Standards

• ANSI INCITS T11 FC-BB-5 2.0, FC-PI-2, FC-GS-4, FC-TAPE, and FCP-3
• PCI Express base spec 2.0, IBM Blade Server Base Specification for I/O cards, PCI Bus Power Management Interface, rev. 1.2, Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
• IEEE 802.3ae (10Gb/s Ethernet)
• IEEE 802.1q (VLAN)
• IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
• IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)
• IEEE 802.1p (QoS/CoS)
• IEEE 802.3ak (10GBase-CX4)
• IEEE 802.1ab (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
• Enhanced Ethernet (draft)
• Enhanced Transmission Selection, ETS(P802.1Qaz)
• Priority-based Flow Control, PFC (P802.1Qbb)
• Data Center Bridging Capabilities eXchange Protocol, CIN-DCBX and CEE-DCBX (P802.1Qaz)

Architecture

• Dual-channel, 10Gb/s Ethernet Link speed
• PCIe Express 2.0 (x8, 5GT/s), MSI-X support
• IBM BladeCenter CFFh Form Factor
• Integrated data buffer and code space memory

Ethernet Features

• IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP checksum offload
• Large Send Offload (LSO)
• Large Receive Offload
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• IPV4 TCP Chimney Offload
• VLAN insertion and extraction
• Jumbo frames up to 9000 Bytes
• Interrupt coalescing
• Load balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance (AFT), switch fault tolerance (SFT), adaptive load balancing (ALB), teaming support and IEEE 802.3ad

Comprehensive OS Support

• Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Novell SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• VMware ESX
• VMware VSphere