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.

Important: There is no FCoE support on POWER9™ systems.

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.

Each of the 1 Gb ports provides Ethernet connectivity at a data rate of 1 Gbps and is connected with Ethernet cables. Figure 1 shows the FC EN0M adapter.
Restriction: The 1 Gb Ethernet ports do not support data rates of 10 Mbps (megabits per second).
The adapter provides the following features:
  • 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
Figure 1. PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) LR and RJ45 adapter (FC EN0M)
PCIe3 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) LR and RJ45 adapter (FC EN0M)
Figure 2. PCIe3 LP 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1GbE) LR and RJ45 adapter (FC EN0N)
PCIe3 LP 4-port (10Gb FCoE and 1GbE) LR and RJ45 adapter (FC EN0N)

Specifications

Item
Description
Adapter FRU number
FC EN0M: 00E8144
FC EN0N: 00E8143
Low-profile tailstock part number: 00E8163
Wrap plug FRU number
12R9314 (for Fibre LC connector)
10N7405
Note: These wrap plugs are not included with the card. 12R9314 (FC ECW0)IBM®.
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

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

If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new feature and you must determine any prerequisites that must be met for this feature and the attached devices. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following topics: