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FEATURES BENEFITS
Intel® Flow Director • An advanced trac 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 for buer overow providing ecient
packet prioritization
• Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum ooading
(IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
• Lower processor usage
• Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type
VIRTUALIZATION FEATURES
FEATURES BENEFITS
Next-Generation VMDq • Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported
• Enhanced QoS feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data
• Ooads 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
PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (128 per device) • Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The
physical conguration of each port is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each
virtual port is assigned to an individual virtual machine directly by bypassing the
virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance.
• Integrated with Intel® VTI for Directed I/O (VT-d) to provide data protection between
virtual machines by assigning separate physical addresses in the memory to each
virtual machine
• 64/port for dual port
• 32/port for quad port
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB) • Virtual Machines Load Balancing (VMLB) provides trac load balancing (Tx and Rx)
across Virtual Machines bound to the team interface, as well as fault tolerance in
the event of switch, port, cable, or adapter failure
Advanced Packet Filtering • 1536 exact matched packets (unicast or multicast)
• 512 hash entries each for unicast and multicast
• Lower processor usage
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support
• Optional ltering of invalid frames
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping, and
packet ltering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
• Ability to create multiple VLAN segments
VXLAN and NVGRE Support • Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments
MANAGEABILITY FEATURES
FEATURES BENEFITS
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support • Enables system boot up via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Flash interface for PXE image
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and
Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
• Easy system monitoring with industry-standard consoles
iSCSI Boot
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• Enables system boot up via iSCSI
• Provides additional network management capability
Watchdog Timer • Gives an indication to the manageability rmware or external devices that the chip
or the driver is not functioning
Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapters XL710
With Support for QSFP+ Connections
Network Connectivity
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