Description

• Low-profile

  Enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe slots and servers.

• Load balancing on multiple CPUs

  Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balance CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft or scalable I/O on Linux.

• ISCSI remote boot support

  Provides centralized storage area network (SAN) management at a lower cost than other iSCSI solutions.

• Intel Direct Cache Access (DCA)

  Enables the adapter to pre-fetch the data from memory, avoiding cache misses and improving application response time.

• MSI-X support

  Minimizes the overhead of interrupts. Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs.

• Low latency interrupts

  Based on the sensitivity of the incoming data, the adapter can bypass the automatic moderation of time intervals between the interrupts.

• Header splits and replication in receive

  Helps the driver focus on the relevant part of the packet without the need to parse it.

• IPsec offload

  Offloads IPsec capability onto the adapter instead of the software to significantly improve I/O throughput and CPU usage.

• Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB)

  Virtual Machines Load Balancing (VMLB) provides traffic load balancing across virtual switch, port, cable, or adapter failure.

• Watchdog timer

  Gives an indication to the manageability firmware or external devices that the chip or the driver is not functioning.

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