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Lenovo ThinkSystem QLogic QML2692 16 Gb Enhanced Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter for Flex System

• The ThinkSystem QLogic QML2692 Mezz 16Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel Adapter is an Enhanced Generation 5 (Gen 5) 16 Gb FC adapter for ThinkSystem blade servers. The adapter, based on Cavium technology, offer industry leading native FC performance with extremely low CPU usage with full hardware offloads. Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology provides advanced storage networking features capable of supporting the most demanding virtualized and private cloud environments, while fully leveraging the capabilities of high-performance 16 Gb FC (16GFC) and all-flash arrays (AFAs).
• The following figure shows the ThinkSystem QLogic QML2692 Mezz 16Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel Adapter.

• Independent function, transmit and receive buffers, an on-chip CPU, DMA channels, and a firmware image for each port enable complete port-level isolation, prevent errors and firmware crashes from propagating across all ports, and provide predictable and scalable performance across all ports.
• Support forward error correction (FEC) to enhance reliability of transmission and thereby performance.
• Industry-standard class-specific control (CS_CTL)-based frame prioritization Quality of Service (QoS) helps alleviate network congestion by prioritizing traffic for time-sensitive mission critical workloads for optimized performance.
• T10-PI data integrity with high performance offload provides end-to-end data corruption protection.
• Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X) improves host utilization and enhances application performance.
• Fabric-assigned port worldwide name (FA-WWN) and fabric-based boot LUN discovery (F-BLD) pre-provisioning services allow servers to be quickly deployed, replaced, and moved across the SAN; the creation of zones, LUNs, and other services can be completed before the servers arrive on site.
• Using the Brocade ClearLink diagnostic port (D_Port) available on the Brocade Gen 5 switches, administrators can quickly run automated diagnostic tests to assess the health of links and fabric components.
• Read diagnostic parameters (RDP) feature provides detailed port, media, and optics diagnostics to easily discover and diagnose link-related errors and degrading conditions on any N_Port-to-F_Port link.
• Single-pane-of-glass management across generations of QLogic FC adapters with QLogic QConvergeConsole (QCC).
• Deployment flexibility and integration with third-party management tools, including the VMware vCenter and Brocade Network Advisor.
• Support for 16 Gb, 8 Gb, and 4 Gb FC devices.
• Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
• A common driver model allows a single driver to support all QLogic HBAs on a given OS.
• Exceptional performance per watt and price/performance ratios.
• Backward compatibility with existing 4Gb and 8Gb FC infrastructure, leveraging existing SAN investments.
• Allow application of SAN best practices, tools, and processes with virtual server deployments.
• Ensure data availability and data integrity.
• Boot from SAN capability reduces the system management costs and increases uptime.

Lenovo Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapters for Lenovo Flex System

• The Emulex 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter family for Lenovo Flex System enables the highest FC speed access for Flex System compute nodes to an external storage area network (SAN). These adapters are based on the proven Emulex Fibre Channel stack, and work with 16 Gb Flex System Fibre Channel switch modules.
• As the only 4-port HBAs for Flex System and ThinkSystem respectively, the FC5054 and LPm16004B-L provide unmatched scalability and redundancy. In addition, these two 4-port adapters have two separate ASICs with no bridge chip, so data flows directly to an independent PCIe bus for high availability without a single point of failure.

• The adapters support the I/O modules that are listed in the following table. One or two compatible switches must be installed in the corresponding I/O bays in the chassis. Installing two switches means that all ports of the adapter are enabled.
• The FC5022 switches include a base number of port licenses, 12 or 24, depending on the part number that is ordered. Switch port licenses for the FC5022 switches can be used for internal or external ports. Each two-port adapter requires one internal switch port for each of the two switches that are installed. Each four-port adapter requires two internal switch ports for each of the two switches that are installed. Additional ports might be needed depending on your configuration.

Lenovo Mellanox ConnectX 3 and IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapters for Flex System

• The Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezz FDR 2-Port InfiniBand Adapter deliver low latency and high bandwidth for performance-driven server clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing (HPC), and embedded environments. The adapters are designed to operate at InfiniBand FDR speeds (56 Gbps or 14 Gbps per lane).
• This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the Mellanox 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 the adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.

