Key Features
• Supports 4x10GbE, 1x40GbE or
2x40GbE configurations
• PCI Express* (PCIe) v3.0, x8
• Exceptional low power adapters
• Network Virtualization offloads
including VXLAN, GENEVE,
NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE
with Network Service
Headers (NSH)
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for
hardware based application
traffic steering
• Dynamic Device Personalization
(DDP) enables increased packet
processing efficiency for NFV and
Cloud deployments
• Data Plane Development Kit
(DPDK) optimized for efficient
packet processing
• Excellent small packet
performance for network
appliances and Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high
performance on servers with
Intel® Xeon® processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for
maximum performance in a
virtualized server
Product Brief
Industry-leading, energy-ecient design for
10/40GbE performance and multi-core processors.
Intel® Ethernet Converged
Network Adapter XL710
Overview
The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 oers both single
and dual port 40GbE, and is backwards compatible to 10GbE.
The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 is part of the
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters. These adapters are the
foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical
performance optimizations, and increased agility for Communications,
Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.
• Interoperability - Multiple speeds and media types for broad compatibility
backed by extensive testing and validation.
• Optimization - Intelligent ooads and accelerators to unlock network
performance in servers with Intel® Xeon® processors.
• Agility - Both Kernel and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) drivers for
scalable packet processing.
Built on more than 35 years of continuous Ethernet innovations, the
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series delivers networking performance across a wide
range of network port speeds through intelligent ooads, sophisticated
packet processing, and quality open source drivers.
All Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters
include these feature-rich technologies:
Flexible and Scalable I/O for Virtualized
Infrastructures
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), delivers
outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server
environments.
I/O bottlenecks are reduced through intelligent ooads
such as Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and
Flexible Port Partitioning, using SR-IOV with a common
Virtual Function driver for networking trac per Virtual
Machine (VM), enabling near-native performance and
VM scalability. Host-based features supported include:
VMDq for Emulated Path: VMDq, enables a hypervisor
to represent a single network port as multiple network
ports that can be assigned to the individual VMs.
Trac handling is ooaded to the network controller,
delivering the benets of port partitioning with little to
no administrative overhead by the IT sta.
SR-IOV for Direct Assignment: Adapter-based
isolation and switching for various virtual station
instances enables optimal CPU usage in virtualized
environments.
• Up to 128 VFs, each VF can support a unique and
separate data path for I/O related functions within the
PCI Express* hierarchy.
• Use of SR-IOV with a networking device, for example,
allows the bandwidth of a single port (function) to be
partitioned into smaller slices that can be allocated to
specific VMs or guests, via a standard interface.
Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function (Intel®
Ethernet AVF): A virtual function driver that eases
SR-IOV hardware upgrades or changes, and preserves
base mode functionality in hardware and software.
Customers deploying mass-scale VMs or containers
for their network infrastructure now have a common
Virtual Function (VF) driver. This driver supports a
Base Mode and advanced set of features on the Intel®
Ethernet 700 Series.
Enhanced Network Virtualization Overlays (NVO)
Network virtualization has changed the way networking
is done in the data center, delivering accelerations
across a wide range of tunneling methods.
VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE
with NSH Ooads: These stateless ooads preserve
application performance for overlay networks, and the
network trac can be distributed across CPU cores,
increasing network throughput.
Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP)
FPP leverages the PCI-SIG SR-IOV specication. Virtual
controllers can be used by the Linux* host directly and/
or assigned to virtual machines.
• Assign up to 63 Linux host processes or virtual
machines per port to virtual functions.
• Control the partitioning of per port bandwidth across
multiple dedicated network resources, ensuring
balanced QoS by giving each assigned virtual controller
equal access to the ports bandwidth.
Network administrators can also rate limit each of
these services to control how much of the pipe is
available to each process.
Greater Intelligence and Performance for NFV and
Cloud deployments
DDynamic Device Personalization (DDP) customizable
packet ltering, along with enhanced Data Plane
Development Kit (DPDK), support advanced packet
forwarding and highly-ecient packet processing
for both Cloud and Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) workloads.
• DDP enables workload-specic optimizations, using
the programmable packet-processing pipeline.
Additional protocols can be added to the default set
to improve packet processing eciency that results
in higher throughput and reduced latency. With the
700 Series, new protocols can be added or modied
on-demand, and applied at run-time using Software
Dened Firmware or APIs, eliminating the need to
reset or reboot the server. This not only keeps the
server and VMs up, running, and computing, it also
increases performance for VNFs that process network
trac that is not included in the default rmware.
Download DDP Proles
• DPDK provides a programming framework for Intel®
processors and enables faster development of high-
speed data packet networking applications.
Advanced Traffic Steering
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD) is
an advanced trac steering capability built into the
adapter. It consists of a large number of ow anity
lters that direct receive packets by their ows to
queues for classication, load balancing, and matching
between ows and CPU cores.
Steering trac into specic queues can eliminate
context switching required within the CPU. As a result,
Intel® Ethernet FD signicantly increases the number of
transactions per second and reduces latency for cloud
applications like memcached.
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FEATURES DESCRIPTION
GENERAL
QSFP+ Connectivity • Supports QSFP connections for 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4 and QSFP+ CR4 Direct Attach Copper physical media
Load balancing on multiple CPUs • Increases performance on multi-processor systems by eciently balancing network loads across CPU core when
used with Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) from Microsoft* or scalable I/O on Linux*.
