Ultra Fast SpeedQuad-port(10G SFP+ ports) let you connect to 10Gb/s SFP+ transceiver module/DAC/AOC and upgrade your ethernet speed to 10Gb/s. ^^ Exceptional Low Power Adapters Equipped with the original Intel ethernet controller XL710-BM1 which delivers superior performance with a theoretical throughput of 80 Gb/s (40Gb/s Tx/Rx) and bidirectional throughput in a PCI Express v 3.0 x8 slot, and makes the servers more stable. NOT support hot swaping. ^^ Comprehensive System Support Fully compatible with Windows Server 2012/ 2008; Linux Stable Kernel version 2.6. 32/3x; Linux RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 7.0; Linux SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12; UEFI* 2.1 / 2.3, FreeBSD* 9/10, VMware ESXi 5.1 / 5.5, to meet your diverse operating system needs in datacenter or home use.
^^ 10 Gbps PCIe Network Card Support Network Virtualization offloads including Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE/Ethernet Flow Director/Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) optimized, providing excellent small packet performance and reliable, high-performance 10GbE connectivity. ^^ Advanced Software Feature Support adapter fault tolerance, switch fault tolerance, adaptive load balancing, teaming support, IEEE 802.3 ad link aggregation, PCIe hot plug, VLAN support, flow control, checksum offloading for IP, TCP, and UDP, large send offload for TCP segmentation, MSI-X with multiple independent queues, interrupt moderation, and IPv6 offloading capabilities for checksum and segmentation.