• The Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezz FDR 2-Port InfiniBand Adapter deliver low latency and high bandwidth for performance-driven server clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing (HPC), and embedded environments. The adapter is designed to operate at InfiniBand FDR speeds (56 Gbps or 14 Gbps per lane).
• Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services, and high-performance embedded I/O applications potentially achieve significant performance improvements, helping to reduce completion time and lower the cost per operation. These Mellanox ConnectX-3 adapters simplify network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, and management I/O, and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

• Mellanox ConnectX-3 technology provide a high level of throughput performance for all network environments by removing I/O bottlenecks in mainstream servers that are limiting application performance. Servers can achieve up to 56 Gbps transmit and receive bandwidth. Hardware-based InfiniBand transport and IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) stateless off-load engines handle the segmentation, reassembly, and checksum calculations that otherwise burden the host processor.
• RDMA over the InfiniBand fabric further accelerates application run time while reducing CPU utilization. RDMA allows very high-volume transaction-intensive applications typical of HPC and financial market firms, as well as other industries where speed of data delivery is paramount to take advantage. With the ConnectX-3-based adapter, highly compute-intensive tasks running on hundreds or thousands of multiprocessor nodes, such as climate research, molecular modeling, and physical simulations, can share data and synchronize faster, resulting in shorter run times. High-frequency transaction applications are able to access trading information more quickly, making sure that the trading servers are able to respond first to any new market data and market inefficiencies, while the higher throughput enables higher volume trading, maximizing liquidity and profitability.
• In data mining or web crawl applications, RDMA provides the needed boost in performance to search faster by solving the network latency bottleneck associated with I/O cards and the corresponding transport technology in the cloud. Various other applications that benefit from RDMA with ConnectX-3 include Web 2.0 (Content Delivery Network), business intelligence, database transactions, and various Cloud computing applications. Mellanox ConnectX-3's low power consumption provides clients with high bandwidth and low latency at the lowest cost of ownership.

Lenovo Flex System CN4058S and CN4052 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapters

• The Flex System CN4058S 8-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter and CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter are part of the VFA5 family of System x and Flex System adapters. These adapter supports up to four virtual NIC (vNIC) devices per port (for a total of 32 for the CN4058S and 8 for the CN4052), where each physical 10 GbE port can be divided into four virtual ports with flexible bandwidth allocation. These adapters also feature RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) capability, and support iSCSI, and FCoE protocols with the addition of a Features on Demand (FoD) license upgrade.
• With hardware protocol offloads for TCP/IP and FCoE, the CN4058S and CN4052 provides maximum bandwidth with minimum use of CPU resources and enables more VMs per server, which provides greater cost saving to optimize return on investment. With up to eight ports, the CN4058S in particular makes full use of the capabilities of all supported Ethernet switches in the Flex System portfolio.

• The Flex System CN4058S 8-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter features the following specifications:
• Eight port 10 Gb Ethernet adapter
• Dual ASIC controller using the Emulex XE104 design
• Two PCIe Express 3.0 x8 host interfaces (8 GT/s)
• MSI-X support
• Fabric Manager support
• Power consumption: 25 W maximum

• Two port 10 Gb Ethernet adapter
• Single-ASIC controller using the Emulex XE104 design
• One PCIe Express 3.0 x8 host interface (8 GT/s)
• MSI-X support
• Fabric Manager support
• Power consumption: 25 W maximum

Lenovo Emulex CN4052S and CN4054S 10Gb VFA5 2 Adapters for Flex System

• Updated the server support table Server support section
• Updated the list of supported operating systems Operating system support section
• Clarified that INTD1 ports are not available on Lenovo switches currently available - I/O module support section

• The CN4054S 4-port and CN4052S 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapters are VFA5.2 adapters that are supported on ThinkSystem and Flex System compute nodes.
• The CN4052S can be divided into up to eight virtual NIC (vNIC) devices per port (for a total of 16 vNICs) and the CN4054S can be divided in to four vNICs (for a total of 16 vNICs). Each vNIC can have flexible bandwidth allocation. These adapters also feature RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) capability, and support iSCSI, and FCoE protocols, either as standard or with the addition of a Features on Demand (FoD) license upgrade.

