family data sheet hp virtual connect(may 2013)

May 2013

Family data sheet

HP Virtual ConnectConnect systems to any network in a simple and flexible way

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module

HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel Module

HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-Port Module

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Family data sheet | HP Virtual Connect

Move to a future-ready data center with a converged infrastructure

What is a converged infrastructure?Converged infrastructure helps you remove silos in your data center and integrates multiple technologies into pools of interoperable resources to deliver operational flexibility for the future. Built on leading innovation and industry standards, a converged infrastructure helps you tackle the problem of IT sprawl by simplifying, integrating, and automating technology. It gives you the ability to create and virtualize the compute, storage, and network environment for any workload.

HP Converged Infrastructure has four pillars: HP Virtual Resource Pools, HP Data Center Smart Grid, HP Matrix Operating Environment, and HP FlexFabric. HP Virtual Connect (VC) is a cornerstone of the HP FlexFabric architecture. It is a common, virtualized network fabric that connects servers to networking and storage while simplifying and increasing flexibility from the data center to the network edge.

Challenges such as network sprawl at the server edge, explosive growth of virtual machines, and increase in networking infrastructure costs can slow down your ability to respond to change. HP VC simplifies the server edge by addressing the network sprawl. HP VC Flex-10/10D and HP VC FlexFabric modules enable you to allocate up to four connections per server network port and provide management and fine-tuning of bandwidth.

Overprovisioning of network capacity consumes precious budget, while underprovisioning creates bottlenecks that can lower virtual machine performance. You are no longer locked-in to either 1 Gb or 10 Gb allocations for a workload. Allocating too much or too little bandwidth creates inefficiencies that can cost you money and time.

VC Flex-10/10D and VC FlexFabric modules along with HP Flex-10/FlexFabric adapters allow you to adjust bandwidth to your changing workload—whenever you need to.

Figure 1: Business challenges of today

Traditionally, there were only two ways to connect server blades to outside networks and storage—pass-thru modules or switches. The pass-thru approach though simple, leaves you with countless cables and associated cabling costs, reliability concerns, and the risk of human errors. Blade switches reduce the number of required cables but can lead to more switches and increased management overheads. And with either approach, it’s hard to separate server management from network and storage management.

HP VC technology changes all of this. It is the next step in virtualization—helping IT fully realize the benefits of a converged infrastructure. It extends the benefit of virtualization beyond the server to the rest of your IT infrastructure. VC simplifies your IT infrastructure by virtualizing server-to-network connections.

HP offers the Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-Port Module and three FlexFabric adapters—the HP NC551m and HP NC551i Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network adapters, and HP NC553i 10 Gb Dual Port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter (CNA) and VC FlexFabric integrated adapters and mezzanine adapters. These include the HP NC551i Integrated FlexFabric adapters for the AMD-based HP ProLiant G7 blade servers and the HP NC553i Integrated FlexFabric adapters for the Intel®-based ProLiant G7 blade servers.

Are these your challenges too?

IT sprawl Limited budget

Restricted bandwidth

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We also offer the HP NC551m and HP NC553m FlexFabric mezzanine adapters to provide VC FlexFabric module connectivity for ProLiant G6 blade servers or to provide ProLiant G7 blade servers with additional I/O ports. HP VC FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters extend Flex-10 technology to include Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and accelerated iSCSI. We continue to advance simpler network infrastructure and server connection management with HP VC FlexFabric modules and adapters. By applying industry-standard convergence technology, you can now address issues of network sprawl, without disrupting your LAN and SAN setup.

Delivering low TCO and superior ROI

The HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-Port Module allows you to select a single interconnect that connects servers to data and storage networks, while reducing the time to evaluate, purchase, install, update, and manage network infrastructure at the server edge. It helps you break down silos that prevent you from gaining more value from your physical IT resources. As more IT resources are virtualized, you can increase utilization—and reduce your TCO.

HP VC solutions: VC Converged Networking

Key features and benefits

Ease of operations and deployment

• Server blades are change ready—you can add, move, replace, or upgrade server blades, and move workloads without affecting your LAN and SAN.

• You can wire once, then add, move, and change network connections in minutes instead of days, managing connections to thousands of servers from one pane of glass.

• Our modules are completely compatible with existing data and storage networks, protocols, switches, and procedures.

