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Abstract
The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter delivers low sub-600µs latency, extremely high message rates, RoCE v2, NVMe over Fabric offloads and embedded PCIe switch. Mellanox provides the highest performance and lowest latency for the most demanding applications: High frequency trading, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and more. This adapter ships ready to accept 10GbE, 25GbE or 40GbE network connections.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the ConnectX-5 Ex adapter and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the adapter and consider its use in IT solutions.
Withdrawn: The adapter described in this product guide is now withdrawn from marketing.
Introduction
The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter delivers low sub-600µs latency, extremely high message rates, RoCE v2, NVMe over Fabric offloads and embedded PCIe switch. Mellanox provides the highest performance and lowest latency for the most demanding applications: High frequency trading, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and more. This adapter ships ready to accept 10GbE, 25GbE or 40GbE network connections.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter (heatsink removed)
Did you know?
NVMe storage solutions are gaining popularity, offering very fast storage access. The evolving NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol leverages the Mellanox RDMA connectivity for remote access. ConnectX-5 offers further enhancements by providing NVMe-oF target offloads, enabling very efficient NVMe storage access with no CPU intervention, and thus improved performance and lower latency.
Part number information
The ordering information is listed in the following table.
Withdrawn: The adapter is now withdrawn from marketing.
| Part number |
Feature code |
Mellanox equivalent |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4XC7A08229 | B31C | MCX516A-BDAT | ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter |
The adapter, when shipped as a stand-alone option, includes the following items:
- One Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex EN adapter
- Two QSFP28 to SFP28 transceiver adapters (QSA28)
- Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
- Documentation flyer
QSA28 adapters: The option part number includes the QSA28 adapters, however when ordering the adapter as part of a server CTO build, the feature code B31C does not include the adapters and they must be ordered separately.
Supported transceivers and cables
The adapter has two empty QSFP28 cages. The adapter also includes two QSA28 adapters that convert the QSFP28 cages to SFP28 for 25Gb connectivity.
The adapter either supports a connection to a 1Gb, 10Gb, 25Gb or 40Gb switch or can share a connection to a 100Gb switch using a 4:1 breakout cable.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1Gb Transceivers | ||
| 00FE333 | A5DL | SFP 1000Base-T (RJ-45) Transceiver |
| 10Gb Transceivers | ||
| 90Y9412 | A1PM | SFP+ LR Transceiver |
| 46C3447 | 5053 | SFP+ SR Transceiver |
| 4TC7A78615 | BNDR | ThinkSystem Accelink 10G SR SFP+ Ethernet transceiver |
| 25Gb Transceivers | ||
| 4M27A67041 | BFH2 | Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver |
| 7G17A03537 | AV1B | Lenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver |
| 4TC7A88638 | BYBJ | ThinkSystem Finisar Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver |
| 40Gb Transceivers | ||
| 00D9865 | ASTM | Lenovo QSFP+ 40GBASE-iSR4 Transceiver |
| 49Y7884 | A1DR | QSFP+ 40GBASE-SR4 Transceiver |
| 4TC7A85336 | BU8E | ThinkSystem Accelink 40G SR4 QSFP+ Ethernet transceiver |
| Converters/Adapters | ||
| 00D9676 | ARZH | Mellanox QSFP to SFP+ Adapter |
| 4G17A10853 | B306 | Mellanox 100G QSFP28 to 25G SFP28 Cable Adapter |
Configuration note:
- Two QSA 100G to 25G adapters are included with the ConnectX-5 Ex adapter part number, 4XC7A08229, however they are not automatically included with the adapter when ordered with a server as part of a CTO build. For CTO orders, select the QSA adapters (feature B306) separately if needed.
25Gb transceivers: When installed in this 25Gb Ethernet adapter, 25Gb transceivers are designed to operate at either 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds as listed in the description of the transceiver, however the speed also depends on the negotiation with the connected switch. In most configurations, this negotiation is automatic, however in some configurations you may have to manually set the link speed or FEC mode.