Lenovo Flex System CN4022 2 port 10Gb Converged Adapter and EN4172 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter

• The Flex System CN4022 2-port 10Gb Converged Adapter is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapter that supports Ethernet, FCoE, and iSCSI protocols as standard. The EN4172 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter is a similar adapter that supports Ethernet protocols. Both adapters also support virtual network interface controller (vNIC) capability, which helps clients to reduce cost and complexity. These adapters are based on the Broadcom BCM57840 controller by QLogic.

• The CN4022 and EN4172 adapters have these features:
• One Broadcom BCM57840 ASIC
• Connection to either 1 Gb or 10 Gb data center infrastructure (1 Gb and 10 Gb auto-negotiation).
• PCIe 2.0 x8 (CN4022) or PCIe 3.0 x8 (EN4172) host interface
• Full line-rate performance
• Support 10 Gb Ethernet (CN4022 and EN4172)
• Support FCoE, and iSCSI (CN4022 only)
• IBM Flex System Manager support (Tier 2 support only, no alerting)

Lenovo Emulex CN4052S and CN4054S 10Gb VFA5.2 Adapters for Flex System

• Updated the server support table - Server support section
• Updated the list of supported operating systems - Operating system support section
• Clarified that INTD1 ports are not available on Lenovo switches currently available - I/O module support section

• The CN4054S 4-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter and CN4052S 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter, which are part of the VFA5.2 family of System x and Flex System adapters, reduce cost by enabling a converged infrastructure and improve performance with powerful offload engines. The adapters have the following features and benefits:
• Multiprotocol support for 10 GbE
• The adapters offer two (CN4052S) or four (CN4054S) 10 GbE connections and are cost- and performance-optimized for integrated and converged infrastructures. They offer a “triple play” of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The adapters provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures.

• The Emulex VFA5.2 family supports three NIC virtualization modes as standard: Virtual Fabric mode (vNIC1), switch independent mode (vNIC2), and Unified Fabric Port (UFP). With NIC virtualization, each of the physical ports on the adapter can be logically configured to emulate up to four or eight virtual NIC (vNIC) functions with user-definable bandwidth settings. With UFP or vNIC2, the CN4052S supports eight vNICs per port. Both adapters support four vNICs per port with vNIC1 and vNIC2. Additionally, each physical port can simultaneously support a storage protocol (FCoE or iSCSI).

Lenovo Flex System EN6131 40GbE Switch and EN6132 40GbE Adapter

Lenovo Flex System EN4132 2 port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter

• Connectivity with the ThinkSystem NE2552E Flex Switch is now supported - Supported I/O modules section
• Updated the list of supported operating systems - Operating system support section

• The Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter has the following features:
• RDMA over Ethernet
• ConnectX-3 provides efficient RDMA services, delivering low-latency and high-performance to bandwidth and latency sensitive applications.
• Sockets acceleration
• Applications using TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry-leading throughput over 10 GbE. The hardware-based stateless off load and flow steering engines in ConnectX-3 reduce the processor overhead of IP packet transport, freeing more processor cycles to work on the application. Sockets acceleration software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications.

Lenovo Flex System EN2024 4 port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter

• The Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter has these features:
• Dual Broadcom BCM5718 ASICs
• Quad-port Gigabit 1000BASE-X interface
• Two PCI Express 2.0 x1 host interfaces, one per ASIC
• Full-duplex (FDX) capability, enabling simultaneous transmission and reception of data on the Ethernet network
• MSI and MSI-X capabilities, up to 17 MSI-X vectors
• I/O virtualization support for VMware NetQueue, and Microsoft VMQ
• Seventeen receive queues and 16 transmit queues
• Seventeen MSI-X vectors supporting per-queue interrupt to host
• Function Level Reset (FLR)
• ECC error detection and correction on internal SRAM
• TCP, IP, and UDP checksum offload
• Large Send offload, TCP segmentation offload
• Receive-side scaling
• Virtual LANs (VLANs): IEEE 802.1q VLAN tagging
• Jumbo frames (9 KB)
• IEEE 802.3x flow control
• Statistic gathering (SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB [IEEE 802.3x, Clause 30])
• Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite
• ACPI 1.1a-compliant: multiple power modes
• Wake-on-LAN (WOL) support
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) support
• RoHS-compliant