Digitus DN-10180 User manual

Dual-Port 25G SFP28
Adapter
Quick Installation Guide
DN-10180

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ..................................................................... 2
2. Package Contents ............................................................. 4
3. Specification ..................................................................... 4
4. System Requirements ...................................................... 5
5. Hardware Installation....................................................... 5
6. Install Drivers and Software ............................................. 6
1. Introduction
Introducing the DN-10180 - a high-performance network interface
card that is designed to provide reliable and efficient network
connectivity for your server or workstation. This card is fully
compliant with PCI Express Specification Revision 3.0, 1.1, and 2.0,
and supports link rates of 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s at x8.
The DN-10180 features auto-negotiation capabilities that allow it to
operate at x8, x4, x2, or x1, making it compatible with a wide range
of devices. It also supports MSI/MSI-X mechanisms for efficient
interrupt handling and dual-Port 25G, 10G, or 1Gb/s SFP+
connectivity for flexible network deployment.
This network interface card is designed to support a wide range of
industry standards, including IEEE802.3by, 25G supporting all FEC
modes, IEEE802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet, IEEE802.3ap based

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auto-negotiation and KR startup, and IEEE802.3ad, IEEE802.1ax,
IEEE802.1Q, IEEE802.1P, IEEE802.1Qaz, IEEE802.1Qbb,
IEEE802.1Qbg, IEEE1588V2.
The DN-10180 also supports jumbo frame support up to 9.6KB,
independent NC-SI SMBus interface, independent stand-by and
wake-on-Lan signals, hardware-based reliable transport, collective
operation offloads, and PeerDirect RDMA (aka GPUDirect
communication acceleration).
Other key features of the DN-10180 include 64/66 encoding,
extended reliable connected transport, dynamically connected
transport, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), TCP/UDP/IP
stateless offload, LSO.LRO. checksum offload, and hardware offload
of encapsulation and decapsulation of NVGRE and VXLAN overlay
networks.
This network interface card also supports SR-IOV, Multi-function,
Enhanced QoS, VMware support, and up to 256 virtual functions and
8 physical functions per port. It offers guaranteed QoS for VMs and is
compatible with OpenMPI, IBM PE, OSU MPI, and Intel MPI
protocols.
The DN-10180 is designed to support remote boot over Ethernet,
iSCSI, PXE, and UEFI and is compatible with a wide range of operating
systems, including FreeBSD, Linux 5.x and above, VMware
5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019, and
Win7/Win8/Win8.1/Win10 32 or 64bit.
Overall, the DN-10180 is a high-performance network interface card
that offers reliable and efficient network connectivity for your server
or workstation. It is designed to meet the demands of modern data
centers and is compatible with a wide range of devices and operating
systems.

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2. Package Contents
•1x PCIe x8 Mellanox Connectx-4 Dual-Port 25G SFP+ adapter
•1x User’s Manual
•1x CD Driver
•1x Low profile bracket
3. Specification
•Compliant with PCI Express Specification Revision 3.0,1.1 and
2.0,2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8
•Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
•Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanism
•Supports dual-Port 25G,10G, or 1Gb/s SFP+
•IEEE802.3by,25G supporting all FEC modes, IEEE802.3az
Energy Efficient Ethernet, IEEE802.3ap based auto-negotiation
and KR startup.
•Support Standards IEEE802.3ad, IEEE802.1ax, IEEE802.1Q,
IEEE802.1P, IEEE802.1Qaz, IEEE802.1Qbb, IEEE802.1Qbg,
IEEE1588V2
•Jumbo frame support 9.6KB
•Independent NC-SI SMBus interface
•Independent stand-by and wake-on-Lan signals
•Collective operation offloads
•PeerDirect RDMA (aka GPUDirect communication acceleration)
•64/66 encoding
•Extended Reliable connected transport
•Dynamically connected transport
•RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
•TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
•LSO.LRO. checksum offload
•Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of NVGRE
and VXLAN overlay networks.

