With the AOC-SGP-i4, Supermicro has extended the boundaries of Ethernet technology to create the most compact and feature-packed 4-port Ethernet controller in the market, and allow it to fit in the smallest space in the ever-densifying server system. With ultra-small footprint and rich of power management technology feature set, the AOC-SGP-i4 represents the next step in the Gigabit Ethernet networking evolution for enterprise and data center environments.
Specifications
- Mfr Part Number: AOC-SGP-I4
- Features:
- Low-Profile Standard Form Factor in 3.9-inch in Length
- Support of VMDq Next-Generation VMDq and PC-SIG SR-IOV for Virtualized Environments
- Jumbo Frame Support of up to 9.5KB
- IEEE 802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
- iSCSI Remote Boot support
- Flexible I/O Virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)
- PXE Boot Support
- General:
- Intel i350 GbE controller
- Compact size low-profile standard form factor
- PCI-Express 2.1 x4 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface
- Four RJ-45 connectors
- Intel PROSet Utility for Windows Device Manager
- Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
- Power consumption - about 5W
- Ethernet Features:
- IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed duplex and flow control
- IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support
- Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
- 1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE 802.3 802.3u 802.3ab PHY specifications compliant
- IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS implementation
- Power Management and Efficiency:
- IEEE 802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) which reduces power consumption of the PHY by about 50%
- DMA Coalescing reduces platform power consumption
- Active State Power Management (ASPM) support
- LAN disable function
- MAC Power Management controls
- Low Power Link Up Link Speed Control
- Virtualization Features:
- VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
- Eight TX and RX queue pairs per port to support VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
- Flexible Port Partitioning: 32 Virtual Functions
- PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation
- IEEE 802.1q VLAN support
- IEEE 802.1q advanced packet filtering
- Performance Features:
- TCP/UDP IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU usage Low Latency Interrupts
- Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4 IPv6) increases throughput and lowers processor usage
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment Scalable I/O for Linux environments
- Jumbo Frames support up to 9.5K Bytes
- Intelligent interrupt generation
- Remote Boot Options:
- Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
- iSCSI remote boot for Windows Linux and VMware
- OS Support:
- Windows XP SP3 Vista SP2 7 SP1 2003 SP2 2008 SP2 2008 R2S
- RedHat EL 5.5 6.0; SuSe SLES 10 SP3 11 SP1
- FreeBSD 8.0
- VMware ESX 4.0 4.1 5.0
- Xen
- Cables Support: RJ-45 Category-5/5e up to 100m
- Supported Platforms:
- Motherboards with minimum PCI-E x4 slot
- Server Systems with low-profile or full-height PCI-E x4 expansion slot
- Height of End Brackets:
- Standard: 4.725 inch / 12.0 cm
- Low-profile: 3.13 inch / 7.94 cm
- Dimensions (LxH): 3.9 x 2.5 inch / 9.91 x 6.35 cm
- RoHS Compliant