HCL - OpenServer - Intel X550-AT2 - HPE brands

[Tobias_Moritz]

Happy New Year to all of you!

I guess there are some folks here running HPE OpenServer deployments.

From time to time, we struggle to buy HPE hardware based on Check Point HCL because they are already End-of-Sale on HPE-side while the replacement hardware is not on Check Point HCL yet.

So now again regarding 10GBase-T NICs.

Only the old 561 (HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 561FLR-T Adapter) are listed but they are end-of-sale since a while.

The replacement are called 562 (HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562FLR-T Adapter), recently relabled to X550-AT2 (HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port FLR-T X550-AT2 Adapter).

However, these 562 or X550-AT2 are not on Check Point HCL.

But:

These cards are based on Intel X550-AT2 Chip and there is an original Intel NIC with this chip called "Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550-T2“ (X550T2BLK). And this orginal Intel NIC is on Check Point HCL. Since March 8th 2020.

They share the same PCI Vendor- and Device-ID. Subsys-ID differs of course.

TLDR:

1. If you use OpenServer from HPE, how do you choose the NICs?
   1. Intel-NIC in HPE Server?
   2. HPE NIC in HPE Server while sticking to Check Point HCL (so cannot use modern NICs)?
   3. Whatever works, ignoring Check Point HCL
2. @Check Point: Do you plan to update HPE HCL regarding modern NICs?