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HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter

Overview

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Overview

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter

Recommended SKU - This adapter is a recommended option that has been selected by HPE experts to provide the right technology for
a range of workloads and market segments offering the best combination of performance, value and availability.
The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB adapter features the next generation of 10 Gb Ethernet offering in a single chip solution on a
FlexibleLOM form factor, further reducing power requirements for 2 ports of 10 Gb Ethernet. It is designed for use with HPE BladeSystem
c-Class Gen9 servers.
It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric blade interconnect
technology, allowing each 10GbE port to be divided into four physical NICs and optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers.
The HPE 536FLB FlexFabric network adapter, in conjunction with HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric technology, helps to extend the benefits
of virtualization beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure.
The HPE 536FLB supports enterprise class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding),
Tunnel offload (NVGRE,VXLAN) Receive Side Scaling (RSS), jumbo frames and PXE boot. It also supports virtualization features such as
SR-IOV, VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ.

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Overview

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HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter

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Platform Information

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Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter 766490-B21
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB FIO Adapter 766491-B21

NOTE:

This adapter on each server blade connects to a 10 Gb interconnect in bays 1-2 (HPE BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure) or
bay 1 (HPE BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure).

NOTE:

This adapter requires a minimum of 2 GB of server memory.

NOTE:

This adapter supports linking at 1000 Mbps or 10000 Mbps when not connected to a Flex-10 device.

NOTE:

This adapter will only support 1000 Mbps when connected to a 1 Gb Ethernet interconnect.

Kit Contents

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement

Compatibility ­Supported Servers

HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade
HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade
HPE ProLiant WS660c Gen9 Server Blade
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade

NOTE:

This is a list of supported servers. Some may be discontinued.

Compatibility

- Supported
Interconnect Modules

HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module
HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module for BladeSystem c-Class
HPE 6120XG Blade Switch
HPE 6120G/XG Blade Switch
HPE 6125G/XG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125G Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125XLG Blade Switch
HPE 6127XLG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch
Cisco Catalyst 3120G Blade Switch for HPE
Cisco Catalyst 3120X Blade Switch for HPE
Cisco Catalyst 3020 Blade Switch
HPE GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE FlexFabric 536FLB Adapter also supports 1 Gb or 10 Gb connections with the following modules:
HP 10GbE Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HP Cisco B22HP Fabric Extender with 16 FET for BladeSystem c-Class

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Standard Features

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Standard Features

At a Glance Features

• Full hardware offload of iSCSI and FCoE storage protocol processing for highest performance converged
Ethernet data and storage networks.

• Dual-port 10GbE Flex-10 FlexibleLOM network adapter that provides the flexibility to choose the type of
LOM to meet growing infrastructure needs

• Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

• Up to 40Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput

• Improved small packet performance

• Support for Tunnel Offload (NVGRE, VxLAN)

• Integrated PHY and MAC

• Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)

• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

• Active Health Systems Support

• Jumbo Frame

• Checksum &Segmentation Offload

• IPv6 Acceleration

• Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)

• HPE Sea of Sensors 3D

• Optimized for virtual server environments with support for HPE Flex-10 Technology, Network Partitioning
(NPAR) and Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) User configurable bandwidth settings when combined
with the 10Gb Flex-10 Virtual Connect module. From 100Mb/s to10Gb/s on up to four "Physical Function"
NICs per port, in increments of 100Mb/s for NIC. The combined bandwidth of NICs cannot exceed port
bandwidth i.e. 10 Gb.

• Note: DPDK and Virtual Connect can't be used at the same time.

Virtual Connect
FlexFabric 10 Gb
Ethernet Module
for the c-Class
BladeSystem

Evolve 10 Gb at your own speed! When paired with the HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb Ethernet
Modules, take advantage of four Flex Nics, which are PCI Physical Function devices that are OS/ Hypervisor
independent. In addition take advantage of iSCSI and FCoE storage offload capability making it a full­Converged Network Adapter (CNA).
Server ROM recognizes them as individual NICs.
Speeds can be set per NIC from 100 Mb to 10 Gbs in 100 Mb increments.
Three fold increase in number of network connections per port.
Up to four physical function NICs per port.
Ideal for virtualized server environment, especially for dedicated bandwidth applications like virtual machine
migration from one physical server to another physical server.

Throughput­Theoretical Bandwidth

This adapter delivers 20 Gb/s bi-directional Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gb/s per adapter), providing
the network performance needed to improve response times and alleviate bottlenecks.

