Intel X540-T2 X540-AT2 10G PCI-E Dual RJ45 Ports Ethernet Network Adapter Card

Brand: Intel

Part Number: X540-T2

MPN: X540-T2

Type: Network Adapter Card

Host Interface: PCI-Express 2.1 X8

Interfaces: 2 X 10GB Ethernet- RJ-45

Connectivity Technology: Wired

Form Factor: Plug-In Card

Ports: 10GB EthernetX 2

Controller Processor: Intel Ethernet Controller X540

Connectors: 2x RJ45 Copper

Data Rate: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps (per port)

Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1 (5 GT/s)

Bus Width: PCI-Express x8, 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

• Features:Low-profile
• Load balancing on multiple CPUs
• Remote boot iSCSI and FCoE
• Support for most network operating systems (NOS)
• Lead-free technology

• I/O Features for Multi-Core Processor Servers:MSI-X support
• Low Latency
• Header splits and replication in receive
• Multiple queues
• Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
• Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
• IPsec Offload
• Compatible with x8 and x16 standard and low-profile PCI Express slots
• Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows and Scalable I/O for Linux (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP)
• RJ45 connections over CAT-6a cabling

• Virtualization Features:Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq)
• Next-Generation VMDq (64 queues per port)
• PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (64 virtual functions per port)
• IPv6 Offloading
• Advanced packet filtering
• VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags

• 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/ 2008 Core/ 2008 R2/ 2008 R2 Core (x64 and IPF)
• Linux SLES 11 SP1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Vista
• SUSE SLES 10 or later, Professional 9.2 or later
• Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005
• Red Hat Enterprise 4 or later
• FreeBSD 5.x or later support
• VMware ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.0 support
• Fedora
• EFI 1.1

• Advanced Software Features:Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) - Teaming support
• Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
• Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
• Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
• IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
• PCIe Hot Plug/Active Peripheral
• Component Interconnect (PCI)
• IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
• IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support
• Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities Transmission control protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Protocol (IP)
• IEEE 802.1p
• TCP segmentation/large send offload
• MSI -X - Multiple Independent Queues
• Interrupt moderation
• IPv6 offloading

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