Advanced Technologies for Converged Adapter
The Intel X540-T2 Plug-in Card PCI-E 10GbE Dual Port Wires Converged Adapter is a high-performance network interface card (NIC) designed for use in servers. It provides two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, which allows for increased network connectivity and redundancy.
This NIC card is equipped with advanced technologies that provide increased performance, security, and manageability. Some of these advanced technologies include:
- Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq): VMDq is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology that improves network performance by reducing the CPU overhead associated with virtualized environments.
- PCI Express v3.0: The NIC card supports the PCI Express v3.0 interface, which provides increased bandwidth and faster data transfer speeds.
- Advanced Error Handling: The NIC card has advanced error handling features that can detect and correct errors before they can cause system downtime.
- Advanced Flow Control: The NIC card has advanced flow control features that help to prevent network congestion and ensure that data is transmitted reliably.
- Quality of Service (QoS) support: The NIC card supports QoS, which allows for prioritization of network traffic based on different types of applications and services.
- Support for iSCSI and FCoE: The NIC card supports iSCSI and FCoE, which allows for storage area networks (SANs) to be implemented over Ethernet networks.
- Compatibility with Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c): The NIC card is compatible with Intel VT-c, which provides advanced virtualization features that can help to increase network performance in virtualized environments.
All these advanced technologies ensure that the NIC card can provide high-performance and reliable network connectivity, and can handle the demands of a server environment. The 10Gbps speed is also particularly useful for high-bandwidth applications such as video streaming, high-performance computing, and cloud computing.
Resiliency and High Availability
The Intel X540-T2 Plug-in Card PCI-E 10Gbps Dual Port Wires Converged Adapter is designed to provide resiliency and high availability in a server environment. Some of the features that contribute to this include:
- Dual ports: Having two ports allows for increased network connectivity and redundancy. This means that if one port fails, the other port can take over and maintain network connectivity.
- Advanced Error Handling: The NIC card has advanced error handling features that can detect and correct errors before they can cause system downtime.
- Advanced Flow Control: The NIC card has advanced flow control features that help to prevent network congestion and ensure that data is transmitted reliably.
- Quality of Service (QoS) support: The NIC card supports QoS, which allows for prioritization of network traffic based on different types of applications and services.
- Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq): VMDq is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology that improves network performance by reducing the CPU overhead associated with virtualized environments.
- Support for iSCSI and FCoE: The NIC card supports iSCSI and FCoE, which allows for storage area networks (SANs) to be implemented over Ethernet networks.
- Compatibility with Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c): The NIC card is compatible with Intel VT-c, which provides advanced virtualization features that can help to increase network performance in virtualized environments.
All these features together make the NIC card a reliable and robust solution for servers, providing high availability and resiliency to network connectivity. They also can help in reducing network downtime and keeping the network running smoothly. Additionally, the 10Gbps speed makes this NIC card more suitable for high bandwidth applications, where the extra speed can make a significant difference in the performance of the network.
Quality Components
The Intel X540-T2 Plug-in Card PCI-E 10GbE Dual Port Wires Converged Adapter is built with high-quality components to ensure that it can operate in demanding server environments. Some of the quality components used in this NIC card include:
- High-Quality PCB: The NIC card is built on a high-quality printed circuit board (PCB) that is designed to withstand the physical and thermal stresses of a server environment.
- High-Quality Connectors: The NIC card is equipped with high-quality connectors that provide a secure and reliable connection to the network.
- High-Quality Transceivers: The NIC card is equipped with high-quality transceivers that provide a reliable and consistent signal for network communication.
- High-Quality Memory: The NIC card is equipped with high-quality memory that can store the necessary firmware and configuration data.
- High-Quality Power Management: The NIC card is equipped with high-quality power management features that can help to conserve power and reduce energy consumption.
- High-Quality Cooling: The NIC card is equipped with high-quality cooling features that can help to keep the card cool and prevent overheating.
All these quality components ensure that the NIC card can operate reliably and robustly in a server environment, and can provide high-performance network connectivity. The use of high-quality components also makes the NIC card more durable and less likely to fail in demanding environments.
General Information about this Intel X540-T2
- Brand: Intel
- Model Number or SKU# X540-T2
- Type: Networking
- Networking Type: Converged Adapter
Performance of PCI Express
- Interface (bus) Type: PCI Express 2.0 X8
- Device Type: Network Adapter - 2 Ports
- PCI Specification Revision: PCI-E 2.0
Networking for this Network Adapter - 2 Ports
- Connectivity Technology: Wires
- Data Link Protocol: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Data Transfer Rate
- Network Technology: 10GBase-T
Dimensions
- 8.8 x 5.6 x 1.1 Inches
- Form Factor: Plug-in Card - Low Profile
A converged adapter is also referred to as a converged network adapter (CNA) or a single network interface card (NIC). Within a network, the CNA serves the combined roles of a fiber channel host bus adapter and TCP/IP Ethernet network interface card.
The role of a converged adapter is to connect servers to FC-based SANs and Ethernet-based LANs, including workstations and other hardware units. The adapter connects to the server through the PCI-e interface. Therefore, the server will send fiber channel SAN and Ethernet-based LAN to the Ethernet port on the converged adapter through the Fiber Channel over Ethernet protocol for FC-based SAN data and Ethernet protocol for traffic and data on LAN.
At the CNA level, FCoE traffic is first converted into FC and then sent to the FC-based SAN. There's no conversion for Ethernet traffic, which is directly sent to a LAN. Where a CNA is absent, servers must have at the very least two adapters. The first is an FC HBA adapter that aids in connecting the server to SAN, while the second will have a TCP/IP Ethernet NIC that facilitates the connection to the LAN.
We have a wide range of converged network adapters that will come in handy in meeting the requirements of your computer network. The use of a CNA to make the connection between servers to both SAN and LAN helps to reduce costs since it will cut back on the number of adapter cards, PCI-e slots, cables, and switch ports used within the network. As a result, a converged adapter will greatly minimize the challenge of network maintenance and administration, since there will be only a single connection and a single cable to look after.
Other benefits of converged adapters and converged networks are:
- Simplification of the typical storage and network topology
- Access to basic network interface card features and performance virtualization over NIC.
- All-in-one provision of Ethernet, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel (FC) connectivity by offloading FCoE and iSCSI hardware.
- Guaranteed data integrity
- Power saving because of fewer adapters and cables.
- Minimal impact of the overlay network
- Fewer switch ports - 1 Port, 2 Port, 4 Port
- Lower cabling requirements
- Centralized network management
- Improved quality of service
- Remote direct memory access to facilitate data acceleration
- Support for software-defined networking (SDN) programming
Converged network adapter plays a strategic role within networks and many IT setups in that they help business owners and network admins consolidate their systems, harness new and emerging technologies, and ensure efficient IT operations. CNAs will also serve as a foundation for all-inclusive progress to more powerful and sophisticated computing networks and systems. With the increased sophistication in storage, handling, and evaluation of data, CNAs as well as other network admin tools are changing the network landscape and creating intelligent and capable networks.
Besides, the converged adapters can be used with specific hardware pieces that can be used to satisfy performance standards. A CNA can be used alongside 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit to support greater performance network transmission.
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