Lenovo 7ZT7A00534 User Manual

Intel I350 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Product Guide

Based on the Intel I350 Gigabit Ethernet adapters from Lenovo build on Intel's history of delivering
Ethernet products with flexible design and robust driver support. Available in either 1-port fiber
configuration or a 2/4-port copper configuration, these adapters offer excellent price/performance,
enhanced power-savings, and market-leading I/O virtualization technologies that includes SRIOV and
VMDq.

The following figure shows the I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter.

Figure 1. I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter

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Part number information

The following table shows the relevant part number and feature code for the adapter.

Table 1. Ordering part number and feature code

Part number Feature code Description

ThinkSystem options

7ZT7A00533 AUZZ ThinkSystem I350-F1 PCIe 1Gb 1-Port SFP Ethernet Adapter By Intel

7ZT7A00534 AUZY ThinkSystem I350-T2 PCIe 1Gb 2-Port RJ45 Ethernet Adapter By Intel

7ZT7A00535 AUZW ThinkSystem I350-T4 PCIe 1Gb 4-Port RJ45 Ethernet Adapter By Intel

7ZT7A00536 AUKW ThinkSystem Intel I350-T4 ML2 1Gb 4-Port RJ45 Ethernet Adapter

4XC7A08277 B93E ThinkSystem Intel I350 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter

System x options

00D1998 A40R I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter

00AG500 A56K Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter

The part number for the adapter includes the following items:

One Ethernet adapter with a full-height (3U, 4.75-in.) bracket

One low-profile (2U) bracket

Documentation

The following figure shows the Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter.

Figure 2. Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter

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Features and specifications

Adapter features:

Connectors:

I350-T4 adapters: Four 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 connectors
I350-T2 adapter: Two 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 connectors
I350-F1 adapter: One fiber optic LC connector supporting MMF 62.5/50 µm cables,
conforming to IEEE 802.3Z 1000BASE-SX. (Note: The LC connector is fixed and cannot be
removed).

Based on Intel I350 ASIC

Line rate with IEEE 802.3 auto negotiation for 1000/100/10 Base-T Ethernet (T4 ML2, T2, and T4
adapters only)

Host interface: PCIe 2.0 x4 host interface

Form factor:

I350-T4 ML2 adapter: Mezzanine LOM Generation 2 (ML2) form factor
I350-T4 OCP adapter: OCP 3.0 SFF form factor
Other I350 adapters: Standard PCI-e low profile card form factor

Power dissipation:

I350-T4 ML2 adapter: 12.5 W typical
I350-F1 adapter: 5.1 W typical
I350-T2 adapter: 4.6 W typical
I350-T4 adapter: 5.9 W typical

Performance features:

TCP/UDP, IPv4 checksum offloads, and extended Tx descriptors
IPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offloads
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
Transmit segmentation offload
Interrupt throttling control
Message Signal Interrupt (MSI) support
Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X) support
Intelligent interrupt generation
RSS for Windows
Scalable I/O for Linux
Low-latency interrupts
Header/Packet Data Split in Receive
PCIe v2.1 TLP processing hint requester
Descriptor ring management hardware for transmit and receive

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Ethernet and power features:

IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab (Base-T adapters only)
Jumbo frame support (9500 bytes)
IEEE 1588 and 802.1AS
MDI/MDIX auto crossover detection
IEEE 802.3x compliant flow control
IEEE 802.3z (I350-F1 adapter only)
Flow control (IEEE 802.3)
VLAN support (IEEE 802.1q)
Priority of service (IEEE 802.1p)
PXE Preboot eXecution
iSCSI support for native OS and VMM iSCSI software initiators
Wake on LAN support (Base-T adapters only)
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
DMA coalescing

Virtualization features:

SRIOV support
Intel Virtual Technology (VT) with I/OAT and VMDq
Eight TX and Rx Queue pairs per port
Flexible Port Partitioning - 8 virtual functions (VFs) per port
RX/TX Round-Robin Scheduling
Traffic isolation
Traffic steering
VM to VM packet forwarding
MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing
Malicious driver detection
Storm control
Per-pool statistics, off loads, and jumbo support
IEEE 802.1q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion for up to 4096 VLANs
Mirroring rules
VEPA (VM switching)

Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT) is a suite of features that improves data acceleration across
the platform, from networking devices to the chipset and processors, which helps to improve system
performance and application response times. The suite of features includes the following items:

Intel QuickData Technology: Provides the Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine, which moves data
by using the chipset instead of the processor.

