IBM 00E2719 4-Port 10Gb SFP+ 1Gb SR RJ45 Adapter PCIe Card 00E2865 w/ SFP cards

Core Overview

• Manufacturer: IBM

• Product Type: PCIe2 4-Port Network Interface Card (NIC) / Convergence Adapter

• Primary Part Number (FRU): 00E2719

• Alternate Base FRU (Assembly): 00E2715

• CCIN (Customer Card Identification Number): 2CC3

• IBM Feature Codes (FC):

  • FC EN0U: Full-Height Bracket (Standard Profile) configuration.

  • FC EN0V: Low-Profile Bracket (Half-Height) configuration.

Port & Physical Architecture

This adapter features a hybrid (converged) port matrix on a single physical bracket layout to bridge high-speed optical backbones and standard copper local networks:

• 10Gb SFP+ Slots: Two (2) 10 Gigabit Ethernet Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) ports.

• 1Gb RJ45 Ports: Two (2) 1 Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 copper ports.

• Total Physical Ports: 4-Port Configuration.

Media & Connectivity Specifications

Depending on whether the sub-variant maps to an optical SR or direct-attach copper deployment path, it adheres to the following parameters:

• 10Gb Ports Connectivity:

  • SFP+ Copper Twinax (Active): Designed to work with active copper twinaxial cables (e.g., IBM Feature Codes EN01, EN02, or EN03) up to 5 meters in length.

  • SFP+ SR Optical: Accepts 850nm shortwave (SW) multimode fiber-optic transceiver optics via standard Duplex LC-type terminations.

• 1Gb Ports Connectivity:

  • Uses standard 4-pair, Category 5/5e/6 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) network cabling.

  • Maximum transmission range up to 100 meters.

  • Supports auto-negotiation between 100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps (1 Gbps) networks. (Note: Legacy 10 Mbps connectivity is strictly unsupported).

Interface & Performance Specifications

• Bus Architecture: PCI Express 2.0 (PCIe Gen2) x8 mechanical and electrical interface.

• Operation Mode: Full-Duplex only (Auto-negotiation governed).

• MAC Support: Integrates dedicated on-die Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) components, allowing multiple MAC assignments per port slice.

• Max Frame Size: Supports Jumbo Frames up to 9.6 KB.

• Hardware Offloading Protocols:

  • TCP / UDP Checksum Offload transmission (IPv4 and IPv6).

  • TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) / Large Send Offload (LSO).

  • Extended Interrupt Moderation (significantly minimizes CPU instruction cycles by batching system signaling).

  • Direct support for Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI-X vectors.

Hardware Compatibility

The 00E2719 card maps specifically into the integrated I/O backplane or secondary high-speed PCIe tiers of IBM Power Systems (POWER7+, POWER8, and POWER9) scale-out frameworks.

Supported machine variants include:

• POWER7+ / POWER8 Systems: IBM Power S814 (8286-41A), S822 (8284-22A), S824 (8286-42A), Power 720 (8202-E4D), Power 740 (8205-E6D).

• POWER9 Scale-Out Systems: IBM Power S922 (9009-22A / 9009-22G), Power S924 (9009-42A / 9009-42G).

Operating System Support

• AIX: Natively identified through standard Ethernet device drivers as an EtherChannel-capable endpoint.

• IBM i: Fully supported for LAN, WAN console, or system communication paths.

• Linux: Managed via the standard enterprise Linux open-source kernel network interface stack (RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu Server).

• VIOS: Easily provisioned for virtualization network maps to share access with active client logical partitions (LPARs).