HP Flex-10 10Gb User Manual

QuickSpecs

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

Overview

The HP 530M is a 2-port 10GbE Mezzanine adapter, featuring the next generation of 10Gb Ethernet offering in a single chip solution on
a mezzanine form factor that further reduces power requirements for 2 ports of 10Gb Ethernet. It is designed for use with HP
BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 blade server platform's type A and Type B mezzanine slots.

It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HP 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 HP Flex-10 530M adapter, in conjunction with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, helps to extend the benefits of
virtualization beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure.

The HP 530M supports enterprise class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding),
Receive Side Scaling (RSS), jumbo frames, PXE boot and virtualization features such as VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ.

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

Models

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

NOTE:

The HP 530M requires a minimum of 2 GB of server memory.

NOTE:

The HP 530M supports linking at 1000Mbps or 10000Mbps when not connected to a Flex-10 device. The HP

530M will only support 1000Mbps when connected to a 1Gb Ethernet interconnect.

Kit Contents

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement
Drivers, user guide, and utilities via:

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Compatibility

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

HP ProLiant Server
Support

Supported Interconnect
Modules

HP ProLiant BL420c Gen8
HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module
HP 1/10Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module
HP 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module HP
HP 6120XG Blade Switch
HP 6120G/XG Blade Switch
HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch
Cisco Catalyst 3120G Blade Switch for HP
Cisco Catalyst 3120X Blade Switch for HP
Cisco Catalyst 3020 Blade Switch
Cisco Fabric Extender B22HP for HP
HP GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch
HP 10GbE Pass-Thru Module
HP 1GbE Pass Thru Module

NOTE:

Except for the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module, HP Virtual Connect Flex Fabric Module,
HP 6120XG, HP 10GbE Pass-Thru Module and the Cisco B22 Fabric Extender, all other supported
interconnects are limited to 1Gb per port connection.

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Standard Features

Performance

Product Features

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

Dual-port Flex-10 10GbE Type A adapter for HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 blade servers
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
The HP 530M is a Type A mezzanine adapter (works in Type A and Type B mezzanine slots)
Supports HP's Flex-10 blade interconnect technology
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.
Up to 40Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput
Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
Improved small packet performance
Integrated PHY and MAC
Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

Dual-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Throughput
(theoretical bandwidth)

HP Virtual Connect Flex­10 10Gb Ethernet Module
for the c-Class
BladeSystem

Jumbo Frames

MSI and MSI-X

The HP 530M adapter delivers 20,000 Mbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gbps aggregate
full duplex), providing the network performance needed to improve response times and alleviate
bottlenecks that impact performance of next generation data centers. 10Gb Ethernet bandwidth is ideal for
high performance computing, database clusters and virtualization.

Evolve 10Gb at your own speed! When paired with the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb 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 100Mb to 10Gbs in 100Mb 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 application like virtual
machine migration from one physical server to another physical server.

The HP 530M adapter supports jumbo frames (also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9K byte
(KB) transmission unit (MTU) when running Ethernet I/O traffic. This is over 5X 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.

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

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.

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Standard Features

HP Flex-10 10Gb 2-port 530M Adapter

802.1Q VLANs

TCP/IP Stateless
Offloading

TOE

Optimized for
Virtualization

HP Sea of Sensors 3D

IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port of the HP 530M 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.

TCP, IP, UDP checksum offload, Large Send Offload (LSO), TCP, Segmentation Offload (TSO). These
features optimize host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.

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.

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

Compliant with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), accommodating multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to
share single PCIe resources. The device is capable of SR-IOV, and requires Firmware, Software and OS
support

Support for HP's 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 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.

RDMA

iSCSI

Not Supported

The HP 530M does not support accelerated iSCSI or iSCSI boot.

Ease of Deployment and Management

PXE Boot Support

Compatible with Type A
and B Mezzanine Slots

Network Adapter Teaming

The HP 530M adapter supports the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) allows the server to boot over
the network and download software residing in the network.

The HP 530M adapter is compatible with Type A and B mezzanine slots for greater deployment versatility

The HP 530M adapter support for NIC teaming helps IT administrators increase network fault tolerance and
improve workload balance. These capabilities optimize availability, improve performance and help reduce
costs.

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