Chelsio T6 25GbE and 100GbE iWARP RDMA enabled Unified wire adapters are qualified with the IBM Storwize family all-flash and hybrid storage solutions to enable a cost-effective, optimized operation expense, and flexible heterogeneous storage systems.
Chelsio Unified Wire Software for Linux supports both OpenPOWER based servers and IBM Power systems across all adapters. Current driver package for OpenPOWER and Power systems comes with an interactive installer to install the various drivers and utilities and supports the following key features:
L2 NIC
TCP/IP Offload (TOE)
iWARP RDMA Offload
iSCSI Offload (Target and Initiator)
Traffic Classification and Filtering
DPDK Offload
Traffic Management and QoS
The following Chelsio Adapters were certified to be OpenPOWER Ready.
Supported OpenPOWER Ready and Offload Initiator Adapters
Chelsio P/N
T62100-CR
T62100-LP-CR
T62100-SO-CR
T6225-SO-CR
T6225-CR
Ports
2x40/50/100G
2x10/25G
Connector Type
QSFP28
SFP28
Host Interface
PCIe Gen3 x16
PCIe Gen3 x8
Form Factor
Half Size
Low Profile
Concurr. Conn.
32k
256
32k
Power (Typical)
22W
19W
16W
10W
13W
Airflow
200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute)
Adapter Type
Unified Wire
Server Offload
CNA
Unified Wire
Chelsio P/N
T520-BT
T520-CR
T540-LP-CR
T520-SO-CR
Ports
2x100M/1/10G
2x1/10G
4x1/10G
2x1/10G
Connector Type
RJ-45
SFP+ Cage
Host Interface
PCIe Gen3 x8
Form Factor
Low Profile
Concurr. Conn.
32k
Power (Typical)
20W
12W
11W
9W
Airflow
200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute)
Adapter Type
Unified Wire
Server Offload
Supported Drivers and Firmware
iSER and iSCSI Offload Initiator Drivers and Firmware
The Chelsio iSER and iSCSI Offload Initiator drivers are inboxed in all major Linux distributions like RHEL7.4. Initiator machines with these drivers can connect to the IBM Storwize family storage systems.
Please use the below package to update the Firmware on the Adapters.
