Advanced Features I/O Virtualization
2048 guest OS protected vNICs; 240 virtual functions;
16 physical functions
PCI Express
PCIe 3.0 x8 @ 8.0 GT/s for full, 40 Gbps bi-directional bandwidth
SFC9120 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Supports high-performance 10GbE
SFP+ Support
Supports optical & copper SFP/SFP+ modules; Direct-Attach, Fiber (10G or 1G), 1G/10G combo
1000BASE-T SFP Support
Supports 1G 1000BASE-T SFP modules
Low Latency
Cut-through architecture/intelligent interrupt coalescing
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Distributes IPv4, IPv6 loads across all CPU cores; MSI-X minimizes interrupt overhead
Hardware Offloads
LSO, LRO, GSO; IPv4/IPv6; TCP, UDP checksums
Adapter Teaming/Link Aggregation
LACP for redundant links & increased bandwidth (compatible with MLAG)
Jumbo Frames
9216 byte MTU for performance
Enhanced Tuning
Adaptive interrupt moderation
IP Flow Filtering
Hardware directs packets based on IP, TCP, UDP headers
Advanced Packet Filtering
4096 multicast filters; 4096 VLANs/port; adaptive TCP/UDP/IP, MAC, VLAN, RSS, RFS filtering; Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (RFS)
Intel QuickDataTM
Uses host DMA engines to accelerate I/O
Remote Boot
PXE, iSCSI boot; unattended installation
Management
ACPI v3.0, SNMP
Virtualization Support
VMware ESXi; Microsoft Hyper-V; XenServer; Linux KVM; SR-IOV
OS Support
RHEL 5,6, MRG; SLES 10, 11, SLERT; other Linux; Windows Server
Technical Specifications
Standards and Compliance
IEEE 802.3ae
IEEE 802.3ad
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.1p
IEEE 802.3x
RoHS Compliant
Power (typical)
8W
Operating Range
0є to 65є C
Physical Dimensions
L: 13.4 cm (5.3 in)
W: 6.9 cm (2.7 in)
End bracket height:
PCI Express standard
12.0 cm (4.7 in)
PCI Express low-profile
7.92 cm (3.12 in)
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