Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Mezzanine Card

Intel^®  VT for Connectivity (VT-c) is a suite of hardware assists that improves overall system performance by lowering the I/O overhead in a virtualized environment. This optimizes CPU usage, reduces system latency, and improves I/O throughput. Intel VT-c includes:

Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq): VMDq reduces I/O overhead on the hypervisor in a virtualized server by performing data sorting and coalescing in the network silicon. Virtual Machine Direct Connect (VMDc): VMDc implementation helps direct connectivity from the adapter to the virtual machines, bypassing the switch providing near-native performance.

The Intel Gigabit ET Mezzanine Cards for M-Series Blade Servers provide high-performing, multi-port Gigabit connectivity in a multi-core platform as well as in a virtualized environment.

Intel®  Ethernet Mezzanine Card supports different technologies, such as Intel®  QuickData Technology, MSI-X and Low Latency Interrupts, that help accelerate the data across the platform, thereby improving application response times. The I/O technologies on a multi-core platform make use of the multiple queues and multiple interrupt vectors available on the Intel®  Ethernet network controller. The Intel®  Ethernet 82576 network controller uses queues and interrupt vectors to help in load-balancing the data and interrupts among themselves in order to lower the load on the processors and improve overall system performance.