PCI Express x4 Quad Port Copper Gigabit Server Adapter (Intel I350 Based)

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LREC***4HT PCI Express x4 Quad Port Copper Gigabit Server Adapter (Intel I**0 Based)

Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet server adapters designed with performance enhancing features and new power management technologies
 
Key Features
Halogen-free quad-port Gigabit Ethernet adapters with copper 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 *2 virtual ports
Scalable iSCSI performance delivering cost-effective SAN connectivity
High-performing bridgeless design supporting PCI Express* Gen 2.1 5GT/s
Reliable and proven Gigabit Ethernet technology from Intel Corporation
 
Overview
The new LREC***4HT builds on LR-LINKs history of excellence.LR-LINK continues its market leadership with this new generation of PCIe* GbE network adapters. Built with the bridgeless Intel® Ethernet Controller I**0, 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 Unified Networking environments. This new family of adapters also includes new power management technologies such as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) and DMA Coalescing (DMAC).
 
Flexible I/O Virtualization
The LREC***4HT 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 todays servers to more efficient 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 specification, the adapter enables 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 traffic 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 offloading network traffic management to the controller.
 
Scalable iSCSI Performance
LREC***4HT with native iSCSI initiators built into Microsoft* Windows*, Linux* and VMware* ESX platforms provides a simple, dependable, cost-effective 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 LR-LINK® 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, LR-LINK® Ethernet Server Adapters include a number of hardware features designed to accelerate iSCSI traffic and enhance data processing.
For example, TCP segmentation offload and checksum offload capabilities help reduce processor usage, increase throughput, and deliver exceptional iSCSI performance. Finally, using native OS initiators, an LREC***4HT supports the CRC**2 digest instruction set included with Intel® Xeon® processor products, which improves transmission reliability and delivers an enterprise-class iSCSI solution.
 
PowerManagementTechnologies
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. Thats why LR-LINK has introduced new, advanced Power Management Technologies (PMTs)with the LREC***4HT that enable enterprises to configure power options on the adapter and more effectively manage their power consumption.
 
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
The LREC***4HT supports the IEEE**2.3az Energy Efficient 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 *0% of its normal operating power, saving power on the network port and the switch port. As soon as increased network traffic is detected, the controller and the switch quickly come back to full power to handle the increased network traffic. EEE is supported for both ***0BASE-T and**0BASE-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 configurable DMAC settings, incoming packets are buffered 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 efficiently 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
LR-LINK® Advanced Network Services (LR-LINK® ANS) include new teaming technologies and techniques such as Virtual Machine Load-Balancing (VMLB) for Hyper-V environments. Today, LR-LINK ANS includes a variety of teaming configurations for up to eight adapters, support for mixed vendors server adapters teaming and includes support for **2.1q VLANs, making LR-LINK 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 configuration.
 
General Features
Intel® Ethernet Controller I**0
With PCI Express* V2.1 (5 GT/s) Support
Halogen Free1 
Low-Profile and Standard height full
 
Ethernet Features
IEEE* **2.3 auto-negotiation
1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE **2.3, **2.3u, **2.3ab PHY specifications Compliant
Integrated PHY for *0/**0/***0 Mb/s for multispeed, full, and half-duplex
IEEE **2.3x and **2.3z compliant flow control support with software-controllable Rx thresholds and Tx pause frames
Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
IEEE ***8 protocol and **2.1AS implementation
 
Power Management and Efficiency
<1W S*-Max (state) ***0BASE-T Active *0oC (mode)
<**0mW S*-Typ (state) **0BASE-T Active (mode)
IEEE**2.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
DMA Coalescing
Smart Power Down (SPD) at S0 no link / Sx no link
ActiveStatePower Management (ASPM) Support
LAN disable function
Full wake up support
Advanced Power Management (APM) Support (formerly Wake on LAN)
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification v2.0c
Magic Packet* wake-up enable with unique MAC address
ACPI register set and power down functionality supporting D0 and D3 states
MAC Power Management controls
Low Power Link Up - Link Speed Control
Power Management Protocol Offload (Proxying)
Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR)
 
I/O Virtualization Features
Eight transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per port
Flexible Port Partitioning:
*2 Virtual Functions on Quad-port or *6 Virtual Functions on Dual-port
Support for PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification
Rx/Tx Round-Robin Scheduling
Traffic Isolation
Traffic Steering
VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing
Malicious driver detection
Storm control
Per-pool statistics, offloads, and jumbo frames support
Independent Function Level Reset (FLR) for Physical and Virtual Functions
IEEE **2.1q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to ***6 VLAN tags
IEEE **2.1q advanced packet filtering
Mirroring rules
Support for Simple VEPA
VF Promiscuous modes
 
Stateless Offloads/Performance Features
TCP/UDP, IPv4 checksum offloads (Rx/ Tx/Large-send)
Extended Tx descriptors for more offload capabilities
IPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offload
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
Transmit Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
Interrupt throttling control
Legacy and Message Signal Interrupt (MSI) Modes
Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X)
Intelligent interrupt generation
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment
Scalable I/O for Linux environments (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP
Support for packets up to 9.5K Bytes (Jumbo Frames)
Low Latency Interrupts
Header/packet data split in receive