HPE 788995-B21 Getting Started Guide

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QuickSpecs HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter

Overview

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter

The HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ adapter for ProLiant Gen9 rack servers provides full-featured, high performance, converged 10Gb Ethernet that accelerates IT services and increases data center efficiency across a broad range of I/O intensive enterprise, cloud and Telco workloads. It offers a rich set of offload technologies including overlay network that increase host efficiency and virtualization performance. The HPE Ethernet 557SFP+ can provide up to 40Gbps of converged bi-directional Ethernet bandwidth, helping to alleviate network bottlenecks.

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter

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QuickSpecs HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter

Platform Information

Models

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter 788995-B21

Kit Contents

Compatibility Supported Servers

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter Quick install card Product warranty statement

HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen8 HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen8 HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9 HPE Apollo 4200

NOTE:

This is a list of supported servers. Some may be discontinued.

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QuickSpecs HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 557SFP+ Adapter

Standard Features

At a Glance Features

• Dual 10Gb ports provide up to 40Gb bi-directional per adapter

• Tunnel Offload support for VXLAN and NVGRE Overlay Networks

• Supports UEFI and legacy boot options

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

• Small packet performance, ideal for web/mobile applications, mobile messaging, and social media

• Greater bandwidth with PCIe 3.0

• Includes 128MB of onboard memory

• Jumbo Frames support

• Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

• Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems

• Supports VMWare NetQueue, Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) for Windows

• Optimized host virtualization density with SR-IOV support

• CNU support

ThroughputTheoretical Bandwidth

802.1p QoS Tagging

802.1Q VLANs

Configuration Utilities

Interrupt Coalescing

Jumbo Frames

This adapter delivers 20 Gb/s bi-directional Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gb/s per adapter), providing the network performance needed to improve response times and alleviate bottlenecks.

IEEE quality of service (QoS) 802.1p tagging allows the adapter to mark or tag frames with a priority level across a QoS-aware network for improved traffic flow.

IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port of this adapter to be separated into multiple virtual NICs for added network segmentation and enhanced security and performance. VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same VLAN domain also improves performance.

This adapter ships with a suite of operating system-tailored configuration utilities that allow the user to enable initial diagnostics and configure adapter teaming. This includes a patented teaming GUI for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Additionally, support for scripted installations of teams in a Microsoft Windows environment allow for unattended OS installations.

Interrupt coalescing (interrupt moderation) groups multiple packets, thereby reducing the number of interrupts sent to the host. This process optimizes host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.

This adapter supports Jumbo Frames (also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9,200 byte (KB) transmission unit (MTU) when running Ethernet I/O traffic. This is over five times the size of a standard 1500byte Ethernet frame. With Jumbo Frames, networks can achieve higher throughput performance and greater CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer and tape backup operations.

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