Compute 100Gb Ethernet Adapters for HPE

Starting with Gen10 Plus ProLiant Servers, HPE offers the industry’s most secure server platform. Through its Root of Trust server design down to the Network Interface Card (NIC), these security features are built-in so you can deploy with confidence. HPE Gen10 Plus servers will help prevent, detect and recover from cyberattacks such as denial of service and malware-infected firmware. Protecting applications, data, and infrastructure from security breaches through storage and networking security technologies is a first priority for HPE Gen10 Plus Servers.

With Gen11 and Gen12 ProLiant Servers, HPE continues to offer industry-leading security and builds on Gen10 Plus features by adding support for SPDM security on select Ethernet Adapters.

Models

Kit Contents

PCIe Ethernet Adapter Option Kits include:

• − HPE Ethernet Adapter (with Full-Height bracket installed)
• − Quick install card
• − Product warranty statement
• − Low Profile Bracket

OCP Ethernet Adapter Option Kits include:

• − HPE Ethernet Adapter
• − Quick install card
• − Product warranty statement

Server support

Network Adapters below are supported on select HPE ProLiant DL110/320/325/340/345/360/365/380/385/560/580 & Alletra 2000/4100/4200/6500 Servers

• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 OCP3 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-2CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE (Only DL110)
• − Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP56 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 OCP3 Adapter for HPE

Please consult Server Platform QuickSpecs for details on supported SKUs and configurations.

Audit Logs

Audit Logs are a forensics capability that provides traceability into authenticated firmware updates by capturing changes in standard system logs.

Authenticated Updates

Authenticated Updates brings cryptographic keys onto the NIC (for HW Authentication) to protect user and configuration data from unauthorized access and verify digitally signed firmware.

Auto-negotiation

Automatically senses the speed of the device to which it is attached. It also automatically configures for half or full duplex, depending on the duplex mode of the switch, hub, or router connected to the adapter.

DPDK

DPDK with benefit for packet processing acceleration and use in NFV deployments.

IPv6

IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing allowing for more devices and users on the internet. IPv4 supported 32-bit addressing.

iWARP RDMA

Delivers RDMA on top of the pervasive TCP/IP protocol. iWARP RDMA runs over standard network and transport layers and works with all Ethernet network infrastructure. TCP provides flow control and congestion management and does not require a lossless Ethernet network. iWARP is a highly routable and scalable RDMA implementation.

Network Partitioning (NPAR)

Network Partitioning (NPAR) allowing administrators to configure a 10 Gb port as four separate partitions or physical functions. Each PCI function is associated with a different virtual NIC. To the OS and the network, each physical function appears as a separate NIC port.

Optimized for Virtualization

I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ helps meet the performance demands of consolidated virtual workloads.

Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

Support for PXE enables automatic deployment of computing resources remotely from anywhere. 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.

Additionally, PXE enables decentralized software distribution and remote troubleshooting and repairs.

Root of Trust

Root of Trust enables a chain of trust for Authenticating updates to firmware via signature validation. This blocks installation of rogue or corrupted firmware and ensures that the executing firmware is trusted.

RDMA

Remote Direct memory Access (RDMA) 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 operating system (OS) kernel. 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). RDMA protocols include RoCEv1, RoCEv2 and iWARP. All of these protocols reduce overall latency to deliver accelerated performance for applications such as Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft SharePoint with SMB Direct.

Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

RSS resolves the single-processor bottleneck by allowing the receive side network load from a network adapter to be shared across multiple processors. RSS enables packet receive-processing to scale with the number of available processors.

Sanitization

Sanitization (Secure User Data Erase) renders User and configuration data on the NIC irretrievable so that NICs can be safely repurposed or disposed.

Secure Boot

Secure Boot safeguards the system and ensures no rogue drivers are being executed on start-up.

Single-Root I/O Virtualization

Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) provides a mechanism to bypass the host system hypervisor in virtual environments providing near metal performance and server efficiency. SR-IOV provides mechanism to create multiple Virtual Functions (VFs) to share single PCIe resources. The device is capable of SR-IOV, and requires Server BIOS support, controller firmware, and OS support.

TCP/UDP/IP

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. Large send offload (LSO) or TCP segmentation offload (TSO) allows the TCP segmentation to be handled by the adapter rather than the CPU

Tunnel Offload

Minimize the impact of overlay networking on host performance with tunnel offload support for VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE. By offloading packet processing to adapters, customers can use overlay networking to increase VM migration flexibility and virtualized overlay networks with minimal impact to performance. HPE Tunnel Offloading increases I/O throughput, reduces CPU utilization, and lowers power consumption. Tunnel Offload supports VMware's VXLAN, Microsoft's NVGRE solutions and Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE) solutions.

VMware NetQueue and Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)

VMware NetQueue is technology that significantly improves performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapters in virtualized environments. Windows Hyper-V VMQ (VMQ) is a feature available on servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with VMQ-enabled Ethernet adapters. VMQ uses hardware packet filtering to deliver packet data from an external virtual machine network directly to virtual machines, which reduces the overhead of routing packets and copying them from the management operating system to the virtual machine.

Wake-on-LAN

Wake-on-LAN (WoL) support through the PCI Express bus. A system that supports Wake-on-LAN can remain available to the systems administrator during its normal downtime. Once the machine is awakened, the systems administrator can remotely control, audit, debug, or manage the machine.

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Consulting Services

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• − Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
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HPE Lifecycle Services

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• − Lifecycle Install and Startup Services: Various levels for physical installation and power on, remote access setup, installation and startup, and enhanced installation services with the operating system.
• − HPE Firmware Update Analysis Service: Recommendations for firmware revision levels for selected HPE products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
• − HPE Firmware Update Implementation Service: Implementation of firmware updates for selected HPE server, storage, and solution products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
• − Implementation assistance services: Highly trained technical service specialists to assist you with a variety of activities, ranging from design, implementation, and platform deployment to consolidation, migration, project management, and onsite technical forums.
• − HPE Service Credits: Access to prepaid services for flexibility to choose from a variety of specialized service activities, including assessments, performance maintenance reviews, firmware management, professional services, and operational best practices.

Notes:

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Defective Media Retention

An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.

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Parts and Materials

HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements.

Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product QuickSpecs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.

How to Purchase Services

Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:

• − Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
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Operating System and Virtualization Support

The Operating Systems supported by this adapter are based on the server OS support. Please refer to the OS Support Matrix at https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/server-operating-systems.html .

Drivers and Software Download (Please use hyperlinks below):

• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 OCP3 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-2CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE
• − Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP56 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 OCP3 Adapter for HPE

To access Vendor Technical Specifications, please visit the following hyperlinks:

• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 OCP3 Adapter for HPE
• − Intel E810-2CQDA2 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP28 Adapter for HPE
• − Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP56 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 Adapter for HPE
• − Broadcom BCM57608 Ethernet 100Gb 2-port QSFP112 OCP3 Adapter for HPE

Transceiver and Cable Options

Please refer to Compute Transceiver and Cable Compatibility Matrix: https://psnow.ext.hpe.com/doc/a00002507enw

Environmentally friendly Products and Approach - End-of-life Management and Recycling

Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers end-of-life product return, trade-in, and recycling programs , in many geographic areas, for our products. Products returned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner.

The EU WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise web site.

These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise OEM customers who integrate and re-sell Hewlett Packard Enterprise equipment.

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