Lifecycle

Obsolete Date 31-07-2027
End of support date 31-07-2028

Specifications

Support coverage 24x7 and 5, 4, 3, and 1 year Licenses
License type E-RTU
Subscription term 1, 3, 4, and 5 year terms
Power 25 W maximum; 21 W typical use
Number of ports 2
Port speed 25 Gb
Compatible operating systems Red Hat® Enterprise Server SUSE® Enterprise Linux Server VMware® vSphere ESXi Microsoft® Windows® Server
Bus type PCIe Gen3 x8
Connector type 2xSFP28 and RJ45
Supported cables HPE 25GbE SFP28 to SFP28 3m Direct Attach Copper Cable, HPE 25GbE SFP28 to SFP28 5m Direct Attach Copper Cable, HPE 25GbE SFP28 to SFP28 7m Active Optical Cable, HPE 25GbE SFP28 to SFP28 15m Active Optical Cable, HPE 25Gb SFP28 SR 100m Transceiver
Form factor Standup Pcie, Half-height half-length

Quickspecs

Overview

Do you need edge acceleration in your data center? The Pensando Distributed Services Platform for Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers provides a powerful suite of software-defined services_like firewall, encryption, and tunnelling directly to the server which dramatically boosts network and security performance by moving those services to the server edge, where the transition between network and server occurs This revolutionary approach eliminates the need for an assortment of discrete appliances throughout the data center by integrating networking and security functions into a single device residing in a single server, tightly coupling policies to just that server and its users. No longer are server and user demands queuing behind unrelated demands on shared appliances. Coincidentally, because the functions are resourced at the server edge, performance and capacity scaling are incremental, observability is pervasive and granular, and latency is significantly reduced.

Features

A simplified architecture and always-on visibility results in fewer outages and faste mean time to repair (MTTR).

Replaces multiple appliances, reducing costs and complexity, all while improving security.

Pensando DSP eliminates multiple discrete network and security appliances such as an East-West stateful firewall.

Eliminates complexity and latency associated with network tromboning-effect through multiple appliances.

Simplified Infrastructure Operations Always-on Telemetry and Deep Observability

Pensando Distributed Services Platform brings sophisticated wire-speed telemetry to HPE servers, providing real time observability and insights for network and storage, without affecting application performance.

Always-on telemetry at the server edge enables proactive end-to-end troubleshooting and problem reporting, minimizing down-time and significantly reducing mean time to repair (MTTR).

Advanced firewall functionality includes Application Layer Gateway (ALG), and packet-based DDoS attack protection (Flood, TCP SYN, fragmentation, Ping-of-Death (PoD), and more).

Pensando DSC implements an enterprise-class, centrally managed stateful firewall at each server edge.

Pensando DSP enables policy enforcement and permitted list communications between servers within the data center (East-West security).

Distributed Stateful Firewall for Bare-Metal, KVM, and Containerized Environments

Microsegmentation can be applied – per VM, container, or workload – on the DSP subsystem with full isolation from host-based vulnerabilities.

The Pensando Distributed Services Platform isolates KVM/Hyper-V and containerized application tiers from each other on Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers and achieves “zero-trust security” enforced within each machine by the Pensando Distributed Services Card (DSC).

Micro Segmentation for KVM and Containerized Application Tiers

Pensando DSP lowers total cost of network and security services per server.