Feature Summary

ETHERNET

• IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE Std 802.3ak 10GBASE-CX4
• IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
• IEEE Std 802.3x Pause
• IEEE Std 802.1Q VLAN tags, .1p Priorities
• IEEE P802.1au D2.0 Congestion Notification
• IEEE P802.1az D0.2 Enhanced Transmission Selection
• IEEE P802.1bb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
• Multicast
• Jumbo frame support (10KB)
• 128 MAC/VLAN addresses per port

TCP/UDP/IP STATELESS OFFLOAD

• TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload
• TCP Large Send (< 64KB) or Giant Send (64KB-16MB) Offload for segmentation
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) up to 32 queues
• Line rate packet filtering

ADDITIONAL CPU OFFLOADS

• RDMA over CEE support
• FC checksum offload
• VMDirect Path support
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Compliant to Microsoft RSS and NetDMA

HARDWARE-BASED I/O VIRTUALIZATION

• Single Root IOV
• Address translation and protection
• Dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation
• Multiple queues per virtual machine
• Hardware switching between guest OSs
• Enhanced QoS for vNICs
• VMware NetQueue support

STORAGE SUPPORT

• T11.3 FC-BB-5 FCoE

Compatibility

CONNECTIVITY

• Interoperable with 10GigE switches & routers
• 100m (OM-2) or 300m (OM-3) of multimode fiber cable, duplex LC connector from SFP+ optics module
• 10km single mode fiber cable, duplex LC connector from SFP+ optics module
• 10m+ direct attached copper cable through SFP+ connector

OPERATING SYSTEMS/DISTRIBUTIONS

• Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions
• Microsoft Windows, Server 2003/2008, CCS 2003
• VMware ESX 2.5/vSphere 4.0
• Citrix XenServer 4.1, 5.0, 5.5

MANAGEMENT

• MIB, MIB-II, MIB-II Extensions, RMON, RMON 2
• Configuration and diagnostic tools