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, 백업 대상, and management networks where reliability matters more than a few microseconds of latency, that decade of production history is the specification that matters.
기술 사양
| 매개변수 | 사양 |
|---|---|
| 칩셋 | Intel Ethernet Controller X710 (Fortville, 2015) |
| 포트 | 2x SFP+ (10나르다 / 1나르다), 1GbE에서 SFP도 지원 |
| 호스트 인터페이스 | PCIe 3.0 x8 (64 Gbps — 2x 10GbE 양방향에 충분) |
| RDMA | Iwarp (Intel’s implementation, enabled in driver) |
| SR-IOV | 까지 128 포트당 가상 기능 |
| NPAR | NIC 파티셔닝 - 최대 16 partitions per port |
| VXLAN/NVGRE/GENEVE | Stateless offload (partial offload on X710, full on newer controllers) |
| 힘 | ~7W typical (두 포트 모두 활성화됨, 10나르다, DAC 케이블) |
| 폼 팩터 | 로우 프로파일 PCIe, 전체 높이 브래킷 포함 |
| 물리적 | 167 엑스 69 mm (표준 LP PCIe 카드) |
| 케이블 | SFP+ DAC 패시브 구리 1-7m, 최대 300m의 SFP+ SR 광학 장치, SFP+ LR 광학 최대 10km |
| OS 지원 | VM웨어 ESXi 5.5 ~을 통해 8.0+ (in-box driver, 10+ years of compatibility), Windows 서버 2012-2025, RHEL 6.x-9.x, SLES 11-15, 우분투 14.04-24.04 |
| 운전사 | In-box for every supported OS. Intel ixgbe driver maintained since 2015. No driver disk needed. |
| 호환 서버 | PCIe가 있는 모든 서버 3.0 x8+ 슬롯. 작은 골짜기 (141~16세대), xFusion, 레노버, HPE. |
| 보증 | 3-년도 (서버와 함께) |
X710 vs E810 vs 57412 — The 10GbE Adapter Comparison
| 특징 | 인텔 X710-DA2 | 인텔 E810-XXVDA2 | 브로드컴 57412 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 포트 | 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) | 지원되지 않습니다 | 예 (Intel exclusive) | 지원되지 않습니다 |
| Driver Maturity | 10+ 연령, billions of production hours | 5 연령, solid but newer | 7 연령, solid |
| 가격 | ~35 percent | 100 퍼센트 | ~45 percent |
| 다음에 가장 적합 | Infrastructure, 지원, 관리, 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, Windows 서버 2016, RHEL 7 — the X710 driver supports them all. The E810 driver does not support ESXi 6.7 or RHEL 7.
- Budget-constrained infrastructure: ~에 35 percent of the E810’s price, the X710 delivers 80 percent of the practical value for infrastructure workloads.
호환 플랫폼
PCIe 3.0 x8 슬롯. 모든 Dell PowerEdge와 호환 가능, xFusion FusionServer, Lenovo ThinkSystem 서버. SFP+ ports accept SFP+ DAC, SFP+ SR/LR optics, or SFP copper transceivers at 1GbE.
Xicuan을 통한 소스
We supply X710-DA2 adapters pre-installed in Dell and xFusion servers. 공장 직접 가격, 3-1년 보증, 그리고 글로벌 배송.
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