The HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb Adapters are ideal for high performance computing, server virtualization, security, server consolidation,
and other applications requiring highest throughput.
VMware NetQueue and Microsoft
Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
√ √ √
√
Wake-on-LAN
√ √
-port FLR-
-Hardware and
10/25Gb 2-port
SFP28 BCM57414
Adapter
Hardware and
-port FLR-
-
10/25Gb 2-port
SFP28 MCX4121AACUT Adapter
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Standard Features
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Standard Features Table
SKU
867328-B21
867334-B21
Description
HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port
HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port
Audit Logs
√ √
Authenticated Updates
√ √
Checksum & Segmentation Offload
√ √
Configuration Utilities
√
√
Device-level Firewall
DPDK
√
√**
HPE Sea Of Sensors 3D
√ √
HW Root of Trust
√-Firmware
√-Firmware
IPv6
√
√
iSCSI/FCoE
√**
Jumbo Frames
9,600 KB
9,600 KB
LED Indicators
√
√
Management Support
√ √
Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI-X)
√
√
Network Adapter Teaming
√
√
Network Partitioning (NPAR)
Optimized for Virtualization
√
√
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
√ √
RDMA
√-
√-RoCE V1 and V2, iWarp*
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
√ √
Sanitization
Secure Boot
√ √
Server Integration
√
√
Single-Root I/O Virtualization
√
√
TCP/UDP/IP
√
√
Tunnel Offload
√
√-
VMware NetQueue and Microsoft Virtual Machine
Queue (VMQ)
√ √
Wake-on-LAN
√
Notes: **Storage personality must be disabled on NIC intended for DPDK workload. DPDK and Storage modes, cannot be used
concurrently on current generation CNA NICs. HPE Recommends using 2 separate NICS for Storage (Control Plane), and DPDK
(Data Plane) workloads for the optimal high a
*No iWarp and ROCE on the same port
SFP28 QL41401-A2G Adapter
FLR-SFP28 QL41401-A2G
Converged Network Adapter
vailability configuration
RoCE V1 and V2, iWarp*
-VXLAN / NVGRE / GENEVE
VXLAN / NVGRE / GENEVE
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Standard Features
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802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port of th
virtual NICs for added network segmentation and enhanced security and performance. VLANs increase security by isolating traff
between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same VLAN domain also improve
Active Health System
Supports HPE Active Health System
to have accurate information that will assist in diagnosing problems and delivering rapid
Audit Logs
Audit Logs are a forensics capability that provides traceability into authenticated firmware updates by capturing changes in
standard system logs.
Authenticated Updates
Authenticated Updates brings
from unauthorized access and verify digitally signed firmware.
Auto-negotiation
A
depending on the duplex mode of the switch, hub, or router connected to the adapter.
Checksum & Segmentation Offload
Normally the TCP Checksum is computed by the protocol stack. Segmentation Offload is
throughput of high
offload (TSO) when applied to TCP, or generic segmentation offload (GSO).
Configuration Utilities
The
and configure adapter teaming. This includes a patented teaming GUI for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Add
support for scripted installations of teams in a Microsoft Windows environment allow for unattended OS installations.
Device-level Firewall
Device
data can only be accessed by authorized agents.
DMA Coalescing
Supports DMA Coalescing, the incoming data packets and interrupts associated with these DMA calls are intelligently batched t
keep the system devices in lower po
DPDK
DPDK with benefit for packet processing acceleration and use in NFV deployments.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Combines the functionality of an industry
over a shared lossless Ethernet network.
HPE Sea of Sensors3D
Support for the HPE Sea of Sensors which is a collection of
server. When temperatures get too high, sensors can initiate fans and make other adjustments to reduce energy usage. A
significant improvement lies in the ability to apply fan speed i
temperature, rather than all six fans in unison, which reduces the amount of energy used for cooling.
e adapter to be separated into multiple
ic
s performance.
