SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable secure and intelligent processing for
enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that its FastLinQ
QL41000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs are now available from
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo
Gen10 servers. Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology with Universal
RDMA is purpose-built to accelerate access to networking and flash
storage while offloading server CPU. The introduction of FastLinQ
10/25GbE NICs into HPE's broad portfolio of Gen10 servers,
including select HPE ProLiant DL, ML and HPE Apollo servers,
provides customers with an innovative solution delivering
flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation
Private, Hybrid and Telco Cloud data centers. This, along with the
recent announcement of Cavium FastLinQ 25/50GbE NICs for HPE
Synergy, completes the availability of Cavium NICs across the HPE
Gen10 server portfolio.
The FastLinQ technology in the new HPE Ethernet 10GbE 52x Series
and HPE Ethernet 62x Series adapters coupled with new generation of
HPE servers empower data center administrators to optimize their
server infrastructure costs, increase application performance and
deliver a future-proof design. Leveraging built-in technologies
like concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP (Universal RDMA)
and SR-IOV, tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic can
scale to deliver business results. With full offloads for
tunneling protocols including VxLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE, the new HPE adapters deliver
near line-rate performance for Software Defined Networking (SDN)
workloads enabling Telcos and MSPs to seamlessly deploy, manage and
scale the most demanding tenant workloads. Extending Cavium's
legacy and expertise in security, FastLinQ NICs deliver robust
security features like Secure Firmware Updates and UEFI Secure
Boot, which enables HPE Secure Compute Lifecycle on Gen10 servers
to offer best-in-class innovations in protection, malware
detection, and recovery.
"The advent of NVMe and persistent memory, coupled with the
introduction of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor family,
have enabled higher workload and virtual machine density for
enterprise and hybrid cloud architectures, putting even more
importance on the flexibility and performance of the networking
solution," said Seamus Crehan,
President of Crehan Research. "Adapters based on Cavium's FastLinQ
41000 Series technology deliver this flexibility and performance
with Universal RDMA offloads which should meet the networking
demands of next-gen applications while delivering a secure and
future-proof solution."
"The FastLinQ 41000 family delivers customers technology choice
and investment protection by supporting concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and
iWARP – Universal RDMA," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and
General Manager of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "The
introduction of this new class of I/O connectivity for a broad
range of HPE Gen 10 compute platforms provides significant VM
density, by allowing customers to remove all I/O bottnecks and
utilize the full potential of the HPE Gen 10 servers."
"Intelligent networking is a critical component for an agile
application and delivering a secure environment for a hybrid
infrastructure," said Tom Lattin, VP
and GM of HPE Mass Market Platforms, Options, & Software.
"One of our key goals in collaborating with Cavium on their
FastLinQ 10/25GbE technology was to enhance the performance and
security of HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 servers."
Purpose-built for accelerating and simplifying datacenter
networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in HPE ProLiant and
HPE Apollo servers deliver:
- 10GBASE-T: Utilize low cost Cat6a cables and RJ-45
connections for 10GbE, eliminating the need for potentially
expensive 10GbE SFP+ optics. This reduces deployment costs by up to
46%(1) and is backward compatible with 1GbE infrastructure.
- Universal RDMA – Industry's only network adapter that
offers customers a flexibility of RDMA technology, customer can
choose RoCE/RoCEv2 for small to medium scale deployments on a
lossless ethernet network and iWARP for large cloud scale
architectures built on standard Ethernet fabrics.
- Cavium SmartAN™ Technology - Supports auto configuration
of the adapter when connecting between 10GbE and 25GbE networks,
eliminating server administrator intervention for manually
configuring port speeds and FECs. Cavium FastLinQ SmartANtechnology
along with extensive interop testing virtually eliminate
interoperability challenges in physical layer networks.
- Network and Server Virtualization Offloads –
Acceleration for Network Virtualization by offloading protocol
processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE, enabling customers to build and scale
virtualized networks without impacting network performance.
Optimize infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density
by leveraging technologies like SR-IOV that deliver acceleration
and QoS for enterprise workloads.
- Flexible Archtecture: A flexible microcoded architecture
delivers faster time to market and adaption to new and emerging
technologies, extending the return of investment in FastLinQ NIC
technology
The new HPE adapters from Cavium are also capable of supporting
additional advanced features that will be enabled by HPE with
firmware upgrades in early CY2018. These include:
- NIC Partioning – Optimize infrastructure and streamline
traffic management using NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that delivers up
to 16 physical functions per adapter with QoS.
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables Telcos
and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and
accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads by delivering up to 36
Million small packet performance, MPLSoUDP offload and integration
with OpenStack.
- Storage Acceleration: Full protocol offload for iSCSI,
FCoE and NVMe over Fabrics delivers up to 3M IOPS while consuming
the fewest server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual
applications and enabling higher ROI on server investments.
Availability
The new 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters based on Cavium FastLinQ
41000 Series technology are now available from HPE. These
include
- HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 621SFP28 Adapter
- HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 622FLR-SFP28 CNA
- HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 521T Adapter
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com/info/hpe and
www.cavium.com
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated
multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions
across low to high performance points enabling secure and
intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service
Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application
stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with
design centers in California,
Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan.
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