Chelsio T540-LP-CR 4-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card – Part ID: T540-LP-CR

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High Performance, Quad Port 10GbE Unified Wire AdapterEnables TCP, UDP, ISCSI, iWARP, and FCoE Offload over Single Unified Wire with SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCBOverviewChelsio’s T540-LP-CR is a quad port low profile, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with a PCI Express 3.0 host bus interface. The adapter is optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other datacenter applications.This adapter, based on the fifth generation (T5) technology from Chelsio provides the highest performance available and dramatically lowers host-system CPU communications overhead with on-board hardware that offloads TCP/IP, iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system and frees up host CPU cycles for other applications. As a result, the system benefits from higher bandwidth, lower latency and reduced power consumption.A large portion of offloads enabled by T540-LP-CR are based on standard TCP, IP, UDP protocols (such as iSCSI and iWARP), and thus can operate with a software peer, or be replaced with a software solution at lower performance, thus providing the requisite reliability for enterprise customers, and allowing incremental installs in the datacenter. It will work with any legacy switch infrastructure and does not rely on new features such as DCB, PFC, ETS, etc.T540-LP-CR supports IEEE standards-based link aggregation/failover features, as well as inter-adapter failover techniques that make it ideal for critical network applications requiring redundancy and high-availability capabilities. It also includes an integrated Traffic Manager and a built-in eSwitch for robust network traffic flow control, traffic classifier, load balancer, firewall capabilities at the port level.FCoE and iSCSI support in T540-LP-CR benefit from high reliability features that include memory ECC, data path CRC and T10-DIX offload, in addition to the checksums and CRC available at different protocols layers. High performance iSCSI and FCoE provide a drop-in replacement upgrade from legacy SANs to converged networks. The Unified Wire SolutionThe T540-LP-CR enables a unified wire for LAN, SAN and cluster applications, built upon a high bandwidth and low latency architecture along with a complete set of storage and cluster protocols operating over Ethernet (iSCSI, NVMe-oF, FCoE and iWARP). A unified wire means having the ability to utilize all offload or non-offload protocols at the same time, over the same link, using the exact same firmware, host software, and adapter. Thus, a given system using T540-LP-CR can be easily targeted at different vertical markets and a variety of useful functions enabled (i.e. dial the bandwidth to a given application and assign access control, while offloading only part of the traffic). The Ethernet-only networking thus reduces the infrastructure costs in network adapters, cables, switches, rack space, power, equipment spares, management tools, planning, networking staff and installation. HighlightsPCI Express Gen3 x8 Low latency user-space I/O32K concurrent offloaded conn. capacityFull TCP and UDP offloadFull iSCSI, FCoE offloadFull NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) offloadFull iWARP RDMA offloadOVS Offload with OpenFlow supportDPDK (Data Plane Development Kit)EVB, Flex10, VNTagPCI-SIG SR-IOVIntegrated media streaming offloadHW based firewall and NAT offloadTraffic filtering & managementIEEE 1588v2 Precision Time ProtocolSoftware Compatible with T4 and T5Supports x86, Armv8 (Aarch64), IBM Power and OpenPOWER ServersApplicationsData-Center NetworkingScale out servers and NAS systems Consolidate LAN, SAN, and cluster networksEnhanced network and server securityCloud ComputingVirtualization features to maximize cloud scaling and utilizationRuns InfiniBand, Fibre Channel apps unmodified over Ethernet Cloud ready functional and management features QoS and Traffic managementNetworked StorageEnable high performance NAS systems and Ethernet-based SANsDevelop shared-storage systems providing both file- and block-level servicesBuild high performance storage backend fabrics using EthernetHigh Performance ComputingVery-low latency EthernetHigh performance RDMA supportIncrease cluster fabric bandwidthDeploy Ethernet-only networking for cluster fabric, LAN, and SANSpecificationsHost InterfacePCI Express Gen 3 x8MSI-X, MSI and support for legacy pin interruptsHigh Performance RDMALow latency and line rate bandwidth Enhanced RDMA primitives including Atomics & Immediate dataiWARP support in standard OFEDMicrosoft Network Direct supportNative support for Windows Server 2012-R2, 2016, Azure Stack, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, Client RDMA, SMB-Direct, Network Direct, PacketDirect, VMMQ/vRSSSupport for iSER, NFS-RDMA, Lustre-RDMA, NVIDIA’s GPU-Direct, Hadoop-RDMAUDP & Multicast OffloadUDP Sockets APILow user-to-user latencyMulticast replication on ingress or egressVirtualizationPCI-SIG SR-IOV128 Virtual and 8 Physical functions140 port virtual switchOVS OffloadEVB, VEPA, Flex10, VNTag512 MAC addressesNVGRE, VxLAN and GENEVE supportFCoEFull FCoE offload (Initiator or Target)Open FCoE Offload (Initiator)CRC32 offload generation & verificationIngress & Egress ACL (Access Control List)T10 DIF/DIX supportiSCSIFull iSCSI initiator and target mode stackCRC32 offload generation & verificationiSCSI proxy switching based on SCSI CDBFull HBA offloadT10 DIF/DIX supportTCP/IP Full OffloadFull TCP implementation including IPv4 & IPv6Extensive RFC compliance, fully featured stackVLAN support up to 4096 VLAN IDsLoad balancing and Fail-over capabilitiesStateless OffloadsTCP/UDP checksum offload for IPv4 & IPv6TSO, LSO, and GSO for IPv4 & IPv6VLAN filtering, insertion & extractionLine rate packet filtering and attack protectionFine granularity time stamping (down to 2ns)Ethernet Routing (packet header rewrite)Packet Tracing and Packet SniffingEthernetIEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE) IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet)IEEE 802.3z (1 GbE)IEEE 802.1P priorityIEEE 802.1Q VLAN taggingIEEE 802.1Qbg EVB/VEPAIEEE 802.Qhn VNTagIEEE 9-2/1Qg/h Congestion NotificationIEEE 802.3x flow controlIEEE 802.3ad load-balancing and failoverEther II and 802.e encapsulated framesMultiple MAC addresses per interfaceJumbo Frames up to 9.6KbytesPhysical and EnvironmentalFully RoHS CompliantOperating Temp: 0 to 55ºC or 32 to 131ºFOperating Humidity: 5 to 95%Airflow: 200 lf/mTypical power: 11WLow Profile: H: 2.731” x L: 6.6”Warranty1-year limited hardware warranty – free repair or replacement for faulty hardware due to Chelsio defect or failure.Extended warranty to 3 years can be purchased within first year.30 days free technical support, software maintenance & upgrades with the purchase of any Chelsio adapter or software product.Ordering InfoModel: T540-LP-CRPhysical Interface: 10GBASE-SR or LR*Connector: SFP+Media: MMF/SMF fiber or twinax (up to 5m)AccessoriesSM10G-SR: 10G short-reach SFP+ optic moduleSM10G-LR: 10G long-reach SFP+ optic moduleSRCABLE3M: 3M Fibre optic cable, 10GBASE-SRLRCABLE3M: 3M Fibre optic cable, 10GBASE-LR* SFP+ optics sold separately. Only Chelsio-supplied modules may be used Download product brief

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