Network Adapters; Sas Adapters For External Storage - Lenovo ThinkServer TS450 Product Manual

I/O expansion
The TS450 server has four I/O expansion slots:
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16-wired); full-height, full-length
Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x1 (x1-wired); full-height, half-length
Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x16 (x4-wired); full-height, half-length
Slot 4: PCIe 3.0 x1 (x1-wired); full-height, half-length
The following adapter types are supported:
RAID adapters (Refer to the Controllers for internal storage and External storage adapters sections)
Network adapters (Refer to the Network adapters section)
Host bus adapters (Refer to the External storage adapters section)

Network adapters

The TS450 server has one integrated Gigabit Ethernet port that is based on the Intel I219LM NIC (a shared
port for operating system access and management network).
The onboard NIC has the following features:
1 Gb Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab PHY specifications compliant
Integrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps with speed and duplex auto-negotiation
Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
Wake on LAN
VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1Q)
Class of Service (CoS) priority (IEEE 802.1p) marking
TCP/UDP checksum and segmentation offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
Receive Side Scaling
Jumbo Frames (up to 9K)
Timing and Synchronization (IEEE 802.1as / IEEE 1588)
Load balancing and failover teaming support:
Adapter fault tolerance (AFT)
Switch fault tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive load balancing (ALB)
The following table lists the network adapter options for the TS450 server.
Table 15. Network adapter options
Description
ThinkServer I210-T1 PCIe 1Gb 1-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter by Intel (1x RJ-45 port)
ThinkServer I350-T2 PCIe 1Gb 2 Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter by Intel (2x RJ-45 ports) 4XC0F28730 2
ThinkServer I350-T4 PCIe 1Gb 4 Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter by Intel (4x RJ-45 ports) 4XC0F28731 2
ThinkServer X540-T2 PCIe 10Gb 2 Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter by Intel (2x RJ-45
ports)
* If the X540-T2 adapter is used, the RAID 520i, RAID 720i, 9300-8e, and 9380-8e adapters cannot be used.

SAS adapters for external storage

Lenovo ThinkServer TS450
Part number Maximum
supported
4XC0G88844 2
4XC0F28732 1*
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