The following table lists the supported optical cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables | ||
| 00MN499 | ASR5 | Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN502 | ASR6 | Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN505 | ASR7 | Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN508 | ASR8 | Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN511 | ASR9 | Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN514 | ASRA | Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN517 | ASRB | Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN520 | ASRC | Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables | ||
| 00YL634 | ATYX | Lenovo 1M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL637 | ATYY | Lenovo 3M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL640 | ATYZ | Lenovo 5m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL643 | ATZ0 | Lenovo 7M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL646 | ATZ1 | Lenovo 15M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL649 | ATZ2 | Lenovo 20M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| QSFP 40Gb Active Optical Cables | ||
| 7Z57A04256 | AX42 | Lenovo 1m 40G QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL652 | ATZ3 | Lenovo 3m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL655 | ATZ4 | Lenovo 5m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL658 | ATZ5 | Lenovo 7m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL661 | ATZ6 | Lenovo 15m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL664 | ATZ7 | Lenovo 20m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| QSFP OM3 Optical Cables (these cables require a transceiver) | ||
| 00VX003 | AT2U | Lenovo 10m QSFP+ MPO-MPO OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00VX005 | AT2V | Lenovo 30m QSFP+ MPO-MPO OM3 MMF Cable |
| SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables | ||
| 4X97A94008 | AV1F | Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 4X97A94011 | AV1G | Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 4X97A94012 | AV1H | Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 4X97A94013 | AV1J | Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 4X97A94702 | AV1K | Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03541 | C10R | Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03542 | C10S | Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03543 | C10N | Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03544 | C10T | Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03545 | C1MB | Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Breakout Active Optical Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03551 | AV1R | Lenovo 3m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03552 | AV1S | Lenovo 5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03553 | AV1T | Lenovo 10m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03554 | AV1U | Lenovo 15m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03555 | AV1V | Lenovo 20m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| QSFP-to-QSFP 40Gb Cables | ||
| 49Y7890 | A1DP | 1m QSFP to QSFP+ Cable |
| 49Y7891 | A1DQ | 3m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable |
| 00D5810 | A2X8 | 5m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable |
| 00D5813 | A2X9 | 7m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable |
| SFP+ 10Gb Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 00D6288 | A3RG | 0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9427 | A1PH | 1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00AY764 | A51N | 1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00AY765 | A51P | 2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9430 | A1PJ | 3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9433 | A1PK | 5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00D6151 | A3RH | 7m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| SFP+ 10Gb Active DAC Cables | ||
| 00VX111 | AT2R | Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP+ Cables |
| 00VX114 | AT2S | Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP+ Cables |
| 00VX117 | AT2T | Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP+ Cables |
| SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03557 | AV1W | Lenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03558 | AV1X | Lenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03559 | AV1Y | Lenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| QSFP28 100G-to-4x25G Ethernet Breakout Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03564 | AV22 | Lenovo 1m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 4Z57A85043 | BS32 | Lenovo 1.5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 4Z57A85044 | BS33 | Lenovo 2m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03565 | AV23 | Lenovo 3m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03566 | AV24 | Lenovo 5m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
Features
The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter has the following key features:
Ultra-low latency
Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapter cards feature exceedingly low latency and hardware-based RDMA technology that is perfect for meeting the needs of the financial services industry. Based on advanced technology providing sub-microsecond latency and a capacity of 200 million messages per second, ConnectX-5 offers the next generation of connectivity today.
Mellanox’s Messaging Accelerator (VMA) transparently boosts performance for socket-based applications without having to modify the applications. By offloading network processing from the OS, traffic passes directly to the network adapter from the application user space, bypassing the kernel IP stack and minimizing context switches, buffer copies, and interrupts. The result is a reduction in latency by 500% and an increase in application throughput, as compared to applications running on a standard network kernel stack.
Cloud, SDN, and NFV environment support
Mellanox Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2) Direct technology allows to offload vSwitch/vRouter by handling the data plane in the NIC hardware while maintaining the control plane unmodified. As a result there is significantly higher vSwitch/vRouter performance without the associated CPU load
The vSwitch/vRouter offload functions that are supported by ConnectX-5 include Overlay Networks (for example, VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, GENEVE, and NSH) headers’ encapsulation and de-capsulation, as well as stateless offloads of inner packets, packet headers’ re-write enabling NAT functionality, and more.
Moreover, the intelligent ConnectX-5 flexible pipeline capabilities, which include flexible parser and flexible match-action tables, can be programmed, which enable hardware offloads for future protocols.
ConnectX-5 SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VMs) within the server. With ConnectX-5 Network Function Virtualization (NFV), a VM can be used as a virtual appliance. With full data-path operations offloads as well as hairpin hardware capability and service chaining, data can be handled by the Virtual Appliance with minimum CPU utilization.
With these capabilities data center administrators benefit from better server utilization while reducing cost, power, and cable complexity, allowing more Virtual Appliances, Virtual Machines and more tenants on the same hardware.
Specifications
The adapter has the following technical specifications:
- PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface
- Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
- Two QSFP28 external connectors supporting a transceiver, converter, direct-attach copper (DAC) cable or active optical cable (AOC).
