Intel X710-DA4 Quad SFP+ Network Adapter

Intel X710-DA4 Quad Port 10 Gigabit PCI Express 3.0 x8 Optical Fiber SFP+ Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710DA4G1P5. The X710-DA4 adapter delivers four ports of wire-speed 10GbE and is backwards compatible to 1GbE.

Intel Part Number: X710DA4G1P5
Model Number: X710-DA4







Features:

SFP+ Connectivity:  supports 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR and SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC) physical media.
Load balancing on multiple CPUs: Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU core when used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft or scalable I/O on Linux.
Support for most network operating systems: Enables broad deployment for different applications.

I/O Features for multi-core processor servers
- Intel Ethernet Flow Director (Intel Ethernet FD): An advanced traffic steering capability increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency for cloud applications like Memcached.
- MSI-X support: Minimizes the overhead of interrupts. Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs.
- Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per device: Network packet handling without waiting for buffer overflow providing efficient packet prioritization. Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation.
- Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities: Lower processor usage, Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type.

Virtualization
- Next-Generation VMDq: Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported. Offloads the data-sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags, functionality from the Hypervisor to the network silicon, improving data throughput and CPU usage.
PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (128 per device):
- Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual VM directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance.
- Integrated with Intel VT for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d) to provide data protection between VMs by assigning separate physical addresses in the memory to each VM.
- 64/port for dual port.
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB): VMLB provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs bound to the team interface, as well as fault tolerance in the event of switch, port, cable, or adapter failure.
Advanced Packet Filtering:
- 1536 exact matched packets (unicast or multicast).
- 512 hash entries each for unicast and multicast.
- Lower processor usage.
- Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support.
- Optional filtering of invalid frames.
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags: Ability to create multiple VLAN segments.
VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VXLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS: Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments.

Includes:

- 1x Intel X710-DA4 Quad Port Card
- 1x High Profile Bracket
- 1x Low Profile Bracket







Specifications:

Data Rate Supported Per Port:
- Optical: 1/10GbE
- Direct Attach: 10GbE
Bus Type PCI Express v3.0 (8 GT/s)
Bus Width PCI Express x8
Interrupt Levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware Certifications FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Controller Intel Ethernet Controller X710-AM2