QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter
Overview
Overview
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter
The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB adapter supports Virtual Connect Flex-10 that allows each 10Gb port to be divided into four
physical NICs to optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. When connected to a Data Center Bridging (DCB) capable
switch, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Ethernet I/O are separated and routed to the corresponding network. For iSCSI storage,
the HPE 554FLB supports full protocol offload providing better CPU efficiency when compared to software initiators thus enabling the
server to handle increased virtualization workloads and compute-intensive applications. This combination of high-performance network
and storage connectivity reduces cost and complexity and provides the flexibility and scalability to fully optimize Gen8 BladeSystem
servers. The HPE 554FLB delivers the performance benefits and cost savings of converged network connectivity for HPE BladeSystem
servers. The dual-port HPE 554FLB optimizes network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP,
TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI.
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter
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Platform Information
Platform Information
Models
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter 647586-B21
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB FIO Adapter 684212-B21
NOTE:
NOTE:
NOTE:
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).
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.
Kit Contents
Compatibility Supported Servers
Compatibility
- Supported
Interconnect Modules
HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL420c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL465c Gen8
HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen8
HPE ProLiant WS460c Gen8
NOTE:
This is a list of supported servers. Some may be discontinued.
HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module
HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module
HPE 1/10Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module
HPE 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module HPE
HPE 6120XG Blade Switch
HPE 6120G/XG Blade Switch
HPE 6125G/XG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6125XLG Ethernet 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
Cisco Fabric Extender B22HP for HPE
HPE GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 10GbE Pass-Thru Module
HPE 1GbE Pass Thru Module
NOTE:
Except for the HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module, HPE Virtual Connect Flex Fabric
Module, HPE 6120XG, HPE 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
Standard Features
At a Glance Features
• Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI
• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
• Dual 10Gb ports provide up to 40Gb full duplex per adapter
• Supports Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
• Supports Gen8 c-Class ProLiant BladeSystem servers in the designated FlexibleLOM slots
• FlexibleLOM adapter that provides the flexibililty to choose the type of LOM to meet growing infrastructure
needs
• IEEE 802.1p QoS 802.3x flow control, and 802.3ap 10GBase-KR
• Jumbo frames support
• Supports the HPE Flex-10 and FlexFabric technologies that allow setting any bandwidth from 100 Mb to
10 Gb on up to four physical function NICs or Flex NICs per port when combined with the 10 Gb Flex-10
Virtual Connect module. One of the Flex NICs can be configured to support FCoE or accelerated iSCSI.
• Each FlexNIC and FlexHBA is recognized by the server as a PCI-e physical function device with adjustable
speeds from 1Gb to 10Gb in 100Mb increments
• Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across
multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems.
• Includes 128 MB of onboard memory.
• Supports Wake-on-LAN (WoL)
• Supports SR-IOV
Virtual Connect Flex-10
ThroughputTheoretical Bandwidth
802.1p QoS Tagging
802.1Q VLANs
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.
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Standard Features
VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to within the same
VLAN domain also improves performance.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Jumbo Frames
Network Adapter Teaming
Single-Root I/O Virtualization
TCP/UDP/IP
Combines the functionality of an industry-standard NIC with an industry-proven Fibre Channel to seamlessly
converge the traffic over a shared lossless Ethernet network.
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 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.
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:
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
Wake-on-LAN
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.
This adapter provides Wake-on-LAN (WoL) support through the PCI Express bus. A system that supports
Wake-on-LAN can remain available to the systems administrator during its normal downtime. Once the
machine is awakened, the systems administrator can remotely control, audit, debug, or manage the machine.
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 Emulex BE3
Data Rate Two ports, each at 20 Gb/s bi-directional; 40 Gb/s aggregate bi-directional
theoretical bandwidth.
Onboard Memory 128 MB
Bus type PCI Express 2.0 (Gen 2) x8
Form Factor FlexibleLOM
IEEE Compliance 802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBase-KX4), and
802.3x
Power and Environmental Specifications
Operating System and Virtualization Support
Power 8.6W idle and 10W maximum
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 (CFR 47 part 15) and UL 60950
Canada: ICES-003 and CSA60950
Japan: VCCI
Korea: MIC (RRL), EMC Registration
Australia: ACA, AS/NZS3548/EN55022:1998, EN55024:1998
European Union: EN55022:1998 (CISPR 22), EN55024:1998, and
IEC60950:1999 (EN60950:2000)
RoHS Compliance 6 of 6
Safety UL Mark (USA and Canada)
CE Mark
EN 60590
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2 w/SP1 (x86 and x64)
• Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, R2 w/SP1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7, 6.1 (x86, EM64T/AMD64)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4, 11 SP1 (x86, EM64T/AMD64)
• Solaris 10
• VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 ESXi 5.0
• Citrix XenServer 6.0
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
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 13 to14Changed Related Options was updated.
Changed Compatibility section was updated.17-Dec-2015 From Version 12 to
13
18-Apr-2014 From Version 11 to12Changed Service and Support and Recommended Services were revised.
11
11-Oct-2013 From Version 9 to10Changed Updated the following Sections:
29-Mar-2013 From Version 8 to 9 Changed Compatibility: Updated HPE ProLiant Server Support section.
24-Aug-2012 From Version 6 to 7 Changed Changes were made within the Compatibility section.
22-Jun-2012 From Version 5 to 6 Changed Changes were made within the Compatibility section.
11-Jun-2012 From Version 4 to 5 Changed Changes were made within the Compatibility section.
21-May-2012 From Version 3 to 4 Changed Changes were made within the Technical Specifications section.
30-Mar-2012 From Version 2 to 3 Changed Changes were made within the Standard Features section.
09-Mar-2012 From Version 1 to 2 Changed Changes were made within the Standard Features section.
Changed Obsolete SKUs were deleted:
455880-B21
Changed Changes made in the Standard Features Section - Product Features.07-Dec-2013 From Version 10 to
Added Added new node under Standard Features - Single- Root I / O Virtualization.
Compatibility
Related Options
Changed Changes were made in Overview.09-Nov-2012 From Version 7 to 8
Added Added new node Network Adaptor Teaming in Standard Features section.
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