- Data rates supported: 1, 10, 25 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet
- TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) Processing Hints (TPH)
- Embedded PCIe Switch: Up to 8 bifurcations
- PCIe switch Downstream Port Containment (DPC) enablement for PCIe hot-plug
- Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer secure communication
- Advance Error Reporting (AER)
- Process Address Space ID (PASID) Address Translation Services (ATS)
- IBM CAPI v2 support (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
- Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
Ethernet:
- 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE
- IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium 25, supporting all FEC modes
- IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup
- IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN) Congestion Notification
- IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
- IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
- IEEE 802.1Qbg
- IEEE 1588v2
- Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
- IPv4 (RFQ 791)
- IPv6 (RFC 2460)
Enhanced Features:
- Hardware-based reliable transport
- Collective operations offloads
- Vector collective operations offloads
- PeerDirect RDMA (GPUDirect) communication acceleration
- 64/66 encoding
- Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)
- Dynamically Connected Transport (DCT)
- Enhanced Atomic operations
- Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
- On demand paging (ODP)
- MPI Tag Matching
- Rendezvous protocol offload
- Out-of-order RDMA supporting Adaptive Routing
- Burst buffer offload
- In-Network Memory registration-free RDMA memory access
CPU Offloads:
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
- LSO, LRO, checksum offload
- RSS (also on encapsulated packet), TSS, HDS, VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping, Receive flow steering
- Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for kernel bypass applications
- Open VSwitch (OVS) offload using ASAP2:
- Flexible match-action flow tables
- Tunneling encapsulation/ de-capsulation
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
- Header rewrite supporting hardware offload of NAT router
Storage Offloads:
- NVMe over Fabric offloads for target machine
- Erasure Coding offload – offloading Reed Solomon calculations
- T10 DIF – Signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
- Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF
Overlay Networks:
- RoCE over Overlay Networks
- Stateless offloads for overlay network tunneling protocols
- Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE overlay networks
Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization
- Single Root IOV
- Address translation and protection
- VMware NetQueue support
- SR-IOV: Up to 1K Virtual Functions
- SR-IOV: Up to 16 Physical Functions per host
- Virtualization hierarchies (e.g., NPAR and Multi-Host, when enabled):
- Virtualizing Physical Functions on a physical port
- SR-IOV on every Physical Function
- Configurable and user-programmable QoS
- Guaranteed QoS for VMs
HPC Software Libraries:
- Open MPI, IBM PE, OSU MPI (MVAPICH/2), Intel MPI
- Platform MPI, UPC, Open SHMEM
Management and Control:
- PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
- PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267
- SDN management interface for managing the eSwitch
- I2C interface for device control and configuration
- General Purpose I/O pins
- SPI interface to Flash
- JTAG IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6
Remote Boot:
- Remote boot over Ethernet
- Remote boot over iSCSI
- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
- Pre-execution Environment (PXE)
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
| Part Number | Description | AMD V3 | 2S Intel V3/V4 | 4S 8S Intel V3 | Multi Node V3/V4 | 1S V3 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR635 V3 (7D9H / 7D9G) |
SR655 V3 (7D9F / 7D9E) |
SR645 V3 (7D9D / 7D9C) |
SR665 V3 (7D9B / 7D9A) |
ST650 V3 (7D7B / 7D7A) |
SR630 V3 (7D72 / 7D73) |
SR650 V3 (7D75 / 7D76) |
SR630 V4 (7DG8 / 7DG9) |
SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96) |
SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93) |
SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4) |
SD535 V3 (7DD8 / 7DD1) |
SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3) |
SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2) |
ST45 V3 (7DH4 / 7DH5) |
ST50 V3 (7DF4 / 7DF3) |
ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE) |
SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL) |
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| 4XC7A08229 | ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | GPU Rich | Edge | Super Computing | 1S Intel V2 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23) |
SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R) |
SR680a V3 (7DHE) |
SR685a V3 (7DHC) |
SR780a V3 (7DJ5) |
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X) |
SE350 V2 (7DA9) |
SE360 V2 (7DAM) |
SE450 (7D8T) |
SE455 V3 (7DBY) |
SC750 V4 (7DDJ) |
SC777 V4 (7DKA) |
SD665 V3 (7D9P) |
SD665-N V3 (7DAZ) |
SD650 V3 (7D7M) |
SD650-I V3 (7D7L) |
SD650-N V3 (7D7N) |
ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J) |
ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F) |
SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q) |
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| 4XC7A08229 | ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | 2S Intel V2 | AMD V1 | Dense V2 | 4S V2 | 8S | 4S V1 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74) |
SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71) |
SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73) |
SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99) |
SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01) |
SR655 Client OS |
SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X) |
SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V) |
SD630 V2 (7D1K) |
SD650 V2 (7D1M) |
SD650-N V2 (7D1N) |
SN550 V2 (7Z69) |
SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32) |
SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60) |
SR950 (7X11 / 7X12) |
SR850 (7X18 / 7X19) |
SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G) |
SR860 (7X69 / 7X70) |
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| 4XC7A08229 | ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Part Number | Description | 1S Intel V1 | 2S Intel V1 | Dense V1 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50) |
ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46) |
SR150 (7Y54) |
SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51) |
ST550 (7X09 / 7X10) |
SR530 (7X07 / 7X08) |
SR550 (7X03 / 7X04) |
SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03) |
SR590 (7X98 / 7X99) |
SR630 (7X01 / 7X02) |
SR650 (7X05 / 7X06) |
SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37) |
SD530 (7X21) |
SD650 (7X58) |
SN550 (7X16) |
SN850 (7X15) |
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| 4XC7A08229 | ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | N |
Operating system support
The adapter supports the following operating systems:
Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
| Operating systems | SD530 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR630 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR650 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR850 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR850P (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR860 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR950 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SD530 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR630 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR650 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR850 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR860 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR950 (Xeon Gen 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server version 1709 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server version 1803 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0 U3 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0 U1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0 U2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0 U3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Physical specifications
The adapter is a low-profile adapter with the following dimensions:
- Length: 14.2 cm (5.6 in)
- Height: 6.9 cm (2.71 in)
Operating environment
The adapter is supported in the following environment:
- Temperature (operating): 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
- Temperature (storage): -40 to 70 °C (-40 to 158 °F)
- Humidity (operating): 10 to 90% non-condensing
- Humidity (storage): 5 to 90% non-condensing
Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, the adapter assumes the system’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.
Agency approvals
The adapter conforms to the following standards:
- Safety: CB / cTUVus / CE
- EMC: CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES / RCM
- RoHS: RoHS-R6
Top-of-rack Ethernet switches
The following table lists the Ethernet LAN switches that are offered by Lenovo.
| Part number | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 Gb Ethernet Rack switches | |
| 7Y810011WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE0152T RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7Z320O11WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE0152TO RackSwitch (Rear to Front, ONIE) |
| 7159BAX | Lenovo RackSwitch G7028 (Rear to Front) |
| 7159CAX | Lenovo RackSwitch G7052 (Rear to Front) |
| 7159G52 | Lenovo RackSwitch G8052 (Rear to Front) |
| 7165H1X | Juniper EX2300-C PoE Switch |
| 7165H2X | Juniper EX2300-24p PoE Switch |
| 1 Gb Ethernet Campus switches | |
| 7Z340011WW | Lenovo CE0128TB Switch (3-Year Warranty) |
| 7Z360011WW | Lenovo CE0128TB Switch (Limited Lifetime Warranty) |
| 7Z340012WW | Lenovo CE0128PB Switch (3-Year Warranty) |
| 7Z360012WW | Lenovo CE0128PB Switch (Limited Lifetime Warranty) |
| 7Z350021WW | Lenovo CE0152TB Switch (3-Year Warranty) |
| 7Z370021WW | Lenovo CE0152TB Switch (Limited Lifetime Warranty) |
| 7Z350022WW | Lenovo CE0152PB Switch (3-Year Warranty) |
| 7Z370022WW | Lenovo CE0152PB Switch (Limited Lifetime Warranty) |
| 10 Gb Ethernet switches | |
| 7159A1X | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7159B1X | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032T RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7Z330O11WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1064TO RackSwitch (Rear to Front, ONIE) |
| 7159C1X | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7159CRW | Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 (Rear to Front) |
| 7159GR6 | Lenovo RackSwitch G8296 (Rear to Front) |
| 7159BR6 | Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E (Rear to Front) |
| 25 Gb Ethernet switches | |
| 7159E1X | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE2572 RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7Z210O21WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE2572O RackSwitch (Rear to Front, ONIE) |
| 7Z330O21WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE2580O RackSwitch (Rear to Front, ONIE) |
| 100 Gb Ethernet switches | |
| 7159D1X | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE10032 RackSwitch (Rear to Front) |
| 7Z210O11WW | Lenovo ThinkSystem NE10032O RackSwitch (Rear to Front, ONIE) |
For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following switch categories:
- 1 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/1gb?rt=product-guide
- 10 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb?rt=product-guide
- 25 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/25gb?rt=product-guide
- 40 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/40gb?rt=product-guide
- 100 Gb Ethernet switches: https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/100Gb?rt=product-guide
Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:
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