MSI-X: Minimizes the impact of I/O interrupts by load-balancing interrupts across multiple
processor cores.

Low-Latency Interrupts: Allows the adapter to bypass the automatic moderation of time intervals
between the interrupts (based on the sensitivity of the incoming data).

Receive Side Scaling (RSS): Directs the interrupts to a specific processor core based on the
application’s address.

Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) reduce the I/O impact on the Hypervisor in a virtualized server by
performing data sorting and coalescing in the network silicon. VMDq technology uses multiple queues in
the network controller. As data packets enter the network adapter, they are sorted, and packets traveling
to the same destination (or virtual machine) are grouped in a single queue. The packets are then sent to
the Hypervisor, which directs them to their respective virtual machines. Relieving the Hypervisor of packet
filtering and sorting improves overall processor usage and throughput levels.

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Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a method where the adapter and its resources are virtualized so
that virtual machine guest can separately configure and access the virtualized resources without impacting
the use of the same resources by other virtual machines.

The following figure shows the Intel I350-T2 2xGbE BaseT Adapter

Figure 3. Intel I350-T2 2xGbE BaseT Adapter

Physical specifications

The OCP adapter has the following physical specifications:

Width: 76 mm (3 in.)
Depth: 115 mm (4.5 in.)

The ML2 adapter has the following physical specifications:

Height: 69 mm (2.7 in.)
Length: 168 mm (6.6 in.)
Width: 17 mm (0.7 in.)

The PCIe low-profile adapters have the following physical specifications:

Height: 69 mm (2.7 in.)
Length: 135 mm (5.3 in.)
Width: 17 mm (0.7 in.)

Shipping dimensions:

Length: 290.3 mm (11.5 in)
Width: 250.8 mm (8.2 in)
Height: 50.8 mm (2.3 in)
Weight: 0.4 kg (0.89 lb)

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Operating environment

The adapter is supported in the following environment:

Temperature:

0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F) operating

- 20 to 65 °C (-4 to 149 °F) storage

Relative humidity:

Operating: 5% - 85%, noncondensing

Warranty

One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, these cards assume the server’s base
warranty and any warranty upgrade.

Server support - ThinkSystem

The following table lists the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 2. ThinkSystem server support

Description and part number

E 1S Intel 2S Intel AMD 4S Intel

Dense/

Blade

I350-F1 PCIe 1Gb 1-Port SFP
Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00533

N N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y N N N N

I350-T2 PCIe 1Gb 2-Port RJ45
Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00534

N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N N N N

I350-T4 PCIe 1Gb 4-Port RJ45
Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00535

N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N N N

I350-T4 ML2 1Gb 4-Port RJ45
Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00536

N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N

I350 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP
Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08277

N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y N N N N N N N N

SE350 (7Z46/7D1X)

ST50 (7Y48/7Y50)

ST250 (7Y45/7Y46)

SR150 (7Y54)

SR250 (7Y51/7Y52)

ST550 (7X09/7X10)

SR530 (7X07/7X08)

SR550 (7X03/7X04)

SR570 (7Y02/7Y03)

SR590 (7X98/7X99)

SR630 (7X01/7X02)

SR650 (7X05/7X06)

SR670 (7Y36/7Y37/7Y38)

SR635 (7Y98/7Y99)

SR655 (7Y00/7Z01)

SR850 (7X18/7X19)

SR850P (7D2F/2D2G)

SR860 (7X69/7X70)

SR950 (7X11/12/13)

SD530 (7X21)

SD650 (7X58)

SN550 (7X16)

SN850 (7X15)

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Server support - System x

The adapter is supported in the servers that are identified in the following tables.

Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors

Table 3. Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors

Part
number Description

00D1998 Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter N N Y Y Y N N

00AG500 Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter N N Y Y Y Y N

Support for servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors

Table 4. Support for servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors

Part
number Description

00D1998 Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter N N N Y Y Y N

00AG500 Intel I350-F1 1xGbE Fiber Adapter Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

x3250 M6 (3943)

x3250 M6 (3633)

x3550 M5 (8869)

x3650 M5 (8871)

x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v4)

nx360 M5 (5465, E5-2600 v4)

sd350 (5493)

x3100 M5 (5457)

x3250 M5 (5458)

x3500 M5 (5464)

x3550 M5 (5463)

x3650 M5 (5462)

x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v3)

nx360 M5 (5465)

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