Delivers industry-leading performance, providing high throughput, low latency, and high CPU efficiency, which improves the performance of network communications, network-attached storage, and remote file system access
Suitable for applications such as email, database, OLTP, data mining, web serving, and big data
Includes Solarflare's unique hardware-accelerated virtual channel architecture
Each virtual channel provides an independent channel between the network adapter and host software, allowing network I/O processing to be distributed efficiently over multiple CPU cores
With 1024 virtual channels per port, I/O performance scales as the number of CPU cores and virtual machines increase
In the Solarflare documentation, the virtual channel feature is referred to as vNIC
This feature is different from the IBM Virtual Fabric vNIC capability
Supports Receive Flow Steering (RFS) acceleration, which improves processing efficiency by steering received packets to the CPU core that is running the application that consumes those packets
Accelerates guest applications in leading hypervisors by efficiently distributing virtual machine network I/O traffic across multiple CPU cores with supporting NetQueue and VMQ in VMware, and Microsoft VMQ in Hyper-V
At less than 5 watts, the SFN5162F makes a power-efficient 10G network not only possible, but it can save thousands of dollars of operating costs for a typical data center
Graphical user interface and scriptable command-line interface for ease of management