Lenovo Emulex OCe14100B VFA5.2 Adapter

Lenovo Emulex OCe14100B VFA5.2 Adapter

Category : Lenovo Accessories
Brand : Lenovo
Model : OCe14100B

Description

Abstract

The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter 5 Generation 2 (VFA5.2) Network Adapter Family, which includes the OCe14104B-NX 10 GbE adapter builds on the foundation of the previous generation of Emulex VFA5 adapters by delivering performance enhancements, including RoCE v2 support and management enhancements with improved support for Lenovo XClarity.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the VFA 5.2 adapters and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about VFA 5.2 adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.

Change History

Changes in the October 13 update:

Added the SR850 V2 and SR860 V2 servers - Server support section (no support)

Introduction

The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter 5 Generation 2 (VFA5.2) Network Adapter Family, which includes the OCe14104B-NX 10 GbE adapter builds on the foundation of the previous generation of Emulex VFA5 adapters by delivering performance enhancements, including RoCE v2 support and management enhancements with improved support for Lenovo XClarity. These new features help reduce complexity, reduce cost, and improve performance with Lenovo servers.

Did you know?

The Emulex VFA5.2 adapters support three methods to virtualize I/O, out of the box: Virtual Fabric Mode (vNIC1), Switch Independent mode (vNIC2) and Unified Fabric Port (UFP) mode. With Virtual Fabric, up to eight virtual network ports (vNICs) can be created with a single two-port 10 GbE network adapter.

On System x adapters, storage protocols such as iSCSI and FCoE are also supported by Features on Demand upgrades. Using a common hardware infrastructure for Ethernet and SAN and by virtualizing your network adapter, you can reduce your infrastructure capital expense.

Part number information

The part numbers to order these adapters are listed in the following table. The FCoE/iSCSI upgrade licenses are a Features on Demand field upgrade that enables full hardware offloaded converged networking capabilities of the adapters. Adapters 00AG580 and 01CV770 already includes the FCoE/iSCSI license.

Adapters

  • 00AG570 : AT7S : Emulex VFA5.2 2x10 GbE SFP+ PCIe Adapter
  • 00AG560 : AT7U : Emulex VFA5.2 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter
  • 00AG580 : AT7T : Emulex VFA5.2 2x10 GbE SFP+ Adapter and FCoE/iSCSI SW (Includes the FCoE/iSCSI license pre-installed)
  • 01CV770 : AU7Z : Emulex VFA5.2 ML2 2x10 GbE SFP+ Adapter and FCoE/iSCSI SW (Includes the FCoE/iSCSI license pre-installed)
  • 7ZT7A00493 : AUKN : ThinkSystem Emulex OCe14104B-NX PCIe 10Gb 4-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter (no support for FCoE or iSCSI)

Features on Demand license upgrades - System x servers only

  • 00D8544 : A4NZ : Emulex VFA5 ML2 FCoE/iSCSI License for System x (FoD) Features on Demand license for FCoE/iSCSI for 00AG560
  • 00JY824 : A5UV : Emulex VFA5 FCoE/iSCSI SW for PCIe Adapter for System x (FoD) Features on Demand license for FCoE/iSCSI for 00AG570

The adapter, when shipped as a stand-alone option, includes the following items:

One Emulex adapter

An attached full-height (3U) bracket, and a low-profile (2U) bracket that can be substituted if needed

Documentation flyer

The FCoE/iSCSI license is delivered in the form of an authorization code that you enter on the Features on Demand website to generate an activation key.

Supported transceivers and cables

The adapters in the Emulex VFA5.2 family each have two empty SFP+ cages that support the transceivers listed in the following table.

Supported transceivers

  • 49Y4216 : 0069 : Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
  • 49Y4218 : 0064 : QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
  • 46C3447 : 5053 : 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
  • 00FE333 : A5DL : SFP 1000Base-T (RJ-45) Transceiver
  • 90Y9412 : A1PM : SFP+ LR Transceiver
  • 00FE331 : B0RJ : 10GBASE-LR SFP+Transceiver

The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.

Optical cables

LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (requires transceivers)

  • 00MN499 : ASR5 : Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN502 : ASR6 : Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN505 : ASR7 : Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN508 : ASR8 : Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN511 : ASR9 : Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN514 : ASRA : Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN517 : ASRB : Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
  • 00MN520 : ASRC : Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable

SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables

  • 00YL634 : ATYX : Lenovo 1M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
  • 00YL637 : ATYY : Lenovo 3M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
  • 00YL640 : ATYZ : Lenovo 5M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
  • 00YL643 : ATZ0 : Lenovo 7M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
  • 00YL646 : ATZ1 : Lenovo 15M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
  • 00YL649 : ATZ2 : Lenovo 20M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable

SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables

  • 7Z57A03541 : AV1F : Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
  • 7Z57A03542 : AV1G : Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
  • 7Z57A03543 : AV1H : Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
  • 7Z57A03544 : AV1J : Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
  • 7Z57A03545 : AV1K : Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable

The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.

