Highlights:

• Quad-port 10GbE SFP+ server adapters
• PCI Express (PCIe) v3.0, 8.0 GT/s, x8 lanes
• SFP+ Connectivity
• PXE,iSCSI boot
• Network Virtualization
• IEEE 802.1q and 10G Ethernet specification compliance
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Low Profile and Full-Height bracket

Overview:      

                              
ALL0141-4SFP+-10G is  ALLNET  a  new generation  of high- performance  server  adapter,  based  on  the  Intel  XL710-BM1  controller.  The  Server  Adapter  addresses  the demanding  needs  of  the  next-generation  agile data center by providing unmatched features for both server and network  virtualization,  flexibility  for  LAN  and  SAN networks and proven, reliable performance.

The ALL0141-4SFP+-10G adapter delivers superior performance  in  a  PCI  Express  v3.0  x8  slot.  Optimized performance vectors and key uses include:

1. Small Packet Performance:

Achieves wire-rate throughput on smaller payload sizes (>128 Bytes for 40 GbE and >64 Bytes for 10 GbE)

1. Bulk Transfer Performance:

Delivers line-rate performance with low CPU usage for large application buffers

1. Network Virtualization:

Network virtualization overlay offloads including Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE

1. Storage Performance:

Enables competitive performance with native OS drivers and intelligent offload for NAS (NFS, SMB), and SAN (iSCSI and FCoE)

Key Features                               

• Quad –Port 10GbE Server Adapter
• PCI Express* (PCIe) 3.0, x8
• Exceptional Low Power Adapters
• Network  Virtualization  offloads  including  Geneve, VXLAN and NVGRE
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Intel® Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server
• Unified networking providing a single wire support for LAN and storage: NAS (SMB, NFS) and SAN (iSCSI, FCoE)

A Complete, Unified Networking Solution

Converging data and storage onto one fabric eliminates the need for multiple adapters, cables and switches.
Furthermore both 10 and 40 gigabit Ethernet provides the bandwidth to converge these multiple fabrics onto a single wire. A key capability that makes all this possible is traffic class separation provided by Data Center Bridging (DCB) providing a one-wire solution with virtual pipes for the different classes of traffic:

• Data: Best effort delivery of standard LAN traffic
• Storage: Lossless network for FCoE and iSCSI
• Management: Guaranteed connectivity of data center IP management

Power Savings 

Power efficiency is critical to IT specialists as energy consumption is a real OpEx concern.

• Lowest Power Consumption

The new generation of ALL0141-4SFP+-10G adapters are power  misers.  They  deliver  double  the  throughput  with only
half the power of the previous

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 the INTEL Virtualization Technology (VT), the ALL0141-4SFP+-10Gadapter 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

• SR-IOV for Direct Assignment:

Adapter-based isolation and switching for various virtual station instances enabling optimal CPU usage ind virtualized environments.  Additionally,  ALL0141-4SFP+-10G provide Virtual Bridging 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:
VEPA : IEEE 802.1Qbg support for Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator
VEB: Virtual Ethernet Bridge support via Intel® VT

Network Virtualization                

Network virtualization is the next big trend in creating an agile data center.   The   ALL0141-4SFP+-10Gadapter is ready to help you take that next step.

• VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE Offloads:

With Intel Virtualization Technologyperformance 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 check-sum 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 receive packets by their flows to queues for classification, load balancing, and matching between flows and CPU cores. It eliminates context  switching  required  within  the  CPU.  As  a  result, Flow Director significantly increasing 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 Xeon processor where appropriate and implementing 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 HBA2 methods.

• Flow Classification:

Trafficking data flows across multiple consumers and connections.

Manageability                                          

ALL0141-4SFP+-10Galso incorporate the manageability required by IT personnel for remote control and alerting. Communication to the Board Management Controller (BMC) is available either through an on-board SMBus port or the DMTF-defined NC-SI, providing a variety of management protocols,  including  IPMI,  BMC  Pass-thru,  OS2BMC,  and MCTP/SMBus and MCTP/PCIe.

Features General

Intel® XL710-BM1 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller SFP+ Connectivity
Low-profile Full-height
Load balancing on multiple CPUs iSCSI remote boot support
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support Support for most network operating systems RoHS-compliant
Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows*Device Manager Time Sync (IEEE 1588*, 802.1as)

I/O Features for Multi-core Processor Servers

Intel® Flow Director MSI-X support
Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per port
Tx/Rx  IP,  SCTP,  TCP,  &  UDP  checksum  offloading  (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities

Virtualization Features                             

Next-Generation VMDq
Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported
PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (128 per device) Virtual Machine Load Balancing(VLMB) Advanced Packet Filtering
VLAN  support  with  VLAN  tag  insertion,  stripping  and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
VXLAN and NVGRE Support

Manageability Features                            

Preboote Xecution Environment (PXE) Support
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
iSCSI Boot Watchdog Timer

Adapter Product Features                         

Intel® PROSet Utility
Plug and play specification support Receive Side Scaling

Advanced Software Feature                     

Adapter fault tolerance (AFT) Switch fault tolerance (SFT) Adaptive load balancing (ALB) Teaming support
IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
PCIe Hot Plug*/Active Periphera component interconnect (PCI)
IEEE 802.1Q* VLANs
IEEE 802.3 2005* flow control support
Tx/Rx  IP,  TCP,  &  UDP  checksum  offloading  (IPv4,  IPv6) capabilities  (Transmission  control  protocol(TCP),  user datagram protocol
(UDP), Internet protocol (IP) IEEE 802.1p*
TCP segmentation large send offload
MSI-X supports Multiple Independent Queues Interrupt moderation
Ipv6 offloading — Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type

Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support

Windows Server* 2012 R2; Windows Server 2012 R2 Core; Windows Server 2012; Windows Server 2012 Core; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 R2 Core;
Linux* Stable Kernel version 2.6.32/3x; Linux* RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 7.0;
Linux* SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12; FreeBSD* 9 and FreeBSD* 10;
UEFI* 2.1;
UEFI* 2.3;
VMware ESXi 5.1 (Limited Functionality); Vmware ESXi 5.5

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