All stock codes associated to this product
E10G42AFDA, 1066337, 735858155823, 735858201933
10 Gigabit Performance for Top-of-Rack Connections
The Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter is the
newest member of Intel’s robust family of 10 Gigabit products.
Designed as a low-cost, low-power adapter, the Intel 10 Gigabit
AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter provides direct attach copper
twinaxial cable connections between servers and a top-of-rack
switch. Two ports, coupled with a low-profile PCI Express* form
factor, make this adapter ideal for slot-constrained environments.
Using direct attach copper cables compliant with the SFP + MSA
SFF-8431 specification, the Intel 10 Gigabit AD DA Dual Port
Server Adapter is well-suited for customers who require low-cost
“in-the-rack” connections of less than 10 meters between server
and top-of-rack switch.
Energy-Efficient, Next-Generation 10 Gigabit Performance
10 Gigabit Ethernet is rapidly becoming the mainstay for
backbones within enterprise and service provider networks.
Intel’s 10GBASE Direct Attach adapter extends the 10 Gigabit
adoption to the server rack. The escalating deployments of
servers with multi-core processors and demanding applications
such as high-performance computing (HPC), database clusters,
virtualized servers and video on demand are driving the need
for 10 Gigabit connections in the server rack. Based on the
82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller, Intel’s 10 Gigabit AF DA
Server Adapter is designed to meet the throughput and latency
requirements of bandwidth-hungry applications, while offering a
very low-power envelope for energy efficiency.
Performance-Enhancing Features for Multi-Core Environments
As a member of the 10 Gigabit family of products, the 10GbE
Direct Attach adapter supports all of the features and functionality
in Intel’s other 82598EB-based adapters. When implemented
within multi-core processor environments, the Intel 10 Gigabit
AF DA Server Adapter offers advanced networking features for
efficient distribution of Ethernet workloads across CPU cores.
Load balancing of interrupts using MSI-X enables more efficient
response times and application performance. CPU utilization can
be lowered further through stateless offloads such as TCP
segmentation offload, header replications/splitting, and Direct
Cache Access (DCA).
Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA Server Adapters are optimized for
virtualized environments, supporting multiple queues, alleviating
I/O bottlenecks between virtual machines. Virtual Machine
Device queue1 (VMDq) technology offloads data sorting and
data copying from the virtual machine monitor (VMM) software
layer to the hardware, improving overall throughput and CPU
utilization on virtualized servers. Additionally, Intel 10 Gigabit AF
DA Server Adapters enable Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology2
(Intel® I/OAT) with support for Intel® QuickData for faster I/O
processing on the new Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon®
processor-based servers.
Conserve valuable PCI Express (PCIe*) server slots while adding
10 Gigabit Ethernet capability with Intel 10 Gigabit AF DA
Server Adapters. The dedicated input/output (I/O) bandwidth
of PCIe ensures priority performance on each port – without
bus sharing – for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, as well as a
low-profile design, which improves server throughput and rack
density at the same time. In addition, eight-lane PCIe enables
maximum bandwidth for fast and efficient data transfer. The
low-power, efficient design allows for two 10 Gigabit Ethernet
ports in a single low-profile PCIe adapter.
Advances for Unified Storage
The fast growth in storage capacity coupled with server virtualization
has brought the need for Storage Area Network (SAN) to
the forefront. To satisfy this growing demand, Intel’s 10 Gigabit
AF DA Server adapter supports iSCSI acceleration and provides
advanced features for unified storage connectivity. Fast and
reliable networked storage can be achieved via native iSCSI
support with Microsoft, Linux,* and VMware operating systems
as well as support for iSCSI remote boot. Advanced QoS features
such as priority groups and per priority pause are also implemented
in the adapters.
Specifications
General
Product code E10G42AFDA
Connectors SFP+ connectors
Cabling • SFP+ direct attached cable
(twinaxial) only
• Other SFP+ optics are not allowed
and cannot be used with this adapter
Adapter Product Features
Intel® PROSet Utility • For easy configuration and
management
Intel® lead-free4 technology •
Plug and play specification support Standard
Intel® I/OAT2 including QuickData •
Ships with full-height bracket installed,
low-profile bracket added in package
•RoHs3 •
Receive-side scaling •
VMDq1 In a virtualized environment, packets
dedicated to different virtual machines
can be routed to different queues, thus
easing the routing of these packets to
the target machine
Advanced packet filtering (per port) • 16 exact-matched packets
(unicast or multicast)
• 4096-bit hash filter for
multicast frames
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast)
transfer mode support
• Optional filtering of invalid frames
Direct Cache Access (DCA) The I/O device activates a pre-fetch
engine in the CPU that loads the data
into the CPU cache ahead of time,
before use, eliminating cache misses
and reducing CPU load
Network Management
DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
•Remote Installation Services (RIS) •
PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only
Memory (ROM)•
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Microsoft Windows* 2003 Server IA32, X64
Microsoft Vista* IA32, X64, IPF
Windows Virtual Server* 2005 IA32, X64, IPF
Red Hat Linux* 2.6x or later IA32, X64, IPF
SUSE SLES 10* or later, Professional 9.2
or later
IA32, X64, IPF
FreeBSD* 5.x or later IA32, X64, IPF
ESX 3.x* support (for VMware) IA32, X64, IPF
Fedora* IA32, X64, IPF
EFI 1.1* IA32, X64, IPF
Advanced Software Features
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) •
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT) •
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) •
Teaming support •
IEEE 802.3ae*5 •
Test switch configuration Tested with major switch original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
PCIe Hot Plug*/Active Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI)
•IEEE 802.1Q* VLANs •
IEEE 802.3 2005* flow control support •
Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum 0 offloading
(IPv4, IPv6) capabilities control protocol (TCP),
user datagram protocol (UDP), Internet
protocol (IP)
•IEEE 802.1p* •
TCP segmentation/large send offload •
MSI-X supports Multiple Independent Queues •
Interrupt moderation •
IPv6 offloading Checksum and segmentation capability
extended to new standard packet type
Technical Features
Data rate supported per port 10 Gigabit
Bus type PCI Express 2.0 (2.5 GT/s)
Bus width x8 lane PCI Express, operable in x4,6 x8
and x16 slots
Bus speed (x8, encoded rate) 20 Gbps uni-directional; 40 Gbps
bi-directional
Interrupt levels INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD
Hardware certifications FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, MIC
Controller-processor Intel® 82598EB
Typical power consumption • 12.2 W maximum power, 10.1 W
typical power
• PCI Express +3.3 V power supply –
consumes 2.3 A max, 1.7 A typical
• PCI Express +12 V power supply –
consumes 0.4 A max, 0.4 A typical
Airflow 100 LFM (Linear Feet per Minute)
Operating temperature 0° C to 55° C (32° F to 131° F) with
100 LFM forced airflow (linear feet
per minute)
Storage temperature -40° C to 70° C (-40° F to 158° F)
Storage humidity 90% non-condensing relative humidity
at 35° C
LED Indicators LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)
Physical Dimensions
Length 16.74 cm (6.59 in)
Width 6.89 cm (2.71 in)
Height of end bracket PCI Express standard, 12 cm (4.725 in)
PCI Express low-profile, 7.92 cm (3.12 in)
Networking