- monitors and records changes in the server hardware and configuration enabling customers
resolution when server failures occur.
cryptographic keys onto the NIC (for HW Authentication) to protect user and configuration data
utomatically senses the speed of the device to which it is attached. It also automatically configures for half or full duplex,
technique for increasing outbound
-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. The technique is also called TCP segmentation
adapter ships with a suite of operating system-tailored configuration utilities that allow the user to enable initial diagnostics
itionally,
-level Firewall blocks any unmanaged access to memory or storage. This ensures that on-device firmware and configuration
wer states.
o
-standard NIC with an industry-proven Fibre Channel to seamlessly converge the traffic
32 sensors that automatically track thermal activity - heat - across the
ncreases only to the portion of the system that is rising in
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QuickSpecs
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Standard Features
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HW Root of Trust
Root of Trust enables a chain of trust for Authenticating updates to fir
rogue or corrupted firmware and ensures that the executing firmware is trusted.
Interrupt Coalescing
Interrupt coalescing (interrupt moderation) groups multiple packets, thereby reducing the number of interrupts sent to the ho
This process optimizes host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.
IPv6
IPv6 uses 128
iWARP RDMA
Delivers RDMA on top of the pervasive TCP/IP protocol. iWARP RDMA runs over standard network and transport layers and works
with all Ethernet network infrastructure. TCP provides flow control and congestion management and does not require a lossless
Ethern
Jumbo Frames
Jumbo Frames (also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9,600 byte (KB) transmission unit (MTU) when running
Ethernet I/O traffic. This is over five times
achieve higher throughput performance and greater CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database tran
and tape backup operations.
LED Indicators
LED indicators show link integrity and network activity for easy troubleshooting.
Load Balancing
Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) and Switch
build a bigger pipe
HPE 361T adapters (total of 8 ports) in a HPE ProLiant server and aggregate their throughput up to a theoretical maximum of 1
Gigabits per second
Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI-X)
Message Signaled Interrupt provides performance benefits for multi
Network Adapter Teaming
NIC teaming helps IT
work together as a single virtual adapter, providing support for several different types of teaming enabling IT administrator
optimize availabilit
Network Fault Tolerance (NFT)
Network Fault Tolerance, sometimes called "failover" or "NIC Redundancy," allows for the installation of multiple server adap
that the active device can be backed up by
utility also allows users to specify that when a failed adapter is fixed and replaced, the original adapter resumes its funct
primary network connection.
Network Partitioning (NPAR)
Network Partitioning (NPAR) allowing administrators to configure a 10 Gb port as four separate partitions or physical functio
Each PCI function is associated with a different virtual NIC. To the OS and the network, each physi
separate NIC port.
-bit addressing allowing for more devices and users on the internet. IPv4 supported 32-bit addressing.
et network. iWARP is a highly routable and scalable RDMA implementation.
the size of a standard 1500-byte Ethernet frame. With Jumbo Frames, networks can
HPE Ethernet 10/
mware via signature validation. This blocks installation of
st.
sfer
-assisted Load Balancing (SLB) are two advanced features that customers can use to
for improved networking bandwidth. These port-bonding techniques enable users to install up to four dual-port
full-duplex transmissions.
-core servers by load balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores.
administrators increase network fault tolerance and increased network bandwidth, the team of adapters can
s to
y, improve performance and help reduce costs.
ters so
a redundant adapter to improve availability. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise teaming
ion as the
ns.
cal function appears as a
6
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Standard Features
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Optimized for Virtualization
I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ helps meet the performance demands of consolidated virtual
workloads.
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
Support for PXE enables automatic deployment of computing resources remotely from anywhere. It allows a new or existing serve
to boot over the network and download software, including the operating system, from a management/ deployment server at
another l
Additionally, PXE enables decentralized software distribution and remote troubleshooting and repairs.
Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588 PTP)
Synchronization of system clocks throughout a network, achieving clock accuracy in the sub
for measurement and control systems.
RDMA
Remote Direct memory Access (RDMA)
the user memory of the source server to the user memory of the destination server bypassing the operating system (OS) kernel.
