2-port 10/25Gb SFP28 Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) with PCIe 3.0 X8 Interface(8.0GT/s link rate), backward compatible PCIe 2.0, 1.1 (Reference Part Number: MCX4121A-ACAT)
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE V2): Utilizing RoCE technology deliver high performance and bandwidth to latency-sensitive applications
Sockets Acceleration: Hardware stateless offload for TCP/UDP/IP reduces the CPU overhead of IP packet transport
HARDWARE-BASED I/O VIRTUALIZATION: Supports industry-standard SR-IO Virtualization technology and delivers VM protection to all levels of QoS for applications
Hardware offloads for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated traffic that encapsulate and de-capsulate the overlay protocol headers, enabling the traditional offloads (MPLS, QinQ, and so on) to be performed on the encapsulated traffic
Mellanox Multi-Host technology connects up to 4 independent hosts
OS Compatibility: Windows Server 2008/2012, Citrix XenServer 6.1, Novell SLES, RHEL and other Linux versions, VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x