Oracle Dual-Port 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter

1. Product Overview

The Oracle 7319817 (H81993) is an enterprise-class, high-bandwidth, low-power Dual-Port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter designed for cloud-enabled, software-defined data centers and mission-critical storage/compute applications. Based on the Intel XL710 (Fortville) controller chip, this low-profile PCIe 3.0 adapter delivers optimized performance for virtualization and high-density network connectivity.

A unique feature of this Oracle OEM adapter is its firmware agility: using the Oracle QCU (QSFP Configuration Utility) tool, it can be dynamically swapped between 4x 10 GbE mode or 2x 40 GbE mode depending on infrastructure requirements.

2. Technical Specifications

General Specifications

• Manufacturer: Oracle Corporation (OEM Intel)

• Oracle P/N (Part Number): 7319817 / 07319817

• Oracle Regulatory Model/Model ID: H81993

• Base Controller Chipset: Intel Ethernet Controller XL710-AM2 (XL710-QDA2 series architecture)

• Interface/Bus Type: PCI Express 3.0 x8 (Backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0/1.1)

• Form Factor: Low Profile (standard and low-profile brackets interchangeable)

• Cooling: Passive (highly reliable fanless heatsink optimized for server airflow)

Network & Port Configurations

• Physical Ports: 2 x QSFP+ (Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable Plus) slots

• Data Transfer Rate: Up to 40 Gbps line rate per port (Total aggregate bi-directional bandwidth up to 80 Gbps)

• Configurable Port Modes:

  • 2 x 40 GbE Mode (Native 40Gbps QSFP+ connections)

  • 4 x 10 GbE Mode (Using breakout utility configurations; factory default usually restricts or focuses initial deployment logic to specific QSFP mappings until utility toggles are applied)

Advanced Features & Virtualization

• SR-IOV Support: Advanced Single Root I/O Virtualization supporting up to 16 Physical Functions (PFs) and up to 128 Virtual Functions (VFs).

• Network Overlay & Virtualization Offloads:

  • VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN)

  • NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation)

  • GENEVE, IP-in-GRE, and MAC-in-UDP

• Storage & Performance Offloads:

  • Optimized for LAN and native iSCSI traffic.

  • Intel Ethernet Flow Director (8k perfect match filters stored directly on-die).

  • Traffic steering for up to 64 different packet types (L2/IPv4/IPv6/TCP/UDP/SCTP).

• Jumbo Frames: Supported up to 9,706 bytes.

• Quality of Service (QoS): IEEE 802.1p CoS tagging, supporting eight VLAN filters per port.

• VMDq Support: Supports Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft DVMQ.

• Note: Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is not supported natively on this specific firmware variant.

3. Physical & Environmental Specifications

Dimensions & Form Factor

• Length: ~6.578 inches (167 mm)

• Height: ~2.703 inches (68.6 mm) — Low-profile standard compliance

Power Consumption

• Typical Power Draw: Ultra-low footprint ranging between 3.6 Watts to 4.9 Watts depending on the linked transceiver module types.

Operating Environment

• Operating Temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)

• Storage Temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)

• Operating Humidity: 10% to 90% relative humidity (RH), non-condensing

4. Hardware & OS Compatibility

While manufactured as an official Oracle Sun component, this card maintains cross-platform multi-vendor compatibility across various server platforms due to its standard Intel XL710 core.

• Server Compatibility: Fully compatible with Oracle SPARC/x86 architectures, as well as general whitebox enterprise servers (HPE ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Inspur, Supermicro).

• Operating Systems Supported:

  • Oracle Solaris (11.x and newer)

  • Oracle Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

  • VMware ESXi (vSphere 6.x / 7.x / 8.x onwards)

  • Microsoft Windows Server