Main Specifications Device Type Intel X710 10GbE controller Form Factor Card PCB dimensions: 13.19cm x 5.51cm (5.19in x 2.71in) Height of end brackets: standard – 12cm (4.725in), low-profile – 7.94cm (3.13in) Interface (Bus) Type PCI Express 3.0 x8 (8GT/s) Weight 184.5g (0.4068lb) Networking Connectivity Technology Wired Features Intel Flow Director MSI-X support Multiple queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues per port Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities Management Features Controller asset tags such as part number, revision, serial number, and MAC addresses Controller thermal sensor NC-SI Port Quantity Dual SFP+ connectors - 10Gb/s per port Virtualization Features Next-Generation VMDq with up to 256 VMDq VMs supported SR-IOV with up to 128 virtual ports Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB) Advanced Packet Filtering VXLAN and NVGRE support Power Comsumtion Operational Typical: 5.63W Environmental Parameters Operating Temperature Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F) Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) Storage humidity: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35°C Software / System Requirements OS Supports Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012 R2 Core, 2012, 2012 Core, 2008 R2, 2008 R2 Core Linux Stable Kernel version 2.6.32/3x, RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 7.0, SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12 FreeBSD 9, 10 UEFI 2.1, 2.3 VMware ESXi 5.1 (Limited Functionality), ESXi 5.5 Miscellaneous Cables Required SFP+ direct attach twinax copper cables up to 7m Fiber-optic cables (with required optional transceivers) Designed For Supermicro motherboards with minimum PCI-E x8 expansion slot Supermicro server systems with low-profile or full-height PCI-E x8 expansion slot NC-SI feature is only supported by Supermicro motherboards with corresponding NC-SI connectors ROHS RoHS compliant 6/6