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Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter for IBM System x
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Table 3. Supported direct-attach cables
Supported switches
Description
Part
number
Feature
Code
Brocade
VDX 6730
IBM G8124E,
IBM G8264
Juniper
EX4500
Passive direct-attach cables
0.5m IBM Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00D6288
A3RG
No
Yes
No
1 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
90Y9427
A1PH
No
Yes
No
3 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
90Y9430
A1PJ
No
Yes
No
5 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
90Y9433
A1PK
No
Yes
No
1m Juniper DAC SFP+ Cable
68Y6927
5986
No
No
Yes
3m Juniper DAC SFP+ Cable
68Y6947
5987
No
No
Yes
Active direct-attach cables
1m IBM Active DAC SFP+ Cable
95Y0323
A25A
No
Yes
No
3m IBM Active DAC SFP+ Cable
95Y0326
A25B
No
Yes
No
5m IBM Active DAC SFP+ Cable
95Y0329
A25C
No
Yes
No
1m 10GE Twinax Act Copper SFP+
81Y8295
A18M
Yes
No
Yes
3m 10GE Twinax Act Copper SFP+
81Y8296
A18N
Yes
No
Yes
5m 10GE Twinax Act Copper SFP+
81Y8297
A18P
Yes
No
Yes
Features
The VFA5 reduces cost by enabling a converged infrastructure and improves performance with powerful
offload engines. The adapter has the following features and benefits:
Multi-protocol support for 10 GbE
The Emulex VFA5 supports 2x10 GbE and is cost- and performance-optimized for integrated and
converged infrastructures. The VFA5 offers a “triple play” of converged data, storage, and low latency
RDMA (RDMA support is planned for 1H/2014) networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The Emulex
VFA provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads
on their increasingly converged infrastructures.
RDMA (RDMA support is planned for 1H/2014) networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The Emulex
VFA provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads
on their increasingly converged infrastructures.
Full hardware storage offloads
The Emulex VFA5 supports an optional hardware offload engine that accelerates storage protocol
processing, delivering up to 1.5 million I/O operations per second (IOPS), which enables the server’s
processing resources to focus on applications, improving the server’s performance.
processing resources to focus on applications, improving the server’s performance.
IBM Features on Demand (FoD)
The VFA5 uses IBM Features on Demand (FoD) software activation technology. FoD enables the
adapter to be initially deployed as a low-cost Ethernet NIC, and then later upgraded in the field to
support FCoE or iSCSI hardware offload.
support FCoE or iSCSI hardware offload.