ProduCT BriEF intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540 Network Connectivity Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540 10GBASE-T converged network adapter simplifies migration to 10 GbE, provides iSCSI, FCoE, Virtualization, and Flexible Port Partitioning. 10 Gigabit for the Broad Market 10G Performance at Low Cost The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network and Low Power Adapter X540 is the latest innovation The new Intel® Ethernet Converged in Intel’s leadership to drive 10 Gigabit Network Adapter X540 is the lowest cost Ethernet into the broader server market. way to deploy 10 GbE in your data center This adapter hosts Intel’s latest Ether- today. The Intel X540 uses low cost, Cat net silicon, the Intel® Ethernet Controller 6 and Cat 6A cabling. Chances are this X540, which is used by many OEMs as a cabling already exists in the data center. single chip solution for LAN on Mother- A way for Intel to reduce cost and power board (LOM) to deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet is to integrate components into a single- (10 GbE) on the latest server platforms. chip solution. Of course, integration is what Intel does best. With the new Intel 10GBASE-T Simplifies the X540 Controller, the MAC and the PHY are Transition to 10 GbE integrated into a single-chip solution. The Intel X540 family of products works with existing networks today. It works So, why is integration important? First, with legacy Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) integration translates to lower power. Key Features switches and Cat 6A cabling. Install the A single-chip solution simply uses less Intel X540 adapter into a server and the power than two separate components. • Low Cost, Low Power, 10 Gigabit auto-negotiation between 1 GbE and 10 This means no more active heat sink and Ethernet (10GbE) Performance for the GbE provides the necessary backwards reduces the per-port power consumption. Entire Datacenter compatibility that most customers require Second, integration also means lower cost • Standard CAT-6a Cabling with RJ45 for a smooth transition and easy migration per port. Manufacturing a single part costs Connectors to 10 GbE. When time and budget allows, less than two. When cabling is accounted • Backward Compatibility with Existing 10GBASE-T switches can be added any for, cost efficiencies realized from a single 1000BASE-T Networks Simplifies the time to experience the full benefits of 10 part mean 10GBASE-T is the lowest cost Transition to 10GbE GbE. media to deploy. • Flexible I/O virtualization for port 10GBASE-T uses the copper twisted pair With lower cost and power, 10GBASE-T is partitioning and quality of service (QoS) cables that are very familiar to IT profes- ready for broad deployment. 10GBASE-T is of up to 64 virtual ports sionals today. It is everything you know an option for every rack and tower server • Unified Networking Delivering LAN, iSCSI, and love about 1000BASE-T. The knowl- in the data center. The wait for a low cost and FCoE in One Low Cost CNA edge, training and investment in BASE-T 10 GbE copper solution to broadly deploy are preserved. 10GBASE-T is the easiest 10 GbE to all corners of the data center • Industry First Dual-Port 10GBASE-T and most versatile 10 GbE and you can is over. The new Intel X540 adapter Adapter with Single-Chip Solution with deploy it anywhere in your data center. Its provides bandwidth-intensive applications Integrated MAC + PHY flexible reach from 1 meter to 100 meters with highly affordable 10 GbE network • Reliable and proven 10 Gigabit Ethernet supports the latest network architectures performance and cost-effective RJ-45 con- technology from Intel Corporation including Top of Rack (ToR), Middle of Row nectivity for distances up to 100 meters. (MoR), and End of Row (EoR).

