HPE 794525-B21 Getting Started Guide

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter

Overview

Overview

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter

The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T adapter is a dual port 10GBASE-T adapter for ProLiant Gen9 rack and Density Optimized
servers in a FlexibleLOM form factor that provides full-featured, high performance, converged 10 Gb Ethernet that accelerates IT services
and increases data center efficiency across a broad range of I/O intensive enterprise, cloud and Telco workloads. The HPE 556FLR-T
Adapter, with two RJ-45 connectors, delivers full line-rate performance across all ports with low power consumption, utilizing CAT 6A
UTP (or better) cabling with distances up to 100 meters and is backward compatible to existing 1000BASE-T infrastructure.
It offers overlay network tunneling and storage capabilities that increase host efficiency and virtualization performance.
The HPE FlexFabric 556FLR-T can provide up to 40 Gb/s of converged bi-directional Ethernet bandwidth, helping to alleviate network
bottlenecks.

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter

Platform Information

Platform Information

Models

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter 794525-B21

Kit Contents

Compatibility ­Supported Servers

HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLRT Adapter
Quick install card
Product warranty statement

HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL80 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen8
HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen8
HPE Apollo 2000 - XL1x0 Gen9

NOTE:

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

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QuickSpecs HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 556FLR-T Adapter

Standard Features

Standard Features

At a Glance Features

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

• Operates at 1 Gbps/10 Gbps, auto-negotiation, on both ports

• 10GBASE-T connectivity supporting up to 100 meters with CAT 6A cabling

• Converges FCoE

• Tunnel Offload support for VXLAN and NVGRE network virtualization

• Advanced storage offload processing freeing up valuable CPU cycles and reduces server power
consumption

• Supports UEFI and legacy boot options

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

• Concurrent Storage - concurrently supports NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI storage functions on the same port (NIC
+ FCoE + iSCSI)

• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

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

• FlexibleLOM Adapter

• Greater bandwidth with PCIe 3.0

• Includes 128MB of onboard memory

• 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

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

• Optimized host virtualization density with SR-IOV support

Throughput­Theoretical Bandwidth

802.1p QoS Tagging

802.1Q VLANs

Configuration Utilities

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

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