- SFP+ connectivity
- Low-profile
- Load balancing on multiple CPUs
- ISCSI remote boot support
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support
- Intel Direct Cache Access (DCA)
- MSI-X support
- Low latency interrupts
- Header splits and replication in receive
- IPsec offload
- Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VLMB)
- Watchdog timer
Intel's family of adapter, the Intel' Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 with SFP+ connectivity, is the flexible and scalable Ethernet adapter for today's demanding data center environments. Data center networks are being pushed to their limits. The escalating deployments of servers with multi-core processors and demanding applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC), database clusters, and video-on-demand are driving the need for 10 Gbps connections. Customers require flexible and scalable I/O solutions to meet the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized and unified storage environments.