in Figure 3 The BladeCenter HT is similar in that the CFFh cards are also routed through the midplane to I O bays 7 8 9 and 10 A Expansion cards p Legend Standard lO bays connections High speed I O bays connections Bridge modules VO bays connections Mid Plane Figure 3 IBM BladeCenter H I O topology showing the I O paths from CFFh expansion cards The Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter requires that two I O modules be installed in bays 7 and 9 of the BladeCenter H and HT chassis Table 4 Table 4 Locations of I O modules required to connect to the expansion card Expansion card I O bay 7 I O bay 8 I O bay 9 I O bay 10 Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Supported I O Not used Supported I O Not used Adapter module module Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 6 Popular configurations This section shows a configuration that uses the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter Figure 4 shows the use of the Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter to route either two physical ports or eight virtual ports to the BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules installed in the BladeCenter chassis Two BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules are installed in bay 7 and bay 9 of the BladeCenter H chassis All connections between the
13. ule e 10Gb Ethernet Pass Thru Module and a top of rack TOR switch These switches are installed in I O module bays 7 and 9 in the chassis Switch Independent Mode extends the existing customer VLANs to the virtual NIC interfaces The IEEE 802 1Q VLAN tag is essential to the separation of the vNIC groups by the NIC adapter or driver and the switch The VLAN tags are added to the packet by the applications or drivers at each end station rather than by the switch Note The Broadcom 2 port 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter does not support IBM Virtual Fabric Mode e Physical NIC pNIC mode In pNIC mode the expansion card can operate as a standard 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps 2 port Ethernet expansion card When in pNIC mode the expansion card functions with any available 10 Gb switch or 10 Gb pass thru module installed in I O module bays 7 and 9 Operating environment The expansion card is supported in the following environments e Temperature 10 to 35 C 50 to 95 F e Relative humidity 8 to 80 non condensing e Maximum altitude 2 133 m 7 000 ft Supported servers The Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter is supported in the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2 Table 2 Supported servers a m T Ww Expansion card Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter Broadcom 2 port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 3 Figure 2 shows where the CFFh card is installed in a BladeCenter server ClOv c
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