QLE8152
Dell Dual-Port, 10Gbps Ethernet-to-. PCIe Converged Network Adapter
Standard
Controller: QLogic QLE8152 Dual Port 10Gbps FCoE Converged Network Adapter
Data Path: x8 (PCI Express Gen1) or x4 (PCI Express Gen2)
Data Bus: PCI Express 2.0 (5.0 GT/s)
Form Factor: Low profile PCI Express card: (6.6 in. × 2.54 in.)
Transfer Rate: 10Gbps
Ethernet Ports: Two
Wake On LAN: No
PXE Support: Yes
Receive Side Scaling (RSS): Yes
Cabling: Direct Attach SFP+ copper cabling
Connector: SFP+
Maximum cabo Length: 5m
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE): No
iSCSI boot: No
Advanced Features
Enhanced Ethernet
Priority-based flow control (802.1Qbb rev. 0)
Enhanced transmission selection (802.1Qaz rev. 0)
DCBX protocol (802.1Qaz rev. 0)
Tools and Utilities:
Management tools and device utilities:
SANsurfer® (GUI and CLI) for FCoE, SANsurfer (CLI) and OS-based management tools for NIC
Utilities for programming boot code; Linux® scripting tools
Boot support: LAN and SAN boot (PXE, BIOS, UEFI, FCode)
APIs: SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, and FDMI, NDIS 5.x, NDIS 6.x, and WMI
Standards Supported
Host Bus: PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 2.0, PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, rev. 1.2
Ethernet: IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet), 802.1q (VLAN), 802.3ad (Link
Aggregation), 802.1p (Priority Encoding), 802.3x (Flow Control), 802.3ap
(KX/KX4), 802.3ak (CX4), IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG), IPv4 Specification (RFC
791), IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460), TCP/UDP Specification (RFC
793/768), ARP Specification (RFC 826)
FCoE: SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre Channel Tape
(FC-TAPE) profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second
Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic
Services (FC-GS-3)
Operating System
Windows Server® 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 (targeted)
Red Hat® RHEL AP 5.x; Novell® SLES 10.x, 11
VMware® ESX/ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 (targeted)
Performance Features
Full FCoE hardware offload
250,000 FCoE IOPS per port
IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
Large and Giant Send Offload (LSO, GSO)
Header-data split
Interrupt coalescing
NetQueue
Protocols: FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2)
Environmental Operating Conditions
Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F
Storage: -20°C/-4°F to 70°C/158°F
