Intel X710-DA2 Converged Network Adapter (X710DA2BLK)

The X710 adapter family delivers superior performance with a theoretical throughput of 80 Gb/s (40Gb/s Tx; 40Gb/s Rx) bidirectional throughput (quad-port adapter required), in a PCI Express v3.0 x8 slot. Achieves wire-rate throughput on smaller pay-load sizes (>128 Bytes for 40 GbE and >64 Bytes for 10 GbE. Alleviates hypervisor I/O bottlenecks by providing flow separation for Virtual Machines (VMs). Network virtualization overlay offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, Network Service Headers (NSH). X710 adapters provide Virtual Bridging1 support that delivers both host-side and switch-side control and management of virtualized I/O as well as the following modes of virtualized operation: IEEE 802.1Qbg support for Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator, Ethernet Bridge support via Intel VT. These stateless offloads preserve application performance for overlay networks. With these offloads it is possible to distribute network traffic across CPU cores. Reduces power consumption during periods of low data activity. Energy is used to maintain the physical layer transmitters in a “ready state” to transmit data on the wire. During periods of low data traffic, EEE sends a low-power-idle signal to put the transmitters into a “low power state” saving power and cost. When data needs to be sent, EEE sends a normal idle signal to wake up the transmit system before data is due to be sent so there is no degradation of performance. The X710 family of adapters also incorporate the man-ageability required by IT personnel for remote control and alerting. Communication to the Board Management Controller (BMC) is available either through an on-board SMBus port or the DMTF-defined NC-SI, providing a variety of management protocols, including IPMI, BMC Pass-thru, OS2BMC, and MCTP/SMBus and MCTP/PCIe.