• We simplify your network by providing one module for all data and storage connection needs.

• VC FlexFabric and Flex-10/10D modules are compatible with all other standards-based switch products. They provide high-performance and end-to-end optical or copper connections with HP Networking or other brands of core switches.

• VC FlexFabric and Flex-10/10D modules appear as pass-thru devices to the network. Any change to the server is transparent to its associated network. This clearly separates the server blades from your LAN and relieves LAN administrators from server maintenance.

• FlexFabric adapters support hypervisor best-practice configurations with six HP FlexNIC and two HP FlexHBA standard connections on each blade.

• HP VC FlexFabric supports direct attach to FC storage with HP 3PAR Storage Systems, thereby removing SAN fabric between servers and HP 3PAR Storage Arrays. This brings in operational simplicity and a reduction in your TCO while connecting to FC storage.

Enterprise-class performance and availability

• Manage with 95 percent1 fewer network cards, switches, and cables to buy, install, qualify, and maintain. Additionally, achieve significant reduction in power and cooling costs as well as equipment cost with VC Converged Networking.

• Extend the life of your network by only using the capacity you need.

• Enable increased uptime with high-availability features, such as NIC teaming, trunk failover, and dual redundant VC FlexFabric modules.

• Get direct uplink connections to LAN and SAN to maintain your current IT practices, unlike other solutions that reroute SAN traffic to the LAN.

1 HP Internal: Based on HP analysis of networking equipment (adapters and enclosure interconnects), as shown here: A traditional server blade configuration would typically require a dual port LAN on Motherboard (LOM), an extra quad-port NIC mezzanine, and a dual port host bus adapter (HBA), along with switch modules (six Ethernet and two Fibre Channel). The total traditional configuration components come up to 40 vs. the VC FlexFabric module solution. The VC FlexFabric module solution requires only embedded dual port FlexFabric adapters on servers (no mezzanine cards) and two VC FlexFabric modules. Here’s a simple calculation to understand this better: (40-2)/40 = 95 percent.


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• Benefit from built-in standards-based data center connectivity with features such as port-based VLANs, VLAN tagging, Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping, N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), and uplink port aggregation with up to 1,000 VLANs per shared uplink set.

• Fine-tune the performance of each data and storage connection to meet the needs of each virtual machine and workload.

Security and management

• The embedded Virtual Connect Manager (VCM) Web-based console is present in each VC FlexFabric and Flex-10/10D module. With this, you can define available LANs, SANs, server connections, and manage server connection profiles for individual HP BladeSystem enclosures.

• In keeping with its use of industry-standard protocols, we are expanding the SNMP capabilities of HP VC. Specifically, the latest VC firmware now supports both SNMP v1 and SNMP v2 traps; traps for key, predefined threshold conditions; and per-destination configuration of traps.

• Role-based privileges for the administrator account are defined by default and can be modified by the BladeSystem administrator and integrated with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers.

• Role-based customization for server, network, and storage admin to tailor privileges for administrators.

• QoS features allow administrators to configure traffic queues for different priority network traffic, categorize and prioritize ingress traffic, and adjust DOT1P priority settings on egress traffic.

• For environments that have implemented TACACS+ and RADIUS protocols for security, VC supports these protocols in addition to LDAP.

• Additional role-based privileges for user accounts can be created by domain, server blade, networking, and storage.

• Multi-enclosure stacking enables all of the VC modules (up to four connected enclosures) to function as a single VC domain.

HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-Port ModuleThe first interconnect built for the demands of a converged infrastructure, HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-Port Module, provides server administrators with a simple, flexible way to connect servers and virtual machines to any LAN and SAN. You can now add up to four times more data and storage connections per blade with full 10 Gb Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel performance. It extends VC Flex-10 to include one Fibre Channel or accelerated iSCSI storage connection (FlexHBA) with three Ethernet connections (FlexNICs) per 10 Gb port. With this VC module, you can replace four interconnect modules with one module to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI connections. What’s more, reduce NICs and HBAs in each server by using HP NC551i Integrated FlexFabric Adapter or HP NC553i Integrated FlexFabric Adapter. It is also possible to increase the number of FlexNICs and available bandwidth that can be used by virtual machines by adding HP NC551m or HP NC553m FlexFabric mezzanine adapters for ProLiant G6 or G7 blade servers.

