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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.

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IBM Storwize Qualified Adapters

Chelsio P/N T6225-CR T62100-LP-CR
Platform Storwize V5000, V7000, V7000F


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.
Description:
Release Date:
File Name:
Version:
File Size:
Md5sum:
Support Docs:

Chelsio T5/T6 Firmware v1.22.0.3

11/09/2018
Chelsio-fw-1.22.0.3.zip
1.22.0.3
854 KB
c150d28a37d8c9c1d9e9818bf7b5ee94
README, Release Notes

Windows Offload Initiator Drivers

Driver:

Release Date:
File Name:
Version:
File Size:
Md5sum:
Support Docs:
Supported OS:
 

Chelsio Unified Wire InstallShield v6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106 - WHQL Certified

05/07/2024
ChelsioUwire_6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106.exe
6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106
30 MB
d505ed081f05e5da65d50642a485066d
README, Release Notes, User Guide
Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11 Client, Windows 10 Client
Note: The InstallShield installs NDIS function driver (v6.16.17.0) and firmware (v1.27.5.0). The driver supports NIC, SR-IOV, ND, SMB Direct, NVGRE, VXLAN Offload functionalities, PacketDirect, VMMQ (vRSS), RSSv2, S2D, SR, iSCSI, iSER, NVMe and DCB.

ESXi Drivers

Driver:
Release Date:
File Name:
Version:
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Md5sum:
Support Docs:

Chelsio Unified Wire v5.3.0.20

06/24/2020
VMW-esx-7.0.0-Chelsio-Drivers-5.3.0.20-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807.zip
5.3.0.20
3.55 MB
294798c459a0ab7902b11d9a5fc66f7d
README, Release Notes, User Guide

Linux Drivers for IBM Power and OpenPOWER Systems

Driver:
Release Date:
File Name:
Version:
File Size:
Md5sum:
Support Docs:

Chelsio Unified Wire v3.19.0.2

04/30/2024
ChelsioUwire-3.19.0.2.tar.gz
3.19.0.2
431.19 MB
63a5a55cbab4937e9dad34bf63343002
README, Release Notes, User Guide


Please visit Chelsio Download Center to download the drivers for other operating systems.