Dual- and Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet server adapters
designed with performance enhancing features and new
power management technologies
Key Features
• Halogen-free dual- or quad-port
Gigabit Ethernet adapters with
copper or fiber interface options
• Innovative power management
features including Energy Efficient
Ethernet (EEE) and DMA Coalescing
for increased efficiency and reduced
power consumption
• Flexible I/O virtualization for port
partitioning and quality of service
(QoS) of up to 32 virtual ports
• Scalable iSCSI performance deliver-
ing cost-effective SAN connectivity
• High-performing bridgeless design
supporting PCI Express* Gen 2.1
5G T/s
• Reliable and proven Gigabit Ethernet
technology from Intel Corporation
Overview
The new Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350 family builds on Intel’s history of excellence in Ethernet products. Intel continues its market leadership with this new generation of PCIe* GbE network adapters. Built with the bridgeless Intel® Ethernet Controller
I350, these adapters represent the next step in the Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking
evolution for the enterprise and data center by introducing new levels of performance
through industry-leading enhancements for both virtualized and iSCSI Unied Networking environments. This new family of adapters also includes new power management
technologies such as Energy Ecient Ethernet (EEE) and DMA Coalescing (DMAC).
Flexible I/O Virtualization
The Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350 family includes Intel® Virtualization Technology
for connectivity (Intel® VT-c) to deliver I/O virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)
features designed directly into the controller on the adapter. I/O virtualization advances
network connectivity models used in today’s servers to more ecient models by providing Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP), multiple Rx/Tx queues, and on-controller QoS
functionality that can be used in both virtual and non-virtual server deployments.
By taking advantage of the PCI-SIG SR-IOV specication, Intel® Ethernet products enable Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP). With FPP, virtual controllers can be used by the
Linux* host directly and/or assigned to virtual machines. With this port partitioning,
administrators can create up to eight dedicated connections on a single Ethernet port
for use in bare-metal and virtualized server deployments.
In a bare-metal Linux server, host processes can be assigned to dedicated network
resources to provide trac isolation and balanced bandwidth allocation.
In a virtualized environment, a VM can be assigned to a virtual
controller to reduce the CPU overhead seen when using a
software-based network bridge by ooading network trac
management to the controller.
Scalable iSCSI Performance
An Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350 with native iSCSI initiators built into Microsoft* Windows*, Linux*, and VMware* ESX
platforms provides a simple, dependable, cost-eective way
to connect to iSCSI SANs. These native initiators are broadly
tested using multiple generations of operating systems, storage systems, and OS tools to help ensure reliability and ease
of use. Standardizing on Intel® Ethernet Adapters for iSCSI
enables administrators to use a single initiator, TCP/IP stack,
and a common set of management tools and IT policies. In
addition, Intel® Ethernet Server Adapters include a number
of hardware features designed to accelerate iSCSI trac and
enhance data processing. For example, TCP segmentation
ooad and checksum ooad capabilities help reduce processor usage, increase throughput, and deliver exceptional iSCSI
performance. Finally, using native OS initiators, an Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350 supports the CRC-32 digest instruction set included with Intel® Xeon® processor products, which
improves transmission reliability and delivers an enterpriseclass iSCSI solution.
Power Management Technologies
Today, companies everywhere are looking for ways to decrease energy consumption across the enterprise to reduce
costs and environmental impact, while at the same time solving increasingly important power density challenges. That’s
why Intel has introduced new, advanced Power Management
Technologies (PMTs) with the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter
I350 family that enable enterprises to congure power options on the adapter and more eectively manage their power
consumption.
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
The Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350 family supports the
IEEE802.3az Energy Ecient Ethernet (EEE) standard so that,
during periods of low network activity, EEE reduces the power
consumption of an Ethernet connection by negotiating with
a compliant EEE switch port to transition to a low power idle
(LPI) state. This reduces the controller power to approximately
50% of its normal operating power, saving power on the network port and the switch port. As soon as increased network
trac is detected, the controller and the switch quickly come
back to full power to handle the increased network trac. EEE
is supported for both 1000BASE-T and 100BASE-TX.
DMA Coalescing
Another power management technology that can reduce
power on the server platform is DMA Coalescing (DMAC).
Typically, when a packet arrives at a server, DMA calls are
made to transfer the packet within the server. These calls
wake up the processor, memory and other system components from a lower power state in order to perform the
tasks required to handle the incoming packet.
Based on the congurable DMAC settings, incoming packets
are buered momentarily before any DMA calls are made. This
enables the controller to intelligently identify opportunities to
batch multiple packets together so that when components are
wakened from lower power states they can eciently handle
the batched packets at the same time. This enables platform
components to remain in lower power states longer, which
can dramatically reduce platform energy consumption. DMAC
synchronizes DMA calls across all controller ports to ensure
maximum power savings.
