Virtualization Features
Benefits
Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq)
• Offloads the data-sorting functionality from the Hypervisor to the network silicon, improving data
throughput and CPU usage
• Provides QoS feature on the Tx data by providing round-robin servicing and preventing head-of-line
blocking
• Sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags
Next-Generation VMDq1 (64 queues per port)
• Enhanced QoS feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data
• Provides loopback functionality, where data transfer between the virtual machines within the same
physical server need not go out to the wire and come back in, improving throughput and CPU usage
• Supports replication of multicast and broadcast data
PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (64 virtual functions per port)
• 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 virtual machine
directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance
• Integrated with Intel® VTI for Directed I/O (VT-d) to provide data protection between virtual ma-
chines by assigning separate physical addresses in the memory to each virtual machine
IPv6 Offloading
• Checksum and segmentation capability extended to the new standard packet type
Advanced Packet Filtering
• 24 exact-matched packets (unicast or multicast)
• 4096-bit hash filter for unicast and multicast frames
• 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
• Ability to create multiple VLAN segments
Manageability Features
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support
• Enables system boot up via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Flash interface for PXE image
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote
Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
• Minimizes the overhead of interrupts
• Allows load balancing of interrupt handling between different cores/CPUs
iSCSI Boot
• Enables system boot up via iSCSI
• Provides additional network management capability
Watchdog Timer
• Gives an indication to the manageability firmware or external devices that the chip or the driver is
not functioning
Specifications
General
Product code
E10G42BT
Connector
RJ-45 Copper
Cabling
Category-6A
Adapter Product Features
Intel® PROSet Utility for easy configuration
and management
Intel® lead-free
3
technology
Plug and play specification support
Standard
Intel® I/OAT including QuickData
Includes a full-height bracket
RoHS
2
Cabling Distance
10GBASE-T
100 m on Cat-6A, 55 m on Cat-6
1000BASE-T
100 m on Cat-5e, Cat-6 or Cat-6A
Receive-side scaling
VMDq
4
In a virtualized environment, packets
dedicated to different virtual machines
can be routed to different queues, thus
easing the routing of these packets to
the target machine
Advanced packet filtering (per port)
• 16 exact-matched packets
(unicast or multicast)
• 4096-bit hash filter for
multicast frames
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast)
• Optional filtering of invalid frames
Direct Cache Access (DCA)
The I/O device activates a pre-fetch
engine in the CPU that loads the data
into the CPU cache ahead of time,
before use, eliminating cache misses
and reducing CPU load
Network Management
Wired for Management (WfM) baseline v2.0
enabled for servers
DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only
Memory (ROM)
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Microsoft Windows Server 2003*
Microsoft Vista*
Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005*
Red Hat Enterprise 4* or later
SUSE SLES 10* or later,
Professional 9.2 or later
FreeBSD 5.x* or later
VMware ESX 3.x* support
Fedora*
EFI 1.1
Intel Backing
Limited lifetime warranty
90-day, money-back guarantee
(U.S. and Canada)
Interrupt levels
INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware certifications
FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Controller-processor
Intel® 82599EB
Maximum power consumption
25.0 W Maximum