HP VC Flex-10/10D ModuleHP VC Flex-10/10D Module is a 30-Port, next-generation Flex-10 Module with 600 Gb full-duplex bandwidth capacity. It has 10 dedicated SFP+ based uplinks that can operate at 1/10GbE and four inter-stacking links. VC Flex-10/10D Module provides up to four times the number of connections (FlexNICs) per server port, without increasing the number of NICs or managed switches required to connect them, by using Flex-10 technology. By virtue of the dual-hop feature, it extends VC Flex-10 to include one Fibre Channel or accelerated iSCSI storage connection (FlexHBA) with three Ethernet connections (FlexNICs) per 10 Gb port. With this VC module, you can replace four interconnect modules with one module to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI connections. This reduces overheads—cards, switches, and cables—by 95 percentage parts over traditional Ethernet and SAN switches.


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HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Module

Key features and benefitsEase of operations and deployment

• With NPIV and HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel technology, storage management is no longer limited to a single HBA World Wide Name (WWN) on the physical server. NPIV provides the ability to share a single physical Fibre Channel HBA port among multiple virtual ports, each with its own unique identifiers, allowing control of virtual machines access to LUNs on per virtual machine basis.

• Standards-based Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Module is compatible with other NPIV standards-based switch products. NPIV allows you to scale, gaining immediate benefits without having to add domain IDs. Consider a blade server environment, such as an HP c7000 chassis, where there are Fibre Channel switches located at the back of the chassis. By using NPIV on these switches, you can add them to your fabric without having to assign a domain ID individually and that provides high-performance, end-to-end connections with your available options of core switches.

• The Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules appear as pass-thru devices to the network. Any changes to the server blade are transparent to the associated network. This clearly separates the blade servers from your SAN and relieves your SAN administrators from server maintenance.

Enterprise-class performance and availability

• Storage resources can be provisioned and associated directly to a specific virtual machine in a virtualized server environment.

• Separate storage resources for up to 128 virtual machines per blade.

• High-availability features such as dual modules and automatic fail-over provide increased uptime.

• VC server blade profiles are shared and continually updated between high-availability pairs.

• Enhanced NPIV capability supports multiple virtual machines per server blade and provides a separate storage resource to each virtual machine—up to 128 per server blade.

Security and management

Role-based privileges for the administrator account are defined by default and can be modified by the BladeSystem administrator and integrated with LDAP servers.

HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel Module HP Virtual Connect 20-Port Fibre Channel Module offers next-generation 8 Gb technology that includes backward compatibility with 2 Gb and 4 Gb networks, to help you get the most out of your technology investment.

While it appears as a pass-thru device to the network, it provides all the key benefits of integrated switching including the high-performance 8 Gb uplinks to the SAN. The 8 Gb Fibre Channel interconnect facilitates superior performance and server consolidation. This Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Module combines the simplicity of a pass-thru module with the high performance of an 8 Gb switch. Additionally, four external 8 Gb ports reduce oversubscription when using 4 Gb HBAs.

HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel ModuleYou can consider HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module for the highest port density in the Virtual Connect Fibre Channel line-up. This standards-based module is compatible with all other NPIV standards-based switch products. This compatibility accounts for high-performance and end-to-end connections with your available options of core switches.

The 8 Gb Fibre Channel interconnect enables greater performance and server consolidation. Eight SAN-facing ports and 16-server ports help reduce oversubscription for high throughput applications. Also, separate storage resources are available to each virtual machine—up to 255 per server blade.


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HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) is a management option for multiple BladeSystem enclosures configured with VC. VCEM provides a central console that aggregates VC resources, improves productivity, and enables faster response to changing data center workload demands.

The optional VCEM provides a single console to manage up to 1,000 BladeSystem enclosures.

With the VCEM for BladeSystem environments, you can complete many tasks across the data center quickly and reliably. Some of such tasks are:

• Adding new VC domains, blade servers, and BladeSystem enclosures

• Recovering problematic servers and associated workloads to spare blades

• Migrating and repurposing servers to address changing workload requirements quickly

• Administering LAN and SAN addresses more efficiently and avoiding costly duplications

• Defining configurations for groups of VC domains

• Reducing repetitive, labor-intensive tasks

• Responding faster to changing workload needs across the data center

• Performing more efficient system maintenance

Together, VC and VCEM can create a change-ready infrastructure that enables system administrators to add, replace, and recover servers across the data center without impacting network configurations and availability.

