Lenovo 4XC7A08225 ThinkSystem Ethernet Netzwerkadapter User Manual

ThinkSystem Marvell QL41132 and QL41134
10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters
Product Guide

4XC7A08225 ThinkSystem Ethernet Netzwerkadapter

The QL41134 4-Port and QL41132 2-Port 10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters are an advanced 10 Gb Ethernet adapters from Marvell which feature Universal Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to offer concurrent support for RoCE, RoCE v2, and iWARP. The  adapters are suitable for customers wishing to use advanced technologies while still maintaining their investment in RJ45 copper wiring.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter.

Did you know?
10GBASE-T is a low-cost way to enter the 10 Gb Ethernet space. By using standard UTP twisted pair cabling, you eliminate the need for transceivers or fiber optic cabling.
Universal RDMA is the term used in Marvell and QLogic adapters that support RoCE, RoCEv2, and iWARP. Such support enables easy migration from one technology to another, since each port can operate a different RDMA protocol at the same time.

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ThinkSystem Marvell QL41132 and QL41134 10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters

Part number information

The ordering information is listed in the following table.
Table 1. Ordering information

Adapter
4XC7A08310| BB8U| ThinkSystem Marvell QL41132 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter

The adapters, when shipped as a stand-alone option, includes the following items:

• One adapter
• Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box (PCIe adapter only)
• Documentation flyer

Network cabling requirements

The network cables that can be used with the adapters are as follows:

• 10GBASE-T
  • UTP Category 7 (100 m maximum)
  • UTP Category 6a (100 m maximum)
  • UTP Category 6 (55 m maximum)
• 1000BASE-T
  • UTP Category 7 (100 m maximum)
  • UTP Category 6a (100 m maximum)
  • UTP Category 6 (100 m maximum)
  • UTP Category 5e (100 m maximum)

Table 2. CAT6 cables

Pa rt number| Fea ture code| Desc r i p t i o n
---|---|---
CAT6 Green Cables
00WE123| AVFW| 0.75m Green Cat6 Cable
00WE127| AVFX| 1.0m Green Cat6 Cable
00WE131| AVFY| 1.25m Green Cat6 Cable
00WE135| AVFZ| 1.5m Green Cat6 Cable
00WE139| AVG0| 3m Green Cat6 Cable
90Y3718| A1MT| 10m Green Cat6 Cable
90Y3727| A1MW| 25m Green Cat6 Cable
CAT6 Blue Cables
90Y3721| A1MU| 10m Blue Cat6 Cable
90Y3730| A1MX| 25m Blue Cat6 Cable
CAT6 Yellow Cables
90Y3715| A1MS| 10m Yellow Cat6 Cable
90Y3724| A1MV| 25m Yellow Cat6 Cable

The following table lists the supported Category 5e (CAT 5e) cables. These cables are not supported at 10Gb speeds.

Table 3. CAT5e cables

Pa rt number| Fea ture code| Desc r i p t i o n
---|---|---
CAT5e Blue Cables
40K5679| 3801| 0.6m Blue Cat5e Cable
00WE111| AVFT| 0.75m Blue Cat5e Cable
00WE115| AVFU| 1.0m Blue Cat5e Cable
00WE119| AVFV| 1.25m Blue Cat5e Cable
40K8785| 3802| 1.5m Blue Cat5e Cable
40K5581| 3803| 3m Blue Cat5e Cable
40K8927| 3804| 10m Blue Cat5e Cable
40K8930| 3805| 25m Blue Cat5e Cable
CAT5e Green Cables
40K5563| 3796| 0.6m Green Cat5e Cable
00WE099| AVFQ| 0.75m Green Cat5e Cable
00WE103| AVFR| 1.0m Green Cat5e Cable
00WE107| AVFS| 1.25m Green Cat5e Cable
40K5643| 3797| 1.5m Green Cat5e Cable
40K5793| 3798| 3m Green Cat5e Cable
40K5794| 3799| 10m Green Cat5e Cable
40K8869| 3800| 25m Green Cat5e Cable
CAT5e Yellow Cables
40K8933| 3791| 0.6m Yellow Cat5e Cable
40K8951| 3792| 1.5m Yellow Cat5e Cable
40K8957| 3793| 3m Yellow Cat5e Cable
40K8801| 3794| 10m Yellow Cat5e Cable
40K8807| 3795| 25m Yellow Cat5e Cable

Features

The QL41132 and QL41134 10Gb 10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters have the following key features:

