Brief

Specifications
General
Product codes Dual Port: X540T2
Single Port: X540T1
Connector RJ45 Copper
Cabling See listing below
Adapter Product Features
Intel® PROSet Utility for easy con-
figuration and management
Intel® Lead-free technology
Plug and play specification support Standard
Full-height bracket installed; low-
profile bracket included in package
RoHS compliant
Cabling Distances:
10GBASE-T • 100 m on Cat 6A
• 55 m on Cat 6
1000BASE-T 100 m on Cat 5e, Cat 6 or Cat 6A
100BASE-T 100 m on Cat 5e, Cat 6 or Cat 6A
Receive-Side Scaling
Network Management
Wired for Management (WfM) baseline v2.0 enabled for servers
DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only Memory (ROM)
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Windows* 7 (IA32 and X64)
Windows Server* 2008 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server* 2008 Core (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server* 2008 R2 (x64 and IPF)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (x64 and IPF)
Linux* SLES 11 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003*
Microsoft Vista*
SUSE* SLES 10* or later, Professional 9.2 or later
Microsoft Windows Virtual Server* 2005*
Red Hat Enterprise* 4* or later
FreeBSD* 5.x or later support
VMware* ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.0 support
Fedora*
EFI* 1.1
Intel Backing
Limited lifetime warranty
90-day, money-back guarantee
(U.S. and Canada)
Advanced Software Features
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
Teaming support
IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control
protocol)
PCIe Hot Plug/Active Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI)
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support
Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum offload-
ing (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities Transmission
control protocol (TCP), User Datagram
Protocol (UDP), Internet Protocol (IP))
IEEE 802.1p
TCP segmentation/large send offload
MSI -X: Multiple Independent Queues
Interrupt moderation
IPv6 offloading
Hardware Features
Data rate(s) supported per port 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps
Bus Type PCI Express 2.1 (5.0 GT/s)
Bus width x8 lane PCI Express, operable in
x8 and x16 slots
Bus speed (x8, encoded rate) 20 Gbps uni-directional; 40
Gbps bi-directional
Interrupt levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware certifications FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK,
KCC
Controller-processor Intel® Ethernet Controller X540
Speed/LFM
Watts
(typical)
X540T2 X540T1
10 Gbps 17. 4 10.8
1 Gbps 9.5 7.7
100 Mbps 6.6 6.4
LFM 200 0
Power Usage
Companion Products
Consider these Intel® products in your
server and network planning:
• Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520
Series
–10 GbE SFP+ PCIe v2.0 (5 GT/s)
performance
–Copper or fiber-optic network connec-
tivity; up to two ports per card
• Intel® Xeon® Processors
• Intel® Server Boards
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