HPE 700065-B21 Getting Started Guide

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Overview

Overview

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter

Recommended SKU - This adapter is a recommended option that has been selected by HPE experts to provide the right technology for
a range of workloads and market segments offering the best combination of performance, value and availability.
The HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB adapter features the first generation of 20Gb Ethernet offering in a single chip solution on a
FlexibleLOM form factor, further reducing power requirements for 2 ports of 20Gb Ethernet. It is designed for use with HPE BladeSystem
c-Class servers.
It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric blade interconnect and
Network Partitioning (NPAR)  technology, allowing each 20GbE port to be divided into four physical NICs and optimize bandwidth
management for virtualized servers. The HPE 630FLB FlexFabric network adapter, in conjunction with HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric
technology, helps to extend the benefits of virtualization beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure.
The HPE 630FLB 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 FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter

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Platform Information

Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter 700065-B21
HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB FIO Adapter 700066-B21

NOTE:

NOTE:
NOTE:

This adapter on each server blade connects to a 20 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 10 Gb/s when not connected to a Flex-20 device.

Kit Contents

Compatibility ­Supported Servers

Compatibility

- Supported
Interconnect Modules

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement

HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server
HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server
HPE ProLiant WS460c Gen9 Server

NOTE:

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

HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module for c-Class BladeSystem with TAA
HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10/24 Enterprise Edition BLc7000 Option
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 6127XLG Ethernet Blade Switch
HPE 6127XLG Ethernet Blade Switch with TAA
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

NOTE:

Supported features with VC modules and Ethernet switches.

Feature VC FF20/40F8VC FF

10/24

VC Flex­10/10D

VC Flex-10 HPE 6125 HPE 6127

20G X - - - - X
10G X X X X X X
FCoE X X X - X X

This adapter also supports 1 Gb or 10 Gb connections with the following modules:
HPE 10GbE Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class BladeSystem
HPE 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class BladeSystem

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Platform Information

HPE Cisco B22HP Fabric Extender with 16 FET for BladeSystem c-Class

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Standard Features

Standard Features

At a Glance Features

• Full hardware offload of iSCSI and FCoE storage protocol processing for highest performance converged
Ethernet data and storage networks.

• Dual-port 20GbE Flex-20 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 40Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput

• User configurable bandwidth settings when combined with the 20 Gb Flex-20 Virtual Connect module or
using NPAR. From 100 Mb/s to 20 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

• Support for Tunnel Offload (NVGRE, VxLAN)

• Integrated PHY and MAC

• Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

• Optimized for virtual server environments with support for HPE Flex-20 Technology, Network Partitioning
(NPAR) and Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

• Supports Wake-on-LAN (WoL)

• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)

• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

• Active Health Systems Support

• Jumbo Frame

• Checksum &Segmentation Offload

• IPv6 Acceleration

• Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)

• HPE Sea of Sensors 3D

• * Storage personality must be disabled on NIC intended for DPDK workload. DPDK and Storage modes
cannot be used concurrently on current generation CNA NICs. HPE Recommends using 2 separate NICS for
Storage (Control Plane), and DPDK (Data Plane) workloads for the optimal high availability configuration.

Virtual Connect FlexFabric 20 Gb Ethernet Module for the c-Class BladeSystem

Evolve 20 Gb at your own speed! When paired with the HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 20 Gb Ethernet
Modules, take advantage of four Flex Nics, which are PCI Physical Function devices that are OS/ Hypervisor
independent. In addition take advantage of new storage I/O functionality making it a full-Converged Network
Adapter (CNA).
Server ROM recognizes them as individual NICs
Speeds can be set per NIC from 100 Mb/s to 20 Gb/s in 100 Mb/s increments
Three fold increase in number of network connections per port and up to four physical function NICs per port.
Ideal for virtualized server environments, especially for dedicated bandwidth applications like virtual machine
migration from one physical server to another physical server.

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