Copper cables

SFP+ Passive DAC Cables

  • 00D6288 : A3RG : 0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
  • 90Y9427 : A1PH : 1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
  • 00AY764 : A51N : 1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
  • 00AY765 : A51P : 2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
  • 90Y9430 : A1PJ : 3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
  • 90Y9433 : A1PK : 5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable

SFP+ Active DAC Cables

  • 00VX111 : AT2R : Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
  • 00VX114 : AT2S : Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
  • 00VX117 : AT2T : Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP+ Cables

SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables

  • 7Z57A03557 : AV1W : Lenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
  • 7Z57A03558 : AV1X : Lenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
  • 7Z57A03559 : AV1Y : Lenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable

Features

The VFA5.2 adapters offer virtualized networking, support a converged infrastructure, and improve performance with powerful offload engines. The adapter has the following features and benefits.

Reduce complexity

  • Virtual NIC emulation : The Emulex VFA5.2 supports three NIC virtualization modes right out of the box: Virtual Fabric mode (vNIC1), switch independent mode (vNIC2), and Unified Fabric Port (UFP). With NIC virtualization, each of the two physical ports on the adapter can be logically configured to emulate up to four virtual NIC (vNIC) functions with user-definable bandwidth settings. Additionally, each physical port can simultaneously support a storage protocol (FCoE or iSCSI).
  • Common drivers and tools : You can deploy faster and manage less when you use both Virtual Fabric Adapters (VFAs) and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) that are developed by Emulex. VFAs and HBAs developed by Emulex use the same installation and configuration process, streamlining the effort to get your server configured and running, saving you valuable time. They also use the same Fibre Channel drivers, reducing time to qualify and manage storage connectivity. With Emulex's OneCommand Manager, you can manage VFAs and HBAs that are developed by Emulex through the data center from a single console.
  • Improved support for Lenovo XClarity
    • Supports agent-free management, eliminating platform agents to reduce complexity
    • Supports automatic inventory management to simplify management
    • Supports real-time monitoring, fault detection and alert handling for a more secure managed environment
    • Supports automatic firmware downloads and installation for true bare metal provisioning

Reduce cost

  • Multiprotocol support for 10 GbE : The Emulex VFA5.2 adapter family offers two 10 Gb Ethernet ports and is cost- and performance-optimized for integrated and converged infrastructures. The VFA5.2 offers a “triple play” of converged data, storage, and low-latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The Emulex VFA provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures. Note: the OCe14104B-NX 4-port adapter does not support FCoE and iSCSI storage protocols.
  • Power savings : When compared with previous generation Emulex VFA3 adapters, the Emulex VFA5.2 adapters can save up to 50 watts per server, reducing energy and cooling OPEX through improved storage offloads.

Improve performance

  • VXLAN/NVGRE offload technology : Emulex supports Microsoft’s network virtualization using generic routing encapsulation (NVGRE) and VMware’s virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN). These technologies create more logical LANs (for traffic isolation) that are needed by cloud architectures. Because these protocols increase the processing burden on the server’s CPU, the VFA5.2 has an offload engine specifically designed for processing these tags. The resulting benefit is that cloud providers can leverage the benefits of VXLAN/NVGRE with no reduction in the server’s performance.
  • Full hardware storage offloads : The Emulex VFA5.2 adapters support a hardware offload engine (optionally enabled via Features on Demand upgrade, standard on 00AG580 and 01CV770). This accelerates storage protocol processing, which enables the server’s processing resources to focus on application workloads, thus improving the server’s performance. Note: the OCe14104B-NX 4-port adapter does not support FCoE and iSCSI storage protocols.
  • Advanced RDMA capabilities with RoCE v2 : RDMA over Converged Ethernet v2 (RoCE v2) delivers application and storage acceleration through faster I/O operations with support for Windows Server SMB Direct and Linux NFS protocols.The VFA5.2 adapters leverage RoCE v2, enabling server-to-server data movement directly between application memory without any CPU involvement. This provides high throughput and data acceleration on a standard Ethernet fabric, without the need for specialized infrastructure or management.
  • The adapters support the new InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) RoCE v2 specification for Layer 3 routing. RoCE also helps accelerate workloads in the following ways:
    • Capability to deliver a 4x boost in small packet network performance vs. previous generation adapters, which is critical for transaction-heavy workloads
    • Desktop-like experiences for VDI with up to 1.5 million FCoE or iSCSI I/O operations per second (IOPS)
    • Ability to scale Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint using SMB Direct optimized with RoCE
    • More VDI desktops/server due to up to 18% higher CPU effectiveness (the percentage of server CPU utilization for every 1 Mbps I/O throughput)
    • Superior application performance for VMware hybrid cloud workloads, with up to 129% higher I/O throughput compared to adapters without offload

