Intel X710-DA4 10GbE Quad-Port SFP+ PCIe 3.0 Adapter

The Intel X710-DA4 is a quad-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter built on Intel's X710 controller, delivering four SFP+ ports across a single PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface. Designed for sustained, high-density server connectivity, the adapter supports 10GbE line-rate forwarding on all four ports simultaneously without performance degradation, making it one of the most capable fixed-configuration 10G NICs in Intel's portfolio. The full-height form factor (part number X710DA4FH) integrates cleanly into standard 1U and 2U rack servers, while the underlying X710 silicon provides hardware-offload engines for large send offload (LSO), large receive offload (LRO), RSS, and VXLAN/NVGRE tunnel endpoint offload.

The X710 controller implements a unified 256-bit internal data path and supports up to 1,536 queues per port, enabling fine-grained traffic steering and SR-IOV with up to 32 virtual functions per physical port. This queue depth makes the adapter well suited to hypervisor environments where dozens of VMs or containers compete for network bandwidth. Advanced flow director functionality allows deterministic packet classification and steering by 5-tuple, ensuring predictable latency across mixed workloads. The adapter also supports IEEE 802.1Qbg (EVB), 802.1Qbh (Bridge Port Extension), and Data Center Bridging (DCB) for converged fabric deployments.

Enterprise environments running storage, compute, or management traffic over a shared 10G fabric benefit from the X710-DA4's support for iSCSI and FCoE offload, reducing host CPU overhead on storage-heavy workloads. The adapter is compatible with Intel's adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) driver model and integrates with DPDK for high-performance user-space networking. Broad OS support—including Windows Server, major Linux distributions, VMware ESXi, and FreeBSD—combined with the adapter's long production lifecycle has made the X710DA4FH a persistent choice in enterprise procurement for data center refresh cycles.

Ideal for

• Hypervisor host networking in VMware ESXi or KVM environments requiring SR-IOV and high queue counts for multi-VM traffic isolation
• Converged 10G fabric carrying simultaneous iSCSI storage, VM migration, and management traffic on a single quad-port card
• High-throughput network function virtualization (NFV) appliances leveraging DPDK for user-space packet processing at line rate
• Top-of-rack server uplink aggregation in data center leaf-spine architectures using DAC copper or optical SFP+ modules
• FCoE storage connectivity in SAN environments where Fibre Channel over Ethernet offload reduces CPU overhead on storage I/O
• Container networking platforms requiring large numbers of hardware queues and RSS for deterministic per-flow traffic steering across microservices workloads

Technical specifications

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