HPE 647586-B21 Getting Started Guide

QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter

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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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter

Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter 647586-B21 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB FIO Adapter 684212-B21

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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

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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

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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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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB Adapter

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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