PCIe2 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) Copper and RJ45 Adapter (FC EL57; CCIN 2CC1)

Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL57 adapters.

Overview

The PCIe2 4-port (10 Gb FCoE and 1 GbE) Copper and RJ45 Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 2, regular-height adapter. The adapter has four-ports and is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter (CNA). This adapter provides a PCIe 2.0 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.

The four-port adapter provides two 10 Gb FCoE Copper Twin-axial ports and two 1 Gb RJ45 Ethernet ports. The two 10 Gb FCoE ports are connected by little connector-type (LC) connectors. Each FCoE port provides Ethernet connectivity with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbps (gigabits per second). Each of the 1 Gb ports provides Ethernet connectivity at a data rate of 1 Gbps and is connected with Ethernet cables. A 10 Mb data rate is not supported. Figure 1 shows the FC EL57 adapter.

Restriction: The 1 Gb Ethernet ports do not support data rates of 10 Mbps (megabits per second).

The adapter is Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capable. The adapter can function as a boot adapter. The adapter supports all Fibre Channel and Ethernet topologies.

Figure 1. FC EL57 adapter

Specifications

Item: Description
Adapter FRU number: 00E8140 (Designed to comply with RoHS requirement)
Wrap plug FRU number: 12R9314 (for Fibre LC connector); 10N7405 (for RJ45 connector)
I/O bus architecture: PCIe2 x8
Slot requirement: For details about slot priorities and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.
Cables: SR SFP+ Copper Twinax and Cat5 Ethernet cables
Voltage: 3.3 V, 12 V
Form factor: Short, low-profile
Maximum number: For the maximum adapters supported, see the PCI adapter placement topic collection for your system.

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 that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching devices. To check for the prerequisites, see IBM® Prerequisite website.

The adapter is supported on the following versions of the operating systems:

AIX®
- AIX 7.1, or later
- AIX 6.1, or later
Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 11 SP 3, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6.5, or later
- For support details, see the Linux Alert website.
IBM i
- IBM i Version 7.1, or later , supported through VIOS 2.2.2, or later

Last updated: Thu, June 27, 2019