HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554M Adapter 647590-B21 649940-001

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The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554M adapter supports Virtual Connect Flex-10 that allows each 10Gb port to be divided into four physical NICs to optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. When connected to a Data Center Bridging (DCB) capable switch, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Ethernet I/O are separated and routed to the corresponding network. For iSCSI storage, the HPE 554M supports full protocol offload to provide better CPU efficiency when compared to software initiators, thus enabling the server to handle increased virtualization workloads and compute-intensive applications. This combination of high-performance network and storage connectivity reduces cost and complexity and provides the flexibility and scalability to fully optimize Gen8 BladeSystem servers. The HPE 554M delivers the performance benefits and cost savings of converged network connectivity for HPE BladeSystem servers. The dual-port HPE 554M optimizes network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI.

• HPE ProLiant BL420c Gen8, HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen8, HPE ProLiant BL465c Gen8, HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen8

• HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module, HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module, HPE 1/10Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module, HPE 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module HPE, HPE 6120XG Blade Switch, HPE 6120G/XG Blade Switch, HPE 6125G/XG Ethernet Blade Switch, HPE 6125XLG Ethernet Blade Switch, HPE 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch, Cisco Catalyst 3120G Blade Switch for HPE, Cisco Catalyst 3120X Blade Switch for HPE, Cisco Catalyst 3020 Blade Switch, Cisco Fabric Extender B22HP for HPE, HPE GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch, HPE 10GbE Pass-Thru Module, HPE 1GbE Pass Thru Module, HPE Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet Module, HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port Module. 

• D2D, VLS, ESL libraries, EML libraries, ESL G3 library, MSL G3 libraries (2024, 4048, 8096)

• 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 the HPE 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.
• The HPE 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.
• The HPE 554M adapter supports the IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol that allows each physical port or FlexNIC to be assigned to a VLAN 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.
• The HPE 554M adapter support for NIC teaming helps IT administrators increase network fault tolerance and improve workload balance. These capabilities optimize availability, improve performance and help reduce costs
• The HPE 554M adapter supports accelerated iSCSI and iSCSI INT 13 Boot.