Software Tools and Management
Intel® Advanced Network Services (Intel® ANS) include new
teaming technologies and techniques such as Virtual Machine
Load-Balancing (VMLB) for Hyper-V environments. Today,
Intel ANS includes a variety of teaming congurations for up
to eight adapters, support for mixed vendors server adapters
teaming and includes support for 802.1q VLANs, making Intel
ANS one of the most capable and comprehensive tools for
supporting server adapter teaming.
Additionally, Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager and
PROset CL extends driver functionality to provide additional
reliability and Quality of Service features and conguration.
Sourc e: Intel L abs
Energy Efficient Ethernet reduces the controller power to approximately 50% of its
normal operating level.
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As shown by the red line, components have
less time between DMA calls to reach and
stay in lower power states.
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Low
With more time between DMA calls, components can reach lower power states and
remain in them longer.
General Features
FeaturesBenefits
Intel® Ethernet Controller I350 with PCI E xpress* V2.1 (5
GT/s) Suppor t
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Halogen Free
Low-Prole (D ual and Quad Port Copper; Dual- Port Fiber )
and Standard height (Quad-Port Fiber)
(Copper) • Leadership in an env ironm entally friendly ecosys tem
• Enab les cus tomer s to take f ull advantage of 1 Gb E by providing maximum bi- directional throughput per port on a
single quad-port adapter
• Enab les higher ban dwid th and throughput from standard and low- prole PCIe slots and s ervers
Ethernet Features
FeaturesBenefits
IEEE* 802.3 auto-negotiation• Automatic link configuration for spee d, dup lex, f low control
1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u , 802.3ab PHY
specications Compliant
Integr ated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mb/s for multispeed , full-
and half- duple x
IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant ow control suppor t with
software-controllable Rx thresholds and Tx pause frames
Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)• The PHY automatically detect s which applicatio n is being used and configures itse lf accordingly
IEEE 1588 protocol an d 802.1AS implementation• Time-stamping and synchronization of time sensitive applications
• Robust operation over installed base of Category-5 tw isted-pair cabling
• Smaller footprint and lower p ower dissipation compared to multiple discreet MAC and PHY
• Local control of net work conges tion levels
• Fram e loss reduced f rom receive overruns
• Distribute common time to media devices
Power Management and Eciency
FeaturesBenefits
<1W S0-Max (s tate) 1000BASE-T Active 90oC (mo de)
<400 mW S0-Typ (state) 100BASE-T Active (mode)
IEEE802.3az - Energ y Ecient Ethernet (EEE)• Power consumption of the PHY is reduced by approximately 50% link transitions to low p ower Idle (LPI) state as
DMA Coalescing• Reduces platform power consumption by coalescing, aligning, and synchronizing DMA
Smart Power Down (SPD) at S0 no link / Sx no link• PHY powers d own circuit s and clo cks th at are not required for detection of link activity
Active State Power Management (ASPM) Support• Optionality Compliance bit to help determine whether to enable ASPM or whether to run ASPM compliance tes ts to
LAN disable function• Option to dis able the LAN Port and/or PCIe Func tion. Disabling just the P CIe function but ke eping the LAN por t that
Full wake up support
• Adv anced Power Management (A PM) Support (form erly
Wake on LAN)
• Adv anced Conguration and Power Interface (ACPI)
speci cation v2.0c
• Magic Packet* wake-up enable with unique MAC address
ACPI register set and power dow n func tionality supportin g
D0 and D3 states
MAC Power Management controls• Power management control s in the M AC the PHY can be entered into a low- power state
Low Power Link Up —Link Speed Control• Enab les a link to come up at the lowes t possible speed in cases w here power is more important than p erformance
Power Management Protocol Ooad (Proxying)• Avoid spurious wake up event s and reduce sy stem power consumption when the device is in D3 low power s tate and
Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR)• Reports ser vice latency requirements for memor y reads and writes to the Root Complex for system power
• Controller is d esigned for low power consumption
dene d in the IEEE802. 3az (EEE) standard
• Enab les synchronizing port acti vit y and power management of memory, CPU and RC internal c ircuitry
support entry to L0 s
reside s on it fully active (for mana geability purposes and BMC pa ss-through trac).
