VMDq and PC-SIG SR-IOV for Virtualized Environments
Support Jumbo Frame
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
Low Power Consumption (About 14W)
Support iSCSI Remote Boot
Support PXE Boot
General:
Broadcom BCM57840S controller
Compact size low-profile standard form factor
PCI-E 3.0 x8 (8GT/s) interface
Quad SFP+ connectors
Ethernet Features:
Energy Efficient Ethernet IEEE 802.3az supported
Traffic Steering for MAC address and VLAN Tag
Up to 32 queues/port supported for RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
Congestion Notification 802.1au
Large Send Offload (LSO) and Large Receive Offload (LRO)
Link Aggregation 802.3ad
Network Features:
Jumbo Frames up to 9000KB
Clause 73 Auto-negotiation
IEEE 801.2q VLAN
Support External PHY
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) reduces host CPU utilization while preserving the rich and flexible nature of soft OS stack implementation
Remote DMA (RDMA) moves data to/from local memory to remote memory
iSCSI Acceleration
IPv6 Acceleration
Support port aggregation, failover, load balancing
Remote Boot Options:
Support Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
iSCSI remote boot
Virtualization Features:
Up to 128 per port for VMDq
SR-IOV with up to 64 Virtual Functions (VFs) for Guest Operating Systems (GOS) per port
Supports NetQueue and VMQueue
Supports Data Center Bridging which provides lossless data delivery, lower latency, and standards-based bandwidth sharing of data center physical links
Supports up to 68 Rx/Tx Descriptor Queues for Virtualization per port
Supports up to 136 MAC Addresses per port
Supports IEEE 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
OS Support:
Windows 2008 Server R2 (with HyperV), Server 2012 (with HyperV)