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Abstract
The Intel X710 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) server network adapters addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center. By providing unmatched features for server and network virtualization, small packet performance, and low power; the data center network is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
Change History
Changes in the December 5, 2024 update:
- Added the table of supported CAT6 cables with RJ45 connectors - Supported transceivers and cables section
Introduction
The Intel X710 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) server network adapters addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center. By providing unmatched features for server and network virtualization, small packet performance, and low power; the data center network is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
The X710 is currently available in three host connections: a standard PCIe host interface, an OCP 3.0 interface, and a Mezzanine LOM (ML2) host interface.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter.
Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter
Did you know?
The Intel X710 adapters support Intel I/O Virtualization Technology, which helps accelerate data and improves application response times. For virtualized environments, the X710 adapters offer advanced features with VMDq that lower processor usage and increase I/O performance.
Open Compute Project 3.0 (OCP 3.0) and Mezzanine LAN-on-Motherboard Generation 2 (ML2) adapters are cost-effective adapters that offers the flexibility advantages of a PCIe adapter while supporting integrated networking features, such as Wake-on-LAN and direct connectivity to the server's service processor for NCSI-compliant out-of-band systems management.
Part number information
The following table provides the ordering part numbers and feature codes for the Intel X710 adapters.
Table 1. Ordering part numbers and feature codes
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PCIe SFP+ adapters | ||
| 7ZT7A00537 | AUKX | ThinkSystem Intel X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter |
| 7XC7A05525 | B0YL | Intel X710-DA4 4x10Gb SFP+ Adapter |
| 01DA900 | AU2Y | Intel X710-DA2 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter |
| 81Y3520 | AS73 | Intel X710 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter |
| PCIe 10GBASE-T adapters | ||
| 4XC7A80266 | BNWL | ThinkSystem Intel X710-T2L 10GBase-T 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter |
| 4XC7A79699 | BMXB | ThinkSystem Intel X710-T4L 10GBase-T 4-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter |
| 7XC7A05927 | B0X1 | Intel X710-T4 4x10Gb Base-T Adapter |
| OCP 10GBASE-T adapters | ||
| 4XC7A08278 | BCD5 | ThinkSystem Intel X710-T2L 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter |
| 4XC7A80268 | BPPY | ThinkSystem Intel X710-T4L 10GBase-T 4-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter |
| CTO only | BMHF | ThinkEdge Intel X710-T2L 10GBASE-T 2-port Internal Lock OCP Ethernet Adapter |
| ML2 SFP+ adapters | ||
| 00JY940 | ATRH | Intel X710-DA2 ML2 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter |
| 94Y5200 | AS74 | Intel X710 ML2 4x10GbE SFP+ Adapter |
| Adapters for ThinkServer systems | ||
| 4XC0G88848 | Not applicable | Lenovo ThinkServer X710-DA4 AnyFabric 10Gb 4 port Ethernet Adapter by Intel |
| 4XC0G88847 | Not applicable | Lenovo ThinkServer X710-DA2 AnyFabric 10Gb 2 port Ethernet Adapter by Intel |
| 4XC0G88852 | Not applicable | Lenovo ThinkServer X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2 port Ethernet Adapter by Intel |
| 4XC0G88854 | Not applicable | Lenovo ThinkServer X710-DA4 PCIe 10Gb 4 port Ethernet Adapter by Intel |
The PCIe and ML2 adapter option part numbers includes the following items:
- One Intel 10 Gb Ethernet adapter
- X710-DA4 adapter: Full-height (3U) bracket attached
- All other standard PCIe adapters: Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
- Documentation
Note: The SFP+ adapters ship without any SFP+ transceivers or direct attach cables. These items must be ordered separately (for more information, see Table 2 and Table 3). The T4 adapter does not use a transceiver.
Supported transceivers and cables
The Intel X710 SFP+ adapters have empty SFP+ cages that support SFP+ SR or LR transceivers, and direct attached copper (DAC) cables.
The following table lists the supported SFP+ SR and LR transceivers.
** Only supported by adapters Intel X710-DA2 ML2 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter (00JY940) and ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter (7ZT7A00537)
The following table lists the supported fiber optic cable supported by SFP+ adapters.
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables and active optical cables (AOC).
The following table lists the supported Category 6 (CAT 6) cables supported by adapters with RJ45 ports.
Features
The Intel X710 adapters are optimized for data center, cloud, and mobile applications and include the following features:
- VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE Hardware Offloads: These stateless offloads preserve application performance for overlay networks. With these offloads, it is possible to distribute network traffic across CPU cores. At the same time, X710 offloads LSO, GSO, and checksum from the host software, which reduces CPU overhead.
- Mobile and cloud application acceleration: Intel’s Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK) delivers an open driver where users can fine-tune small packet performance, which delivers line-rate at 128 byte, and near line-rate at 64 byte.
- Low latency: Intel Ethernet Flow Director delivers hardware-based application steering and Intel Data Direct I/O makes the processor cache the primary destination and source of I/O data rather than main memory. Combined, latency is reduced and Intel reports a three-fold improvement in RPS.
- Virtualization performance: With Intel Virtualization Technology (VT), the X710 family of adapters delivers outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments. These adapters reduce I/O bottlenecks by providing intelligent offloads for networking traffic per virtual machine (VM), which enables near-line rate speeds for small packets and supports almost an unlimited amount of isolated traffic flows so that you can scale your cloud environment.
