Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter

 

Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter

10 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet Server Adapters Designed for
Multi-Core Processors and Optimized for Virtualization

 

 

10 Gigabit Performance at the Low Cost of Copper:

This 10 Gigabit AT Ethernet Server Adapter showcases Intel’s first-generation standards-based 10BASE-T adapter in a low-profile PCI Express* form factor. It provides bandwidthintensive applications highly affordable 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network performance with cost-effective RJ-45 connections for distances up to 100 meters. High-speed server connectivity — once reserved for costly, proprietary technologies such as High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters and grid-based computing — can now be achieved with the standardized connectivity of the Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server

Adapter. Intel’s adapter also provides 1000BASE-T support for gigabit connections to legacy switches.

Next-Generation 10 Gigabit Performance:

10 Gigabit Ethernet has moved past the early adoption stage and is rapidly becoming mainstay for backbones within enterprise and service provider networks. The escalating deployments of servers with multi-core processors and demanding applications such as HPC, database clusters, and video on demand are driving the need for 10 Gigabit connections. Based on the Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, this next-generation Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter is designed to meet the throughput requirements of bandwidth-hungry applications.

Performance-Enhancing Features for Multi-Core Environments:

When implemented within multi-core processor environments, the Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter offers advanced networking features for efficient distribution of Ethernet workloads across CPU cores. Load balancing of interrupts using MSI-X enables more efficient response times and application performance. CPU utilization can be lowered further through stateless offloads such as TCP segmentation offload, header replications/splitting, and Direct Cache Access (DCA).

The Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter is optimized for virtualized environments, supporting multiple queues, alleviating I/O bottlenecks between virtual machines. Virtual Machine Device Queue (VMDq) technology offloads data sorting and data copying from the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) software layer to the hardware, improving overall throughput and CPU utilization on virtualized servers. Additionally, the Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter enables Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology1 (Intel® I/OAT) with support for Intel® QuickData Technology for faster I/O processing on the new Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers.

Conserve valuable PCI Express (PCIe*) server slots while adding 10 Gigabit Ethernet capability with the Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter. The dedicated input/output (I/O) bandwidth of PCIe ensures priority performance on each port — without bus sharing — for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, as well as a low-profile design, which improves server throughput and rack density at the same time. In addition, eight-lane PCIe enables maximum bandwidth for fast and efficient data transfer.

 

 

Product Brief:

Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter

Network Connectivity

Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter

10 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet Server Adapters Designed for

Multi-Core Processors and Optimized for Virtualization

 

 

Features Benefits:

Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

• Industry-leading, energy-efficient design for next-generation

10 Gigabit performance and multi-core processors

Low-profile

• Enables 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*

Intel® I/OAT1

• Accelerates I/O with higher throughput and lower CPU utilization by offloading processing overhead

iSCSI remote boot support

• Provides centralized Storage Area Network (SAN) management at a lower cost than competing iSCSI solutions

MSI-X support

• Minimizes the overhead of interrupts

• Allows load balancing of interrupt handling between different cores/CPUs Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq)

• Allows the efficient routing of packets to the correct target machine in a virtualized environment using multiple hardware queues

• Ensures transmit fairness and prevents head-of-line blocking Low latency

• Ability to toggle between the interrupt aggregation and non-aggregation mode based on the type of data being transferred Optimized queues: 32 Transmit (Tx) and 64 Receive (Rx) per port

• Enhances network performance and reduces CPU utilization in the virtualized environment

• Reduces I/O overhead on the hypervisor in a virtualized server by performing data sorting and coalescing in the network silicon Network packet handling without waiting or buffer overflow

• Efficient packet prioritization Support for most Network Operating Systems (NOS)

• Enables widespread deployment Compatible with x8 and x16 standard and low-profile PCI Express* slots

• Allows each PCI Express* slot port to operate without interfering with the other

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 • Backed by an Intel limited lifetime warranty, 90-day money-back guarantee (U.S. and Canada), and worldwide support Advances for Storage Over Ethernet The fast growth in storage capacity coupled with server virtualization has brought the need for Storage Area Network (SAN) to the forefront. To satisfy this growing demand, Intel 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapters support iSCSI acceleration through Intel I/OAT and provide advanced features for unified networking. Fast and reliable networked storage can be achieved via native iSCSI support with Microsoft, Linux,* and VMware operating systems as well as support for iSCSI remote boot.

 

 

Order Codes

Single unit EXPX9501AT

Companion Products

Consider these Intel® products in your server and network planning:

• Intel® 10 Gigabit Server Adapters for PCI and PCI Express Interfaces

• Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapters

– Copper or fiber-optic network connectivity, up to four ports per card

– Solutions for PCI Express, PCI-X,* and PCI interfaces

• Intel® PRO/1000 Desktop Adapters for PCI Express and PCI interfaces

• Other Intel® PRO Desktop and Server Adapters

• Intel® Xeon® Processors

• Intel® Server Boards

General

Product codes EXPX9501AT

Connectors RJ-45 Copper

Cabling Category-6A

Adapter Product Features

Intel® PROSet Utility for easy configuration and management

• Intel® lead-free3 technology

• Plug and play specification support Standard

Intel® I/OAT1 including QuickData

• Includes a full-height bracket

• RoHS2

• Cabling Distance

10BASE-T 100 m on Cat-6A, 55 m on Cat-6

1000BASE-T 100 m on Cat-5e, Cat-6 or Cat-6A

Receive-side scaling

• VMDq4 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 Advanced packet filtering (per port)

• 16 exact-matched packets (unicast or multicast)

• 4096-bit hash filter for multicast frames

• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support

• Optional filtering of invalid frames Direct Cache Access (DCA) 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 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

• Advanced Software Features Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)

• Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)

• Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)

• Teaming support

 

 

• IEEE 802.3ad5 (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 supports Multiple Independent Queues

• Interrupt moderation

• IPv6 offloading Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type

 

 

Technical Features:

Data rate(s) supported per port 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit

Bus type PCI Express 2.0 (2.5 Gbps)

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 B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, MIC

Controller-processor Intel® 82598EB

Typical power consumption 24 W 100LFM

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

Storage temperature -40° C to 70° C (-40° F to 158° F)

Storage humidity 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35° C

LED Indicators LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)

Physical Dimensions

Length 16.74 cm (6.59 in)

Width 6.89 cm (2.71 in)

Height of end bracket PCI Express standard, 12 cm (4.725 in); PCI Express low-profile, 7.92 cm (3.12 in)

Specifications:

1Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) requires an operating system that supports Intel I/OAT. 2Lead and other materials banned in RoHS Directive are either (1) below all applicable substance thresholds the EU or (2) an approved/pending exemption applies. 3Lead has not been intentionally added, but lead may still exist as an impurity below 1000 ppm, or an approved RoHS exemption applies. 4Intel® VMDq requires an operating system that supports VMDq. 5 Available only when used with a capable switch. 

Intel may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time, without notice. Designers must not rely on the absence or characteristics of any features or instructions marked “reserved” or “undefined.” Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from future changes to them. The information here is subject to change without notice. Do not finalize a design with this information.

The products described in this document may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request. Contact your local Intel sales office or your distributor to obtain the latest specifications and before placing your product order. Copies of documents which have an order number and are referenced in this document, or other Intel literature, may be obtained by emailing 10GigE@eyewimax.com .

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Intel® 10 Gigabit AT Server Adapter

 

 

10 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet Server Adapters Designed for

Multi-Core Processors and Optimized for Virtualization