Network
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No firmware updates required - Less management and downtime
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Hardware acceleration TCP/IP/UDP stateless intelligent offloads
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Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
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Up to 40 Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput
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Low profile design shipping with standard height and low-profile brackets
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On chip temperature monitor
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Integrated PHY and MAC
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Support for Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
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Supports SR-IOV (Requires server FW, SW and OS support)
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PXE, jumbo frames, checksum and segmentation offload, IPv6 and RSS
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Standard server operating system support
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Field replaceable and upgradeable
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IEEE 1588 (Time synchronization)
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Standard NC series option kit warranty, support, services
Throughput- Theoretical bandwidth
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
802.1Q VLANs
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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
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VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same VLAN domain also improves performance
Checksum and segmentation offload
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Normally the TCP checksum is computed by the protocol stack. Segmentation Offload is technique for increasing outbound throughput of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead
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The technique is also called TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) when applied to TCP, or Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO)
Configuration utilities
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This adapter ships with a suite of operating system-tailored configuration utilities that allow the user to enable initial diagnostics and configure adapter teaming
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This includes a patented teaming GUI for Microsoft Windows operating systems
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Additionally, support for scripted installations of teams in a Microsoft Windows environment allow for unattended OS installations
DPDK
This adapter supports DPDK with benefit for packet processing acceleration and use in NFV deployments
HPE Sea Of Sensors 3D
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Support for the HPE Sea of Sensors which is a collection of 32 sensors that automatically track thermal activity - heat - across the server
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When temperatures get too high, sensors can initiate fans and make other adjustments to reduce energy usage
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A significant improvement lies in the ability to apply fan speed increases only to the portion of the system that is rising in temperature, rather than all six fans in unison, which reduces the amount of energy used for cooling
IPv6
IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing allowing for more devices and users on the internet. IPv4 supported 32-bit addressing
Jumbo frames
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This adapter supports jumbo frames (Also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9,000 byte (KB) transmission unit (MTU) when running Ethernet I/O traffic
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This is over five times the size of a standard 1500- byte Ethernet frame. With jumbo frames, networks can achieve higher throughput performance and greater CPU utilization
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These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer and tape backup operations
Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) (MSI-X)
Message signaled interrupt (Extended) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores
Network adapter teaming
This adapter support for NIC teaming helps IT administrators increase network fault tolerance and increased network bandwidth, the team of adapters can work together as a single virtual adapter, providing support for several different types of teaming enabling IT administrators to optimize availability, improve performance and help reduce costs
Optimized for virtualization
I/O virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ helps meet the performance demands of consolidated virtual workloads
PCI express interface
This adapter is designed with an eight lane (x8) PCI express bus based on the PCIe 3.0 standard. The adapter is backward compatible with four lane (x4) PCI express, automatically auto-sensing between x8 and x4 slots
Preboot Execution Environment (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 operating system, from a management/ deployment server at another location on the network
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Additionally, PXE enables decentralized software distribution and remote troubleshooting and repairs
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
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RSS resolves the single-processor bottleneck by allowing the receive side network load from a network adapter to be shared across multiple processors
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RSS enables packet receive-processing to scale with the number of available processors
TCP/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 TSO allows the TCP segmentation to be handled by the adapter rather than the CPU
Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588 PTP)
Synchronization of system clocks throughout a network, achieving clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond range, making it suitable for measurement and control systems
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Network management
Feature
Description
LED indicators
LED indicators show link integrity and network activity for easy troubleshooting
Management support
This adapter ships with agents that can be managed from HPE Systems Insight Manager or other management application that support SNMP
Essentials | |
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Product Collection | 500 Series Network Adapters (up to 10GbE) |
Status | Launched |
Launch Date | Q1'16 |
Vertical Segment | Server |
Cable Medium | Copper |
Cabling Type | RJ45 Category 6 up to 55m; Category 6A up to 100m |
Bracket Height | Low Profile and Full Height |
Supplemental Information | |
Description | NBASE-T support in Linux Only |
Networking Specifications | |
Port Configuration | Single |
Data Rate Per Port | 10GbE/5GbE/2.5GbE/1GbE/100Mb |
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c) | Yes |
Speed & Slot Width | 8.0 GT/s, x4 Lane |
Controller | Intel® Ethernet Controller X550 |
Package Specifications | |
System Interface Type | PCIe v3.0 (8.0 GT/s) |
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity | |
On-chip QoS and Traffic Management | Yes |
Flexible Port Partitioning | Yes |
Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) | Yes |
PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable | Yes |
Advanced Technologies | |
iWARP/RDMA | No |
Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology | Yes |
Intelligent Offloads | Yes |
Storage Over Ethernet | iSCSI, FCoE, NFS |
MTBF (Hours)
324280Feature Set
LAN BasePower (Voltage - auto-ranging)
100 to 240 VACPower (Current)
5A to 2APower consumption (weighted average)
49.0Uplinks
4 SFPPower consumption (10% traffic)
49.0Dimensions (inches)
1.75 x 14.5 x 17.5Acoustics: Sound pressure (Typical/maximum)
39 dB / 43 dBWeight (Kilograms)
5.8Acoustics: Sound power (Typical/maximum)
4.9 B / 5.3 BPower consumption (0% traffic)
41.4Power consumption (100% traffic)
49.2Power rating (switch maximum consumption)
0.49 kVAPower (Frequency)
50 to 60 HzMaximum PoE (IEE 802.3af) ports
24 ports up to 15.4WMaximum PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at) ports
12 ports up to 30WFlexstack-Plus and Flexstack-Extended Stacking
OptionalDimensions (metric)
4.5 x 36.8 x 44.5cmPoE+ Power
370W10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports
24Weight (lbs)
12.8Forwarding rate: 64-byte Layer 3 packets
71.4 MppsTraffic Management
- Auto Negotiation of speed and duplex modes
- IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
- Dynamic MAC address management
- IEEE 802.1Q-based VLAN
- Auto Voice VLAN
- Auto Video VLAN (selected models)
- VLAN routing (selected models)
- QoS based on WRR, strict priority, or both
- Port-based and IEEE 801.2p-based QoS
- TCP/UDP-based QoS
- DiffServ
- IPv4 and IPv6-based QoS (selected models)
- DSCP Support
- Rate Limiting (ingress, or egress)
- Link Aggregation and LACP
Switch Management
- Web browser-based management GUI
- Smart Control Center Software for multi-switch management
- IP Access List
- IPv6 Management
- Configurable Management VLAN
- SNMP v1/v2c and v3
- Standard MIBs (RFC1213, RFC1643, and RFC1493)
- RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
- Firmware Upgrade through Smart Control Center (TFTP)
- Firmware download (to switch) and upload (to server) through TFTP/HTTP
- Configuration and Image Upload (to PC) through HTTP
- Configuration Download (to Switch) thru TFTP/HTTP and upload (to server)
- Memory & FLASH log
- Syslog (server)
- System password protection