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Table 1.
8100 Series Technical Specifications
SKU
QLE8 1 5 0 -CU
QLE8 1 5 2 -CU
QLE8 1 4 0 -SR
QLE8 1 4 2 -SR
QLE8 1 4 0 -LR
QLE8 1 4 2 -LR
Transceiver type
Ships with empty Small Form-Factor
Pluggable Plus (SFP+) enclosures
Pluggable Plus (SFP+) enclosures
Intended for use with active and
passive copper cables, which are
sold separately by FCoE switch
vendors
passive copper cables, which are
sold separately by FCoE switch
vendors
SR optical
LR optical
Maximum cable reach
5m
A list of supported cables is posted at
QLogic’s public website in the
products section
QLogic’s public website in the
products section
300m 10
km
Hos t Bus Conne c tiv i ty
PCI Express lane support
PCIe Gen2x4 or Gen1x8
Hardware platform
IA32 (x86), Intel64 and AMD64 (x64), IA64. SPARC, and PowerPC
Ethe r ne t Spe c ific a tions
Ethernet throughput
10 Gbps
Autonegotiate 10000 MB, 100
MB, and 10Mb
MB, and 10Mb
No
Ethernet frame size
1500 or 9000 bytes (jumbo frames)
Stateless offload
IP, TCP, and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) checksum offloads; large send offload (LSO); giant send
offload(GSO); receive-side scaling (RSS); and header-data split (I/OAT) support
offload(GSO); receive-side scaling (RSS); and header-data split (I/OAT) support
Enhanced Ethernet
PFC (IEEE 802.1Qbb rev 0), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS; IEEE 802.1Qaz rev 0), and Data Center
Bridging Exchange (DCBX) Protocol (IEEE 802.1Qaz rev 0)
Bridging Exchange (DCBX) Protocol (IEEE 802.1Qaz rev 0)
Fibr e Cha nne l Spe c ific a ti ons
Fibre Channel throughput
10 Gbps
I/O operations per second
(IOPS)
(IOPS)
250,000 per port
Class of service
Class 3
Protocols
SCSI-FCP and FC-TAPE
Tools a n d Uti li tie s
QLogic SANsurfer Fibre Channel and FCoE GUI and CLI, and SANsurfer CNA Networking CLI and native OS networking tools
LAN and SAN boot (PXE, UEFI, and FCode)
Configuring the Adapter Side
To configure the adapter side, do the following:
Download and install drivers for the appropriate platform from the QLogic website. Install both FCoE and
Ethernet (Networking)
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drivers.
Download and install the QLogic SANsurfer Management Suite (SMS) bundle from the website for the given
platform. Be sure to install the QLogic SMS FCoE GUI and command-line interface (CLI) along with the
QLogic SMS CNA Networking CLI. The QLogic SMS FCoE GUI and CLI can be used to configure the FCoE
interface; to configure the networking interface, use either native platform tools or the QLogic SMS CNA
Networking CLI. The QLogic SMS CNA Networking CLI is currently supported on Microsoft Windows platforms
only.
Make sure that the cable (copper or fiber) is connected from the CNA port to the Cisco Nexus Family switch
port.
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For the Ethernet (Networking) interface utilities to work, the FCoE driver must be installed.