The Emulex VFA5.2 adapters support three methods to virtualize I/O, out of the box: Virtual Fabric Mode (vNIC1), Switch Independent mode (vNIC2) and Unified Fabric Port (UFP) mode. With Virtual Fabric, up to eight virtual network ports (vNICs) can be created with a single two-port 10 GbE network adapter.

On System x adapters, storage protocols such as iSCSI and FCoE are also supported by Features on Demand upgrades. Using a common hardware infrastructure for Ethernet and SAN and by virtualizing your network adapter, you can reduce your infrastructure capital expense.

Part number information

The part numbers to order these adapters are listed in the following table. The FCoE/iSCSI upgrade licenses are a Features on Demand field upgrade that enables full hardware offloaded converged networking capabilities of the adapters. Adapters 00AG580 and 01CV770 already includes the FCoE/iSCSI license.

Specification

Product
Product id	543825
Brand	Lenovo
Partnr	00AG570
EAN/UPC code	889488109708
Ports & interfaces
Connectivity technology	Wired
Host interface	PCI Express
Interface	Fiber
Fiber optic connector	SFP+
Fiber ports quantity	2
PCI version	3.0
Network
Maximum data transfer rate	10000 Mbit/s
Networking standards	IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1Qbg, IEEE 802.1ab, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3p, IEEE 802.3x
Jumbo frames support	Y
iSCSI support	Y
VLAN tagging	Y
Design
Internal	Y
Component for	Server
Product colour	Black, Green
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 55 °C
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 70 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 95 procent
Packaging data
Quantity	1
Weight & dimensions
Width	69 mm
Depth	7 mm
Height	167 mm
Other features
Flow control support	Y
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)	Y
Jumbo frames	9216