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ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter

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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.

Change History

Changes in the October 31, 2023 update:

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.

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.

Table 1. Ordering information
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.

Table 2. 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 QSA 100G to 25G 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 fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.

Table 3. Optical cables
Part number Feature code Description
LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (these cables require a 10 GbE SFP+ SR or 25 GbE SFP28 SR transceiver)
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.

Table 4. Copper 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.

Table 5. Server support (Part 1 of 4)
Part Number Description 2S AMD V3 2S Intel V3 4S 8S Intel V3 Multi Node GPU Rich 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)
SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96)
SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93)
SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4)
SD535 V3 (7DD8 / 7DD1)
SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3)
SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2)
SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)
SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R)
ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE)
SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL)
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
Table 6. Server support (Part 2 of 4)
Part Number Description Edge Super Computing 1S Intel V2 2S Intel V2
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X)
SE350 V2 (7DA9)
SE360 V2 (7DAM)
SE450 (7D8T)
SE455 V3 (7DBY)
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)
ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74)
SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)
SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)
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
Table 7. Server support (Part 3 of 4)
Part Number Description AMD V1 Dense V2 4S V2 8S 4S V1 1S Intel V1
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)
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50)
ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46)
SR150 (7Y54)
SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51)
4XC7A08229 ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N
Table 8. Server support (Part 4 of 4)
Part Number Description 2S Intel V1 Dense V1
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)
4XC7A08229 ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter 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.

Table 9. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter, 4XC7A08229
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 8.2 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
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

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.

Table 10. Ethernet LAN switches
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)

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