Cisco 8th Generation 10Gb Ethernet Adapter with Universal RDMA

The FastLinQ® QL41162HLRJ-CI 10Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter with Universal Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)-available in 10GBASE-T (RJ45)-supports LAN (TCP/IP) traffic at 10Gb Ethernet line-rate speeds. The QL41162HLRJ-CI provides extremely low host CPU usage by enabling full stateless offloads over dual-port RJ45 connectors.

The QL41162HLRJ-CI, based on Cavium™ eighth-generation ASIC controllers, leverages Cavium's long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet by providing the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center.

For more effective use of the 10GbE bandwidth, the FastLinQ QL41162HLRJ-CI Intelligent Ethernet Adapter offers switch-independent NIC partitioning (NPAR), which enables segmentation of a single 10GbE port into multiple network partitions and dynamic allocation of bandwidth to each port. The segmentation allows IT organizations to optimize resources while lowering infrastructure and operational costs.

The evolution of data centers-triggered by high-density server virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), and multitenant cloud computing platforms-demands a high-performance 10GbE solution that boosts CPU efficiency, and reduces capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX) of the migration to 10GbE. The FastLinQ QL41162HLRJ-CI Intelligent Ethernet Adapter is the solution of choice for workload-intensive computing environments, providing a reliable, high- performance 10GbE connectivity solution.

FEATURES

• PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen 3 x8 (8GT/s) support
• Full line-rate performance across both ports
• Broad OS and hypervisor support
• Network boot support:
• iSCSI remote boot
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) 2.0
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) support
• Simplifies deployment and troubleshooting using QConvergeConsole® (QCC) GUI, QCS CLI, QCC PowerKit, QCC ESXcli Plug-in, QCC vCenter Plug-in, and OpenStack® integration
• Switch-independent NPAR with up to eight partition assignments per 10GbE link
• Cavium Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) high-speed packet processing engine
• Universal RDMA technologies-RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), RoCEv2, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER), and Internet wide area RDMA protocol (iWARP)
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support for reduced idle power consumption in RJ45-based networks
• MSI and MSI-X support
• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
• PCI-SIG® single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV)
• Comprehensive stateless offloads
• Auto negotiation: 1G/10G
• RX/TX multiqueue:
• VMware® NetQueue
• Windows® Hyper-V® Virtual Machine Queue
• Linux® Multiqueue
• Tunneling offloads:
• Windows Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)