Lenovo XXV710-DA2 ThinkSystem Ethernet Network Adapter User Guide

: June 1, 2024
: Lenovo

Table of Contents

Lenovo XXV710-DA2 ThinkSystem Ethernet Network Adapter
Specifications:
Product Usage Instructions
FAQ
Part number information
Supported transceivers and cables
Features
Specifications
Standards supported
Operating system support
Agency approvals
Related publications
Related product families
Notices
Trademarks
References
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Lenovo XXV710-DA2 ThinkSystem Ethernet Network Adapter

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Specifications:

Product Name: Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Part Number: 7XC7A05523
Feature Code: B0WY
Supported Network Speeds: 10/25 GbE
Supported Protocols: GENEVE, VXLAN, NVGRE offloads, DPDK, SR-IOV, VMDq

Product Usage Instructions

Installation:

Shut down your server and unplug it from power.
Open the server casing and locate an available PCIe slot.
Insert the Intel XXV710-DA2 adapter into the PCIe slot carefully.
Secure the adapter in place with the provided brackets.
Close the server casing and reconnect the power.

Connecting to Network:

Ensure you have the necessary SFP28 transceivers or cables as per the supported list.

Connect the appropriate transceiver or cable to the empty SFP28 cages on the adapter.
Connect the other end of the transceiver/cable to your network switch.

Configuration:

Configure your server’s network settings to utilize the new adapter.

Access your server’s network configuration settings.
Assign IP addresses and other network parameters accordingly.

FAQ

Q: Does the Intel XXV710 adapter support virtualization features?

A: Yes, the adapter supports virtualization features such as GENEVE, VXLAN, NVGRE offloads, DPDK, SR-IOV, and VMDq protocols.

Q: Do I need to purchase SFP28 transceivers separately?

A: Yes, the adapter ships without SFP28 transceivers or direct attach cables, which need to be ordered separately based on your requirements.

Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe

Ethernet Adapter

Product Guide
The ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter is a flexible follow-on to the X710 10Gb adapters and is best suited for existing 10Gb customers where they need to maintain 10Gb network support plus provide the investment protection of supporting 25GbE network speeds. By providing unmatched features for server and network virtualization, small packet performance, and low power; the data center network is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter.

Did you know?
The Intel XXV710 adapter offers excellent small packet performance, and offers virtualization features with support for GENEVE, VXLAN, NVGRE offloads, DPDK, SR-IOV, and VMDq protocols.

Part number information

The following table provides the ordering part numbers and feature codes for the Intel XXV710 adapters.

Table 1. Ordering information

Part number	Feature code	Description
7XC7A05523	B0WY	ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe

Ethernet Adapter

The ThinkSystem and System x adapter option part numbers includes the following items:

One Intel Ethernet adapter
Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box Documentation

Note: The adapters ship without any SFP28 transceivers or direct attach cables. These items must be ordered separately as listed in the following section.

Supported transceivers and cables

The Intel XXV710 adapters have empty SFP28 cages for connectivity. The adapter either supports connections to a 10 Gb or 25 Gb switch or can share a connection to a 100 Gb switch using a 4:1 breakout cable.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.

Table 2. Transceivers

Part number	Feature code	Description

25Gb transceivers: When installed in the Intel XXV710 Ethernet adapter, the supported 25Gb transceiver will currently only operate at 25Gb/s speeds.

The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables (AOCs).

Table 3. Optical cables

The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.

Table 4. Copper cables

Part number	Feature code	Description

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
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 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 Intel XXV710 adapter is optimized for data center, cloud, and mobile applications and include the following features:

Compliance with the IEEE 802.3by and 25GEthernet.org 25 GbE specifications VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE Hardware Offloads: These stateless offloads preserve application performance for overlay networks. With these offloads, it is possible to distribute network traffic across CPU cores. At the same time, X710 offloads LSO, GSO, and checksum from the host software, which reduces CPU overhead.
Mobile and cloud application acceleration: Intel’s Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK) delivers an open driver where users can fine-tune small packet performance.
Low latency: Intel Ethernet Flow Director delivers hardware-based application steering and Intel Data Direct I/O makes the processor cache the primary destination and source of I/O data rather than main memory. Combined, latency is reduced and Intel reports a three-fold improvement in RPS.
Virtualization performance: With Intel Virtualization Technology (VT), the X710 family of adapters delivers outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments. These adapters reduce I/O bottlenecks by providing intelligent offloads for networking traffic per virtual machine (VM), which enables near-line rate speeds for small packets and supports almost an unlimited amount of isolated traffic flows so that you can scale your cloud environment.
Next-generation VMDq: The X710 adapters support up to 256 VMDq VMs and offer enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data. The adapters offload the data-sorting functionality from the hypervisor to the network silicon, which improves data throughput and CPU usage.
PCI-SIG SR-IOV implementation: Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual VM directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, which results in near-native performance.
VM load balancing: Provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs that are bound to the team interface. It also provides fault tolerance if a switch, port, cable, or adapter fails.