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802.1p QoS Tagging

IEEE quality of service (QoS) 802.1p tagging allows the adapter to mark or tag frames with a priority level
across a QoS-aware network for improved traffic flow.

802.1Q VLANs

IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port of this adapter to be
separated into multiple virtual NICs for added network segmentation and enhanced security and performance.
VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same
VLAN domain also improves performance.

DPDK

This adapter supports DPDK with benefit for packet processing acceleration and use in NFV deployments.

HPE Sea Of Sensors
3D

Support for the HPE Sea of Sensors which is a collection of 32 sensors that automatically track thermal activity ­heat - across the server. When temperatures get too high, sensors can initiate fans and make other adjustments
to reduce energy usage. A significant improvement lies in the ability to apply fan speed increases only to the
portion of the system that is rising in temperature, rather than all six fans in unison, which reduces the amount
of energy used for cooling.

iSCSI/FCoE

This adapter supports accelerated iSCSI or iSCSI boot and FCoE.

Jumbo Frames

This adapter supports Jumbo Frames (also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9,000 byte (KB)
transmission unit (MTU) when running Ethernet I/O traffic. This is over five times the size of a standard 1500­byte Ethernet frame. With Jumbo Frames, networks can achieve higher throughput performance and greater
CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer and tape backup operations.

Management Support

This adapter ships with agents that can be managed from HPE Systems Insight Manager or other management
application that support SNMP.

Message Signaled
Interrupt (Extended)
(MSI-X)

Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load balancing
interrupts between CPUs/cores.

Network Adapter
Teaming

This adapter support for NIC teaming helps IT administrators increase network fault tolerance and increased
network bandwidth, the team of adapters can work together as a single virtual adapter, providing support for
several different types of teaming enabling IT administrators to optimize availability, improve performance
and help reduce costs.

Optimized for
Virtualization

I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ helps meet the performance demands
of consolidated virtual workloads.

Preboot eXecution
Environment (PXE)

Support for PXE enables automatic deployment of computing resources remotely from anywhere. It allows a
new or existing server to boot over the network and download software, including the operating system, from a

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management/ deployment server at another location on the network.Additionally, PXE enables decentralized
software distribution and remote troubleshooting and repairs.

Single-Root I/O
Virtualization

Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) provides a mechanism to bypass the host system hypervisor in virtual
environments providing near metal performance and server efficiency. SR-IOV provides mechanism to create
multiple Virtual Functions (VFs) to share single PCIe resources. The device is capable of SR-IOV, and requires
Server BIOS support, controller firmware, and OS support.

TCP/UDP/IP

For overall improved system response, this adapter supports standard TCP/IP offloading techniques including:
TCP/IP, UDP checksum offload (TCO) moves the TCP and IP checksum offloading from the CPU to the network
adapter. Large send offload (LSO) or TCP segmentation offload (TSO) allows the TCP segmentation to be
handled by the adapter rather than the CPU.

Tunnel Offload

Minimize the impact of overlay networking on host performance with tunnel offload support for VXLAN
and NVGRE. By offloading packet processing to adapters, customers can use overlay networking to increase
VM migration flexibility and virtualized overlay networks with minimal impact to performance. HPE Tunnel
Offloading increases I/O throughput, reduces CPU utilization, and lowers power consumption. Tunnel Offload
supports VMware's VXLAN and Microsoft's NVGRE solutions.

Checksum &
Segmentation Offload

Normally the TCP Checksum is computed by the protocol stack. Segmentation Offload is technique for
increasing outbound throughput of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. The
technique is also called TCP segmentation offload (TSO) when applied to TCP, or generic segmentation offload
(GSO).

IPv6

IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing allowing for more devices and users on the internet. IPv4 supported 32-bit
addressing.

Precision Time
Protocol (IEEE 1588
PTP)

Synchronization of system clocks throughout a network, achieving clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond
range, making it suitable for measurement and control systems.

Receive Side Scaling
(RSS)

RSS resolves the single-processor bottleneck by allowing the receive side network load from a network adapter
to be shared across multiple processors. RSS enables packet receive-processing to scale with the number of
available processors.

Warranty

Maximum: The remaining warranty of the HPE product in which it is installed (to a maximum three-year, limited
warranty).
Minimum: One year limited warranty.

NOTE:

Additional information regarding worldwide limited warranty and technical
support is available at: http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/warranty/

index.aspx#.V4e3tPkrJhE

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Service and Support

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Service and Support

Service and Support NOTE:

This adapter is covered under HPE Support Services/ Service Contract applied to the HPE
ProLiant Server or enclosure. No separate HPE Support Services need to be purchased.

