HPE P08446-B21, 656590-B21 Getting Started Guide

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Flexible network adapters
from Cavium

On HPE ProLiant, Apollo, and Synergy servers

HPE advantages

Industry leadership

• More than 13 generations of Ethernet

design and development experience

• Market-tested Ethernet solutions

Increase energy eiciency

• Support for EEE

• Reduced energy consumption by up to

42 percent

• Support for HPE 3D sea of sensors for

automated energy optimization

• Reduced operational expenditures

(OPEX) and extended IT budgets

Simplify deployment and management

• Comprehensive product portfolio

• 10/20/25/50GbE solutions for

HPE ProLiant, BladeSystem, Apollo, and
HPE Synergy server family

• FlexibleLOM, network interface cards,

and mezzanine form factors

• Tunnel Oload to support multi-tenant

or physically separated network
connectivity

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The performance and flexibility needed in today’s
data center environments.

Meet modern data center demands

The demands on your network for reliability, bandwidth, low latency, and security are extreme,
as are the pressures to simplify IT and reduced costs. Transforming the economics and
expectations of your data center begins with HPE ProLiant, BladeSystem, Apollo, and
HPE Synergy servers, with built-in intelligence to deliver maximum performance and reliability
while simplifying management. But the server is only the beginning of the story when it comes
to simplifying your IT infrastructure and reducing costs.

That’s why Hewlett Packard Enterprise oers fast 10/20/25/50GbE networking solutions for
the HPE ProLiant (BL, DL, ML), Apollo, and Synergy families of servers. Using Cavium 57810S,
57840S, QL41401, and QL45604 controllers, the portfolio of HPE Converged Network
Adapters provides the highest throughput, lowest processor utilization, and the highest small
packet performance for Ethernet connectivity. Full hardware oload of Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI storage protocols provide best-in-class performance for converged
networking and storage data connectivity.

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Best reliability and performance

• 25 million FCoE IOPS—250 percent

faster than the nearest CNA competitor

• 15 million iSCSI IOPS—100 percent

faster than the nearest CNA competitor

• Full line-rate throughout performance—

up to 37000 Mbps across two 10GbE
full-duplex ports and up to 194000 Mbps
across four 25GbE full-duplex ports

• Low CPU utilization—as low as 12 percent

• Single Root I/O Virtualization support

• Support for Jumbo Frames larger than

1500 bytes at 10GbE and larger than
9600 bytes at 25GbE

Increase asset utilization

• Network bandwidth tuned at the

server edge

• Each 10/20GbE port partitions into four

independent ports win nPar support

• Bandwidth allocated when and where

needed

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The HPE Flexible Network Adapters from Cavium are available in all major form factors,
including standard PCIe CNA, innovative HPE FlexibleLOM, and mezzanine card formats.
Cavium network controllers, with more than 13 generations of Ethernet design and
development experience, are the most reliable market-tested solutions available.

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Demartek Labs, May 2014

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HP (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Internal analysis,

Februar y 2014: HPE delivers nati ve 20 Gb performan ce
per por t or aggregate 40 Gb pe rformance in a
dual-port adapter. Industry-available solutions deliver
perfo rmance via aggregat e and/or multiple 1/10 Gb
ports o n single or multip le adapters in a team ed fashion.
20 Gb per por t is 2X over current 10 Gb per p ort.

These HPE Flexible Network Adapters are available for standard Ethernet or converged Ethernet
connectivity for HPE ProLiant, HPE BladeSystem, Apollo, and Synergy servers. Models compatible
with HPE BladeSystem and HPE Synergy servers support HPE Flex-10 or Flex-20 virtualization
and can be managed with HPE’s Virtual Connect or HPE OneView management utilities. The 630
and 3820C series adapters support the industry’s first4 20 Gb Converged Ethernet connectivity,
giving HPE BladeSystem and HPE Synergy customers twice the bandwidth available in most
other blade environments.

Select 10/25GbE Ethernet adapters from HPE and Cavium have advanced features including
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), Internet Wider Area RDMA (iWARP), and support for
DPDK. RoCE is ideal for customers requiring low latency, such as those in the high-performance
compute (HPC) and financial industries. iWARP provides customers more scalability for low
latency applications, allowing RDMA to work on existing networks and across the WAN.
iWARP is ideal for applications like Microsoft® Storage Spaces Direct. With DPDK, these adapters
can be optimized to deliver accelerated small packet performance of greater than 85 million
packets-per-second bi-directional at 512 byte blocks. This benefits customers who have custom
applications that deal with small block data like in the telco, oil and gas, and financial segments.