Role-based privileges for the administrator account are defined by default and can be modified by the BladeSystem administrator. VCEM is now available, bundled with either a pair of VC Flex-10/10D modules or VC FlexFabric modules.

Ethernet, Flex-10, and FlexFabric network adapters

The 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet network adapters embedded on the server blades, and the optional Ethernet mezzanine adapters are supported by the VC Ethernet modules. Multiple mezzanine adapters can be added per server blade.

The following network adapters are supported by the VC Ethernet modules for Gen8 blade servers:

• HP Ethernet 10 Gb 2-Port 560M Adapter: The HP Ethernet 10 Gb 2-Port 560M mezzanine adapter features the latest generation 10GbE Intel 82599 controller. The HP 560M is a low cost, low-power dual port PCIe v.2.0 x8 lane mezzanine adapter designed for in use HP ProLiant BL-c servers. The HP 560M addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation cloud and data center by providing unmatched features for virtualization, scalability to keep up with the Gen8 server platform, with proven and reliable performance HP customers have come to expect. The 560M supports high performance networking features such as VLAN tagging, Low latency interrupts, TCP and UDP checksum offloading, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), WOL, jumbo frames, PXE boot, intelligent offloads, and advanced virtualization features (Intel VT-c NetQ, VMQ) and is SR-IOV ready.


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• HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530M Adapter: HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530M Adapter is a dual port, 10GbE adapter, featuring the next-generation, single-chip 10 Gb Ethernet solution from Broadcom in a mezzanine form factor designed for HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 servers. This adapter provides high-performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 interconnect technology, allowing the benefits of virtualization to extend beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure. This adapter supports enterprise-class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), jumbo frames, and PXE boot; and virtualization features such as VMware NetQueue and Microsoft® VMQ. Support for HP Sea of Sensors 3D Technology enhances server performance while reducing energy use and expense.

• HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 552M Adapter: HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 552M Adapter, a mezzanine Type A card designed for the HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 platform, delivers the performance benefits of 10 Gb Ethernet with the scalability and flexibility of HP Virtual Connect and Flex-10. This adapter supports up to 8 FlexNICs per adapter, with each FlexNIC with a unique MAC address and identity on the LAN. Bandwidth can be uniquely allocated for virtual server functions and applications. Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP and TCP Offload Engine (TOE) enable ideal use of CPU resources.

• HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554M Adapter: HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554M Adapter combines the functionality of Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) onto a single mezzanine Type A form factor designed for the HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 platform. It optimizes network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TOE, and Fibre Channel. This adapter utilizes next-generation technology, based on the Emulex BE3 chipset that brings together Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI on one adapter.

• HP Ethernet 10 Gb 2-Port 560FLB Adapter: The HP 560FLB is a dual port 10 Gb Ethernet FlexibleLOM mezzanine adapter for select HP ProLiant BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 servers. Based on the Intel 82599 controller, it provides customers an upgrade path. Customers already using a 1 Gb FlexibleLOM can upgrade to the 10 Gb 560FLB, protecting their server investment. New features supported with the HP 560FLB include enhanced Virtualization (VMQ, NetQueue, VMDq, SRIOV), new I/O innovations with Intel Integrated I/O and Data Direct I/O, and IEEE 1588. The 560FLB ships with advanced server features including support for failover and load balancing, TCP/IP checksum offloading, large send offloading, Wake-on-LAN, PXE, jumbo frames, VLAN tagging, and EFI/uEFI.

• HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530FLB Adapter: HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530FLB Adapter is a dual port, 10GbE adapter, featuring the next-generation, single-chip 10 Gb Ethernet solution from Broadcom in a FlexibleLOM form factor designed for BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 servers. This adapter provides high-performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 interconnect technology, allowing the benefits of virtualization to extend beyond the server and into the rest of the infrastructure. Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530FLB Adapter supports enterprise-class features such as VLAN tagging, adaptive interrupt coalescing, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), jumbo frames, and PXE boot; and virtualization features such as VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ. Support for HP Sea of Sensors 3D Technology enhances server performance while reducing energy use and expense.

• HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554FLB Adapter: HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554FLB Adapter provides Ethernet functionality (Flex-10), Ethernet and iSCSI, or FCoE or FlexFabric connectivity in a FlexibleLOM form factor designed for BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 platform. This adapter delivers Ethernet functionality (Flex-10), or Ethernet and iSCSI, or FCoE or FlexFabric—at the price of 10GbE. This adapter utilizes next-generation technology, based on the Emulex BE3 chipset that brings together Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI on one adapter.


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The following network adapters are supported by the VC Ethernet modules for G7 blade servers:

• HP NC532m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter: HP NC325m PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter for c-Class BladeSystem provides up to eight discrete physical NICs per mezzanine card.

• HP NC325m PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter for c-Class BladeSystem: The NC325m mezzanine option features four Gigabit Ethernet ports providing the highest port density available for BladeSystem server blades in a single adapter. The NC325m PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter for c-Class BladeSystem is ideal for virtualization, security, server consolidation, network segmentation, and other ProLiant server applications requiring high throughput and port density.

• HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter: HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter is based on the latest version of the Mellanox ConnectX family. The HP NC542m delivers the high throughput and low latency perfect for mission-critical applications such as financial services and virtualized environments.

• HP NC550m 10GbE 2-Port PCIe x8 Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter: HP NC550m 10 Gb 2-Port PCIe x8 Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter is a member of the c-Class 10GbE adapter portfolio. This adapter is a Flex-10 designed Ethernet Adapter based on the Blade Engines 2 controller and delivers superior throughput in the 10GbE portfolio. This adapter is perfect for virtualized environments.

• HP NC552m 10 Gb 2-Port Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter: HP NC552m 10 Gb 2-Port Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter is a new member of the c-Class 10GbE adapter portfolio. This adapter is a Flex-10 designed Ethernet Adapter based on the Blade Engines 3 controller that delivers superior throughput compared to adapters in the 10GbE portfolio. Meant for virtualized environments, this adapter works with all BladeSystem c-Class G7 servers. When paired with any of our VC modules or Ethernet switches, the combination provides a high-bandwidth, high-performance network environment.

• HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter: HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter delivers the performance benefits and cost savings of converged network connectivity for BladeSystem servers. This dual port mezzanine adapter helps fine-tune network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TOE, FCoE, and iSCSI. When connected to VC FlexFabric Module, FC, and Ethernet, I/O are separated and routed to the corresponding network. For iSCSI storage, the NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter supports full-protocol offload providing better CPU efficiency when compared to software initiators enabling the server to handle increased virtualization workloads and compute-intensive applications. This mezzanine adapter also supports VC Flex-10 that allows each 10 Gb port to be divided into four physical NICs to help fine-tune bandwidth management for virtualized servers. This combination of high-performance network and storage connectivity reduces cost and complexity and provides the flexibility and scalability for BladeSystem servers.

• HP NC553m 10 Gb 2-Port FlexFabric Adapter: HP NC553m FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port FlexFabric Adapter delivers the performance benefits and cost savings of converged network connectivity for HP BladeSystem servers. This dual port adapter, based on the Blades Engine 3 controller, helps fine-tune network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TOE, FCoE, and iSCSI. When connected to VC FlexFabric Module FC, and Ethernet, I/O are separated and routed to the corresponding network. For iSCSI storage, this mezzanine adapter supports full protocol offload providing better CPU efficiency when compared to software initiators enabling the server to handle increased virtualization workloads and compute-intensive applications.


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Integrated adapters• NC553i: 10 Gb, Dual Port, FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter

• NC551i: 10 Gb FlexFabric embedded adapter

• NC532i: 10 Gb Flex-10 enabled Ethernet adapter

Fibre Channel host bus adaptersSeven add-on host bus adapters (HBAs) (mezzanine or daughter cards) are currently offered for these BladeSystem c-Class server blades:

• HP QMH2572 8 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: This adapter is a dual port, 8 Gb, Fibre Channel HBA in a mezzanine form factor designed for HP BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 servers. This adapter provides reliable SAN and is ideal for virtualized environments. With 200,000 IOPS per port and leading-edge FC connectivity, users can enjoy the benefits of increased storage networking bandwidth and high I/O performance to meet the requirements of demanding applications. Support for HP Sea of Sensors 3D Technology enhances server performance while reducing energy use and expense.

