Product Brief

Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters

Intel® Ethernet Converged

Network Adapter
X710-DA2/DA4

Dual and Quad-port 10GbE adapters with Hardware

Optimization and Offloads for the Rapid Provisioning
of Networks in an Agile Data Center

Key Features Overview

• PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8 The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 addresses the
• Network Virtualization offloads demanding needs of an agile data center by providing unmatched
including VxLAN, GENEVE, features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN
NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLAN-GPE
with Network Service and SAN networks, and proven, reliable performance.
Headers (NSH) The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters. These adapters are
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability,
hardware based application critical performance optimizations, and increased agility for
traffic steering
Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.
• Dynamic Device Personalization
(DDP) enables increased packet • Interoperability - Multiple speeds and media types for broad
processing efficiency for NFV and compatibility backed by extensive testing and validation.
Cloud deployments
• Optimization - Intelligent offloads and accelerators to unlock network
• Data Plane Development Kit performance in servers with Intel® Xeon® processors.
(DPDK) optimized for efficient
packet processing • Agility - Both Kernel and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) drivers for
• Excellent small packet scalable packet processing.
performance for network
appliances and Network Intel® Ethernet 700 Series delivers networking performance across a wide
Functions Virtualization (NFV) range of network port speeds through intelligent offloads, sophisticated
• Intelligent offloads to enable high packet processing, and quality open source drivers.
performance on servers with
Intel® Xeon® processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for
maximum performance in a
virtualized server
All Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP)
include these feature-rich technologies: FPP leverages the PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification. Virtual
controllers can be used by the Linux host directly and/
Flexible and Scalable I/O for Virtualized or assigned to virtual machines.
Infrastructures
• Assign up to 63 Linux host processes or virtual
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), delivers
machines per port to virtual functions.
outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server
environments. • Control the partitioning of per-port bandwidth
across multiple dedicated network resources,
I/O bottlenecks are reduced through intelligent
ensuring balanced QoS by giving each assigned
offloads, enabling near-native performance and VM
virtual controller equal access to the port's
scalability. These offloads include Virtual Machine
bandwidth.
Device Queues (VMDq) and Flexible Port Partitioning
using SR-IOV with a common Virtual Function driver Network administrators can also rate limit each of these
for networking traffic per Virtual Machine (VM). services to control how much of the pipe is available to
Host-based features supported include: each process.
VMDQ for Emulated Path: VMDQ, enables a
hypervisor to represent a single network port as Greater Intelligence and Performance for NFV and
multiple network ports that can be assigned to the Cloud deployments
individual VMs. Traffic handling is offloaded to the Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) customizable
network controller, delivering the benefits of port packet filtering, along with enhanced Data Plane
partitioning with little to no administrative overhead Development Kit (DPDK), support advanced packet
by the IT staff. forwarding and highly-efficient packet processing
for both Cloud and Network Functions Virtualization
SR-IOV for Direct Assignment: Adapter-based (NFV) workloads.
isolation and switching for various virtual station
instances enables optimal CPU usage in virtualized • DDP enables workload-specific optimizations, using
environments. the programmable packet-processing pipeline.
Additional protocols can be added to the default set
• Up to 128 virtual functions (VFs), each VF can to improve packet processing efficiency that results
support a unique and separate data path for I/O in higher throughput and reduced latency. New
related functions within the PCI Express hierarchy. protocols can be added or modified on-demand and
• Use of SR-IOV with a networking device, for applied at runtime using Software Defined Firmware
example, allows the bandwidth of a single port or APIs, eliminating the need to reset or reboot the
(function) to be partitioned into smaller slices that server. This not only keeps the server and VMs up,
can be allocated to specific VMs or guests, via a running, and computing, it also increases
standard interface. performance for Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
that process network traffic that is not included in the
Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function (Intel® default firmware. Download DDP Profiles
Ethernet AVF): Customers deploying mass-scale VMs
or containers for their network infrastructure now • DPDK provides a programming framework for Intel®
have a common VF driver. This driver eases SR-IOV processors and enables faster development of
hardware upgrades or changes, preserves base-mode high-speed data packet networking applications.
functionality in hardware and software, and supports
an advanced set of features in the Intel® Ethernet Advanced Traffic Steering
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD) is an
700 Series.
advanced traffic steering capability. Large numbers of
Enhanced Network Virtualization Overlays (NVO) flow affinity filters direct receive packets by their flows
Network virtualization has changed the way to queues for classification, load balancing, and
networking is done in the data center, delivering matching between flows and CPU cores.
accelerations across a wide range of tunneling methods. Steering traffic into specific queues can eliminate
VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLAN-GPE with context switching required within the CPU. As a result,
NSH Offloads: These stateless offloads preserve Intel® Ethernet FD significantly increases the number of
application performance for overlay networks, and the transactions per second and reduces latency for cloud
network traffic can be distributed across CPU cores, applications like memcached.
increasing network throughput.

