BLADE SERVERS | UI-914 - IBM BladeCenter H-Class
Networking & IO Switch
IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric provides Ethernet switch modules that offer an easy way to manage, high performance Ethernet networking capabilities for your BladeCenter systems. With modules from IBM, Cisco and Nortel supporting 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet bandwidth, you get high performance Ethernet capabilities designed to help your business run better.
Click here to view on a new page »| Ethernet adapters and mezzanines | Product features |
| Broadcom 2-port and 4-port 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter | Enables up to 4 High Speed bays in BladeCenter H. Offers end to end 10Gb IO Virtualization using BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager. |
| 2/4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter | Based on Broadcom 5709 chipset, it enables 2 ports in BladeCenter S Chassis for higher redundancy and enables 4 ports on BladeCenter H and HT chassis to enable high speed IO bays 7, 8, 9 and 10. |
| IBM BladeCenter CFFv Ethernet Expansion Card | Based on Broadcom 5704 chipset, it provides 2 1Gb ports per Blade. |
| NetXen 10Gb Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter | Designed to interface with Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module, this card is based on NetXen NX2031 network controller chip, providing 2 10Gb ports per Blade. |
| Combo expansion cards | Product features |
| QLogic CFFh Ethernet/Fibre Combo Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter | Based on QLogic 2432M PCI-Express x4 ASIC for 4 Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel and Broadcom 5715S PCI-Express x4 ASIC for 1 Gb 2-Port Ethernet chipsets. This card provides 2 4Gb Fibre Channel ports and 2 1Gb Ethernet ports on the same card. |
| iSCSI expansion cards | Product features |
| QLogic iSCSI Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter | Based on QLogic QMC4052 enabling iSCSI connectivity through switch module bays 3 and 4, the hardware initiator provides iSCSI communication from the blade server to an iSCSI storage device for full hardware-based iSCSI initiator and TOE for storage traffic only (TCP/IP offload engine) function with an option to run diskless Blades in a non-Fibre Channel SAN environment. |
| IBM BladeCenter SFF Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card | Provides each blade server with two additional Gigabit ports and works in conjunction with all BladeCenter Fibre Channel switch options. |
