This chapter provides an overview of the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module (FEM), including:
Product Description
The Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module (FEM) connects to the Sun Blade T6320 server module motherboard by two square NexLev connectors (FIGURE 1-1).
The FEM transmits two sets of x4 XAUI 10-Gigabit Ethernet lanes from the Sun Blade
T6320 server module to the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-Fabric Network Express Module (FIGURE 1-2).
FIGURE 1-1 FEM Module for the Sun Blade T6320 Server Module
FIGURE 1-2 Signal Diagram of the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module
Hardware and Software Requirements
Before installing the FEM, ensure that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements in TABLE 1-1.
TABLE 1-1 Minimum Hardware, Software and Firmware Versions
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System or OS
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Software or Firmware Version
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Sun Blade T6320 server module
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System Firmware 7.0.9.c with patch 127581-01 or later.
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Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Chassis
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Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Chassis
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Operating System
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Solaris 10 8/07 OS with patch 127127-11 and 136933-02 or later
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Features
The Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass-Through Fabric Expansion Module provides the following features:
- Supports two full-duplex 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-fabric Network Express Module.
- IEEE 802.3ae 2002-compliant
- Hardware-based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to networking
- Supports up to eight receive DMA channels and up to 12 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
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