User Manual

QuickSpecs
HPE Ethernet 1Gb Adapters
HPE ProLiant DL, ML & Apollo
Standard Features
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performance and greater CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer
and tape backup operations.
LED Indicators
LED indicators show link integrity and network activity for easy troubleshooting.
Load Balancing
Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) and Switch-assisted Load Balancing (SLB) are two advanced features
that customers can use to build a bigger pipe for improved networking bandwidth. These port-bonding
techniques enable users to install up to four dual-port HPE 361T adapters (total of 8 ports) in a HPE
ProLiant server and aggregate their throughput up to a theoretical maximum of 16 Gigabits per second
full-duplex transmissions.
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.
Network Fault Tolerance
(NFT)
Network Fault Tolerance, sometimes called "failover" or "NIC Redundancy," allows for the installation of
multiple server adapters so that the active device can be backed up by a redundant adapter to improve
availability. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise teaming utility also allows users to specify that when a failed
adapter is fixed and replaced, the original adapter resumes its function as the primary network
connection.
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.
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.
Server Integration
This adapter is a validated, tested, and qualified solution that is optimized for HPE ProLiant servers.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise validates a wide variety of major operating systems drivers with the full suite
of web-based enterprise management utilities including HPE Intelligent Provisioning and HPE Systems
Insight Manager that simplify network management. 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.
TCP/UDP/IP
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. Large send offload (LSO) or TCP segmentation offload (TSO) allows the
TCP segmentation to be handled by the adapter rather than the CPU.
VMware NewQueue 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.