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• Flow Classification: Trafficking data flows across
multiple consumers and connections
Manageability
The X710 family of adapters also incorporate the
manageability required by IT personnel for remote
control and alerting. Communication to the Board
Management Controller (BMC) is available either through
an on-board SMBus port or the DMTF-dened NC-SI,
providing a variety of management protocols,
including IPMI, BMC Pass-thru, OS2BMC, and MCTP/
SMBus and MCTP/PCIe.
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FEATURES BENEFITS
General
Intel® X710 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
• Industry-leading, energy-efficient design for next-generation 10 Gigabit performance
and multi-core processors
SFP+ Connectivity • X710 adapters with SFP+ connections support 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR and SFP+ Direct Attach Copper
(DAC) physical media
Low-profile • Enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe* slots and servers
Full-height • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 FH requires a full height slot for PCIe compliance
Load balancing on multiple CPUs • Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores
when used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux*
iSCSI remote boot support • Provides centralized storage area network (SAN) management at a lower cost than other iSCSI solutions
• No additional cost for iSCSI support, included in standard adapter
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
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• Includes FCoE Boot and Data Center Bridging
• No additional cost for FCoE support, included in standard adapter
Support for most network
operating systems
• Enables widespread deployment
RoHS-compliant • Complies with the European Union directive 2011/65/EU to reduce the use of hazardous materials
Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows*
Device Manager
• Provides point-and-click management of individual adapters, advanced adapter features, connection teaming,
and virtual local area network (VLAN) configuration
Time Sync (IEEE 1588*, 802.1as) • Enables networked Ethernet equipment to synchronize internal clocks according to a network master clock;
endpoint can then acquire an accurate estimate of the master time by compensating for link latency
I/O Features for Multi-core Processor Servers
Intel® Flow Director • An advanced traffic steering capability increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency
for cloud applications like MemcacheD
MSI-X support • Minimizes the overhead of interrupts
• Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs
Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx
queues per port
• Network packet handling without waiting or buffer overflow providing efficient packet prioritization
• Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, & UDP checksum
offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
• Lower processor usage
• Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type
Virtualization Features
Next-Generation VMDq • Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported
• Enhanced QoS feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data
• Offloads the data-sorting functionality from the Hypervisor to the network silicon, improving data throughput
and CPU usage
• Provides QoS feature on the Tx data by providing round-robin servicing and preventing head-of-line blocking
• Sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags
• Provides loopback functionality, where data transfer between the virtual machines within the same physical
server need not go out to the wire and come back in, improving throughput and CPU usage
• Supports replication of multicast and broadcast data
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