Product Brief
Intel® Ethernet Converged
Network Adapter
X710-T4
Quad-port 10GBASE-T simplifies transition
to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Standard CAT 6a cabling with four
RJ45 connectors for maximum
system density
• Backwards compatible with
existing 100BASE-T and
1000BASE-T networks
• PCI Express* (PCIe) v3.0, x8
• Network Virtualization offloads
including VXLAN, GENEVE,
NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE
with Network Service
Headers (NSH)
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for
hardware based application
traffic steering
• Data Plane Development Kit
(DPDK) optimized for efficient
packet processing
• Excellent small packet
performance for network
appliances and Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high
performance on servers with
Intel® Xeon® Processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for
maximum performance in a
virtualized server
Key Features
Overview
Migration to 10GbE is dramatically simplified with backward compatibility
for existing nework infrastructure. Auto-negotiation between 100 Mb/s,
1GbE, and 10GbE provides the necessary backwards compatibility that
most customers require for a smooth transition and easy migration to
10GbE. 10GBASE-T switches can now be affordably added at any time to
experience the full benefits of 10GbE.
10GBASE-T is the easiest and most versatile 10GbE interface that can be
deployed anywhere in the data center. Its flexible reach from 1 meter to
100 meters support the latest network architectures including Top of Rack
(ToR), middle of Row (MoR), and End of Row (EoR).
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters are the foundation for server
connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance
optimizations, and increased agility for Telecommunications, Cloud, and
Enterprise IT network solutions.
• Interoperability
- Multiple speeds and media types for broad compatibility
backed by extensive testing and validation.
• Optimization
- Intelligent offloads and accelerators to unlock network
performance in servers with Intel® Xeon® processors.
• Agility
- Both Kernel and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) drivers for
scalable packet processing.
Built on more than 35 years of continuous Ethernet innovations, the
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series delivers networking performance across a wide
range of network port speeds through intelligent offloads, sophisticated
packet processing, and quality open source drivers.
All Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters
include these feature-rich technologies:
Flexible and Scalable I/O for Virtualized
Infrastructures
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), delivers
outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server
environments.
I/O bottlenecks are reduced through intelligent offloads
such as Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and
Flexible Port Partitioning, using SR-IOV with a common
Virtual Function driver for networking traffic per Virtual
Machine (VM), enabling near-native performance and
VM scalability. Host-based features supported include:
VMDq for Emulated Path:
VMDq, enables a hypervisor
to represent a single network port as multiple network
ports that can be assigned to the individual VMs.
Traffic handling is offloaded to the network controller,
delivering the benefits of port partitioning with little to
no administrative overhead by the IT staff.
SR-IOV for Direct Assignment:
Adapter-based
isolation and switching for various virtual station
instances enables optimal CPU usage in virtualized
environments.
• Up to 128 VFs, each VF can support a unique and
separate data path for I/O related functions within the
PCI Express* hierarchy.
• Use of SR-IOV with a networking device, for example,
allows the bandwidth of a single port (function) to be
partitioned into smaller slices that can be allocated to
specific VMs or guests, via a standard interface.
Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function (Intel®
Ethernet AVF):
A virtual function driver that eases
SR-IOV hardware upgrades or changes, and preserves
base mode functionality in hardware and software.
Customers deploying mass-scale VMs or containers
for their network infrastructure now have a common
Virtual Function (VF) driver. This driver supports a
Base Mode and advanced set of features on the Intel®
Ethernet 700 Series.
Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP)
FPP leverages the PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification. Virtual
controllers can be used by the Linux* host directly and/
or assigned to virtual machines.
• Assign up to 63 Linux host processes or virtual
machines per port to virtual functions.
• Control the partitioning of per port bandwidth across
multiple dedicated network resources, ensuring
balanced QoS by giving each assigned virtual controller
equal access to the ports bandwidth.
Network administrators can also rate limit each of
these services to control how much of the pipe is
available to each process.
Greater Intelligence and Performance for NFV
Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) customizable
packet filtering, along with enhanced Data Plane
Development Kit (DPDK), support advanced packet
forwarding and high efficient packet processing for
both Cloud and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
workloads.
• DDP enables a method to change the packet
processing pipeline by applying a profile package to
the Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapter at
runtime—resulting in improvements in throughput,
latency and reduced CPU loads.
• DPDK provides a programming framework for Intel®
processors and enables faster development of high-
speed data packet networking applications.
