Solarflare Communications SFN5802K Leaflet

Dual-Port 10GbE Mezzanine Adapter for HP 
BladeSystem c-Class

sales@solarflare.com

www.solarflare.com

Solarflare

®

SFN5802K dual-port 10G Ethernet mezzanine server adapter delivers the industry’s

best application performance, lowest power consumption, and most scalable virtualization, 

enabling unmatched performance and scalability for HP BladeSystem c-Class.

The SFN5802K server adapter enhances

the benefits of HP BladeSystem c-Class by

reducing complexity and increasing perform-

ance. The server adapter optimizes applica-

tion networking performance in c-Class

mezzanine form factor, supporting HP’s high-

speed daughter card slot with c-Class blade

servers in BladeSystem chassis. This product

provides unmatched performance scaling for

high-density blade server deployment, while

utilizing a single driver across all Solarflare

server adapter products. The SFN5802K

supports data networking with concurrent

support of iSCSI and NAS traffic.

SFN5802K delivers the industry’s lowest

latency at the highest message rates to

customers with leading edge enterprise data

center deployments. SFN5802K also

delivers the industry’s highest message rate

and lowest latency jitter, with full 40 Gbps

bidirectional line-rate performance. Featuring

a rich set of stateless offloads, it provides

efficient acceleration of the most demanding

network protocol tasks.

SFN5802K supports Solarflare’s Open-

Onload

®

application accelerator, a

full-featured, high-performance user-level

network stack for Linux. OpenOnload

provides unprecedented performance with

application compatibility and protocol

compliance, bypassing kernel and networking

overheads, while featuring binary compatibility

with standard APIs and applications.

TThe SFN5802K is designed to optimize

virtualized application performance and

maximize the use of network resources.

With 10x the number of vNICs and virtual

PCIe functions than the competition, I/O

performance scales as the number of CPU

cores and virtual machines increase resulting

in enhanced application performance 

supporting more applications per physical

server.

The SFN5802K accelerates guest applications

in leading hypervisors, supporting NetQueue

and VMQ in VMware and Hyper-V, and

SR-IOV in KVM and XenServer. SFN5802K

relieves network I/O bottlenecks hidden in

virtualized environments, allowing IT managers

to allocate full network resources directly to

virtualized applications. SFN5802K enables

the highest performance and lowest CPU

utilization in virtualized servers. 

At less than 4 watts per port, the SFN5802K

consumes less than half the power of the

leading competitors’ products, and delivers

5-10x the efficiency of 1G Ethernet

(Gbps/watt). This not only makes a power 

efficient 10G network possible, it can save

thousands of dollars of operating costs for a

typical data center. The SFN5802K is also

compatible with the Energy Star

®

guideline

for power consumption.

SFN5802K