Solarflare Flareon Ultra SFN7522 Dual-Port 10GbE SFP+ OCP PCIe 3.1 Server I/O Adapter
Delivering faster, more efficient processing of network traffic to accelerate a wide range of applications
[SFN8722]
Details
SFN8722 delivers faster, more efficient processing of network traffic
The new Flareon Ultra SFN 8000 adapter family provides Solarflare's best performance yet, with higher bandwidth, lower latency and higher packet rate.
The SFN8000 family adapters are based on a common hardware platform, enabling customers to configure the fatures and performance they want to tmeet the particular needs of each application.
Capabilities such as ultra-low latency, Onload kernel bypass, class leading clock synchronisation accuracy providing MIFID II compliance, SolarSecure Filter Engine, SolarCapture and more can be enabled to run on any SFN8000 adapter on the network, making this the one Ethernet adpater to deploy across your data center or cloud infrastructure.
CPU-Efficient Networking
The Flareon Ultra SFN8722 dual-port 10G Ethernet SFP+ server adpater delivers faster, more efficient processing of network traffic to accelerate a wide rtange of applciations.
The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCIe 3.1 making it an ideal workhorse for 10 GbE data center and cloud workloads, providing high bandwidth, high packet-rate and CPU-efficient processing of network traffic.
Configurable Software
When configured with Solarflare software licenses, the SFN8722 can address ultra-low latency applications, highly accurate clock synchronisation and hardware time stamping, packet filtering, packet capture and more.
Adapters can be figure configured on-side with software options.
Ultra-Low Latency
The platform's hardware optimizes paclet flow to and from the user application.
When licensed for ultra-low latency, it delivers unrivalled sub-microsecond TCP and UDP latency.
With Onload, the industry's best application-to-applications performance is enabled via Solarflare's unique and patented kernel bypass techniques.
Accelerating Applications
The SFN8722 is ideal for scale-out cloud, web and CDN application environments.
Solarflare adapters are used in a wide range of use cases, including Software-defined networking (SDN), Network functions virtualisation (NFV), web content optimisation, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databasses, catching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.
The SFN8722 also provides the ideal link between fast NVMe storage and the network.
In addition when used Onload, the SFN8722 further reduces host processing overhead and accelerates web and cloud traffic.
When used with SolarSecure Filter Enginer, the SFN8722 provides an additional layer of defense against DDoS attacks at the network ingress point to the server.
Attacks can be absorbed without degradation of "good" traffic, enabling a 3 to 4x improvement in packet-level filtering server headroom*
Scalable, High-Performance Virtualisation
Solarflare is the proven leader in VM density and performance, and the SFN8722 raises the bar with 2048 vNICs, SR-IOV, overlay network acceleration e.g. VXLAN, NVGRE.
In addition, the SFN8722 supports kernel bypass running in a guest VM, so users can run ultra-low latency Onload or SolarCapture in a virtualised or cloud environment.
The SFN8722 is also fully flow-aware, providing flexible layer 2-4 flow processing and flow steering natively.
The benefits are efficient flow acceleration in almost every environment from the data center to the stock exchange.
| Manufacturer | Solarflare |
|---|---|
| Part No. | SFN8722 |
| End of Life? | No |
| Advanced Network Features | Stable Precision Oscillator - Stratum 3 compliant |
| Bandwidth | SFC9240 10G Ethernet Controller -- Supports high-performance 10GbE |
| Hardware Offloads | TSO, LRO, GSO, IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/UDP checksums |
| Host OS Support | RHEL 6, 7, MRG; SLES 11, 12, SLERT; Debian 7.x, 8.x; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 14.10, 15.04; other Linux; Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 |
| Virtualisation Support | VMware ESXi 5.x,6.0; Microsoft Hyper-V; Linux KVM |
| PCI Slot(s) | PCIe 3.1 x8 @ 8.0 GT/s |
| Switching Capacity | Integrated Layer 2 Ethernet switch, VEB/Virtual switch |
| Ports | Dual 10GbE |
| Port-Port Latency | Cut-through architecture/intelligent interrupt coalescing |
| IEEE Compliance | • IEEE802.3-2012 Ethernet Base Standard, including 802.3bx, 802.3bd, 802.3x • 802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet over fiber) • 802.3z (1000BASE-X Gbit/s Ethernet over Fiber-Optic at 1Gbit/s (125 MB/s) • RoHS Compliant |
| RoHS | Compliant |
| Power Consumption | 10.5 W (typical) |