Advanced Traffic Steering
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD) is
an advanced traffic steering capability built into the
adapter. 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.
Steering traffic into specific queues can eliminate
context switching required within the CPU. As a result,
Intel® Ethernet FD significantly increases the number of
transactions per second and reduces latency for cloud
applications like memcached.
Enhanced Network Virtualization Overlays (NVO)
Network virtualization has changed the way networking
is done in the data center, delivering accelerations
across a wide range of tunneling methods.
VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE
with NSH Offloads: These stateless offloads preserve
application performance for overlay networks, and the
network traffic can be distributed across CPU cores,
increasing network throughput.
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FEATURES
GENERAL
RJ45 connections over CAT 6a cabling
Load balancing on multiple CPUs
Support for most network operating systems
RoHS-compliant
Time Sync (IEEE 1588*, 802.1as)
DESCRIPTION
• Ensures compatibility with cable lengths up to 100 meters.
• 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*.
•
Enables broad deployment for different applications.
• Complies with the European Union directive 2011/65/EU to reduce the use of hazardous materials.
• 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
(Intel® Ethernet FD)
MSI-X support
Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues
per device
•
An advanced traffic steering capability increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency for
cloud applications like Memcached.
• Minimizes the overhead of interrupts.
• Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs.
•
Network packet handling without waiting for buffer overflow providing efficient packet prioritization.
• Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation.
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4,
• Lower processor usage.
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
(128 per device)
•
Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port 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.
•
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.
• 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
packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VXLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS
• Ability to create multiple VLAN segments.
• Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments.
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB)
Advanced Packet Filtering
MANAGEABILITY FEATURES
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support
• Enables system boot up via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit).
• Flash interface for PXE image.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and
Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
iSCSI Boot
Watchdog Timer
• Enables new technologies during the pre-OS boot process and addresses legacy BIOS limitations on hardware.
• Easy system monitoring with industry-standard consoles.
• Enables system boot up via iSCSI.
• Provides additional network management capability.
•
Gives an indication to the manageability firmware or external devices that the controller or the software device
driver is not functioning.
SPECIFICATIONS
GENERAL
Connections
Cable Distances
RJ45 Copper
10GBASE-T: 55 m using CAT 6 , 100 m using CAT 6a
100BASE-T and 1000BASE-T: 100 m using CAT 5e, CAT 6, or CAT 6a
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TECHNICAL FEATURES
Operating Temperature
Air Flow
0 °C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F)
10-30 m: 35 °C to 55 °C, 200-425+ recommended LFM
100 m: 35 °C to 40 °C, 350-400 recommended LFM
Storage Temperature
Storage Humidity
LED Indicators
-40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F )
Maximum: 90% non-condensing
relative humidity at 35 °C
LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)
LINK SPEED (green = 10Gbps; yellow = 1Gbps; Off=100
Mbps)
PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS
Dimension
167mm x 69mm
PRODUCT ORDER CODE
Configuration
Quad port
Product Code
X710T4, X710T4BLK
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
For a complete list of supported network operating systems for
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Adapters visit:
intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/contact-support.html
ADAPTER FEATURES
Data Rate Supported Per Port 100 Mbps/1GbE/10GbE
Bus Type
Bus Width
Interrupt Levels
Hardware Certifications
Controller
Bracket
PCI Express v3.0 (8 GT/s)
PCI Express x8
INTA, MSI, MSI-X
FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710
Full-height bracket installed. Low-profile bracket
included in package
INTEL® ETHERNET ACCESSORIES
Intel® Ethernet Optics and Cables are proven, reliable solutions for
high-density Ethernet connections. Combine these accessories with
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series and 500 Series Network Adapters for
dependable interoperability and consistent performance across the
network. Learn more at
intel.com/ethernet
POWER CONSUMPTION
Link Speed / Traffic
100 Mbps
1GbE
10GbE
Typical Power
9.2
W
12.0 W
24.7 W
Maximum Power
14.9 W
18.1 W
28.9
W
Note:
At voltage and temperature corners, the adapter might exceed 25 W total power
and/or 2.1 A on the 12 V main rail.
Intel limited lifetime hardware warranty, 90-day money-back
guarantee (U.S. and Canada) and worldwide support.
Warranty
Product Information
For information about Intel® Ethernet Products, visit:
intel.com/ethernet
Customer Support
For customer support options in North America visit:
intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/contact-support.html
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