The 10/20GbE HPE Flexible Network Adapters from Cavium adapters also support Network
Partitioning (nPar). These adapters provide the ability to segment a single physical 10GbE or
20GbE port into four virtual ports. This is ideal for customers in virtual server environments by
allowing them to segment the high performance connection and provide the right amount of
network bandwidth to the applications.

All HPE Flexible Network Adapters from Cavium adapters also support Single Root I/O Virtualization
(SR-IOV) and Tunnel Oloads including NVGRE and VXLAN. These advanced features optimize
I/O performance in virtual server environments and provide additional VLAN flexibility and
scalability across the full HPE Server portfolio including HPE ProLiant (BL, DL, ML), HPE Apollo,
and HPE Synergy servers.

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Adapter model number Part number Details Server support

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HPE 530SFP+ 652503-B21 10GbE Network Adapter (NIC) Form Factor: PCIe Gen 2x8

HPE 530T 656596-B21 10GbE Network Adapter (NIC) Form Factor: PCIe Gen 2x8

HPE 533FLR-T 700759-B21 10GbE FlexFabric Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE) Form Factor: PCIe

HPE 534FLR-SFP+ 700751- B21 10GbE FlexFabric Adapter (NIC , iSCSI, FCoE) Form Factor:

HPE 536FLR-T 764 30 2- B21 10GbE FlexFabric Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE) Form Factor:

HPE StoreFabric CN1100R QW990A 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE) Form Factor:

HPE StoreFabric
CN1100R 10GBASE-T

HPE 536FLB 766 490-B 21 10GbE FlexFabric Adapter Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8,

HPE 534M 70 074 8 -B21 10GbE FlexFabric Adapter Form Factor: PCIe Gen 2x8,

HPE 620SFP 28 817762- B21 4x25GbE Ethernet Adapter Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x16 Connection

N3U52 A 10GbE Converged Net work Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE) Form Factor:

Connection Type: SFP+

Connection Type: RJ4510GBase-T

Gen 2x8, FlexibleLOM Connection Type: RJ4510GBase -T

PCIe Gen 2x8, FlexibleLOM Connection Type: SFP+

PCIe Gen 3x8, FlexibleLOM Connection Type RJ4510GBase-T

PCIe Gen 2x8 Connection Type: SFP+

PCIe Gen 2x8 Connection Type: RJ4510GBase-T

FlexibleLOM Blade

HPE Mezzanine

Type: QSFP+

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo

ProLiant BL servers—Gen9 and Gen10 only

ProLiant BL servers

ProLiant DL, Apollo servers— Gen9 and
Gen10 onl y

HPE 630FLB 700065-B21 20GbE FlexFabric Adapter Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8,

FlexibleLOM Blade

HPE 630M 700076-B21 20GbE FlexFabric Adapter Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8,

HPE Gen8/Gen9 Mezzanine

HPE Synergy 2820C 794538-B21 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE)

Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8, Mezzanine

HPE Synergy 3820C 777430-B21 10/20GbE Converged Net work Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE)

Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8, Mezzanine

HPE Synergy 6810C 867 322- B21 25/50GbE Converged Network Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE)

Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8, Mezzanine

HP E 521T 867707 -B2 1 10GbE Network Adapter (NIC) Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8,

Connection Type: RJ4510GBase-T

HPE 621SFP 28 867 328-B 21 10/25GbE Network Adapter (NIC) Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8,

Connection Type: SFP28

HPE 622FLR-SFP28 867334-B21 10/25GbE Converged Network Adapter (NIC, iSCSI, FCoE)

Form Factor: PCIe Gen 3x8, FlexibleLOM Connection Type: SFP28

ProLiant BL servers

ProLiant BL servers

HPE Synergy Servers

HPE Synergy Servers

HPE Synergy Servers

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo—Gen10

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo—Gen10

Select ProLiant DL, ML, Apollo—Gen10

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HPE Flexible Network Adapters

Powered by Cavium network controllers for HPE ProLiant, BladeSystem, Apollo, and HPE Synergy servers.

