Supermicro The Compact and Feature-Rich 4-Port Ethernet Controller

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