Low latency: Intel Ethernet Flow Director delivers hardware-based application steering and Intel Data Direct I/O makes the processor cache the primary destination and source of I/O data rather than main memory
Virtualization performance: with Intel Virtualization Technology (VT), the controller delivers outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments
The controller reduces I/O bottlenecks by providing intelligent offloads for networking traffic per virtual machine (VM), which enables near-line rate speeds for small packets and supports almost an unlimited amount of isolated traffic flows so that you can scale your cloud environment
Next-generation VMDq: the controller support up to 128 VMDq VMs and offer enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) feature by providing weighted round-robin servicing for the Tx data
The controller offloads the data-sorting functionality from the hypervisor to the network silicon, which improves data throughput and CPU usage
SR-IOV implementation: orovides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration 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, which results in near-native performance
iWarp RDMA support implements kernel bypass and direct data placement and allows for more efficient high-speed networking by eliminating queues and network related interrupts
VM load balancing: provides traffic load balancing (Tx and Rx) across VMs that are bound to the team interface
Auto-detect (PnP) feature for the LOM adapters, enabling you to change LOM adapters and the network interface will automatically reconfigure during the boot process