Conserve valuable PCI Express server slots while adding multi-port fiber-optic connectivity to enhance network performance with the Intel PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter. The PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter is designed to provide high performance in multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across multiple Central Processing Units (CPUs) when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux .
- Intel lead-free technology
- Plug and play specification support
- Integrated media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
- Interrupt moderation: Delivers increased performance while significantly reducing CPU utilization
- Compatible with x4, x8, and x16 full-height PCI Express slots
- Bus width: x4 lane PCI Express operable in x4, x8, x16 slots
- Bus speed (x4, encoded rate): 10 Gbps uni-directional; 10 Gbps bi-directional
- EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM support
Load balancing on multiple CPUs:
- Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux
Advanced Software Features:
- Adapter fault tolerance (AFT)
- Switch fault tolerance (SFT)
- Adaptive load balancing (ALB)
- Fast EtherChannel (FEC)
- Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC)
- Teaming support: Scales up to 4 connections
- Test switch configuration
- PCIe Hot Plug/Active peripheral component interconnect (PCI)