Based on the new Intel I350AM4 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, the Intel Ethernet Dual Port and Quad Port Server Adapters for IBM System x are Intel's fourth generation of PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet (PCIe GbE) adapters. These adapters showcase the industry's first fully integrated, multi-port PCIe 2.1 GbE controllers, providing a smaller footprint and lower power dissipation.
In addition, these adapters offer advanced features, including support for multi-core processors and server virtualization, as well as a scalable PCI Express 2.1 interface. Intel's first eco-friendly, halogen-free design combines low power use and low cost for one of the best price to performance ratios in a multi-port solution that is available today.
The adapters have the following features:
Four 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 for Cat 5e/6 cabling Based on Intel I350-T4 ASIC (quad-port MAC/PHY controller)
PCIe 2.1 x4 host interface
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 10BASE-T applications ( 802.3, 802.3 u, and 802.3 ab), 1000BASE-BX and 1000BASE-KX (Without IEEE 802.3 ap Backplane Auto-Negotiation)
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
IEEE 802.1AS Timing
IEEE 802.3 az
IEEE 1588
IEEE 802.3 ap
IEEE 802.1 ad (Double VLAN)
Low-profile card form factor
Wake on LAN support
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot support
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping, and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
iSCSI boot support (built-in software iSCSI initiator)
iSCSI support with native operating system initiators
Jumbo frame support
Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) acceleration
Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) support for VMware with eight queues per port
TCP/IP checksum offload
TCP/IP segmentation offload / large-send offload support
Support Windows 7/8/9/10/11, Windows Server 2012/2012R/2016/2019/2022, RHEL 9.2 & 8.8 /RHEL 9.0 - 9.1 / 8.0 - 8.7, SLES15 SP5/SLES15 SP4 /SLE