Shipping Kit Contents

The carton in which your Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module was shipped should contain the following items:

Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module
Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module Getting Started Guide

Note - Sun 10GbE SFP+ SR optical tranceivers are available for order with part number, X5561A-Z.

Product Description

The Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module is an x8 lane PCI-Express 10-Gigabit Ethernet card using the Sun ASIC with SFP+ based 10-Gigabit Ethernet optics.

Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module Features

The Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module provides the following features:

Supports two full-duplex 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces from the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems.
Small form factor 10-Gigabit Ethernet pluggable (SFP+) optical transceivers with duplex LC fiber connectors in the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module
IEEE 802.3ae 2002-compliant
Uses Sun ASIC and software for innovative throughput networking design
Networking I/O virtualization supporting Solaris LDoms 1.0 software
Hardware-based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to networking
Up to 16 receive DMA channels and up to 24 transmit DMA channels, multiple receive and transmit descriptor rings, and dedicated networking hardware resources (DMA, interrupts, buffer, and more) for each thread or strand
CPU/thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1, L2, L3, and L4
Jumbo Frames support (up to 9KBytes)
IPv4, IPv6, and IPMP support
TCP and UDP checksum and CRC32C support
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support

Hardware and Software Requirements

Before installing the FEM, ensure that your system meets the hardware and software requirements in TABLE 1-1.

**TABLE 1-1 Hardware and Software Requirements for Sun x64 Servers**
Requirements	Hardware or Software
Operating system	Solaris 10 8/07 Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS4.5 (32- and 64-bit) RHEL AS4.6 (64-bit) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP1 (64-bit) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit miniport driver)
10GbE network express module (NEM)	Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module
Sun Blade Server Module	Sun Blade X6250 Server Module (375-3501-06 or newer). This part number is printed on the motherboard, and can be read from the ELOM. Sun Blade X6450 Server Module

The Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module is hot-pluggable and connects to the rear of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System chassis. The NEM is a pass-through device, which connects the network device of each Sun Blade server module from the chassis mid-plane to an RJ-45 Ethernet port on the NEM. The Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module (marketing part number X4251) NEM retains the pass-through network connections and adds circuitry to provide multiple SAS connections to hard disk drives.

Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module Support on Sun Blade X6250 Server Module

The Sun Dual 10GbE Fabric Expansion Module (FEM) is supported only on the Sun Blade X6250 server motherboard with part number 375-3501-06 or newer. The Sun Dual 10 GbE FEM also requires CPLD version 231.

To find the part number, either use the ELOM, or look for the number printed on the motherboard itself.

Check Hardware Release Before Installing CPLD Update

Before installing CPLD version 231 on the Sun Blade X6250 server, check the part number on the motherboard. It must be 375-3501-06 or newer. If you have a motherboard with a different part number, do not install CPLD version 231.