Standard Features - HP 571956-B21 Specification

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Standard Features

Product Features Performance
16 x 10Gb Ethernet downlinks to server blade NICs and FlexFabric Adapters
Each 10Gb downlink supports up to 3 FlexNICs and 1 FlexHBA or 4 FlexNICs
Each FlexHBA can be configured to transport either Fiber Channel over Ethernet/CEE or Accelerated
iSCSI protocol.
Each FlexNIC and FlexHBA is recognized by the server as a PCI-e physical function device with
adjustable speeds from 100Mb to 10Gb in 100Mb increments when connected to a HP NC553i 10Gb
2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter or any Flex-10 NIC and from 1Gb to 10Gb in 100Mb
increments when connected to a NC551i Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapter or
NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapter
4 SFP+ external uplink ports configurable as either 10Gb Ethernet or 2/4/8Gb auto-negotiating
Fibre Channel connections to external LAN or SAN switches
4 SFP+ external uplink ports configurable as 1/10Gb auto-negotiating Ethernet connected to
external LAN switches
8 x 10Gb SR, LR fiber and copper SFP+ uplink ports (4 ports also support 10Gb LRM fiber SFP+)
Extended list of direct attach copper cable connections supported
2 x 10Gb shared internal cross connects for redundancy and stacking
HBA aggregation on FC configured uplink ports using ANSI T11 standards-based N_Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV) technology
Allows up to 255 virtual machines running on the same physical server to access separate storage
resources
Low latency (1.5 µs Ethernet ports and 2.0 µs Enet/Fibre Channel ports) throughput provides
switch-like performance.
Line Rate, full-duplex 480 Gbps bridging fabric
MTU up to 9216 Bytes - Jumbo Frames
Supports up to 32,000 L2 MAC entries
VLAN Tagging, Pass-Thru and Link Aggregation supported on all uplinks
In tunneled VLAN mode, up to 4,096 networks are supported per network uplink and server
downlink. In mapped VLAN mode, up to 1,000 networks are supported on network uplinks per Share
Uplink Set, domain or module and on server downlinks up to 162 networks are supported per 10Gb
physical port (VC v3.30 or later).
Stack multiple Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules with other VC FlexFabric, VC Flex-10 or VC
Ethernet Modules across up to 4 BladeSystem enclosures allowing any server Ethernet port to
connect to any Ethernet uplink
Management
Integrated Virtual Connect Manager included with every module, providing out-of-the-box, secure
HTTP and scriptable CLI interfaces for individual Virtual Connect domain configuration and
management.
Pre-configure server I/O configurations prior to server installation for easy deployment
Move, add, or change server network connections on the fly without impacting LAN and SAN
administrator
Monitoring and management via industry standard SNMP v.1 and v.2
Supported by Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) v6.2 and higher for centralized connection
and workload management for hundreds of Virtual Connect domains. Learn more at:
www.hp.com/go/vcem
CLI commands provide access to essential system status, resource utilization, MAC forwarding
tables, interfaces, and throughput to assist datacenter network troubleshooting
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