Dell Brocade Adapters - Manual (Page 210)

182 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual
53-1002144-01
Converged Network Adapters
5
ATTENTION
For stand-up adapters, use only Brocade-branded SFP laser transceivers supplied with the adapters.
Supported FCoE protocols and
features
•
VMware NetIOC
•
VMware VM Direct Path I/O
•
Look-ahead data split
•
LKA (Link Keep Alive) protocol
•
preFIP, FIP 1.03, and FIP 2.0 (FC-BB5 rev. 2
compliant)
•
FIP discovery protocol for dynamic FCF
discovery and FCoE link management.
•
FPMA and SPMA type FIP fabric login.
•
FCoE protocols
•
FCP-3 -(initiator mode only)
•
FC-SP
•
FC-LS
•
FC-GS
•
FC-FS2
•
FC-FDMI
•
FC-CT
•
FCP
•
FCP-2
•
FCP-3
•
FC-BB-5
•
FCoE checksum offload
•
SCSI SBC-3
•
NPIV
•
IP-over-FC (IPoFC)
•
Target rate limiting
•
Boot Over SAN
•
Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery
•
Persistent binding
•
I/O interrupt coalescing and moderation
•
Class 3, Class 2 control frames
•
vHBA
Other features
•
ASIC Flip-flops Parity Protected
•
T10 Data CRC
•
ECC Memory Parity Protected
TABLE 19 CNA hardware specifications (continued)
Feature Description