• HP LPe1205A 8 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: HP LPe1205A 8 Gb FC HBA for BladeSystem c-Class delivers 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity and is compatible with the Gen8 server blades for BladeSystem c-Class. With backward compatibility to 4 Gb FC and 2G FC technology, this adapter offers flexibility in supporting existing FC infrastructure while offering features and functionality designed to meet and exceed the business requirements of next-generation data centers. With features such as comprehensive virtualization support, efficient power usage, high reliability and availability features, and robust manageability, this adapter is ideal for mission-critical applications that rely on high availability and connectivity.

• Emulex LPe1105-HP 4 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: Emulex LPe1105-HP dual port Fibre Channel HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class provides reliable, high-performance 4 Gb connectivity, enabling high availability to scalable storage. Based on the same field-proven ASIC, firmware, and driver technology as Emulex’s renowned LPe1150 HBA, the Emulex LPe1105-HP 4 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class is fully driver compatible with all Emulex HBAs.

• Emulex LPe1205-HP dual-channel PCI Express 8 Gb/s FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: Emulex LPe1205-HP dual port PCI Express Fibre Channel mezzanine card HBA provides high-performance SAN connectivity for BladeSystem c-Class to meet the needs of most-demanding applications. Leveraging eight generations of design, this adapter seamlessly attaches to 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s SAN devices. It provides superior reliability, enhanced security, and scalable management capabilities—making it well-suited for virtual server and enterprise-class applications.

• QLogic QMH2462 4 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: QLogic QMH2462 4 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class provides BladeSystem c-Class with two 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports for fast and reliable SAN connectivity. Through the implementation of a SAN with BladeSystem, you can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources.

• QLogic QMH2562 8 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class: Designed for the HP BladeSystem c-Class, the QLogic QMH2562 8 Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class provides reliable SAN connectivity and is ideal for virtualized environments. It delivers twice the data throughput compared to the previous generation 4 Gb mezzanine card. With 200,000 IOPS per port and leading-edge FC connectivity, you can enjoy the benefits of increased storage networking bandwidth and I/O performance to meet the requirements of demanding applications.


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Technical specificationsHP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel

HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric

10 Gb/24-Port Module

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10

10 Gb Ethernet Module

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module

Blade type Single bay Single bay Single bay

Network connections 16 x 10 Gb downlinks to servers 2 x 10 Gb cross connects 4 x 10 Gb external SR, LR fiber, and copper uplinks SFP+ (Enet/FC) 4 x 10 Gb external SR, LRM, and LR fiber and copper uplinks SFP+ (Enet) 1 internal interface to c-Class Onboard Administrator Module

16 x 10 Gb downlinks midplane 2 x 10 Gb cross connect 1 x 10 Gb copper uplinks CX-4 8 x 10 Gb SR, LR, or LRM fiber uplinks SFP+ 1 internal interface to c-Class Onboard Administrator Module

16 x 10 Gb downlinks midplane 4 x 10 Gb cross connect 10 x 10 Gb SR, LR, or LRM fiber uplinks SFP+ 1 internal interface to c-Class Onboard Administrator Module

Media types FCSFP/SFP+ 2/4/8 Gb short wave up to 500 m 1/2/4 Gb long wave up to 10 km Ethernet SFP/SFP+ 10GbE SR, LR, and LRM 10GbE copper direct-attached cable 1GbE SX 1GbE 1000BASE-T copper HP 7 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP 10 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP X242 SFP+ 15 m DAC Cable HP X242 SFP+ 7 m DAC Cable

SFP+ SR, LR, LRM SFP SX, R J-45 SFP+ Copper Twinax CX-4 (IB4x) HP 7 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP 10 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP X242 SFP+ 15 m DAC Cable HP X242 SFP+ 7 m DAC Cable

SFP+ SR, LR, LRM SFP SX, R J-45 SFP+ Copper HP 7 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP 10 m C-series Active Copper SFP+ Cable HP X242 SFP+ 15 m DAC Cable HP X242 SFP+ 7 m DAC Cable

