The new Intel X710 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) server network adapters addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center. By providing unmatched features for server and network virtualization, small packet performance, and low power; the data center network is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
The X710 is available in three form factors: a Standard PCIe low-profile card for ThinkServer and System x servers, a Mezzanine LOM (ML2) form factor for System x servers, and an AnyFabric form factor for ThinkServer systems.
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The Intel X710 adapters support Intel I/O Virtualization Technology, which helps accelerate data and improves application response times. For virtualized environments, the X710 adapters offer advanced features with VMDq that lower processor usage and increase I/O performance.
Mezzanine LAN-on-Motherboard Generation 2 (ML2) for System x and AnyFabric for ThinkServer are cost-effective adapters that offers the flexibility advantages of a PCIe adapter while supporting integrated networking features, such as Wake-on-LAN and direct connectivity to the server's IMM2 service processor for NCSI-compliant out-of-band systems management.
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The Intel X710 adapters have the following specifications:
- Empty SFP+ cages for 10GbE connection supporting SFP+ transceivers or DAC cables
- Host interface:
- PCI Express 3.0; x8
- PCI Power Management/ACPI Extensions
- TLP Processing Hint (TPH) Support
- MSI-X Support
- Energy Efficient Ethernet
- Performance:
- Achieves wire-rate throughput on smaller payload sizes (>64 bytes)
- Standard stack Latency: ~7 µs
- Kernel- Bypass Latency: ~3 µs
- Small Packet Developers Tool Kit
- Virtualization features:
- Microsoft Network Virtualization that uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)
- VMware Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Intel Virtual Technology (VT) with VMDq for virtualization
- SR-IOV direct assignment support
- Virtual Bridging Support: VEPA/802.1Qbg, BPE/802.1Qbh
- Virtual Functions: Up to 128 per device
- Hardware Queue Pairs: Up to 1.5K
- Management features:
- Advanced filtering capabilities (IPv4, IPv6)
- SNMP
- RMON statistic counters
- Wake on LAN support (WoL support is for ML2 and AnyFabric adapters only; first port only)
- NC-SI for IMM shared management port connectivity through port 1 (NCSI support is for ML2 and AnyFabric adapters only)
- Additional features:
- Jumbo Frame Support: 9728 bytes
- VLAN support
- Flow Control
- 1588 Time Synchronization Support
- TCP/IP Layer 2 features:
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- TCP/UDP/IP/SCTP Checksum Offload
- IPv4, IPv6
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags.
- IEEE 802.3x flow control support.
- IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)/QoS.
- Support for Advanced Packet Filtering.
- Teaming support:
- Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
- Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
- Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
- VM Load Balancing (VMLB)
- IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
- Intel PROSet Utility for easy configuration and management.
- UEFI and legacy PXE boot
- Option ROM:
- PCIe adapter: Disabled on both ports by default.
- ML2 adapter: Enabled on all ports by default.
- AnyFabric adapters: Enabled on all ports by default.
- RoHS compliance that is based on latest 2014 standards.