General
• Intel® X710 10GbE controller
• Compact size low-profile standard form factor
• PCI-E 3.0 x8
• Dual SFP+ connectors
• 10Gbps per port
I/O Features
• Intel® flow director
• MSI-X support
• Multiple queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per port
• Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
• TCP segmentation/large send offload
• Interrupt moderation
• Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
Virtualization Features
• Next-Generation VMDq with up to 256 VMDq VMs supported
• SR-IOV with up to 128 virtual ports
• Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
• Advanced packet filtering
• VXLAN and NVGRE support

Storage Interface Features
• Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
• iSCSI remote boot
Management Features
• Asset Management features with thermal sensors
• NC-SI for IPMI support
Advanced Software Features
• Teaming support
• IEEE 802.3-2008
• IEEE 802.3ba-2010
• IEEE 802.1Qbb-2011
• IEEE 802.1Qaz-2011
• IEEE 802.1Qbg-2012
• IEEE 802.1AX-2008
• IEEE 802.1AB-2009
• IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
• IEEE 802.1Q-2011
• IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support
• IEEE 802.1p
• IEEE 1588-2009

Power Consumption
• Typical: 5.63W
Operating Conditions
• Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
• Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
• Storage humidity: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35°C
Physical Dimensions
• Card PCB dimensions: 13.19cm x 6.89cm (5.19in x 2.71in)
• Height of end brackets: standard – 12cm (4.725in), low-profile – 7.94cm (3.13in))
Weight
• 184.5g (0.4068lb)
Supported Platforms
• Supermicro® motherboards with minimum PCI-E x8 expansion slot
• Supermicro® server systems with low-profile or full-height PCI-E x8 expansion
slot
• NC-SI feature is only supported by Supermicro motherboards with corresponding
NC-SI connectors