Nová Intel X710 rodina 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) serverové adaptéry siete address demanding needs of next-generation data center. By providing unmatched features pre server a sieť virtualizáciu, malé balíkové performance, and low power; the data center sieť is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
X710 je dostupný v troch formách faktorov: a štandardné PCIe low-profile card, a Mezzanine LOM (ML2) form factor pre ThinkSystem a System x servery, a na AnyFabric form factor pre ThinkServer systems.


Intel X710 adaptéry majú nasledujúce špecifickosti:
•Empty SFP+ cages pre 10GbE pripojenie na podporu 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
?Hardvér 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 pre IMM shared management port connectivity cez 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 s VLAN tag inzercia, s strippingom a packet filtering pre 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 Tolerancia (SFT)
?Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
?VM Load Balancing (VMLB)
?IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)

•Intel PROSet Utility pre easy configuration and management.
•UEFI and legacy PXE boot
•Option ROM: ?PCIe adapter: Disabled on both ports by default.
?adapter ML2: Enabled on all ports by default.
?AnyFabric adapters: Enabled on all ports by default.

•RoHS compliance that is based on latest 2014 standards.


Štandards supported

X710 adaptéry podporujú nasledujúce IEEE štandardy:
•IEEE 802.1p CoS traffic prioritization
•IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
•IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
•IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex flow control
•IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR short range fiber optics 10 Gb Ethernet
•10GSFP+Cu SFP+ Direct Attach copper
•IEEE 1588, 802.1as Time Sync



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