FEATURES

DESCRIPTION

GENERAL

SFP+ Connectivity

• Supports SFP+ Direct Attach Copper Twinaxial, 10GBASE-SR, or 10GBASE-LR physical media.

Load balancing on multiple CPUs

• Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU core when

used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft or scalable I/O on Linux.

Support for most network operating systems

• Enables broad deployment for different applications.

RoHS-compliant

• Product is compliant with EU RoHS Directive 2 2011/65/EU (Directive 2011/65/EU) and its amendments (e.g.

2015/863/EU).

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.

OCP NIC 3.0 adapter

• Compatible with systems that support OCP NIC 3.0 Small Form Factor adapters.

LED indicators

• LINK: green=10Gbps; amber=1Gbps; not illuminated=no link ACT: blinking=activity; off=no activity

I/O FEATURES FOR MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SERVERS

Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD)

• 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 device

• Network packet handling without waiting for buffer overflow providing efficient packet prioritization.

• Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation.

Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading

(IPv4 IPv6) capabilities

• Lower processor usage.

• Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type.

VIRTUALIZATION FEATURES

VMDq

• Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported.

• Offloads the data-sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags, functionality from the Hypervisor to the network

silicon, improving data throughput and CPU usage.

PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation

• Integrated with Intel® VT for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) to provide data protection between VMs by assigning separate

physical addresses in the memory to each VM.

• 128 per device (64 per port for Dual Port adapter, 32 per port for Quad Port adapter).

Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB)

• VMLB provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs 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 filtering of invalid frames.

VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and

packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags

• Ability to create multiple VLAN segments.

VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VXLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS

• Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments.

MANAGEABILITY FEATURES

Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support

• Enables system boot up via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit).

• Flash interface for PXE image.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

• Enables new technologies during the pre-OS boot process and addresses legacy BIOS limitations on hardware.

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and

Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters

• Easy system monitoring with industry-standard consoles.

iSCSI Boot

• Enables system boot up via iSCSI.

• Provides additional network management capability.

Watchdog Timer

• Gives an indication to the manageability firmware or external devices that the controller or the software device

driver is not functioning.

Supported Management Implementations

• RBT

• MCTP

• RBT+MCTP

NC-SI (DSP0222)

• Supports NC-SI 1.1 for Pass-Through and Control traffic.

MCTP (DSP0236)

• Supports MCTP 1.2.

MAC address provisioning

• Provisions one or more MAC addresses per NC-SI capable device that can be used for out of band management. (To

be supported in an upcoming software update.)

Temperature reporting (ASIC)

• Reports temperature of Intel® Ethernet Controller. (To be supported in an upcoming software update.)

Temperature reporting (modules)

• Reports temperature of optical modules installed in adapter. (To be supported in an upcoming software update.)

Estimated power consumption reporting

• Reports estimated power consumption of the adapter, excluding transceiver modules. (To be supported in an

upcoming software update.)

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