Product Overview

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Product Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle’s Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card, including:

Components

Product Description

Hardware and Software Requirements

Features

Components

The carton in which your Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card was shipped should contain the following items:

Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card with a low profile bracket attached.

Standard height bracket

Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter Getting Started Guide.

Product Description

The Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card is a low profile x8 lane PCI-Express 10 gigabit Ethernet card utilizing the Sun ASIC with XFP-based 10-gigabit Ethernet optics. The Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card requires an optical transceiver.

FIGURE 1-1 shows the adapter.

FIGURE 1-1 Oracle’s Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter

Illustration shows the adapter.

Hardware and Software Requirements

Before installing the adapter, make sure 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 SPARC and X64 Servers
Requirements	Hardware or Software
Hardware	Oracle’s Sun Fire T1000, Sun Fire T2000, Sun Fire V445, Sun Fire V245, Sun Fire V215, Sun Fire U45, Sun Fire X4600, Sun Fire X4200, Sun Fire X4100, Sun Fire X2100 systems
Operating System	Oracle Solaris 10 01/07 Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0_u4, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0_u3
Optical transceivers	X5558A SR (Short Reach) XFP Transceiver for the base board X5560A-z LR (Long Reach) XFP Transceiver for the base board

Table lists the supported hardware and software for the adapter.

Features

The Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card provides the following features:

Two full-duplex 10 gigabit Ethernet interface that use a 10 gigabit Ethernet small form factor pluggable (XFP), optical transceiver with duplex LC fiber connector

IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant

Uses Sun’s own ASIC and software for innovative throughput networking design

Networking I/O virtualization supporting Oracle Solaris LDOM 1.0 (now called Oracle VM for SPARC).

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

Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)

Jumbo frame support (up to 9KBytes)

IPv4/IPv6 and IPMP support

TCP/UDP/IP checksum and CRC32C support

IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support

Declaration of Conformity

Compliance Model Number:	ATLS2XGF
Product Family Name:	Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card

Table providing the Compliance model ID number and product name.

EMC

USA--FCC Class A

This equipment complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This equipment may not cause harmful interference.

2. This equipment must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation.

European Union

This equipment complies with the following requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC:

As Information Technology Equipment (ITE) Class A per (as applicable):
EN 55022:1994 +A1:1995 +A2:1997		Class A
EN 61000-3-2:2000		Pass
EN 61000-3-3:1995 +A1:2000		Pass
EN 55024:1998 +A1:2001 +A2:2003 Required Limits:
	IEC 61000-4-2	4 kV (Direct), 8kV (Air)
	IEC 61000-4-3	3 V/m
	IEC 61000-4-4	1 kV AC Power Lines, 0.5 kV Signal and DC Power Lines
	IEC 61000-4-5	1 kV AC Line-Line and Outdoor Signal Lines, 2 kV AC Line-Gnd, 0.5 kV DC Power Lines
	IEC 61000-4-6	3 V
	IEC 61000-4-8	1 A/m
	IEC 61000-4-11	Pass

Table listing of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC requirements that this equipment complies with.

Safety

This equipment complies with the following requirements of the Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC:

EC Type Examination Certificates:
	EN 60950-1:2001, 1st Edition
	IEC 60950-1:2001, 1st Edition	CB Scheme Certificate No.
	Evaluated to all CB Countries
	UL and cUL/CSA 60950-1:2001, CSA C22.2 No. 60950-00	File:E138989-A82	Vol. 54
	FDA DHHS Accession Number (Monitors Only)

Table listing of the Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC Examination Certificates that this equipment complies with.

Supplementary Information

This equipment was tested and complies with all the requirements for the CE Mark.
This equipment complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive 2002/95/EC.

/S/

Dennis P. Symanski DATE

Worldwide Compliance Engineering

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4150 Network Circle, MPK15-102

Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A.

Tel: 650-786-3255

Fax: 650-786-3723

Donald Cameron DATE

Program Manager/Customer Quality

Sun Microsystems Scotland, Limited

Blackness Road, Phase I, Main Bldg.

Springfield, EH49 7LR

Scotland, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1 506 672 539 Fax: +44 1 506 670 011

Table containing signatures and mailing addresses of the Sun Microsystems Manager of Compliance Engineering in the U.S., and the Quality Program Manager in Scotland.