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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Overview
Congratulations on purchasing your add-on card from an acknowledged leader in the industry.
Supermicro products are designed with the utmost attention to detail to provide you with the
highest standards of quality and performance. For product support and updates, please refer
to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/networking.cfm#adapter.
1.2 Key Features
The key features of this add-on card include the following.
• Standard PCI-E Gen 4.0 x16 host interface
• Low prole, standard short-length form factor
• TruFlow™ (Flow-processing engine integrated to reduce CPU overhead)
• SR-IOV with up to 128 VFs
• Low latency
• NC-SI for IPMI Support
• Stateless ooads
• RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)
• Network overlay: VXLAN and NVGR
• NPAR (NIC partitioning)
• QSFP56 connector (Port1: 200Gbps ; Port 2: Disabled)
• PXE support
• Asset management (for Supermicro systems only)
• RoHS support
Chapter 1
Introduction