The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Emulex OCe14104B-NX PCIe 10Gb 4-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter

Specifications

Adapter specifications:

  • Dual-channel 10 Gbps Ethernet controller
  • Based on the Emulex XE102-P2 ASIC
  • PCI Express 3.0 host interface
  • Line-rate 10 GbE performance
  • 2 SFP+ empty cages to support either SFP+ SR or twin-ax copper connections
    • SFP+ SR link is with the SFP+ SR optical module with LC connectors.
    • SFP+ twin-ax copper link is with the SFP+ direct attached copper module/cable.
  • Power dissipation: 14.4 W typical
  • Form factor:
    • Mezzanine LOM (ML2) form factor (adapters 00AG560 and 01CV770)
    • PCIe low-profile form factor (adapters 00AG570 and 00AG580)
    • PCIe full-height half-length adapter (7ZT7A00493)

Virtualization features

  • Virtual Fabric support:
    • Virtual Fabric mode (vNIC1)
    • Switch Independent mode (vNIC2)
    • Unified Fabric Port (UFP) support
  • Four NIC partitions per adapter port
  • Complies with PCI-SIG specification for SR-IOV
  • VXLAN/NVGRE encapsulation and offload
  • PCI-SIG Address Translation Service (ATS) v1.0
  • Virtual Switch Port Mirroring for Diagnostic purposes
  • Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB)
  • 62 Virtual functions (VF)
  • QoS for controlling and monitoring bandwidth that is assigned to and used by virtual entities
  • Traffic shaping and QoS across each virtual function (VF) and physical function (PF)
  • Message Signal Interrupts (MSI-X) support
  • VMware NetQue / VMQ support
  • Microsoft VMQ & Dynamic VMQ support in Hyper-V

Ethernet and NIC features

  • NDIS 5.2, 6.0, and 6.2 compliant Ethernet functionality
  • IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP, and Checksum Offload
  • IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • IPv4/IPv6 Large Send Offload (LSO)
  • Programmable MAC addresses
  • 128 MAC/vLAN addresses per port
  • Support for HASH-based broadcast frame filters per port
  • vLAN insertion and extraction
  • 9216 byte Jumbo frame support
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • Filters: MAC and vLAN
  • UEFI and legacy PXE boot

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA):

  • Direct data placement in application buffers without processor intervention
  • Supports RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE) specifications
    • Supports RoCE v2 by replacing RoCE over IP with RoCE over UDP
    • 20% more RoCE Queue Pairs compared to VFA5
    • 16K RoCE Memory Regions (VFA5 offers 8K)
  • Linux Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Support
  • Low latency queues for small packet sends and receives
  • Local interprocess communication option by internal VEB switch
  • TCP/IP Stack By-Pass

Data Center Bridging / Converged Enhanced Ethernet (DCB/CEE):

  • Hardware Offloads of Ethernet TCP/IP
  • 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC)
  • 802.1 Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
  • 802.1 Qaz Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX)

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload (included with 00AG580 and 01CV770; optional via a Features on Demand upgrade for 00AG570 and 00AG560):

  • Hardware offloads of Ethernet TCP/IP
  • ANSI T11 FC-BB-5 Support
  • Programmable Worldwide Name (WWN)
  • Support for FIP and FCoE Ether Types
  • Supports up to 255 NPIV Interfaces per port
  • FCoE Initiator
  • Common driver for Emulex Universal CNA and Fibre Channel HBAs
  • 255 N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) interfaces per port
  • Fabric Provided MAC Addressing (FPMA) support
  • Up to 4096 concurrent port logins (RPIs) per port
  • Up to 2048 active exchanges (XRIs) per port

iSCSI offload (included with 00AG580 and 01CV770; optional via a Features on Demand upgrade for 00AG570 and 00AG560):

  • Full iSCSI Protocol Offload
  • Header, Data Digest (CRC), and PDU
  • Direct data placement of SCSI data
  • 2048 Offloaded iSCSI connections
  • iSCSI initiator and concurrent initiator /target modes
  • Multipath I/O
  • OS-neutral INT13 based iSCSIboot and iSCSI crash memory dump support
  • RFC 4171 Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)

Standards

The following IEEE standards are supported:

  • 802.3-2008 10Gbase Ethernet port
  • 802.1Q vLAN
  • 802.3x Flow Control with pause Frames
  • 802.1 Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging
  • 802.1Qaz Enhanced transmission Selection (ETS) Data Center Bridging Capability (DCBX)
  • 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control
  • 802.3ad link Aggregation/LACP
  • 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol
  • 802.3ae (SR Optics)
  • 802.3p (Priority of Service)
  • 1588 Time Synchronization Support (802.1as)
  • IPV4 (RFC 791)
  • IPV6 (RFC 2460)