Lenovo ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapter: технические характеристики и документация
Abstract
The ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter is a high-performance 25 GbE adapter that is designed for high-performance electronic trading environments and cloud and enterprise data centers. It is suitable for applications such as artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, machine learning, storage, and telco applications.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the Solarflare X2522-Plus 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 X2522 adapter and consider its use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the October 31, 2023 update:
- Added the following transceiver - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- ThinkSystem Finisar Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver, 4TC7A88638
Introduction
The ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter is a high-performance 25 GbE adapter that is designed for high-performance electronic trading environments and cloud and enterprise data centers. It is suitable for applications such as artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, machine learning, storage, and telco applications.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Did you know?
Extremely low latency and high throughput enables the Solarflare X2522-Plus adapter to provide real-time packet and flow information to thousands of virtual NICs. This combination of ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity, and packet telemetry allows the adapter to scale with each server or virtual machine.
Part number information
The following table provides the ordering part numbers and feature codes for the Solarflare X2522 adapter.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 4XC7A62581 | BHE2 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter |
The option part numbers includes the following items:
- One Ethernet adapter
- Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
- Documentation
Note: The adapter ships 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 Solarflare X2522 adapter has 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.
| Part number | Feature code | Description | NVIDIA part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10Gb Transceivers | |||
| 7G17A03130 | AVV1 | Lenovo 10GBaseT SFP+ Transceiver | - |
| 46C3447 | 5053 | SFP+ SR Transceiver | - |
| 4TC7A78615 | BNDR | ThinkSystem Accelink 10G SR SFP+ Ethernet transceiver | - |
| 25Gb Transceivers | |||
| 7G17A03537 | AV1B | Lenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver | - |
| 4TC7A88638 | BYBJ | ThinkSystem Finisar Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver | - |
25Gb transceivers: When installed in the Solarflare X2522 Ethernet adapter, the supported 25Gb transceiver will currently only operate at 25Gb/s speeds.
The following table lists the supported optical cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description | NVIDIA part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - |
| 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.
| Part number | Feature code | Description | NVIDIA part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - |
Features
Key features and benefits:
- Sub-microsecond latency
- Near-zero jitter
- Highly scalable
- Predictable, deterministic system performance
- High message rates
- Precision Time Stamping for accurate synchronization
- NVMe/TCP storage ready
- SolarCapture Pro network performance monitoring
The Solarflare X2522 adapter supports the Onload kernel bypass application acceleration and DPDK services which deliver superior small packet performance with sub-microsecond hardware latency, essential for electronic trading environments.
Onload dramatically accelerates and scales network-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers. With Onload, data centers can support 4X or more users on their cloud network while delivering improved reliability, enhanced quality of service (QoS), and a higher return on investment, without modification to existing applications.
In addition, the X2522 adapter supports the precision time protocol (PTP) fabric service for apps that require synchronized time stamping of packets down to single-digit nanosecond resolution.
SolarCapture Pro packet capture software enables the X2522 adapter to capture and time stamp packets in hardware, persist packet to disk, and replay packets streams. This feature provides the essential ingredient for corporate data centers to run applications such as high-precision network performance monitoring, analysis, and regulatory compliance.
The X2522 adapter is ideal for scale-out cloud, web, and CDN application environments. Use cases include software- defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming, and storage networks.
X2522 adapters speed up TCP, unicast, multicast and UDP traffic for a wide variety of trading applications. The X2522 is ideal for electronic trading environments, from mission-critical exchange gateways and matching engines on the financial exchange side, to feed handlers, order routing, algorithmic trading engines, messaging applications, order execution, data distribution and client communications on the trading side.
