HP 656590-B21 Getting Started Guide

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Overview

Overview

HPE Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB Adapter

The HPE Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB 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 Gen8 servers.
It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 blade interconnect
technology, allowing each 10GbE port to be divided into four physical NICs and optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers.
The HPE Flex-10 530FLB network adapter, in conjunction with HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, helps to extend the benefits of
virtualization beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure.
The HPE 530FLB supports enterprise class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding),
Tunneling Offloads (NVGRE, VxLAN),Receive Side Scaling (RSS), jumbo frames and PXE boot. It also supports virtualization features such
as SR-IOV, Network Partitioning (NPAR), VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ.

HPE Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB Adapter

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Platform Information

Platform Information

Models

HPE Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB Adapter 656590-B21
HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB FIO Adapter 684211-B21

NOTE:
NOTE:
NOTE:
NOTE:

This adapter requires a minimum of 2 GB of server memory.
This adapter supports linking at 1000 Mbps or 10000 Mbps when not connected to a Flex-10 device.
This adapter will only support 1000 Mbps when connected to a 1 Gb Ethernet interconnect.
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).

Kit Contents

Compatibility ­Supported Servers

Compatibility

- Supported
Interconnect Modules

HPE Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement

HPE Server Support
HPE ProLiant BL420c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL465c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen8

NOTE:

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

HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module Enterprise Edition for BLc7000 Option
HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module Enterprise Edition for BLc7000 Option
HPE 6120XG Blade Switch
HPE 6120G/XG Blade Switch
HPE 6125XLG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125XLG Ethernet Blade Switch with TAA
HPE 6125G/XG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125G/XG Ethernet Blade Switch with TAA
HPE 6125G Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125G Ethernet Blade Switch with TAA
HPE 6127XLG Ethernet Blade Switch
Cisco Catalyst 3120G Blade Switch for HPE
Cisco Catalyst 3120X Blade Switch for HPE
Cisco Catalyst 3020 Blade Switch
Cisco Fabric Extener B22HP for HPE
HPE 10GbE Pass-Thru Module
HPE 1GbE Pass-Thru Module

NOTE:

10GbE connectivity is supported in all HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet, HPE 6120XG, HPE
6125XG series switches, and HPE 10GbE Pass-Thru modules. All other supported interconnects
and switches are limited to 1GbE per connection for Ethernet-only traffic.

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Standard Features

Standard Features

At a Glance Features

• 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, TCP Offload Engine (TOE)

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

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

• User configurable bandwidth settings when combined with the 10 Gb Flex-10 Virtual Connect module.
From 100 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s on up to four "Physical Function" NICs per port, in increments of 100 Mb/s for
NIC. The combined bandwidth of NICs cannot exceed port bandwidth i.e. 10 Gb.

• Improved small packet performance

• Compatible with HPE FlexibleLOM slot for c-Class Gen8 blade servers.

• Integrated PHY and MAC

• Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

• Supports SR-IOV (requires server FW, SW and OS support)

• Supports HPE Flex-10 blade interconnect technology as well as switch-independent Network Partitioning
(NPAR)

Virtual Connect
Flex-10

Throughput­Theoretical Bandwidth

802.1p QoS Tagging

802.1Q VLANs

HPE Sea Of Sensors

Evolve 10 Gb at your own speed when paired with the HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 10 Gb Ethernet
Modules. Take advantage of four Flex Nics, which are PCI Physical Function devices that are OS/ Hypervisor
independent.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 kick on fans and make other adjustments
to reduce energy usage. What makes it better is the upgrade from all six fans kicking on at one time to a new

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Standard Features

system where only one kicks on - the one in proximity of the area that started heating up - thus reducing the
amount of energy used for cooling.

Jumbo Frames

Management Support

Message Signaled
Interrupt (Extended)
(MSI-X)

Network Adapter
Teaming

Network Partitioning
(NPAR)

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.

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) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load balancing
interrupts between CPUs/cores.

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.

This adapter supports Network Partitioning (NPAR) allowing administrators to configure a 10 Gb port as four
separate partitions or physical functions. Each PCI function is associated with a different virtual NIC. To the OS
and the network, each physical function appears as a separate NIC port.

Optimized for
Virtualization

Preboot eXecution
Environment (PXE)

Single-Root I/O
Virtualization

TCP/UDP/IP

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

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
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 (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.

For overall improved system response, this adapter supports standard TCP/IP offloading techniques including:

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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.

TOE

Tunnel Offload

Warranty

TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) shifts the processing of data in the TCP protocol stack from the server CPU to
the adapter's processor, freeing server CPU cycles for other operations.

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.

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 & Support

Service & Support

Service and Support NOTE:

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.

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.

Warranty and Support
Services

Protect your business
beyond warranty with
HPE Support Services

Parts and Materials

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.

HPE Technology Services delivers confidence, reduces risk and helps customers realize agility and stability.
Connect to HPE to help prevent problems and solve issues faster. HPE Support Services enable you to choose
the right service level, length of coverage and response time as you purchase your new server, giving you full
entitlement to the support you need for your IT and business.
Protect your product, beyond warranty.

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 HPE due to malfunction.

For more information

Visit the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Service and Support website.

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Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications

General Specifications

Network Processor QLogic 57810S 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 PCI Express 2.0 (Gen 2) 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

Operating System and
Virtualization Support

Power <12W
Temperature - Operating 0° to 55°C (32° to 131°F)
Temperature - Non-Operating -40° to 70° C (-40° to 158° F)
Humidity - Operating 10% to 90% non-condensing
Humidity - Non-operating 5% to 95% 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;
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

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 w/SP1 (x86 and x64)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2

• Microsoft Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 w/SP1, 2012, 2012 R2

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, 7

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, 12

• Solaris 10, 11

• VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.x

• VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.5

NOTE:

For more operating system support and certification information,
please visit: http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/

redhat_linux.aspx#.V4e8tPkrJD8

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

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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

27-Mar-2017 From Version 10 to11Changed Related Options section is updated.

23-Sep-2016 From Version 9 to

10

Changed Overview, Standard Features, Related Options, Technical Specifications

sections were updated.

Removed Obsolete SKUs were deleted in Related Options sections:

647586-B21, 700741-B21, 647590-B21, 700748-B21, 631884-B21.

19-Jun-2015 From Version 8 to 9 Changed Overview, Compatibility, Standard Features, Related Options and Technical

Specifications sections were updated.

28-Nov-2014 From Version 7 to 8

Changed Overview, Compatibility, Standard Features, Technical Specifications

sections were updated

Added SKU added on models:

684211-B21
SKUs added on HPE 10Gb interconnects:
658250-B21, 737226-B21, 658247-B21, 737220-B21
SKUs added on Additional c-Class BladeSystem Adapters:

700741-B21, 700748-B21
18-Apr-2014 From Version 6 to 7 Changed Service and Support was revised.
01-Mar-2013 From Version 5 to 6 Changed Changes were made to the Overview Section and Standard Features

Section.
14-Dec-2012 From Version 4 to 5 Changed Changes were made in the following sections:

Overview: Models;return needed

Compatibility: HPE Proliant Server Support spelling correction

Standard Features: word deleted in Product Features and moved TCP/IP

Stateless Offloading node
24-Aug-2012 From Version 3 to 4 Changed Changes were made in Compatibility section.
22-Jun-2012 From Version 2 to 3 Changed Changes were within the Standard Features section.
09-Mar-2012 From Version 1 to 2 Changed Changes were within the Standard Features section.

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