Description
High Availability and Reliability Features
The HPE Ethernet 1gb 2-Port 361t Adapter has several high availability and reliability features, including:
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): The adapter supports LACP, which allows you to group multiple physical ports into a single logical link to increase bandwidth and provide redundancy. If one physical port fails, the traffic can be automatically rerouted to another port in the group.
- Load Balancing: The adapter supports various load balancing techniques such as adaptive load balancing, transmit load balancing, and receive load balancing. These techniques distribute traffic across multiple paths to prevent congestion and provide redundancy.
- Failover: The adapter supports failover mechanisms that automatically switch traffic to a backup link if the primary link fails. This feature ensures high availability and minimizes downtime.
- Jumbo Frame Support: The adapter supports jumbo frames, which are larger than standard Ethernet frames. This feature reduces the number of frames transmitted and received, reducing the overhead and improving the overall network performance.
- Advanced error detection and correction: The adapter features advanced error detection and correction mechanisms that can detect and correct errors in data transmissions. These mechanisms ensure that data is transmitted accurately and reliably.
Virtualization Support
The HPE Ethernet 1gb 2-Port 361t Adapter supports various virtualization technologies, such as VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ, which enhance the performance and efficiency of virtualized environments. These technologies enable the adapter to offload the processing of network traffic to virtualized servers, reducing CPU usage and improving network throughput. Additionally, the adapter supports SR-IOV, which allows for the creation of multiple virtual network interfaces that can be assigned directly to virtual machines, improving network performance and reducing overhead.
Traffic Management and Quality of Service (QoS)
Traffic management and quality of service (QoS) are essential features of any network adapter that enable network administrators to optimize network traffic and improve application performance.
In the case of the HPE Ethernet 1gb 2-Port 361t Adapter, this network adapter supports several traffic management and QoS features, including:
- Virtual LAN (VLAN) support: VLANs enable network administrators to partition a physical network into multiple logical networks, each with its own VLAN ID. This feature can help to reduce network congestion and improve network security.
- IEEE 802.1p QoS support: This standard defines a mechanism for prioritizing network traffic based on different classes of service (CoS). By assigning a specific CoS to network traffic, administrators can ensure that critical applications receive the necessary network resources to perform optimally.
- Traffic shaping: This feature enables administrators to shape the flow of network traffic to specific bandwidth limits. This can help to prevent network congestion and ensure that mission-critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth.
- Jumbo frame support: Jumbo frames are network frames that exceed the standard Ethernet frame size of 1,500 bytes. By supporting jumbo frames, this network adapter can improve network performance by reducing the number of frames that must be processed by the network stack.
- TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) support: TOE is a technology that offloads network processing tasks from the CPU to the network adapter, improving network performance and reducing CPU utilization.
General Information
- Device Type : Network Adapter – 2 Ports
- Form Factor : Plug-In Card – Low Profile
- Interface (Bus) Type : Pci Express 2.0 X4
Networking
- Connectivity Technology : Wired
- Cabling Type : Ethernet 10base-T, Ethernet 100base-Tx, Ethernet 1000base-T
- Data Link Protocol : Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Data Transfer Rate : 1 GBPS
- Remote Management Protocol : Snmp
- Status Indicators : Link Activity, Port Transmission Speed
Features
- Auto-Negotiation, Wake On Lan (Wol), Network Fault Tolerance (Nft), Jumbo Frames Support, Pxe Support, Large Send Offload (Lso), Energy Efficient Ethernet
Compliant Standards
- IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.1q, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (Lacp), IEEE 802.1as, IEEE 802.3az
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces : 2 X Network – Ethernet 10base-T/100base-Tx/1000base-T – Rj-45
- Compatible Slots : 1 X Pci Express 2.0 X4 – Low-Profile