• APM —Designed to receive a broadca st or unicast packet with an explicit data pat tern (Magic Pack) and assert a signal
to wake up the sys tem
• ACPI —PCIe powe r management base d wake-up that can generate system wake -up events from a number of sources
• A powe r-mana ged link speed control lowers link spe ed (and power) w hen hig hest link per formance is not required
system is in S3 or S4 low power states
management
I/O Virtualization Features
FeaturesBenefits
Eight tr ansmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per port• Supp ort s VMware* Net Queu e and Microsof t* VMQ
Flexible Port Partitioning:
32 Virtual Functions on Quad-port or 16 Virtual Functions
on Dual-port
Support for PCI-SIG SR-IOV specic ation• Up to 8 Vir tual Functi ons per Port
Rx/Tx Round-Robin Scheduling• Assigns time slices in equal por tions in circular order for R x/Tx for balanced bandwidth allocatio n
Trac Isol ation• Processes o r VMs can be assigne d a dedicated V F with V LAN suppo rt
Trac Steering• Ooads sorting and cl assi fying trac in to VF or queu es
VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)• On-chip VM-VM tr ac enables PCIe* sp eed switching bet ween VM
MAC and VLAN anti-spoong• Enables anti spo ong lter on MAC a ddres ses and VLAN for VFs.
Malicious driver detection• Monitors queues a nd VFs for malformed descriptors that mig ht indicate a malicious or bug gy dr iver.
• Vir tual Functions (V Fs) appear as Eth ernet Controllers in Linux OSes that can be assigned to VMs, Ker nel processes or
teamed using the Linux* Bonding Dri vers
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I/O Virtualization Features continued
FeaturesBenefits
Storm control• Limits to th e broadcas t or multicast trac it can receive
Per-pool statistics, ooads, and jumbo frames suppor t• Each Queue Pair or Pool ha s its own statistics, o-loads and Jumbo suppor t options
Independent Function Level Reset (FLR) for Physical and
Virtual Functions
IEEE 802.1q Virtual Lo cal Area Net work ( VLAN) sup por t
with VLAN t ag ins ert ion, s tripping and packet ltering
for up to 4096 VL AN tags
Controller-processor • Intel Ethernet Controlle r I350
Power consumption (typical) • Copper:
Operating temperature • 0 °C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F)
Storage temperature • -40 ° C to 70 °C (-4 0 °F to 158 °F )
Storage humidity • 90% non- conde nsing relative humidity at 35 °C
Connect Speed LED Indicators • Not illuminated=10 Mb/s; green=100 Mb/s; amber=1 Gb/s (Copper)
I350T2V2 4.4 W
I350T4V2 5.0 W
• Fiber:
I350F2 5.5 W
I350F4 6 .0 W
• Green=1 Gb/s. Not illuminated=no link (Fiber)
Physical Dimensions
Copper T2 & T4; Fiber F2
Length• 13.54 cm (5.33 in .)
Width• 6.89 cm (2.71 in.)
Full-height end bracket• 12.0 cm (4.725 in.)
Low-profile end bracket• 7.92 cm (3.117 in.)
Fiber F4
Length• 13.54 cm (5.33 in .)
Width• 11.12 cm (4.376 in)
Full-height end bracket• 12.0 cm (4.725 in.)
Low-profile end bracket N/A
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Operating System/Architecture Support
Operating SyStem
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Windows Server 2008 SP2
Windows Server 2008 SP2 Core
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (w/ Hyper-V role)
Hyper-V Ser ver 2008 SP2
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core
Windows Server 2008 R2 (w/Hyper-V role)
Hyper-V Ser ver 2008 R2
WinPE 1.6 (2003 PE)
WinPE 2.1 (2008 PE)
WinPE 3.0 (2008 R2 PE)
Linux* Stable Kernel version 3.X , 2.6, X
Linux RHEL 5.6
Linux RHEL 6.1
Linux SLES 10 SP4
Linux SLES 11 SP1
DOS* NDIS 2
DOS ODI
UEFI* 2.1
UEFI* 2.3
VMware* ESX 4.0
VMware ESX 4.1
VMware ESX 5.0
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Product Codes
Dual Port CopperCODE
Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
Bulk Pack—Order 5, Get 5 –R J45 IEEEI350T2V2BLK
Quad Por t Copper
Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4V2I3 50T4 V2
Bulk Pack—Order 5, Get 5 –R J45 IEEE
Dual Port Fiber
Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-F2I350 F2
Bulk Pack—Order 5, Get 5 –LC Fiber Optic IEEEI350F2BLK
I350T2V 2
CODE
I3 50T4 V2B LK
CODE
Quad Por t FiberCODE
Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-F4I35 0F4
Bulk Pack—Order 5, Get 5 –LC Fiber Optic IEEE
I350F4BLK
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