Specifications

The Intel XXV710 adapter has the following specifications:

Empty SFP28 cages for supported transceivers or DAC cables
Host interface:
- PCI Express 3.0; x8
- PCI Power Management/ACPI Extensions
- MSI-X Support
- Energy Efficient Ethernet
- 1,536 Tx and Rx queues
Virtualization features:
- Microsoft Network Virtualization that uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) VMware Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- GENEVE support
- VMDq for intelligent offloads
- SR-IOV direct assignment support
- Virtual Bridging Support: VEPA/802.1Qbg, BPE/802.1Qbh
- Virtual Functions: Up to 128 per device (SR-IOV)
- Hardware Queue Pairs: Up to 1.5K
Management features:
- Advanced filtering capabilities (IPv4, IPv6)
- SNMP
- RMON statistic counters
Additional features:
- Jumbo Frame Support: 9728 bytes
- VLAN support
- Flow Control
- IEEE 1588 Time Synchronization Support (802.1as)
TCP/IP Layer 2 features:
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- TCP/UDP/IP/SCTP Checksum Offload
- IPv4, IPv6
- Supports iSCSI as an iSCSI software initiator
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to
4096 VLAN tags.
IEEE 802.3x flow control support.
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)/QoS.
Support for Advanced Packet Filtering.
Teaming support:
- Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
- Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
- Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
- VM Load Balancing (VMLB)
- IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
Intel PROSet Utility for easy configuration and management.
UEFI and legacy PXE boot
Compliant with the European Union RoHS directive 2011/65/EU to reduce the use of hazardous materials.

Standards supported

The Intel XXV710 support the following IEEE standards:

IEEE 802.3by 25 Gb/s Ethernet Standard
IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR short range fiber optics 10 Gb Ethernet
IEEE 802.1p CoS traffic prioritization
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex flow control
IEEE 802.3bd priority-based flow control
IEEE 1588, IEEE 802.1AS time sync
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet

Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 5. Server support (Part 1 of 3)

7XC7A05523|

Part Number

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ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe

Ethernet Adapter

|

Description

N| SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X)|

Edge

AMD V3

Intel V3

Table 6. Server support (Part 2 of 3)

7XC7A05523|

Part Number

---|---
ThinkSystem Intel XXV710- DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port

PCIe Ethernet Adapter

|

Description

N| SD665 V3 (7D9P)|

Dense V3

2S Intel V2

AMD V1

Dense V2

8S

Table 7. Server support (Part 3 of 3)

7XC7A05523|

Part Number

---|---
ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe

Ethernet Adapter

|

Description

Operating system support

The following table lists the supported operating systems for the adapter.

Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
Table 8. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Intel XXV710-DA2 PCIe 25Gb 2-Port SFP28 Ethernet Adapter, 7XC7A05523

The maximum quantity of Intel X710-DA2 plus XXV710-DA2 adapters supported is 5. Detail information please refer to Support Tip HT508158

Physical specifications
The Intel XXV710-DA2 adapter has the following dimensions:

Length: 168 mm (6.6 in.)
Width: 69 mm (2.7 in.)
Height: 15 mm (0.6 in.)

Operating environment
The XXV710 adapters are supported in the following environment:

Operating temperature: 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
Storage temperature: -20 to 65 °C (-4 to 149 °F)
Shipping conditions: -20 to 70 °C (-4 to 158 °F)
Air flow requirement (LFM)
- 25G optics: 200 LFM
- Direct-attach 25G cables: 100 LFM
Wet bulb (max): 27 °C
Relative humidity (non-operating): 10% to 90%
Maximum dew Point (operating): 21 °C
Maximum operating altitude: 7,000 feet or 2,134 meters
Vibration and shock with 25-GS0009 standard
Electrostatic/electromagnetic susceptibility with 25-GS0009 standard

Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, these adapters assume the server’s base
warranty and any warranty upgrade.

Agency approvals

The adapter conforms to the following standards:

EN55032
EN55024
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
ICES-003, Issue-004
FCC 47 CFR Part 15 Class A
Japan VCCI
AS/NZS CISPR 22 / C-tick
RRL for KC
BSMI
UL 94 V-1

Top-of-rack Ethernet switches
The following table lists the 10 Gb, 25 Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet LAN switches that are offered by Lenovo.

Table 9. Ethernet LAN switches

Part number	Description

10 Gb Ethernet switches
7159A1X| Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 RackSwitch (Rear to Front)
7159B1X| Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032T RackSwitch (Rear to Front)
7159C1X| Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch (Rear to Front)
7159BR6| Lenovo RackSwitch G8124E (Rear to Front)
7159G64| Lenovo RackSwitch G8264 (Rear to Front)
7159DRX| Lenovo RackSwitch G8264CS (Rear to Front)
7159CRW| Lenovo RackSwitch G8272 (Rear to Front)
7159GR6| Lenovo RackSwitch G8296 (Rear to Front)
25 Gb Ethernet switches
7159E1X| Lenovo ThinkSystem NE2572 RackSwitch (Rear to Front)
100 Gb Ethernet switches
7159D1X| Lenovo ThinkSystem NE10032 RackSwitch (Rear to Front)

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following switch categories:

10 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb?rt=product-guide
25 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/25gb?rt=product-guide
100 Gb Ethernet switches: https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/100Gb?rt=product-guide

For more information, see the following resources:

Networking Options for ThinkSystem Servers
https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers
Intel Product Brief
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-products/network-adapters /ethernet-xxv710-brief.html
Lenovo ServerProven compatibility information
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven
Support page for the adapter:
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/search?query=7XC7A05523

Product families related to this document are the following:

25 Gb Ethernet Connectivity
Ethernet Adapters

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