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The 10GbE NIC That’s Been in Production Since 2015 — And Is Still the Right Choice for Half Your Fleet
The Intel X710-DA2 shipped in 2015. It has been in production for over a decade. In that time, Intel has shipped millions of these adapters, accumulated billions of hours of production telemetry, and iterated the driver through every major OS release. The X710-DA2 is not the fastest 10GbE adapter and it is not the newest. It is the most battle-tested 10GbE adapter in existence — and for infrastructure servers, backup targets, and management networks where reliability matters more than a few microseconds of latency, that decade of production history is the specification that matters.
Especificaciones técnicas
| Parámetro | Especificación |
|---|---|
| conjunto de chips | Intel Ethernet Controller X710 (Fortville, 2015) |
| Puertos | 2x SFP+ (10Llevar / 1Llevar), also supports SFP at 1GbE |
| Interfaz de host | PCIe 3.0 x8 (64 Gbps — sufficient for 2x 10GbE bidirectional) |
| RDMA | iWARP (Intel’s implementation, enabled in driver) |
| SR-IOV | Hasta 128 virtual functions per port |
| NPAR | NIC Partitioning — up to 16 partitions per port |
| VXLAN/NVGRE/GENEVE | Stateless offload (partial offload on X710, full on newer controllers) |
| Fuerza | ~7W typical (both ports active, 10Llevar, Cables DAC) |
| Factor de forma | Low-profile PCIe, soporte de altura completa incluido |
| Físico | 167 X 69 milímetro (standard LP PCIe card) |
| Cable | SFP+ DAC passive copper 1-7m, SFP+ SR optics up to 300m, SFP+ LR optics up to 10km |
| Soporte del sistema operativo | VMWare ESXi 5.5 through 8.0+ (in-box driver, 10+ years of compatibility), Servidor de Windows 2012-2025, RHEL 6.x-9.x, SLES 11-15, ubuntu 14.04-24.04 |
| Driver | In-box for every supported OS. Intel ixgbe driver maintained since 2015. No driver disk needed. |
| Compatible Servers | Any server with PCIe 3.0 x8+ slot. dell (14th-16th Gen), xFusion, lenovo, HPE. |
| Garantía | 3-año (con servidor) |
X710 vs E810 vs 57412 — The 10GbE Adapter Comparison
| Característica | Intel X710-DA2 | Intel E810-XXVDA2 | Broadcom 57412 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puertos | 2x 10GbE SFP+ | 2x 25GbE SFP28 | 2x 10GbE SFP+ |
| Launch Year | 2015 | 2021 | 2018 |
| RDMA | iWARP (mature) | iWARP + RoCE v2 | RoCE v2 |
| ADQ (application queues) | Not supported | Sí (Intel exclusive) | Not supported |
| Driver Maturity | 10+ years, billions of production hours | 5 years, solid but newer | 7 years, solid |
| Price | ~35 percent | 100 percent | ~45 percent |
| Best for | Infrastructure, respaldo, gestión, legacy environments | New deployments needing 25GbE + ADQ | Broadcom shops, vSAN environments |
Where the X710-DA2 Is Still the Right Choice
- Backup target servers: A Veeam repository writing at 2 GB/s saturates one 10GbE port. The X710’s mature driver is the safest choice for the backup server that must be up during every overnight window.
- Management networks: Out-of-band management traffic (iDRAC/iBMC, IPMI, SNMP) never exceeds 1 Gbps. The X710 at 1GbE SFP mode with copper transceivers is overkill but rock-solid.
- Legacy environments: ESXi 6.7, Servidor de Windows 2016, RHEL 7 — the X710 driver supports them all. The E810 driver does not support ESXi 6.7 or RHEL 7.
- Budget-constrained infrastructure: At 35 percent of the E810’s price, the X710 delivers 80 percent of the practical value for infrastructure workloads.
Plataformas compatibles
PCIe 3.0 x8 slot. Compatible with all Dell PowerEdge, Servidor xFusion Fusion, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. SFP+ ports accept SFP+ DAC, SFP+ SR/LR optics, or SFP copper transceivers at 1GbE.
Fuente a través de Xincuan
We supply X710-DA2 adapters pre-installed in Dell and xFusion servers. Precios directos de fábrica, 3-año de garantía, y envío global.
