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Key features
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Dual 10Gb ports provide up to 40Gb Bi-Directional per adapter
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Industry-Leading throughput and latency performance
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Over eight million small packets per second, ideal for web/mobile applications, mobile messaging, and social media
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Tunnel offload support for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) and Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)
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Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
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Optimized host virtualization density with Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) support
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Converges Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) with Local Area Network (LAN) traffic on a single 10 GbE wire
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RoCE for greater server efficiency and lower latency
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Advanced storage offload processing freeing up valuable CPU cycles
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Supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and legacy boot options
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Greater bandwidth with PCIe 3.0
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Includes 128MB of onboard memory
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Jumbo frames support
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Supports Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems
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Support for Windows Server Message Block (SMB) direct
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Supports VMWare NetQueue, Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) for Windows
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Throughput - Theoretical bandwidth
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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
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802.1p Quality of Service (QoS) tagging
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IEEE 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
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802.1Q Virtual Local Area Network (VLANs)
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IEEE 802.1Q VLAN protocol allows each physical port of this adapter to be separated into multiple virtual Network Interface Card (NICs) for added network segmentation and enhanced security and performance
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VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users
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Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same VLAN domain also improves performance
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Configuration utilities
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This adapter ships with a suite of Operating System (OS)-Tailored configuration utilities that allow the user to enable initial diagnostics and configure adapter teaming
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This includes a patented teaming Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Microsoft Windows OS
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Support for scripted installations of teams in a Microsoft Windows environment allow for unattended OS installations
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Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
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This adapter supports DPDK with benefit for packet processing acceleration and use in Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) deployments
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Jumbo frames
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9,200B Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
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LED indicators
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LED indicators show link integrity and network activity for easy troubleshooting
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Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) (MSI-X)
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MSI-X provides performance benefits for Multi-Core servers by load balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores
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PCI express interface
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This adapter is designed with an eight lane (x8) PCI express bus based on the PCIe 3.0 standard
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The adapter is backward compatible with four lane (x4) PCI express, automatically Auto-Sensing between x8 and x4 slots
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PXE
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Support for PXE enables automatic deployment of computing resources remotely from anywhere
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It allows a new or existing server to boot over the network and download software, including the OS, from a management/ deployment server at another location on the network
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It enables decentralized software distribution and remote troubleshooting and repairs
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Management support
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This adapter ships with agents that can be managed from HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) or other management application that support Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
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Interrupt coalescing
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Interrupt coalescing (Interrupt moderation) groups multiple packets, thereby reducing the number of interrupts sent to the host
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This process optimizes host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.
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RoCE
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RoCE is an accelerated I/O delivery mechanism that allows data to be transferred directly from the user memory of the source server to the user memory of the destination server bypassing the OS kernel
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Because the RDMA data transfer is performed by the DMA engine on the adapter's network processor, the CPU is not used for the data movement, freeing it to perform other tasks such as hosting more virtual workloads (Increased VM density)
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RDMA also bypasses the host's Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack, in favor of upper layer infiniBand protocols implemented in the adapter's network processor
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The bypass of the TCP/IP stack and the removal of a data copy step reduce overall latency to deliver accelerated performance for applications such as Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft SharePoint with SMB direct
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Server integration
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This adapter is a validated, tested, and qualified solution that is optimized for HPE ProLiant servers
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HPE validates a wide variety of major OS drivers with the full suite of Web-Based enterprise management utilities including HPE Intelligent Provisioning and HPE SIM that simplify network management
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This approach provides a more robust and reliable networking solution than offerings from other vendors and provides users with a single point of contact for both their servers and their network adapters
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TCP/User Datagram Protocol (UDP)/IP
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For overall improved system response, this adapter supports standard TCP/IP offloading techniques including: TCP/IP, UDP Checksum Offload (TCO) moves the TCP and IP checksum offloading from the CPU to the network adapter
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Large Send Offload (LSO) or TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) allows the TCP segmentation to be handled by the adapter rather than the CPU
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Tunnel offload
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Minimize the impact of overlay networking on host performance with tunnel offload support for VXLAN and NVGRE
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By offloading packet processing to adapters, users can use overlay networking to increase VM migration flexibility and virtualized overlay networks with minimal impact to performance
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HPE Tunnel offloading increases I/O throughput, reduces CPU utilization, and lowers power consumption
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Tunnel offload supports VMware's VXLAN and Microsoft's NVGRE solutions
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Compatibility - Supported servers1
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HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen9
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HPE ProLIant DL80 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant ML150 Gen9
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HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen9
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HPE Apollo 6000 Gen9
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HPE Apollo 2000 Gen9
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