Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
LAN controller	Intel® X550
Number of VLANs	4096
PCI Card form factor	Half-height (low-profile)
Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)	Y
PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable	Y
On-chip QoS and Traffic Management	Y
Intel Flexible Port Partitioning	Y
Intelligent Offloads	Y
Fiber Channel over Ethernet	Y
Intel Data Direct I/O Technology	Y
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) version	2.0
Technical details
Product color	Green, Silver
Ports & interfaces
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	2
Connectivity technology	Wired
Host interface	PCI Express
Interface	Ethernet
Design
Internal	Y
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 55 °C
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 70 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	0 - 90 %
Features
Data transfer rate	8 GT/s
Linux operating systems supported	Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 6.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Performance
Maximum data transfer rate	10000 Mbit/s
Networking standards	IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1as, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3ad
Cabling technology	10GBase-T
Ethernet LAN	Y
VLAN tagging	Y
Network
Ethernet interface type	5 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Ethernet LAN data rates	100,1000,2500,5000,10000 Mbit/s
iSCSI support	Y
System requirements
Windows operating systems supported	Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Basic x64, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Professional x64, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Starter x64, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 8, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Enterprise x64, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro x64, Windows 8 x64
Software
Server operating systems supported	Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 x64