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QuickSpecs
Standard Features
Performance
Product Features
Dual-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Throughput
(theoretical bandwidth)
Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE)
HP Virtual Connect Flex-
10 10Gb Ethernet Module
for the c-Class
BladeSystem
Jumbo Frames
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
Supports Gen8 c-Class ProLiant BladeSystem servers
Type A Mezzanine Adapter
Dual 10Gb ports provide up to 40Gb full duplex per adapter
Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Fibre Channel
over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI
802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBase-KX4) and 802.3x
Jumbo frames support
Supports HP's FlexFabric and Flex-10 technologies that allow setting any bandwidth from 100Mb to
10Gb on up to four physical function NICs or Flex NICs per port when combined with the 10Gb Flex-
10 Virtual Connect module. One of the Flex NICs can be configured to support FCoE or accelerated
iSCSI.
Each FlexNIC and FlexHBA is recognized by the server as a PCIe physical function device with
adjustable speeds from 1Gb to 10Gb in 100Mb increments
Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for efficient distribution of network receive processing across
multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems.
Includes 128 MB of onboard memory.
Supports the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE
Supports SR-IOV
The 20 Gbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gbps aggregate full duplex) delivers
outstanding network performance that improves response time and removes bottlenecks.
Combines the functionality of an industry-standard NIC with a proven Fibre Channel software stack to
seamlessly converge network and storage traffic over a shared lossless Ethernet network based on IEEE
DCB standards.
Evolve 10Gb at your own speed! When paired with the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet
Modules, take advantage of four Flex NICs, which are PCI Physical Function devices that are OS/ Hypervisor
independent.
Server ROM recognizes them as individual NICs
Speeds can be set per NIC from 100Mb to 10Gbs in 100Mb increments
Three fold increase in number of network connections per port.
Up to four physical function NICs per port.
Ideal for virtualized server environment, especially for dedicated bandwidth application like virtual
machine migration from one physical server to another physical server.
The HP 554M adapter supports jumbo frames (also known as extended frames) with a maximum
transmission unit (MTU) of up to 9K bytes when running Ethernet and/or iSCSI I/O, which is over five times
the size of standard 1500-byte Ethernet frame. Eight KB jumbo frames are supported when running
Ethernet and FCoE I/O concurrently. Jumbo frames can help achieve higher throughput and better CPU
utilization. Jumbo frames are particularly useful for database transfers and tape backups.
DA - 14221 Worldwide — Version 10 — December 7, 2013
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554M Adapter
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