Specifications
General
Product code
X540T2
Connector
RJ45 Copper
Cabling
See listing below
Adapter Product Features
Intel® PROSet Utility for easy con-
figuration and management
Intel® Lead-free technology
Plug and play specification support
Standard
Includes a full-height bracket
RoHS compliant
Cabling Distances:
10GBASE-T
• 100 m on CAT-6a
• 55 m on CAT-6
1000BASE-T
100 m on CAT-5e, CAT-6 or CAT-6a
100BASE-T
100 m on CAT-5e, CAT-6 or CAT-6a
Receive-Side Scaling
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 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server* 2008 Core (x64 and IPF)
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*
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
Intel Backing
Limited lifetime warranty
90-day, money-back guarantee (U.S. and
Canada)
Advanced Software Features
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
Teaming support
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 offload-
ing (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
Hardware Features
Data rate(s) supported per port
100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps
Bus Type
PCI Express 2.1 (5.0 GT/s)
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,
KCC
Controller-processor
Intel® Ethernet Controller X540
Speed
Watts
(typical)
10 Gbps
13.4
1 Gbps
8.2
100 Mbps
5.9
Power Usage
Companion Products
Consider these Intel® products in your
server and network planning:
• Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520
Series
–10 GbE SFP+ PCIe v2.0 (5 GT/s)
performance
–Copper or fiber-optic network connec-
tivity; up to two ports per card
• Intel® Xeon® Processors
• Intel® Server Boards
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