Embedded Nic; Performance Balancing - HP ML570 - ProLiant - G2 Setup And Installation Manual

PCI-X Technology

Embedded NIC

The embedded NIC that ships with the server is an RJ-45 10/100 Autosensing
Ethernet Network Interface Controller (NIC) with Wake On LAN (WOL) support
and Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support. The embedded NIC shares a PCI
bus with the embedded SCSI controller and the embedded video controller. Using the
HP Network Teaming and Configuration Utility, the embedded NIC can be teamed
with any other standup NC series NIC for Network Fault Tolerance and Adaptive
Load Balancing. The teaming software can be downloaded from the website:
www.hp.com/servers/proliant/manage

Performance Balancing

Balancing is the paired arrangement of expansion boards for optimal performance
based on the bus architecture of the expansion slots.
Properly balancing the expansion boards across buses can improve performance. To
balance expansion boards, populate slots across different buses before populating two
slots on the same bus.
Table 4-2 provides a guideline for slot population order.
NOTE: The slot population order that follows is a recommendation only; any PCI or PCI-X
expansion board may reside in any slot.
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