Dell Intel Ethernet I350 Quad-Port 1GbE Network Card

Dell I350 Quad-Port NIC — Four Gigabit Ethernet Ports for PowerEdge Servers

The Dell I350 quad-port NIC is built on the Intel I350 Ethernet controller, one of the most mature and widely deployed 1GbE server controllers in enterprise networking. Four independent Gigabit Ethernet ports connect via a single PCIe 2.1 x4 slot, providing aggregate bandwidth well beyond what a single 1GbE link can sustain.

For virtualisation hosts running VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V, the Dell I350 quad-port NIC enables physical traffic separation. Each traffic type gets its own dedicated port. A standard deployment assigns dedicated ports to VM data, vMotion, iSCSI storage and management. This eliminates contention and provides physical isolation between traffic types. This separation eliminates contention between traffic types and provides physical network isolation at the port level.

NIC Teaming and Advanced Networking

All four ports support IEEE 802.3ad LACP link aggregation, 802.1Q VLAN tagging and jumbo frame support up to 9000 bytes for storage traffic optimisation. Hardware iSCSI and NFS offload reduces CPU overhead during storage protocol processing. SR-IOV support allows physical ports to be partitioned into virtual functions for direct assignment to individual virtual machines, bypassing the software switch entirely for latency-sensitive workloads.

Driver Support and Management

Intel I350 driver support is mature and stable across Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu Server and all major VMware ESXi versions. Drivers are included in most OS distributions without separate downloads. The Dell I350 quad-port NIC integrates with Dell OpenManage and iDRAC for link health monitoring and port state reporting alongside all other PowerEdge hardware components.

The Dell I350 quad-port NIC is available from Briggi Tech with nationwide delivery.

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