Support for most network operating systems • Enables broad deployment for dierent applications.
RoHS-compliant • Complies with the European Union directive 2011/65/EU to reduce the use of hazardous materials.
Time Sync (IEEE 1588*, 802.1as) • Enables networked Ethernet equipment to synchronize internal clocks according to a network master clock;
endpoint can then acquire an accurate estimate of the master time by compensating for link latency.
I/O FEATURES FOR MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SERVERS
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director
(Intel® Ethernet FD)
• An advanced trac steering capability increases the number of transactions per second and reduces latency for
cloud applications like Memcached.
MSI-X support • Minimizes the overhead of interrupts.
• Load-balancing of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs.
Multiple Queues: 1,536 Tx and Rx queues
per device
• Network packet handling without waiting for buer overow providing ecient packet prioritization.
• Actual number of queues will vary depending upon software implementation.
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum ooading (IPv4,
IPv6) capabilities
• Lower processor usage.
• Checksum and segmentation capability extended to new standard packet type.
VIRTUALIZATION FEATURES
Next-Generation VMDq • Up to 256 maximum VMDq VMs supported.
• Ooads the data-sorting based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags, functionality from the Hypervisor to the network
silicon, improving data throughput and CPU usage.
PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation
(128 per device)
• Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical conguration of each port is
divided into multiple virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual VM directly by bypassing the virtual
switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near-native performance.
• Integrated with Intel® VT for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) to provide data protection between VMs by assigning separate
physical addresses in the memory to each VM.
• 64/port for dual port.
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB) • VMLB provides trac load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs bound to the team interface, as well as fault tolerance
in the event of switch, port, cable, or adapter failure.
Advanced Packet Filtering • 1536 exact matched packets (unicast or multicast).
• 512 hash entries each for unicast and multicast.
• Lower processor usage.
• Promiscuous (unicast and multicast) transfer mode support.
• Optional ltering of invalid frames.
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and
packet ltering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
• Ability to create multiple VLAN segments.
VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, VXLAN-GPE+NSH, MPLS • Preserves application performance in network virtualized environments.
MANAGEABILITY FEATURES
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support • Enables system boot up via the LAN (32-bit and 64-bit).
• Flash interface for PXE image.
Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) • Enables new technologies during the pre-OS boot process and addresses legacy BIOS limitations on hardware.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and
Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
• Easy system monitoring with industry-standard consoles.
iSCSI Boot • Enables system boot up via iSCSI.
• Provides additional network management capability.
Watchdog Timer • Gives an indication to the manageability rmware or external devices that the controller or the software device
driver is not functioning.
SPECIFICATIONS
GENERAL
Connections Single and dual QSFP+ cages supporting Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Twinaxial cable and optical transceivers
Network Standard Physical Layer Interfaces IEEE802.3: 40GBASE-SR4 and -LR4
SFF-8431: 40GSFP+ CR4 (DAC), 40GSFP+ CR4 to 4x SFP+ (Breakout Cable)
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TECHNICAL FEATURES
Operating Temperature 0 °C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F)
Air Flow 150 LFM minimun required
For LR4 the following is required:
• 55 °C @ 400 LFM
• 50 °C @ 250 LFM
• 45 °C @ 150 LFM
Storage Temperature -40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F )
Storage Humidity Maximum: 90% non-condensing
relative humidity at 35 °C
LED Indicators LINK (solid) and ACTIVITY (blinking)
LINK SPEED (green = 40Gbps; yellow = 10Gbps)
ADAPTER FEATURES
Data Rate Supported
Per Port
• DAC: 40GbE
• 4x SFP+ Breakout Cable: 10GbE
Bus Type PCI Express v3.0 (8 GT/s)
Bus Width PCI Express x8
Interrupt Levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware Certications FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Controller Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710-BM2
POWER CONSUMPTION
SKU Typical Power Maximum Power
Single-port 40GBASE-CR4 3.4 W 3.8 W
Single-port 40GBASE-SR4 4.2 W 4.6 W
Single-port 40GBASE-LR4 6.6 W 7.5 W
Dual-port 40GBASE-CR4 3.6 W 4.0 W
Dual-port 40GBASE-SR4 4.9 W 5.6 W
Dual-port 40GBASE-LR4 8.5 W 9.5 W
PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS
Dimension 167mm x 69mm
PRODUCT ORDER CODE
Conguration Product Code
Single Port XL710QDA1, XL710QDA1BLK
Dual Port XL710QDA2, XL710QDA2BLK
Product Information
For information about Intel® Ethernet Products, visit:
intel.com/ethernetproducts
Warranty
Intel limited lifetime hardware warranty, 90-day money-back
guarantee (U.S. and Canada) and worldwide support.
Customer Support
For customer support options in North America visit:
intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/contact-support.html
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
For a complete list of supported network operating systems for
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Adapters visit:
intel.com/support/EthernetOS
INTEL® ETHERNET ACCESSORIES
Intel® Ethernet Optics and Cables are proven, reliable solutions for
high-density Ethernet connections. Combine these accessories with
Intel® Ethernet 700 Series and 500 Series Network Adapters for
dependable interoperability and consistent performance across the
network. Learn more at intel.com/ethernetproducts