Specifications
The Solarflare X2522-Plus adapter has the following specifications:
- Adapter hardware
- PCIe Gen 3.1 x8 host interface
- Two SFP28 cages
- NIC capabilities
- MSI-X support
- Interrupt coalescing
- 2x10/25G 64-byte line rate
- Virtualization
- Linux Multi-queue
- VMware NetQueue
- SR-IOV (Linux/VMware): hardware capability - 240 functions
- 2,048 guest OS protected vNICs
- Full hardware switch fabric in silicon capable of steering any flow based on Layer 2 to Layer 4 protocols, between physical and virtual interfaces
- VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE tunneling offloads; adaptable to custom overlays
- VLAN and VLAN Q-in-Q insertion/stripping
- Manageability and Remote Boot
- PXE and UEFI
- MCTP PCIe VDM
- Management and Utilities
- Ethtool support
- vCenter plug-in
- Solarflare boot manager
- Stateless Offloads
- TCP/UDP Checksum Offload (CSO)
- TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
- Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO)
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Network Acceleration
- Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) Poll Mode Driver – Packet
- Onload - TCP/UDP
- TCPDirect - TCP/UDP
- Time Synchronization and Hardware Timestamping
- On-board Stratum 3 compliant oscillator
- Solarflare software PTP Daemon delivers enhanced stability and clock synchronization accuracy and can be used to synchronize the adapter clock to external time source
- Traffic Engineering
- XtremePacket Engine for dedicated parsing, filtering, and flow steering
- TCP/UDP/IP, MAC, VLAN, RSS filtering
- Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (ARFS)
- Transmit Packet Steering
- Ethernet Standards
- IEEE 802.3-2012 Ethernet base standard, including 802.3bx
- IEEE 802.3-2015 Ethernet flow control
- IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX link aggregation
- IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE 1588-2008 PTPv2
- Jumbo frame support (9000 bytes
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
| Part Number | Description | AMD V3 | 2S Intel V3/V4 | 1S V3 | 4S 8S Intel V3/V4 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR635 V3 (7D9H / 7D9G) |
SR655 V3 (7D9F / 7D9E) |
SR645 V3 (7D9D / 7D9C) |
SR665 V3 (7D9B / 7D9A) |
SD535 V3 (7DD8 / 7DD1) |
ST650 V3 (7D7B / 7D7A) |
SR630 V3 (7D72 / 7D73) |
SR650 V3 (7D75 / 7D76) |
SR630 V4 (7DG8 / 7DG9) |
SR650 V4 (7DGC / 7DGD) |
SR650a V4 (7DGC / 7DGD) |
ST45 V3 (7DH4 / 7DH5) |
ST50 V3 (7DF4 / 7DF3) |
ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE) |
SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL) |
SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96) |
SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93) |
SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4) |
SR850 V4 (7DJT / 7DJS) |
SR860 V4 (7DJQ / 7DJN) |
||
| 4XC7A62581 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | AI Servers | Edge | Super computing | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R) |
SR680a V3 B200 (7DM9) |
SR685a V3 (7DHC) |
SR780a V3 (7DJ5) |
SR680a V4 (7DMK) |
SE100 (7DGR) |
SE455 V3 (7DBY) |
SC750 V4 (7DDJ) |
SC777 V4 (7DKA) |
SD665 V3 (7D9P) |
||
| 4XC7A62581 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | Edge | 1S Intel V2 | 2S Intel V2 | AMD V1 | Multi node | AI | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X) |
SE350 V2 (7DA9) |
SE360 V2 (7DAM) |
SE450 (7D8T) |
ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J) |
ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F) |
SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q) |
ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74) |
SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71) |
SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73) |
SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99) |
SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01) |
SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X) |
SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V) |
SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3) |
SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2) |
SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23) |
SR680a V3 (7DHE) |
||
| 4XC7A62581 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | SC | Dense V2 | 4S V2 | 8S | 4S V1 | 1S Intel V1 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SD665-N V3 (7DAZ) |
SD650 V3 (7D7M) |
SD650-I V3 (7D7L) |
SD650-N V3 (7D7N) |
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) |
||
| 4XC7A62581 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| 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) |
||
| 4XC7A62581 | ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N |
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.
| Operating systems | SR630 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR650 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR645 |
SR665 |
SR645 V3 |
SR665 V3 |
SR630 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR630 V2 |
SR650 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR650 V2 |
SR950 (Xeon Gen 1) |
SR950 (Xeon Gen 2) |
SR650 V3 (4th Gen Xeon) |
SR630 V3 (5th Gen Xeon) |
SR630 V3 (4th Gen Xeon) |
SR650 V3 (5th Gen Xeon) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 | Y | Y | Y 1 | Y 1 | N | N | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 | Y | Y | Y 1 | Y 1 | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 | Y | Y | Y 1 | Y 1 | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or later with HWE kernel | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors. HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
Physical specifications
The adapter has a Low Profile form factor with the following dimensions:
- Length: 168 mm (6.6 in.)
- Height: 69 mm (2.7 in.)
Operating environment
The Solarflare X2522 adapter is supported in the following environment:
- Temperature
- Operating: 0°C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F)
- Storage: -40 °C to 65 °C (-40 °F to 149 °F)
- Humidity
- Operating: 10% to 80%
- Storage: 5% to 90%
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:
- FCC, UL, CE
- RoHS - complies with EU directive 2011/65/EU
Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:
- 25 Gb Ethernet Connectivity
- Ethernet Adapters
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