Most HPE branded options sourced from HPE that are compatible with your product will be covered under
your main product support at the same level of coverage, allowing you to upgrade freely. Additional support is
required on select workload accelerators, switches, racks and UPS options 12KVA and over. Coverage of the
UPS battery is not included under HPE support services; standard warranty terms and conditions apply.

Warranty and Support
Services

Warranty and Support Services will extend to include HPE options configured with your server or storage
device. The price of support service is not impacted by configuration details. HPE sourced options that are
compatible with your product will be covered under your server support at the same level of coverage allowing
you to upgrade freely. Installation for HPE options is available as needed. To keep support costs low for
everyone, some high value options will require additional support. Additional support is only required on select
high value workload accelerators, fibre switches, InfiniBand and UPS options 12KVA and over. Coverage of the
UPS battery is not included under TS support services; standard warranty terms and conditions apply.

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Parts and Materials

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to
maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available
and recommended engineering improvements. Parts and components that have reached their maximum
supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual,
product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of
these services. The defective media retention service feature option applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash
Drives replaced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise due to malfunction.

For more information

Visit the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Service and Support website.

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Technical Specifications

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Technical Specifications

General Specifications

Network Processor QLogic 57840S with integrated MAC/PHY
Data Rate Two ports, each at 20 Gb/s

bi-directional; 40 Gb/s
aggregate bi-directional theoretical bandwidth.

Onboard Memory 900 MB (distributed memory)
Bus type PCI Express 3.0 (Gen3) x8
Form Factor FlexibleLOM
IEEE Compliance 802.3, 802.1ab, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.3p, 802.1q, 802.3ae, 802.1Qau,

802.3ap

Power and
Environmental
Specifications

Power <12W
Temperature - Operating 0° to 55°C (32° to 131°F)
Humidity - Operating 10% to 90% non-condensing
Emissions Classification FCC Class A
Agency Approvals USA: FCC Part 15 Class A

Canada: ICES-003, Issue 4
Japan: VCCI V3 (2010.04) Class A
International: EN55022:2006 + A1:2007 Class A
International: EN55024:1998+A1:2011+A2; EN61000-3-2:2006,
EN61000-3-3:2008
Taiwan: BSMI, CNS13438 (2006) Class A
Australia/New Zealand (AS/NZS): EN55022:2006+A12007 class A
Korea: KN22 Class A, KN24

RoHS Compliance 6 of 6
Safety UL Mark (USA and Canada)

CE Mark
EN 60590

Operating System and
Virtualization Support

The Operating Systems supported by this adapter are based on the server OS support. Please refer to the
OSSupport Matrix athttps://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/server-operating-systems.html

Environment­friendly Products and
Approach - End-of­life Management and
Recycling

Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers end-of-life product return, trade-in, and recycling programs, in many
geographic areas, for our products. Products returned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be recycled, recovered
or disposed of in a responsible manner.
The EU WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each
product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on
the Hewlett Packard Enterprise web site. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE
treatment facilities as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise OEM customers who integrate and re-sell Hewlett
Packard Enterprise equipment.

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Summary of Changes

Summary of Changes

Date Version History Action Description of Change

05-Feb-2018 Version 9 Changed OS and Overview section were updated
11-Jul-2017 Version 8 Changed Compatibility section was updated.
27-Mar-2017 Version 7 Changed Overview and Standard Features were updated.
21-Oct-2016 Version 6 Changed Add DPDK, update servers and add SKU 455880-B21

Changed Compatibility, Related Options, and Technical Specifications sections were

updated.

29-Apr-2016 Version 5

Added SKUs added in Related Options section:

787635-B21, 787635-B22.

17-Dec-2015 Version 4 Changed Overview, Compatibility, Standard Features, Service and Support, and

Technical Specifications sections were updated.

19-Jun-2015 Version 3 Changed Overview, compatibility, standard features, and technical specifications

sections were updated.

Changed Compatibility, Standard Features and Related Options sections were

updated

Added SKUs Added on HPE 10/20Gb interconnects:

691367-B21, 691367-B22, 571956-B21, 605865-B21, 638526-B21,
662048-B21, 737230-B21, 737226-B21, 658247-B21, 737220-B21,
406740-B21, 657787-B21

28-Nov-2014 Version 2

Removed Obsolete SKUs removed:

455880-B21

09-Sep-2014 Version 1 New Initial version

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