Media Interfaces
• Integrated dual 10 Gbps MAC with offload and dual 10GBASE-KR/SFF-8431 (SFP+)
• Single 25.00 MHz clock crystal for dual-port 10 Gbps operation
Host Interfaces
• PCI Express x8 3.0, 8 GT/s-ready
• PCI Express x8 2.0, 5 GT/s compliant
• PCI Express x8 1.1, 2.5 GT/s compliant
• PCI Express Lanes x1, x4, x8
• No external DRAM required; flow-through architecture
• PCI Express CLKREQ support
• Single Root I/O Virtualization
• Message Signal Interrupt (MSI/MSI-X) support
Network Interfaces
• Dual-port 10GBASE-KR/SFF-8431 (SFP+) interfaces for 1 Gbps/10 Gbps operation
• IEEE 802.3ap Clause 73-compliant backplane operation
• IEEE 802.3xx Clause 37-compliant auto-negotiation for 1 Gbps
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
• Microsoft® TCP chimney compliant
• Full FASTPATH® TCP offload for IPv4 and IPv6
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Controller
• Offloaded full HBA functionality iSCSI initiator
• iSCSI boot and iSCSI crash dump support
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Receiver and transmitter CRC offload
• Offloaded full HBA functionality FCoE initiator
RDMA Controller (R-NIC)
• Hardware-based data placement in application buffers without CPU intervention (for user and Kernel modes)
• Low latency
Robust Manageability
• Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
• PXE v2.1 remote boot
• Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
• Statistics gathering (SNMP MIB II, Ethernet MIB) (IEEE 802.2x, Clause 30)
• Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) (IEEE 802.1Qaz)
• Quantized Congestion Notification-Capable (QCN) (IEEE 802.1Qau)
• Priority Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE 802.1Qbb)
• IEEE 802.1Qbg- and IEEE 802.1Qbh-capable for traffic switching
SR-IOV 10 Gbps/Converged solution—Power and space optimized for Blade server, Rack, Tower, and Converged Network Adapter applications
Extremely low CPU utilization for iSCSI, FCoE, TCP/IP, and RDMA applications
• Host CPU is free to run application code
• Minimal load on memory subsystem with zero copy
Accelerated IP-based file and block storage
• Lower CPU utilization for file-level storage protocols such as CIFS/SMB and NFS
• Offloaded and accelerated iSCSI block storage with high I/O per second and low CPU utilization
Accelerated FCoE
• Offloaded and accelerated FCoE for Fibre Channel block storage with high I/O per second and low CPU utilization Performance-focused—Optimized for high throughput, low latency, and CPU utilization
• Adaptive interrupt coalescing
• RSS reduces CPU utilization on multiCPU systems.
• MSI/MSI-X allows interrupt distribution in a multi-CPU system.
Robust and highly manageable
• NC-SI enables high bandwidth out-of-band system management functionality over shared infrastructure.
• Guaranteed delivery of management traffic
• PXE v2.1, ACPI v2.0b, WOL
• Host-BMC Communication for connectivity between local host and Management Controller (MC/BMC)
Server class reliability, availability, and performance features
• Link aggregation and load balancing - Switch-dependent
• IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), generic trunking (GEC/FEC)
- Switch- and NIC-independent