Key Features

• Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710/X557 10GBase-T

• Low-Profile Standard Short-length Form Factor

• PCI Express 3.0 (8GT/s)

• Four (4) RJ45 Connectors

• Network Virtualization Offloads: VxLAN and NVGRE

• Ethernet Flow Director

• Data Plane Developer Kit for Efficient Packet Processing

• Small Packet Performance

• Intelligent Offloads

• Unified Networking Support for NAS and SAN

• Asset Management Features

• NC-SI for Remote Management (IPMI)

• RoHS compliant 6/6

• Supports Both Direct Attach Copper and Fiber Cables

Specification

·  General:

• Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710/X557 10GBase-T
• Half-length low-profile standard form factor
• PCI-E 3.0 x8 (8GT/s) interface
• Quad RJ45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/s per port
• Load balancing on multiple CPUs
• Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows Device Manager

·  I/O Features

• Intel® Flow Director
• MSI-X support to minimize interrupt overhead and to allow load-balancing between
• multiple cores/CPUs
• Multiple queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per port
• Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities

• Virtualization Features:
• Next-Generation VMDq with up to 256 VMDq VMs supported
• SR-IOV with up to 128 virtuals ports
• Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
• Advanced Packet Filtering
• VLAN support for up to 4,096 VLAN tags
• VXLAN and NVGRE support

·  Management Features:

• Asset Management support on Supermicro® X10 generation platforms
• Controller asset tags such as part number, revision, serial number, and MAC
• addresses
• Controller thermal sensor
• NC-SI for Remote Management

·  Storage Interface Features:

• Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
• iSCSI remote boot
• iSCSI Acceleration
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) static counters

·  OS Support:

• Windows® Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 x86-64
• Linux RedHat EL 6.5 and 7.0 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
• Linux SuSE SLES 11 SP3 and 12 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
• FreeBSD 9 and 10 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
• UEFI 2.1 and 2.3 X86-64 and I-64
• VMware ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5 X86-64