| Marketing description |
| The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter 5 Generation 2 (VFA5.2) Network Adapter Family for system x builds on the foundation of the previous generation of Emulex VFA5 adapters by providing performance improvements, including RoCE v2 support, and management enhancements with enhanced Lenovo XClarity support . These features help reduce complexity, reduce costs and improve performance with Lenovo servers. |
| Product features |
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Virtual network card emulation
Emulex VFA5.2 supports three NIC virtualization modes out of the box: Virtual Fabric Mode (vNIC1), Switch Independent Mode (vNIC2), and Unified Fabric Port (UFP). With NIC virtualization, each of the adapter's two physical ports can be logically configured to emulate up to four virtual NIC (vNIC) functions with user-defined bandwidth settings. In addition, each physical port can simultaneously support a storage protocol (FCoE or iSCSI).
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Common Drivers and Tools
You can deploy faster and manage less when you use both Virtual Fabric Adapters (VFAs) and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) developed by Emulex. VFAs and HBAs developed by Emulex use the same installation and configuration process, which streamlines your server configuration and commissioning efforts, saving you valuable time. They also use the same Fiber Channel drivers, which reduces the time to qualify and manage storage connectivity. Using Emulex's OneCommand Manager, you can manage Emulex-developed VFAs and HBAs throughout your data center from a single console.
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VXLAN/NVGRE offload technology
Emulex supports Microsoft's network virtualization using generic routing encapsulation (NVGRE) and VMware's Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN). These technologies create more logical LANs (to isolate traffic) that cloud architectures require. Since these protocols increase the processing load on the server's CPU, VFA5.2 has an offloading engine specifically designed to handle these tags. The resulting benefit is that cloud service providers can take advantage of VXLAN/NVGRE without reducing server performance.
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| Total |
| Device type |
Network adapter |
| Form Factor |
Plug-in card |
| Interface (Bus) Type |
PCI Express 3.0 x8 Mezzanine |
| Network |
| Ports |
10Gb Ethernet x 2 |
| Connectivity Technology |
Wired |
| Data link protocol |
10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Data transfer speed |
10 Gbps |
| Capacity |
MAC addresses on port: 128 |
| Network / transport protocol |
TCP/IP, UDP/IP |
| Fintics |
MAC address filtering, IPv6 support, Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) support, improved transmission selection, IPv4 and IPv6 Large Send Offload and Checksum Offload (LSO/TCO), NDIS 6 compatibility IPSec task offload, Quality of Service (QoS), Jumbo Frames support, Receive Side Scaling (RSS), Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), Data Center Bridging (DCB), Extended Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI -X), Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB), TCP/IP checksum offload, UDP/IP checksum offload, Unified Fabric Port (UFP), Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC), Virtual Extensible LAN ( VXLAN), Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) v2, Virtual Fabric mode, Switch Independent mode, Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB) |
| Appropriate standards |
IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3p, IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP), IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbg |
| Extension / Connectivity |
| Interfaces |
2 x 10Gb Ethernet - SFP |
| Power supply |
| Power consumption Operational |
14.4 Watts |
| Software / System Requirements |
| Operating system required |
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86/AMD64/Intel EM64T, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 6 x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T , VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 with Xen |
| Dimensions and weight |
| Width |
1.7 cm |
| Depth |
16.8 cm |
| Height |
6.9 cm |
| Manufacturer's warranty |
| Service and maintenance |
Limited warranty - 1 year |
| Environmental parameters |
| Minimum operating temperature |
0 °C |
| Maximum operating temperature |
55 °C |
| Operating humidity range |
5 - 95% (non-condensing) |
| Compatibility information |
| Intended for |
Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5 5465
Lenovo System x3500 M5 5464
Lenovo System x3550 M5 5463
Lenovo System x3650 M5 5462
Lenovo System x3750 M4 8753
Lenovo System x3850 X6 6241
Lenovo System x3950 X6 6241
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Certified Node 7Y94, 7Z12
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX7820 Appliance 7Z13
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR550
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR570
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 |
