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 9000B
Clause 73 Auto-negotiation
IEEE 801.2q VLAN
External PHY support
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) reduces host CPU utilization while preserving the rich and flexible nature of soft OS stack implementation
iSCSI Acceleration
IPv6 Acceleration
Support port aggregation, failover, load balancing
Remote Boot Options
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
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)
RedHat EL 5, 6, and 7
SuSE SLES 10, 11, and 12
VMware ESX 5.0 (vSphere 5.0), 5.1 (vSphere 5.1), and 6.0 (vSphere 6.0)
Solaris 11
Cables Support
SFP+ direct attached twin axial cables, up to 5 meters
LC-LC fiber-optic cables (with required optional transceivers)
Item Dimension (L"xW"xH")
6 x 3 x 1
Weight
1 lb
Warranty Information
1 Year