Oracle Sun Quad-Port 10GBase-T Ethernet Adapter (Intel X710-T4)

The Oracle Quad-Port 10GBase-T Adapter (based on the Intel® X710 Controller) is a high-performance, low-power PCIe 3.0 x8 network interface card (NIC). It is designed to provide dense, multi-port 10 GbE connectivity over standard, low-cost twisted-pair copper cabling (RJ45), making it ideal for high-density virtualized server environments, private enterprise clouds, and I/O convergence.

1. Product Identification

• Oracle Part Number (PN): 7096675

• Associated Marketing/Manufacturing Part Number: 7111181

• Board Model / Assembly: H64848 / H53434

• Form Factor: Low Profile (LP) – High profile bracket often included or interchangeable

• Controller/Chipset: Intel® Ethernet Controller X710

2. Technical Specifications

Feature	Specification
Interface / Bus Type	PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x8 (compatible with x8 and x16 slots)
Bus Transfer Rate	8 GT/s (Gigatransfers per second)
Ports	4 x RJ45 Copper Ports
Data Rate Supported	10 GbE, 1 GbE, and 100 Mb/s (Auto-Negotiation)
Cabling Requirements	10GBase-T: up to 100m on Cat6A/Cat7; up to 55m on Cat6 1000Base-T / 100Base-T: up to 100m on Cat5e/Cat6/Cat6A/Cat7
Cooling	Passive (built-in fanless aluminum heatsink)

3. Key Performance & Virtualization Features

Virtualization & Traffic Management

• Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT): Delivers outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments.

• SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization): Supports up to 128 Virtual Functions (VFs) for direct assignment, reducing CPU overhead and latency.

• VMDq (Virtual Machine Device Queues): Offloads data sorting from the hypervisor to the network silicon, supporting up to 256 VMDq VMs.

• Network Virtualization Overlays: Hardware offloading for VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, and MPLS to maintain bare-metal performance in virtualized networks.

Traffic Steering & Offloads

• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director: Hardware-based application traffic steering to improve application response times and CPU core utilization.

• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK): Optimized for highly efficient, fast packet processing.

• Stateful Offloads: TCP/UDP/IP checksum offloads, Tx/Rx IP/TCP Segment Offloading (TSO/LSO), and Large Receive Offloading (LRO).

4. Power & Environmental Specs

• Power Consumption (Typical):

  • 10GbE Mode: ~24.7 W (typical), up to 28.9 W (maximum under full load)

  • 1GbE Mode: ~12.0 W (typical)

  • 100Mbps Mode: ~9.2 W (typical)

• Operating Temperature: $0^\circ\text{C}$ to $55^\circ\text{C}$ ($32^\circ\text{F}$ to $131^\circ\text{F}$)

• Compliance: FCC Class B, CE, UL, VCCI, RoHS-compliant

5. OS & Platform Support

Designed and validated primarily for Oracle SPARC and x86 servers, but widely compatible with industry-standard hardware running:

• Oracle Solaris

• Oracle Linux (UEK and Red Hat compatible)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

• Microsoft Windows Server (Hyper-V)

• VMware ESXi