Performance Line rate, full-duplex 480 Gb/s bridging fabric 1.2 µs on Ethernet only ports 1.7 µs Ethernet/FC ports Maximum Ethernet frame size 9216 (Jumbo Frame) Maximum FC frame size 2148 bytes (2112 byte payload) Buffer-to-buffer flow control management Packet prioritization

Line rate, full-duplex 480 Gb/s bridging fabric Less than 1.2 µs latency

Line rate, full-duplex 600 Gb/s bridging fabric Less than 0.9 µs with Ethernet only ports Maximum Ethernet frame size 9216 (Jumbo Frame)

Protocol support IEEE 802.1Qbb (preliminary), 802.1Qaz (preliminary), 802.1AB, 802.1D, 802.1Q, IEEE 802.2, 802.3ad INCITS FC-BB5 Rev 2.00 INCITS T11 NPIV, FC-BB5

802.1AB, 802.1D, 802.1Q, IEEE 802.2, 802.3ad

802.1AB, 802.1D, 802.1Q, IEEE 802.2, 802.3ad, FC-BB5

Management Simple and intuitive GUI and setup wizards embedded SNMP v1, v2; SMI-S port mirroring—Any uplink port can be used as a dedicated mirrored port from the server port(s)

Simple and intuitive GUI and setup wizards embedded SNMP v1, v2; SMI-S port mirroring—Any uplink port can be used as a dedicated mirrored port from the server port(s)

Simple and GUI and setup wizards embedded SNMP v1, v2; SMI-S CLI port mirroring—Any uplink port can be used as a dedicated mirrored port from the server port(s)

Extended management features

Virtual Connect Manager supports PXE, WOL, port VLAN, VLAN Tagging, VLAN pass through, IGMP Snooping, NIC Teaming Integrated with Onboard Administrator, HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Storage Essentials (FC Management MIB) Telnet, SNMP, FC port telemetry via GUI, Telemetry support for port utilization including memory and CPU performance measurement

Virtual Connect Manager supports PXE, WOL, port VLAN, VLAN Tagging, VLAN pass through, IGMP Snooping, NIC Teaming Integrated with Onboard Administrator, HP Systems Insight Manager Telnet, SNMP. Telemetry support for port utilization including memory and CPU performance measurement

Virtual Connect Manager supports PXE, WOL, port VLAN, VLAN Tagging, VLAN pass through, IGMP Snooping, NIC Teaming Integrated with Onboard Administrator, HP Systems Insight Manager Telnet, SNMP. Telemetry support for port utilization including memory and CPU performance measurement

High-availability features

Link Aggregation Protocol Automatic loop protection Mirrored profile database Multipath heartbeat between redundant modules



Security LDAP, SSL, TACACS+ and Radius, role-based management, and GUI and CLI session timeout

LDAP, SSL, TACACS+ and Radius, role-based management, and GUI and CLI session timeout

LDAP, SSL, TACACS+ and Radius, role-based management, and GUI and CLI session timeout

Diagnostics Troubleshoot network performance and monitor health in terms of CPU and memory, FlexNIC and LAG stats

Troubleshoot network performance and monitor health in terms of CPU and memory, FlexNIC and LAG stats

Troubleshoot network performance and monitor health in terms of CPU and memory, FlexNIC and LAG stats

Maximum per enclosure 8 8 8

Warranty (parts/labor/onsite)

1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite 1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite 1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite

Part number 571956-B21 455880-B21 591973-B21 (dual module with VCEM)

638526-B21 662048-B21 (dual module with VCEM)

Rollback from upgrade Minimizes maintenance window Minimizes maintenance window Minimizes maintenance window

Direct attach with FC storage

With HP 3PAR T, V, and F series Not applicable Not applicable


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HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Module

HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel Module HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module

Blade type Single bay Single bay

Network connections 16 internal 8 Gb downlinks presented as F-Ports 4 external 8 Gb uplinks presented as N-Ports

16 internal 8 Gb downlinks presented as F-Ports 8 external 8 Gb uplinks presented as N-Ports

Media types Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) laser 2/4/8 Gb short wave up to 500 m (1,640 ft) 1/2/4 Gb long wave up to 10 km

Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) laser 1/2/4 Gb short wave, long wave SFP+ 2/4/8 Gb short wave, long wave

