Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port and 4-port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter
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Wake-on-LAN support
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is supported on all servers listed in Table 2, with the exception of:
BladeCenter HS21
z
BladeCenter HS21 XM
z
In addition, when used with the four-port card, WOL is only supported with the switch modules in bays 7
and 9 only. WOL is not supported with bays 8 and 10.
Popular configurations
Figure 4 shows a configuration using the Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh).
This solution enables four 10 Gbps Ethernet connections from each blade server.
Figure 4. 40 Gb solution using the Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
Table 5 provides the components used in this configuration.
Table 5. Components used when connecting Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card
(CFFh) to four BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Modules
Diagram
reference
Part number/
machine type
Description
Quantity
Varies
IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server
1 to 14
46M6164
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
1 per
server
8852 or 8740/8750
BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT
1
46C7191
BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
4
44W4408
IBM 10 GBase-SR 10 GbE 850 nm Fiber SFP+ Transceiver
Up to 40*
* You must have one transceiver for each 10 Gb port in an I/O module.
