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 eiciency
• 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 Oload 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 oers 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 oload 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
• 25 million FCoE IOPS—250 percent
faster than the nearest CNA competitor
• 15 million iSCSI IOPS—100 percent
faster than the nearest CNA competitor
• Full line-rate throughout performance—
up to 37000 Mbps across two 10GbE
full-duplex ports and up to 194000 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
1500 bytes at 10GbE and larger than
9600 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 Oloads 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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