Virtualization features
Virtual Fabric support:
Virtual Fabric mode (vNIC1)
Switch Independent mode (vNIC2)
Unified Fabric Port (UFP) support
Four NIC partitions per adapter port
Complies with PCI-SIG specification for SR-IOV
VXLAN/NVGRE encapsulation and offload
PCI-SIG Address Translation Service (ATS) v1.0
Virtual Switch Port Mirroring for Diagnostic purposes
Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB)
62 Virtual functions (VF)
QoS for controlling and monitoring bandwidth that is assigned to and used by virtual entities
Traffic shaping and QoS across each virtual function (VF) and physical function (PF)
Message Signal Interrupts (MSI-X) support
VMware NetQue / VMQ support
Microsoft VMQ & Dynamic VMQ support in Hyper-V
Ethernet and NIC features
NDIS 5.2, 6.0, and 6.2 compliant Ethernet functionality
IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP, and Checksum Offload
IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
IPv4/IPv6 Large Send Offload (LSO)
Programmable MAC addresses
128 MAC/vLAN addresses per port
Support for HASH-based broadcast frame filters per port
vLAN insertion and extraction
9216 byte Jumbo frame support
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Filters: MAC and vLAN
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA):
Direct data placement in application buffers without processor intervention
Supports RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE) specifications
Supports RoCE v2 by replacing RoCE over IP with RoCE over UDP
20% more RoCE Queue Pairs compared to VFA5
16K RoCE Memory Regions (VFA5 offers 8K)
Linux Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Support
Low latency queues for small packet sends and receives
Local interprocess communication option by internal VEB switch
TCP/IP Stack By-Pass
Data Center Bridging / Converged Enhanced Ethernet (DCB/CEE):
Hardware Offloads of Ethernet TCP/IP
Emulex VFA5.2 Adapter Family for System x
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