Specification Sheet

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 Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE): 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.
Server Virtualization
With Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), the XL710 family of adapters deliver
outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments.
They reduce I/O bottlenecks by providing intelligent offloads for networking traffic per virtual
machine (VM), enabling near-native performance and VM scalability. The host-based
virtualization technologies supported by Intel VT include:
 VMDq for Emulated Path: Adapter-based VM Queue sorting enabling efficient
hypervisor-based switching
 Virtualized Performance: Alleviates hypervisor I/O bottlenecks by providing flow
separation for Virtual Machines (VMs)
 Network Virtualization: Network virtualization overlay offloads including Geneve, VXLAN,
and NVGRE
 Storage Performance: Enables competitive performance with native OS drivers
and intelligent offload for NAS (NFS, SMB), and SAN (iSCSI and FCoE)
 SR-IOV for Direct Assignment: Adapter-based isolation and switching for various virtual
station instances enabling optimal CPU usage in virtualized environments
 Additionally, XL710 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:
 VEPA1: IEEE 802.1Qbgsupport for Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator1
 VEB: Virtual Ethernet Bridge support via Intel VT