HP FlexFabric 534M Specification page 3

QuickSpecs
Standard Features
Performance
Product Features
Dual-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Throughput
(theoretical bandwidth)
HP Virtual Connect
FlexFabric 10Gb Ethernet
Module for the c-Class
BladeSystem
Jumbo Frames
MSI and MSI-X
802.1p QoS Tagging
Full hardware offload of iSCSI and FCoE storage protocol processing for highest performance
converged Ethernet data and storage networks.
Dual-port Flex-10 10GbE Type A adapter for HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 blade servers
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
The HP 534M is a Type A mezzanine adapter (works in Type A and Type B mezzanine slots)
Supports HP's Flex-10 blade interconnect technology
User configurable bandwidth settings when combined with the 10Gb Flex-10 Virtual Connect
module. From 100Mb/s to10Gb/s on up to four "Physical Function" NICs per port, in increments of
100Mb/s for NIC. The combined bandwidth of NICs cannot exceed port bandwidth i.e. 10 Gb.
Up to 40Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput
Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
Improved small packet performance
Integrated PHY and MAC
Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
Support for SR-IOV (Windows, Linux, VMware)
The HP 534M adapter delivers 20,000 Mbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gbps aggregate
full duplex), providing the network performance needed to improve response times and alleviate
bottlenecks that impact performance of next generation data centers. 10Gb Ethernet bandwidth is ideal for
high performance computing, database clusters and virtualization.
Evolve 10Gb at your own speed! When paired with the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb Ethernet
Modules, take advantage of four Flex Nics, which are PCI Physical Function devices that are OS/ Hypervisor
independent. In addition take advantage of new storage I/O functionality making it a full-Converged
Network Adapter (CNA)
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 534M adapter supports jumbo frames (also known as extended frames), permitting up to a 9K byte
(KB) transmission unit (MTU) when running Ethernet I/O traffic. This is over 5X the size of a standard 1500-
byte Ethernet frame. With jumbo frames, networks can achieve higher throughput performance and
greater CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer and tape backup
operations.
Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load
balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores.
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.
DA - 14619 Worldwide — Version 2 — October 11, 2013
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534M Adapter
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