PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) LR and RJ45 adapter (FC EN0M and FC EN0N; CCIN 2CC0)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EN0M and FC EN0N adapters.
Overview
The PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) LR and RJ45 Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3, x8, adapter. The FC EN0M is a regular-height adapter and the FC EN0N is a low-profile 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 the FCoE and network interface controller (NIC) functions are available for all the four 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 four-port adapter provides two 10 Gb FCoE Long Range (LR) optical ports and two 1 Gb RJ45 Ethernet ports. The two 10 Gb FCoE ports provide an SFP+ optical transceiver and have little connector (LC) duplex-type connectors. Each FCoE port provides Ethernet connectivity with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps (gigabits per second). The optical transceiver uses shortwave laser optics and is attached with MMF-850nm fiber cabling with LC connectors. See Cables for more information about the optical cables. An FCoE switch is required to be attached for any FCoE traffic on this adapter.
- The adapter supports both the dedicated mode and SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) mode to function as a NIC.
- The adapter can function as a boot adapter.
- The adapter supports all Fibre Channel and Ethernet topologies.
- The adapter provides end-to-end data path parity and cyclic redundancy check
Specifications
- Item
- Description
- Adapter FRU number
- FC EN0M: 00E8144
- 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
- 12 V
- Form factor
- Short, regular-height
- Cables
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The 10 Gb ports are SFP+ ports and include an optical LR transceiver. The ports have LC Duplex type connectors and utilize longwave laser optics and 1310 nm fiber cabling. With 9 micron OS1, up to 10 kilometer length fiber cables.
For the 1 Gb RJ45 ports, 4-pair CAT-5 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable or higher is supported for a distance of up to 100 meters.
Table 1. Cable type Fiber cable type Connector type Operating range in meters 9 μm SMF LC 10 km
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.