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FEATURES DESCRIPTION
General
SFP+ Connectivity • X710 adapters with SFP+ connections support 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR and SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC)
physical media.
Low-Profile (non-compliance) • Intel does offer a 4x10 SFP+, low profile, non-PCI compliant version of the Intel® Ethernet Converged Network
Adapter X710-DA4 FH. Please contact your Intel representative for information about this adapter.
Full-Height • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 FH requires a full height slot for PCIe compliance.
Load balancing on multiple CPUs • Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU core when
used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft or scalable I/O on Linux.
Protect, Detect and Recover • The Intel Ethernet 700 Series implements a design philosophy of platform resiliency with 3 attributes supporting
the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Protect, Detect and Recover. These attributes verify the firmware and
critical device settings with built-in corruption detection and automated device recovery to return the device to
its originally programmed state.
Support for most network operating systems • Enables broad deployment for different applications.
RoHS-compliant • Complies with the European Union directive 2011/65/EU to reduce the use of hazardous materials.
Time Sync (IEEE 1588, 802.1as) • Enables networked Ethernet equipment to synchronize internal clocks according to a network master clock;
endpoint can then acquire an accurate estimate of the master time by compensating for link latency.

I/O Features for Multi-Core Processor Servers

Intel® Ethernet Flow Director • An advanced traffic steering capability increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency for
(Intel® Ethernet FD) cloud applications like Memcached.
MSI-X support • Minimizes the overhead of interrupts.
• Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs.
Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues • Network packet handling without waiting for buffer overflow providing efficient packet prioritization.
per device • Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation.
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading • Lower processor usage.
(IPv4, IPv6) capabilities • Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type.

Virtualization Features
Next-generation VMDq • Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported.
• Offloads the data-sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags, functionality from the Hypervisor to the
network silicon, improving data throughput and CPU usage.
PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation • Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port
(128 per device) is divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual VM directly by bypassing the
virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance.
• Integrated with Intel® VT for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) to provide data protection between VMs by assigning
separate physical addresses in the memory to each VM.
• 64/port for dual port.
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB) • VMLB provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs bound to the team interface, as well as fault
tolerance in the event of switch, port, cable, or adapter failure.
Advanced Packet Filtering • 1536 exact matched packets (unicast or multicast).
• 512 hash entries each for unicast and multicast.
• Lower processor usage.
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support.
• Optional filtering of invalid frames.
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and • Ability to create multiple VLAN segments.
packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VxLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS • Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments.

Manageability Features
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Support • Enables system boot via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit).
• Flash interface for PXE image.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) • Enables new technologies during the pre-OS boot process and addresses legacy BIOS limitations on hardware.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and • Easy system monitoring with industry-standard consoles.
Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
Watchdog Timer • Gives an indication to the manageability firmware or external devices that the controller or the software device
driver is not functioning.

SPECIFICATIONS
General
Connections Dual or Quad SFP+ cages supporting Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Twinaxial cable and optical transceivers
Network Standard Physical Layer Interfaces 10GBASE-SR and -LR optical transceivers
10GbE SFP+ DAC

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 Technical Features Physical Dimensions
Operating Temperature 0 °C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F) X710-DA2 Low profile 167 mm x 69 mm

Airflow 150 LFM with 55 °C required for CR (DAC) X710-DA4 Full height 167 mm x 111 mm
150 LFM with 55 °C or 500 LFM with 65 °C
X710-DA4 Low profile 167 mm x 69 mm
required with extended temp SR optics

Storage Temperature -40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F)

Storage Humidity Maximum: 90% non-condensing Product Order Code

relative humidity at 35 °C
Configuration Product Code Adapter Height
LED Indicators LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)
Dual Port X710DA2 Low profile
LINK SPEED (green = 10Gbps; yellow = 1Gbps)
Quad Port X710DA4FH Full height
Quad Port X710DA4G2P5 Low profile
Adapter Features
Data Rate Supported Per Port • Optical: 1/10GbE
• Direct Attach: 10GbE Supported Operating Systems
Bus Type PCIe 3.0 (8 GT/s) For a complete list of supported network operating systems for
Bus Width PCIe x8 Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Adapters visit:
intel.com/support/EthernetOS
Interrupt Levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware Certifications FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Controller Intel® Ethernet Controller X710-BM2 Intel® Ethernet Accessories
Intel® Ethernet Optics and Cables are proven, reliable solutions for
high-density Ethernet connections. Combine these accessories with
Power Consumption Intel® Ethernet 700 Series and 500 Series Network Adapters for
SKU Typical Power Maximum Power dependable interoperability and consistent performance across the
network. Learn more at intel.com/ethernetproducts
Dual-port 10GBASE-SR 4.3 W 4.8 W
Dual-port 1000GBASE-SX 4.0 W 4.3 W
Dual-port 10GBASE-LR 4.5 W 5.1 W
Dual-port Direct Attach (Twinax) 3.3 W 3.7 W
Quad-port 10GBASE-SR 6.2 W 6.6 W
Quad-port 1000GBASE-SX 5.5 W 6.0 W
Quad-port 10GBASE-LR 6.9 W 7.4 W
Quad-port Direct Attach (Twinax) 3.6 W 3.8 W

Warranty Product Information

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