Specification

• General

   - Intel® X540 10GbE controller with integrated 10GBase-T

      copper PHYs

   - Compact size 2U MicroLP form factor

   - PCI-E x8 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface

   - Dual RJ-45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/port

   - Load balancing on multiple CPUs

   - Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager

   - Maximum power consumption: about 13W



• I/O Features

   - Intel® QuickData Technology: DMA engine that enhances data

     acceleration and lowers CPU usage

   - Support jumbo frames of up to 9 KB

   - 802.1q VLAN support

   - Two integrated independent 10GBase-T interfaces operate at

     10GBase-T (10Gb/s) and 1000Base-T (1Gb/s) modes

   - Direct Cache Access (DCA) to avoid cache misses

   - MSI-X support to minimize interrupt overhead of and

     allow load-balancing between multiple cores/CPUs

   - Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environment

     and Scalable I/O for Linux environments



• Performance Features

   - TCP/UDP Segmentation Offload

   - IPv6 Support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP Receive Checksum Offload

   - Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

   - Low latency interrupts

   - DCA support



• Virtualization Features

   - Support for Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq and

     Next-generation VMDq)

   - L2 Ethernet MAC address and VLAN filters

   - PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation

   - Advanced Packet Filtering

   - VLAN support to allow creation of multiple VLAN segments

   - VXLAN through Software



• Manageability Features

   - Preboot eXecuation Environment (PXE) support

   - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and

     Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) statistics counters

   - iSCSI remote boot



• OS Support

   - Windows® Server 2012 (x64 edition)

   - Windows® 8 (x64 edition and 32-bit)

   - Windows® Server 2008 R2 (x64 edition and 64-bit)

   - Windows® Server 2008 (x64 edition, 64-bit, and 32-bit)

   - Windows® 7 (x64 edition and 32-bit)

   - Windows® Vista (x64 edition and 32-bit)

   - Windows® Server 2003 (x64 edition, 64-bit, and 32-bit)

   - VMWare

   - RedHat EL, SuSe SLES

   - FreeBSD



• Cables Support

   - RJ-45 Category-6 up to 55m; Category-6A up to 100m



• Operating Conditions

   - Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)



• Physical Dimensions (L x W)

   - Card PCB dimensions: 12.3cm (4.8") x 7.0cm (2.75")