General
Intel 82599ES 10GbE controller
Super I/O Module (SIOM) Form Factor
Dual SFP+ ports
Load balancing on multiple CPUs
iSCSI remote boot support
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support
Intel PROSet Utility for Windows Device Manager
Time Sync IEEE 1588

I/O Features
Direct Cache Access (DCA) to avoid cache misses
MSI-X support to minimize the overhead of interrupts, allowing load-balancing between multiple cores/CPUs
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP and UDP checksum offloading capabilities (IPv4, IPv6)
Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environments and scalable I/O for Linux environments

Virtualization Features
VMDq, Next-Generation VMDq (64 queues per port)
PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation (64 virtual functions per port)
Advanced Packet Filtering
VLAN support to allow creation of multiple VLAN segments
VXLAN through Software

Management Features
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote
Network Monitoring (RMON) statistics counters
iSCSI remote boot
NC-SI for remote management
Asset Management support on Supermicro platforms
Controller asset tags such as part number, revision, serial number, and MAC addresses

Advanced Software Features
Teaming support
IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support

OS Support
Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 (x64 Edition)
Windows 8.1, 8, 7 (x64 Edition)
RedHat Linux
SUSE Linux
FreeBSD
UEFI
VMware

Cables Support
SFP+ direct attach twinaxial copper cables up to 7m
Fiber-optic cables (with required optional SFP+ transceivers)

Power Consumption
Typical power consumption: 6.2W
Maximum power consumption: 7.2W

Operating Conditions
Operating temperature: 0^oC to 55^oC (32^oF to 131^oF)
- Storage temperature: -40^oC to 70^oC (-40^oF to 158^oF)
- Storage humidity: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35^oC