Optical Drives; I/O Expansion Options; Network Adapters - Lenovo ThinkServer RS140 Product Manual

Optical drives

The RS140 server models that are listed in Table 2 come standard with the DVD-RW optical drive. If needed,
an external USB optical drive can be ordered (see the following table).
Table 10. Optical drive options
Description
ThinkPad UltraSlim USB DVD Burner

I/O expansion options

The RS140 server has one PCIe 3.0 x8 (x8-wired) full-height, half-length expansion slot (Refer to Figure 4 for
slot location). The following adapter types are supported in the PCIe slot:
RAID adapters (Refer to the Controllers for internal storage and External storage expansion sections)
Network adapters (Refer to the Network adapters section)
Host bus adapters (Refer to the Storage host bus adapters section)
Serial port adapters (Refer to Table 11)
The RS140 server supports the serial port adapter option listed in the following table to increase the number
of available serial ports.
Table 11. Serial port adapter option
Description
ThinkServer Dual Serial Port PCIe Adapter

Network adapters

The RS140 server has three integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports:
One onboard GbE port that is based on the Intel I217LM NIC (A shared port for operating system
access and management network)
Two GbE ports on the integrated network card that is based on the Intel I210AT NIC
The integrated GbE ports have 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)
Virtual Machine load balancing (VMLB) (not supported on the I217LM NIC)
Link aggregation (static, IEEE 802.3ad) (not supported on the I217LM NIC)
Important: The onboard I217LM GbE port does not support VMware vSphere (ESXi).
Lenovo ThinkServer RS140
Part number Maximum
supported
4XA0E97775 1
Part number Maximum
supported
0C19511 1
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