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•SR-IOV, Multi-function, Enhanced QoS, VMware support
•SR-IOV up to 256 virtual functions
•SR-IOV up to 8 physical functions per port
•Guaranteed QoS for VMs
•OpenMPI, IBM PE, OSU MPI, Intel MPI protocol support
•NC-SI over MCTP over SMBus and NC-SI over MCTP over
PCIe-Baseboard Management Controller interface
•Remote boot over Ethernet, iSCSI, PXE, and UEFI
•Supports Operation Systems: FreeBSD, Linux5.x and above,
VMware5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7, Windows server2008/2012/2016/2019,
win7/win8/win8.1/win10 32 or 64bit.
4. System Requirements
•FreeBSD, Linux, VMWare ESXi
•Win-server2008 R2/ Win-server2012 R2/ Win-server2016/
Win-server2019
•Windows: 8/8.1/10 32/64bit
•One available PCI Express x8/x16 slot
5. Hardware Installation
1. Turn Off the power to your computer.
2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover.
3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe x4/x8/X16 slot.
4. To install the card, carefully align the card’s bus connector with
the selected PCIe slot on the motherboard. Push the board down
firmly.
5. Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card.
6. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord.

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6. Install Drivers and Software
Windows Operating Systems
You must have administrative rights to the operating system to
install the drivers.
1. insert the CD driver bound with Mellanox network driver into
your CD-ROM drive.
2. if the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed,
click Cancel.
3. select a driver based on the system type:
for Windows Server type: (Assume that D):
“D:\NIC Drivers\Mellanox\ConnectionX-4\Windows Server”
for Windows type: (Assume that D):
“D:\NIC Drivers\Mellanox\ConnectionX-4\Windows Client”
4. Double click the driver corresponding to the system.
5. Follow the instructions in the install wizard to finish it.
Installing Linux Drivers from Source Code
1. Download and expand the base driver tar file.
2. Compile the driver module.
3. Install the module using the mod probe command.
4. Assign an IP address using the ipconfig command.
Function
controller MELLANOX ConnectX-4 LX
Fibre Media
25G SFP+, 25GDAC, 25GAOC, 10GSFP+,
10G DAC, 10G AOC,1G SFP+
Fiber type
25G BASE-SR, 25GBASE-LR, 10GBASESR,
10GBASE-LR, SFP+, COPPER
Connect type PCIE3.0 X8

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Operation
Systems
Windows8.1
Windows10
Windows Server2003/2003 R2
Windows Server2008/2008 R2
Windows Server2012/R2
Windows Server2016/R2
Windows Server2019/R2
Windows Server2022/R2
Ubuntu 14.04 or later
Sles12 sp2 or later
REHL/CentOS7.2 or later
Oracle Linux 7.8 or later
OpenEULER 20.03
KYLIN 10
Fedora 32
Euler0s 2.0 SP5/SP8/SP9
Debian 9.11/9.13/10.5/10.8
BCLINUX7.5 OR later
Stable kernel version 3.x,4.x or later
VMware ESX/ESXi 5.X,6.X or later
Port type Dual- Port 25G SFP28 connecter

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Each Port
transmit speed
1/10/25Gbps
Ethernet power
management
yes
Standards
IEEE802.3by 25Gbase-SR,25Gbase-LR,
25Gbase-ER
IEEE802.3ae 10GBase-SR 10Gbase-LR,
10Gbase-ER,10Gbase-ZR
IEEE802.3aq 10Gbase-LRM
IEEE802.1Q,802.1P VLAN tags and priority
IEEE802.1Qbb priority flow control
IEEE802.1Qbg
IEEE1588V2
PXE/UEFI support YES
ISCSI support yes
VMDs, SR-IOV
support
yes
TCP/IP Sec offload YES
IPv4, IPv6 Support yes
Jumbo frame size 9.6KB
Network I/O
Virtualization
VXLAN, Geneve, NVGRE, ISER,
Operation
temperature
0o~55oC (32oF or 131oF)
Storage
temperature
-40~ 70oC (-40oF or 158oF)
Relative humidity 5~90 non-condensing relative humidity

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Hereby ASSMANN Electronic GmbH declares that the Declaration of
Conformity is part of the shipping content. If the Declaration of
Conformity is missing, you can request it by post under the below
mentioned manufacturer address.
www.assmann.com
Assmann Electronic GmbH
Auf dem Schüffel 3
58513 Lüdenscheid
Germany