HPE Ethern et 10 Gb
530 Series Adapters

Speed 10 Gb 10 Gb 10/20 Gb 25 Gb 10 Gb 10/25 G b

HPE model numbers 530SFP+, 530T, 530M,

Controller part number Cavium 57810 S Cavium 57810S/57840S Cavi um 5784 0S Cavium QL45604 Cavium QL41401 Cavium QL41401

Supported protocols L2 Networking L2 Networking, FCoE , iSCSI L2 Networking, FCoE , iSCSI L2 Networking L2 Networking, FCoE , iSCSI L2 Networking, FCoE , iSCSI

Ports 2 2/4 2 4 2 2

RDMA No No No RoCE, RoCEv2 RoCE, RoCEv2, iWARP RoCE, RoCEv2, iWARP

DPDK support No No No Ye s Yes Yes

iSER Yes Yes Yes

Form factors available PCIe card, FlexibleLOM

Network partitioning Yes Yes Yes Future Future Future

Tunnel Oload
(NVGRE, VXLAN)

HPE ProLiant servers

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supported

OS support

Technical specifications 10Gb E adapters : Two or four ports, each at 10GbE (20 Gbps full du plex; 40 Gb ps aggregate full duplex)

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Certain G7 D L servers are also s upported, ple ase check the adapte r QuickSpecs fo r the latest list of ser vers supporte d.

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Suppor ted on select Fle xFabric ad apters.

530FLR, 530FLB,

Mezzanine

Yes Yes Yes Ye s Yes Yes

DL, SL, ML, XL, BL, and
Apollo Servers

Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 and 2012, Red Hat® RHEL 5.x, 6.x an d 7.x, SUSE SLES 10, 11 and 12 VMware v Sphere® 5. x, 6.x and v Sphere 2016 Citrix® XenServer 6.x
(NIC function only) and Solaris 10/11.

20GbE adapters: Two ports, e ach at 20GbE (40 Gbps full duplex; 80 G bps aggre gate full duplex)
4x25GbE adapters: One port, 4 lanes at 25GbE (50 Gbp s full duplex ; 200 Gbps aggregate, fu ll duplex)
10/25GbE adapters: Two ports, eac h up to 25GbE (50 G bps full dup lex; 100 Gbps aggregate, full duplex)
25/50GbE ada pters: Two port each u p to 50GbE (10 0 Gbps full duplex, 20 Gbps aggregate, full duplex)

Stateless oload—TCP, IP UDP check sum oload , LSO, TSO
Suppor t for VMware® NetQueue, Microsoft VMQ, and Network Partitioning (nPar)
SR-IOV support
Tunnel Oloads (NVGRE, VXLAN)
Receive Side S caling (RSS)
Jumbo Frame support
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE Boot)
IEEE 1588—Precision Time Protoco l-ready (PTP)
IEEE 8021q—Virtual LAN ( VLAN) tagging
IEEE 8023x—Flow control, IEEE 8023az—En ergy Eicient Ethernet
IPv4 and IPv6 oload
Teaming support
MSI-X supports independent queues
RoCE, RoCEv2, iWARP, iSER RDMA

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DPDK

HPE FlexFab ric 10 Gb
53x Series Adap ters

534FLR, CN1100R,
CN1100R-T, 534M, 534FLB,
536FLB, 533FLR-T, 536FLT-T

PCIe card, FlexibleLOM
Mezzanine

DL, SL, ML, XL, and BL and
Apollo Servers

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HPE FlexFab ric 10/20 Gb
630/28x0C/38x0C Serie s
Adapters

630FLB, 630M, 2820C,
3830C

FlexibleLOM Blade,
Mezzanine, Synergy
Mezzanine

BL servers, HPE Synergy
Servers

HPE Ethern et 25Gb 620
Series Adapters

620Q SFP 28 521T 621SFP28, 622FLR-SFP28

PCIe card PCIe Card, FlexibleLOM PCIe Card, FlexibleLOM

DL, and Apollo Servers DL, ML , and Apollo

HPE Ethern et 10Gb
52x Series Adapters

Servers

HPE Ethern et 10/25Gb
62x Series Adapters

DL, ML, and A pollo Ser vers

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