This dual-port 10Gb network interface card (NIC) is optimized on Intel X710-BM2 controller for server connectivity and network virtualization. It is designed to provide broad interoperability, critical performance optimizations, increased agility and multiple workloads for High Performance Computing (HPC), database clusters, public and private clouds, as well as enterprise IT network solutions.

Features

• Supports 2 x 10GbE configurations
• PCI Express* (PCIe) X8 v3.0 
• Exceptional low-power controllers
• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE with NetworkService Headers (NSH)
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and Cloud deployments
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel® Xeon® processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server

Specifications

• Controller: Intel X710-BM2
• Bus Type: PCI Express v3.0 (8 GT/s), compatible with x16
• Connector: 2 * SFP+ slot
• Data Rate: 10G / 1G / 100Mbps
• Jumbo Frame: up to 9.5 KB
• Network Topology
• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet, VXLAN / NVGRE, 802.1q VLAN
• IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1az, IEEE 802.1Qbg, IEEE 802.1Qbh
• SFP+ Fiber 10Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gbase-SR4 (850nm LAN PHY)
• SFP+ Fiber 10Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gbase-LR4 (1310nm LAN PHY)
• Advanced Features: VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VXLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS
• Physical Interfaces: Support PXE, Jumbo frame, iSCSI, DPDK, FCo, EWOL
• Additional Features
• VLAN Support
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (draft IEEE 802.1az)
• Jumbo Frame Support—Up to 9.5 KB (9728 Bytes)
• Priority Flow Control (draft IEEE 802.1Qbb)
• Data Center Bridging (DCB/DCB-X) Support; up to 8 traffic classes
• LED Indicators: Link Yellow, 10G: Green blinking
• Operating Systems
• Server 2003 / Server 2008 / Vista / Win 7 / Win 8 / Win 10 32-64bit
• Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 /2016 R2
• FreeBSD, Linux Stable Kernel, VMware ESX/ESXi

Package Contents

• 1 * SFP+ PCIe 10GbE Network card XL710
• 1 * User's Manual
• 1 * Driver CD
• 1 * Low profile bracket