Because the RDMA data transfer is performed by the DMA engine on the adapter's networ
data movement, freeing it to perform other tasks such as hosting more virtual workloads (increased VM density).
include RoCEv1, RoCEv2 and
applications such as Microsoft Hyper
Receive Flow Steering (RFS)
Receive Flow Steering (RFS) acceleration improves processing efficiency by steering received packets to the CPU core that is
running the application that consumes those packets. Aligning I/O processing to the CPU core running the application improves
cache
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
RSS resolves the single
across multiple processors. RSS enables packet receive
Sanitization
Sanitization (Secure User Data Erase) renders User and configuration data on the NIC irretrievable so that NICs can be safely
repurposed or disposed.
Secure Boot
Secure Boot safeguards the system and ensures no rogue drivers are being executed on sta
Server Integration
The
validates a wide variety of major operating systems drivers with the full suite of web
incl
provides a more robust and reliable networking solution than offerings from other vendors and provides users with a single po
of contact f
r
ocation on the network.
-microsecond range, making it suitable
is an accelerated I/O delivery mechanism that allows data to be transferred directly from
k processor, the CPU is not used for the
RDMA protocols
iWARP. All of these protocols reduce overall latency to deliver accelerated performance for
-V Live Migration, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft SharePoint with SMB Direct.
efficiency, CPU utilization, throughput and latency.
-processor bottleneck by allowing the receive side network load from a network adapter to be shared
-processing to scale with the number of available processors.
rt-up.
adapter is a validated, tested, and qualified solution that is optimized for HPE ProLiant servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
-based enterprise management utilities
uding HPE Intelligent Provisioning and HPE Systems Insight Manager that simplify network management. This approach
or both their servers and their network adapters.
int
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Standard Features
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Single-Root I/O Virtualization
Single
providing near metal performance and server efficiency. SR
share
support.
TCP/UDP/IP
TCP/IP offloading techniques including: TCP/IP, UDP checksum offload (TCO) moves the TCP and IP checksum offloadi
the CPU to the network adapter. Large send offload (LSO) or TCP segmentation offload (TSO) allows the TCP segmentation to be
handled by the adapter rather than the CPU.
Tunnel Offload
Minimize the impact of overlay networking on host
offloading packet processing to adapters, customers can use overlay networking to increase VM migration flexibility and virtu
overlay networks with minimal impact to performance.
and lowers power consumption. Tunnel Offload supports VMware's VXLAN, Microsoft's NVGRE solutions and Generic Network
Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE) solutions.
VMware NetQueue and Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
VMware NetQueue is technology that significantly improves performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapters in virtualized
environments. Windows Hyper
enabled Ethernet adapters. VMQ uses hardware packet filtering to deliver packet data from an external virtual machine network
directly to virtual machines, which reduces the overhead of routing packets and copying th
system to the virtual machine.
Wake-on-LAN
Wake
systems administrator during its normal downtime. Once the
audit, debug, or manage the machine.
Warranty
Maximum: The remaining warranty of the HPE product in which it is installed (to a maximum three
Minimum: One year limited warranty.
-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) provides a mechanism to bypass the host system hypervisor in virtual environments
-IOV provides mechanism to create multiple Virtual Functions (VFs) to
single PCIe resources. The device is capable of SR-IOV, and requires Server BIOS support, controller firmware, and OS
performance with tunnel offload support for VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE. By
HPE Tunnel Offloading increases I/O throughput, reduces CPU utilization,
ng from
alized
-V VMQ (VMQ) is a feature available on servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with VMQ-
em from the management operating
-on-LAN (WoL) support through the PCI Express bus. A system that supports Wake-on-LAN can remain available to the
machine is awakened, the systems administrator can remotely control,
-year, limited warranty).
otes: Additional information regarding worldwide limited warranty and technical support is available at:
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Service and Support
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Service and Support
N
No
Most HPE branded options sourced from HPE that are compatible with your product will be covered under your main product
support at the same level of coverage, allowing you to upgrade freely. Additional support is required on select workload
accelerators, s
services; standard warranty terms and conditions apply.
