Server / Workstation Accessories

X710-DA2

Key Features

Port Configuration: Dual-port
Data Rate Per Port: 10GbE or 1GbE
Interface Type: PCI Express 3.0 x8 (8.0 GT/s)
Cabling/Media Type: SFP+ ports supporting Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables, 10GBASE-SR, and 10GBASE-LR optical transceivers
Controller Processor: Intel Ethernet Controller X710

The Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2 is a classic, widely-deployed enterprise-grade server network adapter belonging to the Intel Ethernet 700 Series. Unlike the newer E810-XXVDA2 (which supports 25GbE and PCIe 4.0), the X710-DA2 is built for 10 Gigabit (10GbE) networks running over a PCIe 3.0 bus.

X710-DA2

Advanced Offloads & Virtualization
Despite being an older generation, it still provides stable networking features for standard virtualization stacks:
- Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-c): Includes Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) to maximize virtual machine throughput.
- Network Virtualization Offloads: Hardware-accelerated stateless offloads for VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE overlays.
- Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP): Programmable pipeline processing to optimize packet processing efficiency for cloud deployments.
While the X710-DA2 lacks modern hardware acceleration for heavy cloud infrastructure (like NVMe-over-Fabrics RDMA storage offloads), it draws significantly less power and generates far less heat than the E810 series.