PCIe3 4-port (2x10 Gb FCoE, 2x1 GbE) SFP+ adapter (FC EL38, FC EL56, FC EN0H, and FC EN0J; CCIN 2B93)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL38, FC EL56, FC EN0H, and FC EN0J adapters.
Overview
The FC EL38 and FC EN0J are low-profile adapters. The FC EL56 and FC EN0H are full-height adapters that are low-profile capable.
The PCIe3 4-port (2x10 Gb FCoE, 2x1 GbE) SFP+ adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3 adapter. The adapter has four-ports and is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter (CNA). This adapter provides a PCIe 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is a high-performance adapter that consolidates traffic for networking and Fibre Channel storage. The adapter is optimized for cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. Both FCoE and network interface controller (NIC) functions are available for both FCoE ports. Use of the FCoE requires that you use convergence enhanced Ethernet (CEE) switches. The link aggregation and failover features of the adapter make it suitable for critical network applications that require redundancy and high availability.
- The adapter is a PCIe3 FCoE or NIC network convergence adapter.
- The 10 Gb SFP+ ports can function in the NIC or FCoE mode.
- The adapter supports the Single Root IO Virtualization (SRIOV) function.
- The adapter can function as a Boot adapter.
Specifications
- Item
- Description
- Adapter FRU number
- 00E3498
- Wrap plug FRU number
- 12R9314 (for Fibre LC connector).
- I/O bus architecture
- PCIe3 x8.
- Slot requirement
- For details about slot priorities, maximums, and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.
- Voltage
- 3.3 V, 12 V.
- Form factor
- Short, regular sized bracket. EL38 and EN0J are low-profile, EL56 and EN0H are full-height, low-profile capable.
- Cables
- SR SFP+ optical fiber cables and Cat5 Ethernet cables.
Operating system or partition requirements
- The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from the Fix Central website.
- Power Systems Prerequisites website.
- IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website.
- The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power® RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website.
- For information about important notices for Linux on IBM Power Systems, see the Linux® on IBM website.