NPAR partitioning support
Lenovo adapters feature a high-speed, flexible architecture and switch- independent network partitioning (NPAR) technology. Designed for both physical and virtual environments, this switch-agnostic approach enables administrators to split up the 10GbE  network pipe to divide and reallocate bandwidth and resources, as needed, at the adapter level. With NPAR, the adapters can partition their network bandwidth into multiple virtual connections, making one quad-port adapter appear as 16 adapters (or a two- port adapter as 8 adapters) to the OS for use by the applications.
NPAR greatly simplifies the physical connectivity to the server, reduces implementation time, and lowers the acquisition cost of the 10GbE migration. The adapters are the ideal choice for migrating multiple 1GbE network connections to consolidated 10GbE.
In addition to NPAR, the adapter supports network virtualization technologies used in hypervisors:

• VMware NetQueue
• Windows Hyper-V Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
• Linux Multiqueue
• Windows Hyper-V, Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and VMware ESXi SR-IOV

SR-IOV delivers higher performance and lower CPU use with increased virtual machine (VM) scalability.
Concurrent support for SR-IOV and NPAR enables virtual environments with the choice and flexibility to create an agile virtual server platform.

Enterprise-class virtualization
Enterprise-class data centers can be scaled using overlay networks to carry VM traffic over a logical tunnel using NVGRE, GRE, VXLAN, and GENEVE. Although overlay networks can resolve virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) limitations, native stateless  offloading engines are bypassed, which places a higher load on the system’s CPU. The Lenovo adapters efficiently handle this load with advanced NVGRE, GRE, VXLAN, and GENEVE stateless offload engines that access the overlay protocol headers. This access enables traditional stateless offloads of encapsulated traffic with native-level performance in the network.

High performance Universal RDMA Offload
The adapters support RoCE and iWARP acceleration to deliver low latency, low CPU utilization, and high performance on Windows Server Message Block (SMB) Direct 3.0 and 3.02, Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), and iSER. The adapters have the  unique capability to deliver Universal RDMA that enables RoCE, RoCEv2, and iWARP. Universal RDMA and emerging low latency I/O bus mechanisms such as Network File System over RDMA (NFSoRDMA) and Non-Volatile Memory Access Express over Fabric (NVMeoF) allow customers to accelerate access to data. Marvell’s cutting-edge offloading technology increases cluster efficiency and scalability to many thousands of nodes.

Hyperscale Orchestration With OpenStack
The adapters support the OpenStack open source infrastructure for constructing and supervising public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms. It provides for both networking and storage services (block, file, and object) for iSER. These platforms allow  providers to rapidly and horizontally scale VMs over their entire, diverse, and widely spread network architecture to meet the real-time needs of their customers.
Marvell’s integrated, multiprotocol management utility, QConvergeConsole (QCC), provides breakthrough features that allow customers to visualize the OpenStack-orchestrated data center using auto-discovery technology.

Accelerate NFV workloads
In addition to OpenStack, the adapters support Network Function Virtualization (NFV) that allows decoupling of network functions and services from dedicated hardware (such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers) into hosted VMs. NFV enables network  administrators to flexibly create network functions and services as they need them, reducing capital expenditure and operating expenses, and enhancing business and network services agility. Marvell technology is integrated into the Data Plane Development Kit  (DPDK) and can deliver up to 37 million packets per second to host the most demanding NFV workloads.

Specifications

The adapters have the following technical specifications:

• Marvell FastlinQ 41000 ASIC

• PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface

• Supports Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)

• Two or four RJ45 connectors

• Support for PXE boot and iSCSI boot (Note: Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is not supported)

• Networking Features
  Jumbo frames (up to 9600-Byte)
  802.3x flow control
  Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.1AX-2008)
  Virtual LANs-802.1q VLAN tagging
  Configurable Flow Acceleration
  Congestion Avoidance
  IEEE 1588 and Time Sync

• Performance

  • Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support
  • Maximum 60 Million packets per second
  • Low latency
  • 10Gbps line rate per-port
  • 1Gb/10Gb Auto Negotiation

• Stateless Offload Features

  • IP, TCP, and user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum offloads
  • TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
  • Large send offload (LSO)
  • Giant send offload (GSO)
  • Large receive offload (LRO) (Linux)
  • Receive segment coalescing (RSC) (Windows)
  • Receive side scaling (RSS)
  • Transmit side scaling (TSS)
  • Interrupt coalescing

• Virtualization

  • VMware NetQueue support

  • Microsoft Hyper-V VMQ support (up to 208 dynamic queues)

  • Linux Multiqueue support

  • PCI SIG SR-IOV compliant with support for 192 Virtual Functions

  • Virtual NIC (vNIC) / Network Partitioning (NPAR) with support for up to 16 physical functions
    (8 for the two-port adapter)

  • Unified Fabric Protocol (UFP) with 16 physical functions for the four-port adapter, 8 for the two-port adapter)

