HPE 700076-B21 Getting Started Guide

QuickSpecs

Overview

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630M 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 630M is a 2-port 20GbE Mezzanine adapter, featuring the first generation of 20Gb Ethernet offering in a single chip solution on a mezzanine form factor that further reduces power requirements for 2 ports of 20Gb Ethernet. It is designed for use with HPE BladeSystem c-Class blade server platforms’ type A and Type B mezzanine slots. It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HPE Virtual Connect Flex-20 blade interconnect technology, allowing each 20GbE port to be divided into four physical NICs and optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. The HPE FlexFabric 630M 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 630M supports enterprise class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding), Tunnel Offload (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 630M Adapter

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630M Adapter

Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630M Adapter 700076-B21

NOTE: NOTE:

This adapter requires a minimum of 2GB of server memory. This adapter supports linking at 10Gb/s when not connected to a Flex-20 device.

Kit Contents

Compatibility Supported Servers

Compatibility

- Supported Interconnect Modules

HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2P 630M Adapter Quick install card Product warranty statement

HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server HPE ProLiant WS460c Gen9 Server HPE ProLiant BL660c 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 - - - 10G FCoE -

This adapter also supports 1Gb or 10Gb 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 HPE Cisco B22HP Fabric Extender with 16 FET for BladeSystem c-Class

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630M Adapter

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 Flex-20 10GbE Type A adapter for HPE BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 and Gen9 blade servers

• Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE)

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

• 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)

• The HPE 630M adapter is compatible with Type A and B mezzanine slots for greater deployment versatility

• The HPE 630M is a Type A mezzanine adapter (works in Type A and Type B mezzanine slots)

• User configurable bandwidth settings when combined with the 20Gb Flex-20 Virtual Connect module or NPAR. From 100Mb/s to20Gb/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. 10Gb

• DPDK and Virtual Connect cannot be used at the same time.

• 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

ThroughputTheoretical Bandwidth

802.1p QoS Tagging

802.1Q VLANs

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.

This adapter delivers 40 Gb/s bi-directional Ethernet transfer rate per port (80 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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