HPE 727060-B21 Getting Started Guide

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Overview

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter

Extended SKU - This adapter is part of an extended catalog of products tailored for customers in specific markets or with specific workloads, requiring the utmost in performance or value, but typically have a longer lead-time. The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ adapter for ProLiant rack servers provides full-featured, high performance, converged 10Gb Ethernet that accelerates IT services and increases data center efficiency across a broad range of I/O intensive enterprise, cloud and Telco workloads. It offers overlay network tunneling and storage capabilities that increase host efficiency and virtualization performance. The HPE FlexFabric 556FLR-SFP+ can provide up to 40 Gb/s of converged bi-directional Ethernet bandwidth, helping to alleviate network bottlenecks.

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter

Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter 727060-B21 HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ FIO Adapter 732456-B21

Kit Contents

Compatibility Supported Servers

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter Quick install card Product warranty statement

HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9 HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 HPE Apollo 2000 XL170r Gen9 HPE Apollo 2000 XL190r Gen9 HPE Apollo 4200 Gen9 HPE Apollo 6000 - XL230a Gen9 HPE Apollo 6000 - XL230b Gen9 HPE Apollo 6000 - XL250a Gen9

NOTE:

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

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter

Standard Features

At a Glance Features

• Dual 10Gb ports provide up to 40Gb bi-directional per adapter

• Converges FCoE

• Tunnel Offload support for VXLAN and NVGRE

• Advanced storage offload processing freeing up valuable CPU cycles

• Supports UEFI and legacy boot options

• Mixed Storage - supports NIC + FCoE on one port, and NIC + iSCSI on the other

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

• Over eight million small packets/s, ideal for web/mobile applications, mobile messaging, and social media

• FlexibleLOM Adapter

• Greater bandwidth with PCIe 3.0

• Jumbo Frames support

• Supports Wake-on-LAN (WoL)

• Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)

• Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems

• Support for Windows SMB Direct

• Supports VMWare NetQueue, Microsoft Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) for Windows

• Optimized host virtualization density with SR-IOV support

• CNU support

ThroughputTheoretical Bandwidth

802.1p QoS Tagging

802.1Q VLANs

Configuration Utilities

Interrupt Coalescing

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.

This adapter ships with a suite of operating system-tailored configuration utilities that allow the user to enable initial diagnostics and configure adapter teaming. This includes a patented teaming GUI for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Additionally, support for scripted installations of teams in a Microsoft Windows environment allow for unattended OS installations.

Interrupt coalescing (interrupt moderation) groups multiple packets, thereby reducing the number of interrupts sent to the host. This process optimizes host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.

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