Exciting New data Center all of these traffic types in one adapter at use cost-effective 10GBASE-T for all your usage Models no additional cost and with no additional converged networking needs. The Open- More than simply a 10x increase in per- licensing fees for the adapter. FCoE architecture uses a combination formance, with 10 GbE there are exciting of FCoE initiators in Microsoft Windows* Intel’s Unified Networking solutions new usage models that are now possible, and Linux* operating systems and in are enabled through a combination of including Unified Networking (iSCSI, FCoE the VMware* ESXi hypervisor to deliver standard Intel® Ethernet products along and LAN), Virtualization (VMDq and SR- high-performance FCoE solutions using with trusted network protocols integrated IOV), and now, Flexible Port Partitioning standard 10 GbE Ethernet adapters. in the operating systems. Thus, Unified (FPP). Networking is available on every Server This approach enables IT managers to either through LAN-on-Motherboard simplify the data center and standardize Flexible i/o Virtualization (LOM) implementation or via an add-in on a single adapter for LAN and SAN con- Virtualization changes the way server Network Interface Card (NIC). nectivity. The Intel® Ethernet Converged resources are deployed and managed by Network Adapter X540 is designed to Intel has delivered high quality Ethernet running multiple applications and operat- fully offload the FCoE data path to deliver products for over 30 years and our ing systems independently on a single full-featured converged network adapter Unified Networking solutions are built server. (CNA) functionality without compromising on the original principles that made us on power efficiency and interoperability. The Intel Ethernet Converged Network successful in Ethernet: Adapter X540 includes Intel® Virtualiza- • open Architecture integrates network- data Center Bridging (dCB) tion Technology for connectivity (Intel ing with the server, enabling IT managers delivers Lossless Ethernet VT-c) to deliver I/O virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS) features designed to reduce complexity and overhead while Conventional Ethernet does not guar- directly into the Intel X540 controller enabling a flexible and scalable data cen- antee successful data delivery, which is on the adapter. Intel® I/O virtualization ter network. not acceptable for SAN traffic. Ethernet advances network connectivity models • intelligent offloads lower cost and enhancements such as Data Center Bridg- used in today’s servers to more efficient power while delivering the application ing (DCB) overcome that limitation with models by providing FPP, multiple Rx/Tx performance that customers expect. technologies that guarantee lossless deliv- queues, and on-controller QoS functional- ery, congestion notification, priority-based ity that can be used in both virtual and • Proven Ethernet unified Networking flow control, and priority groups. is built on trusted Intel Ethernet technol- non-virtual server deployments. The combination of 10 GbE and unified ogy, enabling customers to deploy FCoE networking helps organizations overcome or iSCSI while maintaining the quality of Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP) connectivity challenges and simplify the their traditional Ethernet networks. By taking advantage of the PCI-SIG SR-IOV data center infrastructure. 10 GbE pro- specification, Intel Ethernet products en- vides a simple, well-understood fabric for iSCSi Simplifies SAN Connectivity able FPP. With FPP, virtual controllers can virtualized data centers, one that helps iSCSI uses Ethernet to carry storage traf- be used by the Linux* host directly and/or reduce cost and complexity as the number fic, extending the familiarity and simplicity assigned to virtual machines. FPP allows of virtual machines continues to grow. of Ethernet to storage networking, with- you to use the functionality of SR-IOV out the need for SAN-specific adapters or to assign up to 63 processes per port to switches. Intel® Ethernet X540 is the easi- virtual functions in Linux. This enables est, most reliable, and most cost-effective an administrator to partition their 10 GbE way of connecting servers to iSCSI SANs. bandwidth across multiple processes, ensuring a QoS by giving each assigned open FCoE Consolidates LANs process equal bandwidth. Network admin- and Legacy SANs istrators may also rate-limit each of these services to control how much of the 10 Intel’s Open FCoE solution enables Intel® GbE pipe is available to each process. Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server products (adapters and controllers) to support Fibre unified Networking Channel payload encapsulated in Ethernet frames. There is no upgrade charge for Unified Networking solutions on the Open FCoE on the adapter. Just as with new Intel® Ethernet Converged Network iSCSI, now customers can easily connect Adapter X540 let you combine the traffic to an FCoE network with Intel 10 GbE of multiple data center networks like LAN solutions. and SAN onto a single efficient network fabric. You now have the choice of NFS, For the first time, Open-FCoE is now iSCSI, or Fibre Channel over Ethernet supported on 10GBASE-T. As 10GBASE-T (FCoE) to carry both network and storage switches come to market enabled with traffic at speeds of up to 10 Gbps. The FCoE support, the Intel X540 is ready Intel X540 adapter combines support for when you’re ready. This enables you to 2

intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540 Features Benefits Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540 • Industry’s first integrated MAC+PHY reducing cost and power Low-profile • E nables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe slots and servers Load balancing on multiple CPUs • Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft* or Scalable I/O on Linux* Remote boot iSCSI and FCoE • Support for remote booting to an iSCSI or FCoE drive. Support for most Network Operating Systems (NOS) • Enables widespread deployment RoHS compliant, lead-free technology • Compliant with the European Union directive (July 2006) to reduce hazardous materials i/o Features for Multi-core Processor Servers MSI-X support • Minimizes the overhead of interrupts • Allows load balancing of interrupt handling between different cores/CPUs Low latency • Based on the sensitivity of the incoming data, the adapter can bypass the automatic moderation of time intervals between the interrupts Header Splits and Replication in Receive • Helps the driver focus on the relevant part of the packet without the need to parse it Multiple Queues • Packet handling without waiting/buffer overflow provides efficient packet prioritization Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, • Lower processor usage IPv6) capabilities • Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6) • Increased throughput and lower processor usage • Compatible with large-send offload feature (in Microsoft Windows* Server operating systems) IPsec Offload • Offloads IPsec capability to adapter instead of software to significantly improve through- put and CPU usage (for Windows* 7, Windows* 2008 Server R2, Windows* 2008 Server, and Windows Vista*) Compatible with x8 and x16 standard and low-profile • Enables each PCI Express* slot port to operate without interfering or competing with other ports PCI Express* slots Receive/Transmit Side Scaling for Windows* and • Enables direction of the interrupts to the processor cores in order to improve the CPU usage rate Scalable I/O for Linux* (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/ UDP) RJ45 connections over CAT-6a cabling • Ensures compatibility with cable lengths up to 100 meters Virtualization Features Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq) • Offloads data-sorting from the Hypervisor to silicon, improving data throughput and CPU usage • QoS feature for Tx data by providing round-robin servicing and preventing head-of-line blocking • Sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags Next-Generation VMDq (64 queues per port) • Enhanced QoS feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data • Provides loopback functionality, data transfer between the virtual machines within the same physical server don’t go out to the wire and back in, improving throughput and CPU usage • Supports replication of multicast and broadcast data PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (64 virtual functions per • Implementation of I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port is divided into port) multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual virtual machine directly by by- passing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance • I integrated with Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) to provide data pro- tection between virtual machines by assigning separate physical addresses in the memory to each virtual machine IPv6 Offloading • Checksum and segmentation capability extended to the new standard packet type Advanced Packet Filtering • 24 exact-matched addresses (unicast or multicast) • 4096-bit hash filter for unicast and multicast frames • Lower processor usage • Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support • Optional filtering of invalid frames VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and • Ability to create multiple VLAN segments packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags 3

Specifications General Network Management Product codes Dual Port: X540T2 Wired for Management (WfM) baseline v2.0 enabled for servers Single Port: X540T1 DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP Connector RJ45 Copper Remote Installation Services (RIS) Cabling See listing below PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only Memory (ROM) Adapter Product Features Network operating Systems (NoS) Software Support Intel® PROSet Utility for easy con- Windows* 7 (IA32 and X64) figuration and management Windows Server* 2008 (x64 and IPF) Intel® Lead-free technology Windows Server* 2008 Core (x64 and IPF) Plug and play specification support Standard Windows Server* 2008 R2 (x64 and IPF) Full-height bracket installed; low- profile bracket included in package Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (x64 and IPF) RoHS compliant Linux* SLES 11 SP1 Cabling Distances: Microsoft Windows Server 2003* 10GBASE-T • 100 m on Cat 6A Microsoft Vista* • 55 m on Cat 6 SUSE* SLES 10* or later, Professional 9.2 or later 1000BASE-T 100 m on Cat 5e, Cat 6 or Cat 6A Microsoft Windows Virtual Server* 2005* 100BASE-T 100 m on Cat 5e, Cat 6 or Cat 6A Red Hat Enterprise* 4* or later Receive-Side Scaling FreeBSD* 5.x or later support VMware* ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.0 support Power usage Fedora* Watts EFI* 1.1 Speed/LFM (typical) Advanced Software Features X540T2 X540T1 Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) Teaming support 10 Gbps 17.4 10.8 Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT) 1 Gbps 9.5 7.7 Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) 100 Mbps 6.6 6.4 Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB) LFM 200 0 IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol) PCIe Hot Plug/Active Peripheral Companion Products Component Interconnect (PCI) Consider these Intel® products in your IEEE 802.1Q VLANs server and network planning: IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support • Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520 Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum offload- Series ing (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities Transmission –10 GbE SFP+ PCIe v2.0 (5 GT/s) control protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Protocol (IP)) performance IEEE 802.1p –Copper or fiber-optic network connec- TCP segmentation/large send offload tivity; up to two ports per card MSI -X: Multiple Independent Queues • Intel® Xeon® Processors Interrupt moderation • Intel® Server Boards IPv6 offloading intel Backing Hardware Features Limited lifetime warranty Data rate(s) supported per port 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps 90-day, money-back guarantee Bus Type PCI Express 2.1 (5.0 GT/s) (U.S. and Canada) Bus width x8 lane PCI Express, operable in x8 and x16 slots Bus speed (x8, encoded rate) 20 Gbps uni-directional; 40 Gbps bi-directional Interrupt levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X Hardware certifications FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC Controller-processor Intel® Ethernet Controller X540 4

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