Product Description

General Features
Intel ****9 *0 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
SFP+ Connectivity
Low-profile
Load balancing on multiple CPUs
iSCSI remote boot support
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Support
Support for most network operating systems (NOS)
RoHS-compliant2
Intel PROSet Utility for Windows- Device Manager
Time Sync (IEEE ***8, **2.1as)

I/O Features for Multi-core Processor Servers
Intel Direct Cache Access (DCA)
MSI-X support
Low Latency Interrupts
Header Splits and Replication in Receive
Multiple Queues: **8 Tx and Rx queues per port
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environment and Scalable I/O for Linux- environments (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP)
IPsec Offload 
MacSec

Virtualization Features
VMDq
Next-Generation VMDq1 (*4 queues per port)
PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (*4 virtual functions per port)
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB)
Advanced Packet Filtering
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to ***6 VLAN tags

Manageability Features
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
iSCSI Boot
Watchdog Timer

Adapter Product Features
Intel PROSet Utility
Plug and play specification support
Receive Side Scaling
Direct Cache Access (DCA)

Advanced Software Feature
Adapter fault tolerance (AFT) 
Switch fault tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive load balancing (ALB)
Teaming support
IEEE **2.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
PCIe Hot Plug / Active periphera; component interconnect (PCI)
IEEE **2.1Q VLANs
IEEE **2.3 ***5 flow control support
Tx/Rx IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities (Transmission control protocol(TCP), user datagram protocol
(UDP), Internet protocol (IP)
IEEE **2.1p
TCP segmentation large send offload
MSI-X supports Multiple Independent Queues
Interrupt moderation
IPv6 offloading Checksum and segmentation capability extendedto new standard packet type

Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Windows 7 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows 8 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows 8.1 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Vista **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***3 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***8 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***8 R2 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***2 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***2 R2 **-bit(**-bit)
Linux kernel 2.6.*0 or greater (x*6_*4) (w/ SR-IOV support)
FreeBSD 7.2 or laster
Linux RHEL 5.6 
Linux RHEL 6.x
Linux SLES *1 SP1 
Linux SLES *0 SP4
OS Independent
DOS NDIS 2 
DOS ODI
EFI 1.1 
UEFI 2.1
Vmware ESX 4.*2 
Vmware ESX 4.*2