Dell® 540-BDRF alternative Intel X710 NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Quad Port 10GbE SFP+

Dell® 540-BDRF alternative Intel X710 NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Quad Port 10GbE SFP+Dell 540 BDRF alternative Intel X710 NIC PCIe 3. 0 x8 Quad Port 10GbE SFP+ The Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter 710 series addresses the demanding needs of an agile data centre by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks, and proven, reliable performance. These network adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance

Dell® 540-BDRF alternative Intel X710 NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Quad Port 10GbE SFP+

The Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter 710 series addresses the demanding needs of an agile data centre by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks, and proven, reliable performance.

These network adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance optimisations, and increased agility for Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.

• PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8
• Network Virtualization offloads including VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLAN-GPE with Network Service Headers (NSH)
• Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and Cloud deployments
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel Xeon processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server

System Requirements

• Windows Client: Windows 11/10
• Windows Server: 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
• Linux: RHEL9.1 & 8.7, SLES15 SP4, SLES12 SP5, Ubuntu*22.04 LTS/20.04 LTS, Debian*11, FreeBSD*13/12.3

Specification

• PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 x8 and higher
• Supports the PCI Bus Power Management specification and section 5 of the PCI Express Base Specification
• PCI-Express lanes: x8 
• Quad-port 10GbE adapters
• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve and Network Service Headers
• Intel Ethernet Flow director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon processor based servers
• Packet checksum offloads: Calculates IP, UDP, TCP and Stream transmission Protocol checksums for insertion into transmitted packets and for integrity checking on received packets
• Includes support for UDP and TCP checksums in both IPv4 and IPv6 data grams
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server
• Support for optional End-to-End CRC generation and checking
• Supports up to 1024 LAN queue sets (768 typically available)
• Supports up to 384 VSIs with average of two TCs allocated per VSI
• Supports up to 16VEB/VEPA switching components
• Supports network standard: IEE802.3 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-CR
• IEEE802.3x flow control support
• IEEE802.3Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
• Jumbo Frame support 9728 bytes