Main Specifications
Device Type	Ethernet Controller
Dimensions (WxDxH)	Card PCB dimensions: 5.9in (14.99cm) x 2.73in (6.90cm) (L x H)
	Height of end brackets: standard - 4.725in (12cm), low-profile - 3.13in (7.94cm)
Form Factor	Low-Profile Standard Short-length Form Factor
Interface (Bus) Type	PCI Express 3.0 (8GT/s)
Networking
Controller Type	Intel® XL710-BM1
Data Transfer Rate	10GbE
Port Quantity	Quad RJ45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/s per port
Virtualization Features	Next-Generation VMDq with up to 256 VMDq VMs supported, SR-IOV with up to 128 virtuals ports, Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB), Advanced Packet Filtering, VLAN support for up to 4,096 VLAN tags, VXLAN and NVGRE support
Power
Comsumtion Operational	15.5W
Environmental Parameters
Operating Temperature	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
Software / System Requirements
OS Supports	Windows® Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 x86-64
	Linux RedHat EL 6.5 and 7.0 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
	Linux SuSE SLES 11 SP3 and 12 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
	FreeBSD 9 and 10 IA-32, X86-64, and IA-64
	UEFI 2.1 and 2.3 X86-64 and I-64
	VMware ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5 X86-64
Miscellaneous
Features	Intel® Flow Director
	Multiple queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per port
	Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
	MSI-X support to minimize interrupt overhead and to allow load-balancing be-tween multiple cores/CPUs
ROHS	RoHS compliant 6/6