Product Description
Oracle Quad 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter or Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter
Oracle’s latest Ethernet Adapter the Oracle Quad 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter or Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter is the latest high-bandwidth, low-power network interface card (NIC) based on the Intel Ethernet Controller XL710 controller. This dual-port QSFP+ 3.0 x8 low-profile adapter is designed to provide multi-port network connectivity in data centers. Today’s cloud-enabled software-defined data centers require higher networking speeds and higher performance for mission-
critical applications, and Oracle Quad 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter or Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter addresses these needs with two QSFP+ interfaces providing up to 80 Gb/sec bandwidth
Overview
Today’s cloud-enabled data centers with multi-core compute nodes, high performance storage appliances, software defined networking, and virtualization technologies are driving the need for high bandwidth, scalable network interface adapters. Oracle Quad 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter or Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter with two 40 Gb/sec ports, virtualization, cloud features, and LAN/SAN convergence is ideal for server and storage connectivity in data centers and enterprises. The next-generation Ethernet adapter ports are set to a factory default of four 10
Gb/sec with only the top 40 Gb port enabled. The adapter comes with an ability to dynamically change the ports to two 40 Gb/sec using a software utility. The dynamic configuration of the port modes is a game changer for infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) cloud providers that want to take advantage of their existing 10 GbE infrastructure.
Advanced Features
- Advanced single root I/O virtualization(SRIOV) capabilities with up to 16 physical functions (PFs) and up to 128 virtual functions (VFs)
- Support for network overlay using Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation(NVGRE) or Virtual Extensible LAN(VXLAN)
- Sophisticated packet header parsing with up to 64 different packet types
- Simplified network convergence by consolidating LAN and SAN (iSCSI)
Interfaces
- Two QSFP+ connector ports housed on top and bottom cage: top QSFP+ port can be configured as a single 40 GbE port using straight QSFP+ cables or as 4x10 GbE ports using a splitter cable
- PCIe 3.0 with X8, x4, and x1 lanes