Specification Sheet

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Network Virtualization
Network virtualization is the next big trend in creating an agile data center. The family of
XL710 adapters are ready to help you take that next step.
 VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve Offloads: These stateless offloads preserve application
performance for overlay networks. With these offloads it is possible to distribute network
traffic across CPU cores.
 At the same time XL710 offloads LSO, GSO, and checksum from the host software
reducing CPU overhead.
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director
Flow Director is an advanced traffic steering capability built into the XL710 controller. It
consists of a large number of flow affinity filters that direct received packets by their flows
to queues for classification, load balancing, and matching between flows and CPU
cores. It eliminates context switch ingrequired within the CPU. As a result, Flow Director
significantly increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency for cloud
applications like Memcached.
Intelligent Offloads
The Intel® Xeon® processor family has demonstrated increased computing performance and
increased integration of key server subsystems generation after generation.
To offload is to leverage the ever-escalating computing power of the Intel Xeon processor
where appropriate and implement complementary accelerations in the network
controller—this is what Intel refers to as “intelligent offloads.” By employing a balanced
hybrid of compute and offload, intelligent offloads are able to achieve the optimized point of
performance and efficiency. This is most notably observed in the following usage models:
 TCP Stateless Offloads: Demonstrates leading performance vs. TOE solutions without
restricting feature usage (TOE usage usually requires that key features be disabled).
Supported stateless offloads include Checksum, TSO, VMDq, and RSS.
 Host iSCSI/FCoE Initiators: Providing exceptional performance without the need for
full-offload HBA methods.
 Flow Classification: Trafficking data flows across multiple consumers and connections.