X520-T2 Datasheet, PDF (3/4 Pages) Intel Corporation – 10 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet Server Adapter Designed for Multi-Core Processors and Optimized for Virtualization

Remote management support
• Reduces support costs with remote management based on industry-wide standards
RJ-45 connections over category-6A cabling
• Ensures compatibility with cable lengths up to 100 meters
RoHS-compliant,² lead-free³ technology
• Compliant with the European Union directive (effective as of July 2006) to reduce the use
of hazardous materials
Intel® PROSet Utility for Microsoft Windows*
Device Manager
• Provides point-and-click power over individual adapters, advanced adapter features, connection
teaming, and Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) configuration
Intel backing
Virtualization Features
• Backed by an Intel limited lifetime warranty, 90-day money-back guarantee (U.S. and Canada),
and worldwide support
Benefits
Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq)
• Offloads the data-sorting functionality from the Hypervisor to the network silicon, improving data
throughput and CPU usage
• Provides QoS feature on the Tx data by providing round-robin servicing and preventing head-of-line
blocking
• Sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags
Next-Generation VMDq1 (64 queues per port)
• Enhanced QoS feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data
• Provides loopback functionality, where data transfer between the virtual machines within the same
physical server need not go out to the wire and come back in, improving throughput and CPU usage
• Supports replication of multicast and broadcast data
PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (64 virtual functions per port)
• Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of
each port is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual virtual machine
directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance
• Integrated with Intel® VTI for Directed I/O (VT-d) to provide data protection between virtual ma-
chines 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 packets (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 packet • Ability to create multiple VLAN segments
filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
Specifications
General
Product code
Connector
Cabling
E10G42BT
RJ-45 Copper
Category-6A
Adapter Product Features
Intel® PROSet Utility for easy configuration
and management
Intel® lead-free³ technology
Plug and play specification support
Intel® I/OAT including QuickData
Includes a full-height bracket
RoHS²
Cabling Distance
10GBASE-T
1000BASE-T
Receive-side scaling
VMDq⁴
Advanced packet filtering (per port)
Direct Cache Access (DCA)
Standard
100 m on Cat-6A, 55 m on Cat-6
100 m on Cat-5e, Cat-6 or Cat-6A
In a virtualized environment, packets
dedicated to different virtual machines
can be routed to different queues, thus
easing the routing of these packets to
the target machine
• 16 exact-matched packets
(unicast or multicast)
• 4096-bit hash filter for
multicast frames
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast)
• Optional filtering of invalid frames
The I/O device activates a pre-fetch
engine in the CPU that loads the data
into the CPU cache ahead of time,
before use, eliminating cache misses
and reducing CPU load
Network Management
Wired for Management (WfM) baseline v2.0
enabled for servers
DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only
Memory (ROM)
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Windows 7 (IA32 and X64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (x64 and IPF)
Linux SLES 11 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003*
Microsoft Vista*
Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005*
Red Hat Enterprise 4* or later
SUSE SLES 10* or later,
Professional 9.2 or later
FreeBSD 5.x* or later
VMware ESX 3.x* support
Fedora*
EFI 1.1
Intel Backing
Limited lifetime warranty
90-day, money-back guarantee
(U.S. and Canada)