Specification

• General

   - Intel® 82599ES 10GbE controller
   - Compact size microLP form factor
   - Dual SFP+ and dual USB 2.0 ports
   - PCI-E x8 2.0 (5GT/s)
   - Load balancing on multiple CPUs
   - iSCSI remote boot support
   - Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Support
   - Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager

• I/O Features

   - Intel® QuickData Technology: DMA engine that enhances data acceleration and lowers CPU usage
   - Direct Cache Access (DCA) to avoid cache misses
   - MSI-X support to minimize the overhead of interrupts allowing load-balancing between multiple cores/CPUs
   - Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP and UDP checksum offloading capabilities(IPv4, IPv6)
   - Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environments and Scalable I/O for Linux environments

• Virtualization Features

   - Supports virtualization features such as VMDq, Next-gen. VMDq (64 queues per port) and PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation
   - IPv6 Offloading
   - Advanced Packet Filtering
   - VLAN support to allow creation of multiple VLAN segments
   - VXLAN through Software



• Manageability Features

   - Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
   - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote
   - Network Monitoring (RMON) statistics counters
   - iSCSI remote boot

• OS Support

   - Windows® 7, 8, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Vista
   - RedHat EL, SuSe SLES
   - FreeBSD