Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Industry-leading, energy-efficient design for next-generation Gigabit performance and multi-core processors

Low-profile

Enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCI Express* slots and servers

iSCSI remote boot support

Provides centralized storage area network (SAN) management at a lower cost than competing iSCSI soluti***

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*

Compatible with x4, x8, and x16 standard and low-profile PCI Express* slots

Allows each port to operate without interfering with the other

Multi-port design

Enables dual- or quad-port operation in almost any PCI Express server slot, except x1 slots

Support for most network operating systems (NOS)

Enables widespread deployment

RoHS-compliant1

Compliant with the European Union directive 2002/95/EC to reduce the use of hazardous materials

Intel® PROSet Utility for Microsoft Windows* Device Manager

Provides point-and-click management of individual adapters, advanced adapter features, connection teaming, and virtual local area network (VLAN) configuration

Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDQ)

Off loads the data sorting functionality from the Hypervisor to the network silicon, thereby improving data throughput and CPU usage

PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation

Provides an implementation of the PCI-SIG standard for I/O Virtualization. The physical configuration of each port is divided into multiport virtual ports. Each virtual port is assigned to an individual virtual machine directly by bypassing the virtual switch in the Hypervisor, resulting in near native performance