HPE 656590-B21 Getting Started Guide

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

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

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

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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