PRODUCT BRIEF

XtremeScale™ 8522M
10GbE Dual Port NICfor PCIe 3.0 x8 Slots

For IT architects building highly efficient software defined data centers, the XtremeScale
8522M is a full-featured enterprise-class NIC supporting a long list of advanced network
protocols and operating platforms. The 8522M is also a platform for data center-wide
NIC Fabrics delivering micro segmented acceleration, telemetry and security services
which scale with each server, VM or container. For data center traffic engineers, thefabric services running on XtremeScale adapters are software-defined so that network
traffic can be shaped and automated using well defined APIs.

A full-featured 10GbE NIC

Features and Benefits
A POWERFUL 10GBE NIC

With two 10Gbps ports, the XtremeScale 8522M provides ultra high throughput, great
small packet performance and very low latency. The base NIC includes Onload® kernel
bypass, combined with DPDK, to provide both TCP- and packet-based APIs for application
acceleration.

A SMART NIC

Inside the ASIC of every 8522M Ethernet NIC is an XtremePacket™ Engine which allows
this general-purpose NIC to inspect every packet at line-speed. Software-defined network
engineers can then use Solarﬂare APIs to shape the network traffic.

A new class of Smart NIC with the FPGAlike ability to inspect packets and shapetraffic at line speed

A PLATFORM FOR A SMART NIC FABRIC

Hyperscale cloud service providers are micro-segmenting their network services bydeploying them in proprietary Smart NIC fabrics which scale with each server. The 8522M
from Solarﬂare delivers the industry’s ﬁrst Smart NIC Fabric for the enterprise, including
shrink-wrapped applications for micro-segmented acceleration, packet monitoring andsecurity.

A software defined platform for micro
segmented acceleration, security andvisibility fabric services which scale withevery server, VM or container

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Adavnced Features
and Benefits

Switching Support

Optional Fabric Services

Virtualization Support• Application Acceleration (Onload®, TCPDirect)• SolarCapture® Application (Packet monitoring and capture)• ServerLock Local (Micro segmented hardware-based packet
surveillance, ﬁngerprinting, ﬁltering and ﬁrewalls)• Precision Time Protocol Application (PTP)

Stable Precision Oscillator• Stratum 3 compliant

I/O Virtualization• 2048 guest OS protected vNICs; SR-IOV; 240 virtual functions; 16physical functions; 16 NIC partitions

PCI Express• PCIe 3.1 x8 @ 8.0 GT/s

SFC9240 10G Ethernet Controller• Supports high-performance 10GbE

SFP+ Support• Supports SFP+ modules including Solarﬂare SFM10G-SR, DirectAttach Copper, Active Optical Cables

Low Latency• Cut-through architecture/intelligent interrupt coalescing

Packet Rate

• 30Mpps sustained line rate with all packet sizes

Receive Side Scaling (RSS)• Distributes IPv4, IPv6 loads across all CPU cores; MSI-X minimizes
interrupt overhead

Hardware Offloads• TSO, LRO, GSO, IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/UDP checksums

IP Flow Steering• Hardware directs packets based on IP, TCP, UDP headers

Advanced Packet Filtering• 4096 multicast ﬁlters; 4096 VLANs/port; adaptive TCP/UDP/IP,MAC, VLAN, RSS, RFS ﬁltering; Accelerated RFS

Remote Boot• PXE; unattended installation; UEFI; Solarﬂare Secure Boot

Management• SNMP, ACPI v3.0
• MCTP over SMBus• Integrated Layer 2 Ethernet switch, VEB/ Virtual switch• VMWare ESXi 5.x, 6.0, 6.5; Microsoft Hyper-V; Linux KVM

Operating Systems• 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 2016

Regulatory Product Code• SR212

Specifications
Standards & 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)• 1000BASE-X• 10GBASE-CR -SR -LR• Dual SFP+ (SFF-8431 Rev 4.1)
• RoHS CompliantPower• 10W (typical)

Operating Range• Operating Temp: 0º to 55º C• Airﬂow: Min. 250 LFM at 55º C

Physical Dimensions

PCB dimensions (PCIe Half-length low profile)• L: 16.76 cm (6.6 in)• W: 6.89 cm (2.7 in)
Overall dimensions with full height bracket• L: 18.1 cm (7.13 in)• W: 12.1 cm (4.76 in)Overall dimensions wiht low profile bracket• L: 18.1 cm (7.13 in)• W: 8.0 cm (3.15 in)Ordering Information• SFN8522M

Overlay Network Acceleration• VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, adaptable to custom overlays

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