  • VXLAN-aware stateless offloads

  • NVGRE-aware stateless offloads

  • Geneve-aware stateless offloads

  • IP-in-IP-aware stateless offloads

  • GRE-aware stateless offloads

  • Stateless Transport Tunneling

  • Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)

  • Per Virtual Function (VF) statistics

  • VF Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)/Transmit-Side Scaling (TSS)

• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

  • RoCEv1
  • RoCEv2
  • iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)
  • Internet wide area RDMA protocol (iWARP)
  • Storage over RDMA: iSER, SMB Direct, and NVMe over Fabrics
  • NFSoRDMA

• Tunneling Offloads:

  • Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
  • Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE)
  • Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)
  • Linux Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

• Data Center Bridging (DCB)

  • Priority-based flow control (PFC; IEEE 802.1Qbb)
  • Enhanced transmission selection (ETS; IEEE 802.1Qaz)
  • Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN; IEEE 802.1Qau)
  • Data Center Bridging Capability eXchange (DCBX; IEEE 802.1Qaz)

• Manageability

  • QLogic Control Suite integrated network adapter management utility (CLI) for Linux and Windows
  • QConvergeConsole integrated network management utility (GUI) for Linux and Windows
  • QConvergeConsole Plug-ins for vSphere (GUI) and ESXCLI plug-in for VMware
  • QConvergeConsole PowerKit (Windows PowerShell) cmdlets for Linux and Windows
  • UEFI-based device configuration pages
  • Native OS management tools for networking
  • Full support for Lenovo OneCLI, ASU, XClarity Administrator and firmware updates
  • SNIA HBA API v2 and SMI-S APIs
  • Support for Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) (OCP adapter only)

• Power Saving

  • ACPI compliant power management
  • PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM)
  • PCI Express eCLKREQ support
  • PCI Express unused lane powered down
  • Ultra low-power mode
  • Power Management (PM) Offload

IEEE standards
The adapters support these IEEE specifications:

• IEEE 802.1AS (Precise Synchronization)
• IEEE 802.1ax-2008 (Link Aggregation) (IEEE 802.3ad)
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) traffic prioritization
• IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN)
• IEEE 802.1Qaz (DCBX and ETS)
• IEEE 802.1Qbb (Priority-based Flow Control)
• IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)
• IEEE 802.3-2015 Clauses 55 and 40 (10GBASE-T and 1000BASE-T)
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T copper twisted pair Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T copper twisted pair 10 Gb Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet)
• IEEE 1588-2002 PTPv1 (Precision Time Protocol)
• IEEE 1588-2008 PTPv2

The adapter supports these additional specifications:

• IPv4 (RFQ 791)
• IPv6 (RFC 2460)

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 4. Server support (Part 1 of 3)

Table 5. Server support (Part 2 of 3)

Table 6. Server support (Part 3 of 3)

Operating system support

The following tables list the supported operating systems.

• ThinkSystem QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08225
• ThinkSystem Marvell QL41132 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08310

Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.

Table 7. Operating system support for ThinkSystem QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08225 (Part 1 of 3)

1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.

Table 8. Operating system support for ThinkSystem QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08225 (Part 2 of 3)

Table 9. Operating system support for ThinkSystem QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08225 (Part 3 of 3)

Table 10. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Marvell QL41132 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08310

1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.

Physical specifications

The PCIe adapter is a low-profile adapter with the following dimensions:

• Length: 16.7 cm (6.6 in.)
• Height: 6.9 cm (2.71 in.)

The OCP adapter has the following dimensions:

• Width: 76 mm (3 in.)
• Depth: 115 mm (4.5 in.)

Operating environment

The adapters are supported in the following environment:

• Temperature (operating): 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
• Temperature (storage): -40 to 65 °C (-40 to 149 °F)
• Humidity (operating): 10 to 80% non-condensing
• Humidity (storage): 5 to 90% non-condensing

Warranty

One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, the adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.

Agency approvals
The adapters conform to the following standards:

• UL 60950-1
• CSA C22.2
• TUV EN60950-1
• TUV IEC 60950-1
• CB Certified
• FCC Rules,CFR Title 47, Part 15, Subpart Class A
• Industry Canada, ICES-003: Class A
• EN55032
• EN55024
• EN61000-3-2
• EN61000-3-3
• VCCI: Class A
• AS/NZS: Class A
• KC-RRA Class A
• BSMI CNS 13438
• RoHS compliant

Related publications
For more information, see the following resources:

• Marvell products for Lenovo:
  https://www.marvell.com/lenovo/

• Networking Options for ThinkSystem Servers
  https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers

• Lenovo ServerProven compatibility information:
  http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/

• Support page for the adapter:
  https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/search?query=4XC7A08225

Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

• 10 Gb Ethernet Connectivity
• Ethernet Adapters

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