IBM z13 Technical Guide

Native Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)

This appendix introduces the concept of managing native Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) features (10GbE Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Express and zEnterprise Data Compression (zEDC) Express). This concept requires the use of an integrated firmware processor (IFP) and resource groups that are associated to the physical location of the feature cards.

This appendix describes how these features are implemented into the PCIe I/O structure of ...