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10GbE Onload Mezzanine Adapters for 
IBM BladeCenter

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The Solarflare

® 

SFN5812H dual-port and SFN5814H quad-port 10G Ethernet Onload 

mezzanine server adapters (CFFh form factor) deliver the industry’s best application performance,

lowest power consumption and most scalable virtualization – enabling unmatched performance

and scalability for IBM BladeCenter.

The SNF5812H/SFN5814H server adapters

enhance the benefits of IBM BladeCenter by

reducing complexity and increasing perform-

ance. The server adapter family optimizes 

application networking performance in CFFh

form factor, supporting IBM’s high-speed

daughter card slot with HS22 blade servers

in BladeCenter chassis. This product family

provides unmatched performance scaling for

high-density blade server deployments, 

supporting four 10GbE ports and two PCIe

buses, while utilizing a single driver across

all Solarflare server adapter products. The

SFN5812H/5814H server adapters support

data networking with concurrent support of

iSCSI and NAS traffic.

SFN5812H and SFN5814H deliver the 

industry’s lowest latency at the highest 

message rates to customers with leading

edge enterprise data center deployments.

SFN5812H/5814H also deliver the industry’s

highest message rate and lowest latency jitter,

with full 80 Gbps bidirectional line-rate 

performance. Featuring a rich set of stateless

offloads, it provides efficient acceleration of

the most demanding network protocol tasks.

SFN5812H and SFN5814H both support 

Solarflare’s OpenOnload

®

application 

accelerator, a full-featured, high-performance

user-level network stack for Linux. Open-

Onload provides unprecedented performance

with application compatibility and protocol

compliance, bypassing kernel and networking

overheads, while featuring binary compatibility

with standard APIs and applications.

The SFN5812H/5814H server adapters are

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 SFN5812H/5814H server adapters also

accelerate guest applications in leading 

hypervisors, supporting NetQueue and VMQ

in VMware and Hyper-V, and SR-IOV in

KVM and XenServer. SFN5812H/5814H

relieve network I/O bottlenecks hidden in

virtualized environments, allowing IT managers

to allocate full network resources directly to

virtualized applications. SFN5812H/5814H

both enable the highest performance and

lowest CPU utilization in virtualized servers.

At less than 2 watts per port, the SFN5812H

and SFN5814H server adapters consume

less than half the power of the leading 

competitors’ products and deliver 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

SFN5812H/5814H server adapters are also 

compatible with the Energy Star

®

guideline

for power consumption.

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