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Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module User's Guide Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module Documentation Library |
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Overview of Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM User's Guide
Features of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM
Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal
Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM
Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules
Booting Over the Virtualized M2 NEM 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port
Booting over the Network With an x86 Blade Server
Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform
How to Configure the Network Host Files
Configuring the hxge Device Driver Parameters
Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Linux Platform
Installing and Removing the Driver on a Linux Platform
Configuring the Network Interface
Checking and Testing the hxge Device
Changing the hxge Driver Configuration
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a VMware ESX Server Platform
Installing the ESX Server Drivers on an Existing ESX Server
Installing the ESX Server Drivers With a New ESX Installation
Configuring the Virtual NEM M2 Network Adapters
Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates
Enabling Private and Failover Mode
The Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM provides the magnetics and RJ-45 connectors for the ten 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet interfaces that come from Sun Blade 6000 server modules through the midplane. The Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM has one 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet port for each server module slot. There is no active circuitry on the Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM for these GbE ports.
The Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM also provides a 10 GbE connection for each server module. Each server module appears to have its own 10 GbE NIC through the Virtualized M2 NEM ASICs. All the server modules share two physical small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) 10 GbE ports via a dual channel 10 GbE Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) per ASIC. In a Sun Blade 6000 chassis, five server modules connect to a single Virtualized M2 NEM ASIC and share its 10 GbE port. Two Virtualized M2 NEM ASICs can be configured so that the ten server modules share one 10 GbE port for simplified cable aggregation.
See 10 GbE NIC Virtualization for further information on the NEM 10 GbE virtualization.
The following illustration shows a schematic of the NEM Ethernet connections.