Feature code
Description
EB5T
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 10 M
EB5U
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 15 M
EB5V
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 20 M
EB5W
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 30 M
EB5X
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 50 M
EB5Y
QSFP28 AOC 100 Gb Ethernet Cable - 100 M
EB2B
1 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
EB2H
3 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
ECBN
5 M Passive QSFP+ to QSFP+
EB27
QSFP+ 40G BASE-SR transceiver
Attributes provided
The adapter is based on the Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapter, which uses the ConnectX-4 EN Network
Controller
Ethernet only supported in Ethernet or RoCE mode
PCIe3 compliant (1.1 and 2.0 compatible)
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
NIC and RoCE are concurrently supported
RoCE supported on Linux and AIX (7.2, and later)
NIC supported on all operati
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
LSO, LRO, and checksum offload
NIM boot support
Backward compatible with 40 Gb Ethernet when using compatible cables and transceivers
Improves performance and scalability by offloading the CPU from I/O networking tasks
Minimizes CPU overhead by more efficiently using memory access
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. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following
topics:
• The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from Fix Central (http://
www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/).
• Power Systems Prerequisites (http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/iprt/home).
• IBM SSIC (System Storage Interoperation Center) (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/
ssic/interoperability.wss).
• The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded
from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/
set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html).
• For support details, see the Linux Alert website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
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