Warranty and Support Services
Warranty and Support Services will extend to include HPE
support service is not impacted by configuration details. HPE sourced options that are compatible with your product will be
covered under your server support at the same level of coverage
available as needed. To keep support costs low for everyone, some high value options will require additional support. Additio
support is only required on select high value workload acceler
Coverage of the UPS battery is not included under TS support services; standard warranty terms and conditions apply.
Protect your business beyond warranty with HPE Support Services
HPE Technology Services delivers confidence, reduces risk and helps customers realize agility and stability. Connect to HPE t
help prevent problems and solve issues faster. HPE Support Services enable you to choose the right service level, length of
cover
business.
Protect your product, beyond warranty.
Parts and Materials
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide HPE
hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements
Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported
the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick
replaced as part of these services.
The defective media retenti
Enterprise due to malfunction.
For more information
Visit the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Service and Support
otes: This adapter is covered under HPE Support Services/ Service Contract applied to the HPE ProLiant Server or enclosure.
separate HPE Support Services need to be purchased.
witches, racks and UPS options 12KVA and over. Coverage of the UPS battery is not included under HPE support
options configured with your server or storage device. The price of
allowing you to upgrade freely. Installation for HPE options is
nal
ators, fibre switches, InfiniBand and UPS options 12KVA and over.
age and response time as you purchase your new server, giving you full entitlement to the support you need for your IT and
-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered
lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in
-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or
on service feature option applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by Hewlett Packard
Operating 5° to 60° C (41° to 140° F)
Non-Operating
Humidity
Operating 10% to 90% non-condensing
Non-operating 5% to 95% non-condensing
-SFP28
BCM957414A4142CC)
802.1Qbb,
port SFP28 BCM57414
(BCM957414A4142CC)
802.1p, 802.3ad, 802.1AB,
802.1Qbg, 802.1Qbb,
802.1Qaz, 802.3az,
802.3AS, 802.1Qau
port FLR-SFP28
(MCX4121A-ACAT)
802.1p, 802.3ad/LACP,
802.1AB(LLDP),
802.1Qbg, 802.1Qbb,
802.1Qaz, 802.3az,
-
-ACAT)
802.3AS, 802.1Qau, 1588,
-Operating -40°C to 70°C / -40°F to 158°F
-operating 5% to 95% non-condensing
-A2G
-40°C to 70°C / -40°F to 158°F
-A2G
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/
25Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Technical Specifications
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Operating System and Virtualization Support
The Operating Systems supported by this adapter are based on the server OS support. Please refer to the OS Support Matrix at
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/server
Related Option
Please refer to link for supported cables and transceivers. - Link
Environment-friendly Products and Approach - End-of-life Management and Recycling
Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers end
our products. Products returned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible man
The EU WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) requires anufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for us
treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the
These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment
customers who integrate and re-sell Hewlett Packard Enterprise equipment.
-operating-systems.html
-of-life product return, trade-in, and recycling programs, in many geographic areas, for
ner.
e by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise web site.
facilities as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise OEM
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QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb
Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo
Summary of Changes
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Date
Version History
Action
Description of Change
15-Mar-2021
Version 10
Changed
Update RSS on CX4, removed EOL Gen9 Platforms
17-Aug-2020
Version 9
Changed
SKUs Descriptions were updated
01-Jun-2020
Version 8
Changed
Update power on 621SFP28, 622FLR
10-Jun-2019
Version 7
Changed
Add Network Adapter Teaming for 640 NICs
06-May-2019
Version 6
Changed
Update table format, glossary and technical specifications
04-Feb-2019
Version 5
Changed
Removed 6500 Gen10 support on 640SFP28
05-Nov-2018
Version 4
Changed
Technical Specifications Section was updated
15-Oct-2018
Version 3
Changed
Recommended Extended labels were removed
01-Oct-2018
Version 2
Changed
Platform Information & Standard Features sections were updated
13-Aug-2018
Version 1
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