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Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter

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The Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM® BladeCenter® is a part of IBM's 

comprehensive networking portfolio of 1 GbE and 10 GbE adapters and delivers industry-leading 
performance and scalability per watt, reducing requirements for power and cooling. Protocol offloads 
enable efficient use of computing resources, support more virtual machines per CPU, and reduce the 
number of servers required to support data center demands. These adapters allow IBM clients to simplify 
their I/O infrastructure by reducing the number of switches needed inside the chassis.

The Broadcom 2-port 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter can be configured to operate in virtual NIC mode, 

where up to eight virtual NIC devices can be enabled. Each physical 10 Gbps port can be divided into four 
virtual ports with bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments to the maximum 10 Gbps per physical port.

Figure 1 shows the Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter.

Figure 1. Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter 

Did you know?

The Broadcom 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter can operate in pNIC mode as regular 1Gb or 10Gb 

Ethernet adapter, or in switch-independent vNIC mode where it can be divided into up to eight virtual 
adapters (up to four per physical port), which can be used either with integrated switches such as the BNT 
Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module and the Cisco Nexus 4001I Switch Module, or with other  top-of-rack 
switches via the 10 Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module.