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Network adapters
The x3100 M5 offers two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. One port is shared with Integrated
Management Module II (IMM2), implementing Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI).
The integrated NICs have the following features:
Broadcom BCM5717 chip
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support
Wake on LAN support
Receive side Scaling (RSS) and Transmit side Scaling (TSS) support
MSI and MSI-X capability- up to five MSI-X vectors
VLAN tag support (IEEE 802.1Q)
Layer 2 priority encoding (IEEE 802.1p)
Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
Full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)
IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload (hardware based) on Tx/Rx over IPv4/IPv6
Hardware TCP segmentation offload over IPv4/IPv6
Jumbo frame support
NIC Teaming (Load Balancing and Failover)
One port that is shared with IMM2 using Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
The following table lists additional supported network adapters.
Table 14. Network adapters
Part number
Feature
code
Gigabit Ethernet
90Y9370
A2V4
90Y9352
A2V3
49Y4230
5767
49Y4240
5768
42C1750
2975
10 Gigabit Ethernet
49Y7910
A18Y
00D8540
A4XH
95Y3760
A2U2
49Y7960
A2EC
49Y7970
A2ED
00D9690
A3PM
90Y4600
A3MR
00Y5624
A3MT
* Require SFP+ optical transceivers or DAC cables that must be purchased separately.
IBM System x3100 M5 Product Guide
Description
Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter for IBM System x
Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter for IBM System x
Intel Ethernet Dual Port Server Adapter I340-T2 for IBM System x
Intel Ethernet Quad Port Server Adapter I340-T4 for IBM System x
PRO/1000 PF Server Adapter
Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for IBM System x
Emulex Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA IIIr for IBM System x*
Emulex VFA III/IIIr FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 00D8540)
Intel X520 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for IBM System x*
Intel X540-T2 Dual Port 10GBaseT Adapter for IBM System x
Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE Adapter for IBM System x*
QLogic 8200 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ VFA for IBM System x*
QLogic 8200 VFA FCoE/iSCSI License for IBM System x (FoD)
(FCoE upgrade license for 90Y4600)
Maximum
supported
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
License
3
3
3
3
License
18
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