- Next-generation VMDq: The X710 adapters support up to 256 VMDq VMs and offer enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data. The adapters offload the data-sorting functionality from the hypervisor to the network silicon, which improves data throughput and CPU usage.
- PCI-SIG SR-IOV implementation: Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual VM directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, which results in near-native performance.
- VM load balancing: Provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs that are bound to the team interface. It also provides fault tolerance if a switch, port, cable, or adapter fails.
Specifications
The Intel X710 adapters have the following specifications:
- Empty SFP+ cages for 10GbE connection supporting SFP+ transceivers or DAC cables (except the T4 adapter which has RJ45 ports)
- Form factor:
- X710-DA4: Full-height half-length adapter
- All other standard PCIe adapters: Low profile adapter
- OCP adapters: OCP 3.0 SFF adapter
- OCP adapter for SE450: OCP 3.0 SFF with internal locking mechanism
- All ML2 adapters: Low profile adapter
- AnyFabric: AnyFabric adapter form factor
- Host interface:
- PCIe 3.0 x8
- PCI Power Management/ACPI Extensions
- TLP Processing Hint (TPH) Support
- MSI-X Support
- Energy Efficient Ethernet
- Performance:
- Achieves wire-rate throughput on smaller payload sizes (>64 bytes)
- Standard stack Latency: ~7 µs
- Kernel- Bypass Latency: ~3 µs
- Small Packet Developers Tool Kit
- Virtualization features:
- Microsoft Network Virtualization that uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)
- VMware Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- GENEVE support
- Intel Virtual Technology (VT) with VMDq for virtualization
- VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ support
- SR-IOV direct assignment support
- Virtual Bridging Support: VEPA/802.1Qbg, BPE/802.1Qbh
- Virtual Functions: Up to 128 per device
- Hardware Queue Pairs: Up to 1.5K
- Management features:
- Advanced filtering capabilities (IPv4, IPv6)
- SNMP
- RMON statistic counters
- Wake on LAN support (WoL support is for OCP and ML2 and AnyFabric adapters only; first port only)
- NC-SI for shared management port connectivity through port 1 (NCSI support is for OCP and ML2 and AnyFabric adapters only)
- Additional features:
- Jumbo Frame Support: 9728 bytes
- VLAN support
- Flow Control
- 1588 Time Synchronization Support
- TCP/IP Layer 2 features:
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- TCP/UDP/IP/SCTP Checksum Offload
- IPv4, IPv6
- Supports iSCSI as an iSCSI software initiator
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags.
- IEEE 802.3x flow control support.
- IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)/QoS.
- Support for Advanced Packet Filtering.
- Teaming support:
- Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
- Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
- Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
- VM Load Balancing (VMLB)
- IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
- Intel PROSet Utility for easy configuration and management.
- UEFI and legacy PXE boot
- Option ROM: Enabled on all ports by default
- RoHS compliance that is based on latest 2014 standards.
Standards supported
The X710 adapters support the following IEEE standards:
- IEEE 802.1p CoS traffic prioritization
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
- IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex flow control
- IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR short range fiber optics 10 Gb Ethernet
- 10GSFP+Cu SFP+ Direct Attach copper
- IEEE 1588, 802.1as Time Sync
Server support - ThinkSystem
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Server support - System x
The following tables list the System x servers that are compatible.
Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors
Support for System x and dense servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors
Support for servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors
For more information about the System x servers that support this adapter (including support for older servers), see ServerProven at this website: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/xseries/lan/matrix.shtml
Server support - ThinkServer
The Intel X710 adapters are supported in the servers that are listed in the following tables.
Support for ThinkServer Generation 5 rack & tower servers
This table includes both servers with E5-2600 v3 processors and E5-2600 v4 processors.
For more information about ThinkServer support, see the ThinkServer Options Compatibility Matrix available from http://www.lenovo.com/accessoriesguide
Operating system support
The following table indicates which operating systems can be preloaded in the Lenovo factory for CTO server orders where this adapter is included in the server configuration.
Tip: If an OS is listed as "No support" above, but it is listed in one of the support tables below, that means the OS is supported by the adapter, just not available to be preloaded in the Lenovo factory in CTO orders.
The following tables list the supported operating systems for the adapters:
- ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00537
- Intel X710-DA4 4x10Gb SFP+ Adapter, 7XC7A05525
- ThinkSystem Intel X710-T2L 10GBASE-T 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A80266
- ThinkSystem Intel X710-T4L 10GBASE-T 4-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A79699
- Intel X710-T4 4x10Gb Base-T Adapter, 7XC7A05927
- ThinkSystem Intel X710-T2L 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08278
- ThinkSystem Intel X710-T4L 10GBASE-T 4-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A80268
- Intel X710-DA2 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter, 01DA900
- Intel X710-DA2 ML2 2x10GbE SFP+ Adapter, 00JY940
- Intel X710 ML2 4x10GbE SFP+ Adapter, 94Y5200
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven. Older systems are not shown in the tables - refer to ServerProven for those systems.
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
1 The maximum quantity of Intel X710-DA2 plus XXV710-DA2 adapters supported is 5. Detail information please refer to Support Tip HT508158
1 The maximum quantity of Intel X710-DA2 plus XXV710-DA2 adapters supported is 5. Detail information please refer to Support Tip HT508158
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.