The Intel X520 Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x is powered by an Intel Ethernet 82599 third-generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. This card offers full line-rate 10 Gigabit per second performance for high-I/O intensive clients, and showcases the next generation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking features for the enterprise network and data center. This adapter uses IBM System x Mezzanine design, which does not use a PCIe slot.
The new Intel X520 Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ Embedded Adapter for IBM System x provides great networking performance, whether as a standard NIC, or with the physical port configured in an emulation mode using the virtual switch in the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), or directly assigned to a virtual machine. In the emulation mode, the Intel I/O technology and Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) optimize network performance by offloading data sorting and copying from the software Virtual Switch in the VMM to the Intel Ethernet 82599 10-Gigabit Controller.
- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Lenovo Group Limited
- Manufacturer Website Address
- http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/
- Brand Name
- Lenovo
- Product Type
- 10Gigabit Ethernet Card
- Warranty
- Limited Warranty
- 1 Year
- Interfaces/Ports
- Host Interface
- PCI Express x8
- USB
- No
- Serial Port
- No
- Ethernet AUI
- No
- XJACK
- No
- PoE (RJ-45) Port
- No
- I/O Expansions
- Number of Total Expansion Slots
- 2
- Expansion Slot Type
- SFP+
- Number of SFP+ Slots
- 2
- Media & Performance
- Media Type Supported
- Twinaxial
- Optical Fiber
- Network & Communication
- Network Technology
- 10GBase-LR
- 10GBase-SR
- InfiniBand
- No
- Physical Characteristics
- Form Factor
- Mezzanine
- Miscellaneous
- Device Supported
- PC
- Platform Supported
- PC