IBM Flex System EN4132 User Manual

IBM Flex System EN4132 2­port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter

User’s Guide

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IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter User’s Guide

IBM Flex System EN4132 2­port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter

User’s Guide

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the general information in Appendix B, “Notices” on page 23, the Safety In­formation and Environmental Notices and User's Guide documents on the IBM Notices for Network Devices CD, and the Warranty Information
document that comes with the product.

First Edition February 2012

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with IBM Corp.

Contents

Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

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Related documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Features and specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Finding the MAC and serial number on the adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2. Installing the IBM Flex System adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing device drivers and verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 3. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Parts listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Document format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Chapter 1. IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb
Ethernet adapter

The IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet adapter provides the highest
performing and most flexible interconnect solution for servers used in Enterprise
Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.

This User's Guide contains setup and installation instructions for the IBM Flex
System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet adapter and general information about the
adapter, including how to install drivers and how to get help.

For information about the types of compatible devices available for IBM products,
contact your IBM marketing representative or authorized reseller. For a list of
supported optional devices, see

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.

The warranty document for this product comes with the network device, and it
contains information about the terms of the warranty.

For the most up-to-date product documentation for all of your IBM Flex System
products, go to the IBM Flex System Information Center at

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp.

Related documentation

This User's Guide contains setup and installation instructions for the IBM Flex
System adapter and general information about the adapter and how to get help.
The most recent version of this User's Guide and all other related documents are
at

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp.

In addition to this User's Guide, the following related documentation is available
for your adapter:

• IBM Flex System Installation and Service Guide

The Installation and Service Guide that comes with the IBM compute node contains
the instructions for installing the adapter in the compute node.

• Mellanox OFED for Linux User Manual

• This document is available at www.mellanox.com, and it provides information about

the Mellanox OFED software. Mellanox OFED is a single Virtual Protocol Interconnect
(VPI) software stack that is based on the OpenFabrics (OFED) Linux stack.

• MLNX_VPI for Windows User Manual

This README document is available at www.mellanox.com, and it provides informa-
tion about the Mellanox WinOF VPI driver Rev 2.1.3 package, which is distributed for
Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64), Windows Server R2 (x64), and Windows 7 (x86
and x64).

• MLNX_VPI for Windows Installation Guide

This document is available at www.mellanox.com, and it provides information about
installing and testing MLNX_VPI for Windows on a single host machine that has an
IBM IB6132 FDR InfiniBand adapter installed.

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IBM Flex System Notices for Network Devices CD that comes with the adapter

Notices for Network Device

contains the following documentation in portable document format (PDF):

• IBM Flex Sys

This multilingual document contains basic troubleshooting infor
ment parts list for the switches, adapters,
mentation that comes with your IBM chassis,
contain more detailed troubleshooting information.

M Safety Information

• IB

This multilingual document contains the translat
that appear in the IBM documentation.

• IBM Envir

This multilingual document contains the w
information for your product.

• IBM License

This multilingual document contains the IBM license information for the machine
code for y

• IBM W

This multilingual document is provided on the
the IBM warranty information for your product.

tem Network Devices Basic Troubleshooting Information

mation and a replace-

and pass-thru modules. The product docu-

compute node, or network device might

ed versions of the safety messages

onmental Notices and User's Guide

orld wide environmental and recycling

Agreement for Machine Code

our product.

arranty Information

CD and in printed format. It contains

For the most up-to-date documentation for all of th
go to the IBM Flex System Information Center at

infocenter/flexsys/information/index.jsp.

Notices and statements in this document

e IBM Flex System products,

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/

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Features and specifications

The IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet adapter has the following fea­tures and specifications:

• PCI Express 3.0 (1.1 and 2.0 compatible) through an x8 e

• 10 Gb/s Ethernet

• CPU off-load of transport operations

• CORE-Direct® application off-load

• GPUDirect application off-load

• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

• End-to-end QoS and congestion control

• Hardware-based I/O virtualization

• TCP/UDP/IP stateless off-load

• Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)

• RoHS-6 compliant

Table 1 - IBM Flex System

Physical

Protocol Support

dge connector up to 8GT/s

EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet adapter specifications table

Size: 3.3in. x 3.8 in. (84.89mm x 96.7 mm)

Ethernet: 10GBASE-CX4, 10GBASE-R, and 1000BASE-R

Data Rate: 1/10Gb/s – Ethernet

PCI Express Gen3: SERDES @ 8.0GT/s, 8 lanes (2.0 and 1.1 compatible)

Regulatory

EMC: Refer to the following link:

www.mellanox.com/related-docs/user_manuals/
Regulatory_and_Compliance_Guide.pdf

Safety: IEC/EN 60950-1:2006

ETSI EN 300 019-2-2
IEC 60068-2- 64, 29, 32

RoHS: RoHS-R6

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Finding the MAC and serial number on the adapter

Each adapter has a label on the print side that shows the adapter serial number
and the MAC for the Ethernet protocol.

Figure 1:

Figure 2:

Board Label 1

Board Label 2

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