This chapter provides an overview of the Sun Dual 10GBE XFP PCIe ExpressModule, including:
Shipping Kit Contents
The carton in which your Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule was shipped should contain the following items:
- Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule
- Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule Getting Started Guide
Product Description
The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule is an x8 lane PCI-Express 10-Gigabit Ethernet card utilizing the Sun ASIC with XFP-based 10-gigabit Ethernet optics. The ExpressModule requires an optical transceiver.
FIGURE 1-1 shows the ExpressModule.
FIGURE 1-1 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule
Hardware and Software Requirements
Before installing the ExpressModule, ensure that your system meets the hardware and software requirements. TABLE 1-1 lists the supported hardware and software.
TABLE 1-1 Hardware and Software Requirements for Sun SPARC and X64 Servers
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Requirements
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Hardware or Software
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Hardware
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Sun Blade System 6000 and Sun Blade System 8000
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Operating System
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Solaris 10 01/07 Operating System
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux
4.0_u4, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0_u3
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Optical transceivers
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X5558A SR (Short Reach) XFP Transceiver for the ExpressModule
X5560A-z LR (Long Reach) XFP Transceiver for the ExpressModule
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FIGURE 1-2 Front Panel LEDs and Power Indicator and Attention Switch
Front Panel LED Displays on the ExpressModule
Two indicators and two sets of LEDs are displayed on the front panel of the Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule. TABLE 1-2 describes the meaning of each LED. FIGURE 1-2 shows the location of the LEDs.
TABLE 1-2 Front Panel LEDs for the Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule
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Label
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Meaning if Lit
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Color
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Description
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Power is OK
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Green
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Hot plug power OK indicator
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Attention required
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Amber
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Hot plug ExpressModule attention indicator
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ATTN
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Attention Switch is a recessed pushbutton
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N/A
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Hot plug attention switch
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LINK 0
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Link is up on Port 0
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Green
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Indicator for 10GbE
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ACT 0
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Activity on Port 0
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Amber
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RX/TX activity indicator
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LINK 1
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Link is up on Port 1
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Green
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Indicator for 10GbE
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ACT 1
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Activity on Port 1
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Amber
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RX/TX activity indicator
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Features
The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule provides the following features:
- Two full-duplex 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that use a small form factor 10-Gigabit Ethernet pluggable (XFP) optical transceiver with duplex LC fiber connector
- 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
| Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule User’s Guide
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820-1606-12
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