Performance 8 Gb/s line speed, full-duplex 1.2 μs latency Maximum frame size 2112 byte payload Buffer-to-buffer flow control management packet prioritization

8 Gb/s line speed, full-duplex .74 μs latency Maximum frame size 2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)

Protocol support NCITS T11 NPIV NCITS T11 NPIV

Management Simple and intuitive GUI and setup wizards accessible through VC Ethernet module CLI accessible through VC Ethernet module Embedded SNMP v1 and v2 SMI-S

Simple and intuitive GUI and setup wizards accessible through VC Ethernet module CLI accessible through VC Ethernet module Embedded SNMP v1 and v2 SMI-S

Extended management features Virtual Connect Manager supports HP Storage Essentials (FC Management MIB)

Virtual Connect Manager supports HP Storage Essentials (FC Management MIB)

High availability features Link Aggregation Protocol Automatic loop protection Mirrored profile database Multipath heartbeat between redundant modules


Security LDAP, SSL, and role-based management LDAP, SSL, and role-based management

Maximum per enclosure 6 6

Warranty (parts/labor/onsite) 1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite 1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite

Part number 572018-B21 466482-B21


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Mezzanine and FlexibleLOM for HP BladeSystem c-Class

HP Ethernet 10 Gb 2-Port 560M Adapter

HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530M Adapter

HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 552M Adapter

HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554M Adapter

IEEE compliance 802.3, 802.1ab, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.3p/802.1q, 802.3ae, 802.1qau, 802.3ap, 802.1as, 802.1qaz, 802.1qbb

802.3, 802.3ab, 802.3u, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.3p, 802.1q, 802.3ae, 802.3ap

802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBASE-KX4), 802.3x

802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3ad, 802.3ae,

802.3ap (10GBASE-KX4), 802.3x

Bus type x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0

Form factor Type A mezzanine Card Type A mezzanine card Type A mezzanine card Type A mezzanine card

Ports and transfer rate

20,000 Mb/s full-duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port




Network controller Intel 82599 Broadcom 57810S Emulex BE3 Emulex BE3

ProLiant adapter teaming* • • • •

ProLiant essentials upgrade • • • •

Pre-boot execution environment (PXE)

• • •

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) • (1 Gb) • • •

Jumbo frames • • • •

TCP checksum and segmentation • • • •

Receive Side Scaling (RSS) • • • •

TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) • • •

Accelerated iSCSI •

Remote direct memory access (RDMA)

Not supported Not supported Not supported

Warranty (parts/labor/onsite) 1-year parts** 1-year parts** 1-year parts** 1-year parts**

Part number 665246-B21 631884-B21 674764-B21 647590-B21

* Teaming available with Windows® except Windows 2012** Or the warranty of the server the adapter is installed in, whichever is greater.


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Ethernet network adapters—mezzanine adapter options

HP Ethernet 10 Gb 2-Port 560FLB Adapter

HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-Port 530FLB Adapter

HP FlexFabric 10 Gb 2-Port 554FLB Adapter

NC325m Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

NC532m Dual Port 10GbE Multifunction Adapter

IEEE compliance 802.3, 802.1ab, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.3p, 802.1q, 802.3ae, 802.1au, 802.3ap, 802.1as, 802.1qaz, 802.1qbb, IEEE 1588

802.3, 802.1ab, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.3p, 802.1q, 802.3ae, 802.1au, 802.3ap

802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBASE-KX4), 802.3x

802.1p, 802.1q, 802.3, 802.3ad, and 802.3x

802.3u, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.1p, 802.1q, 802.3z, 802.3ap, 802.3ae

Bus type x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x4 PCI Express x4 PCIe 2.0

Form factor FlexibleLOM FlexibleLOM FlexibleLOM Type 1 mezzanine card Type 1 mezzanine card

Ports and transfer rate 20,000 Mb/s full-duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port



4 @ 1000 Mb/s 2 @ 10000 Mb/s

Network controller Intel 82599 Broadcom 57810S Emulex BE3 Dual Broadcom 5715S Broadcom 57711

ProLiant adapter teaming* • • • • •

ProLiant essentials upgrade

• • • • •


• • • •

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) • (1 Gb) • • • •

Jumbo frames • • • • •

TCP checksum and segmentation

• • • • •

Receive Side Scaling (RSS) • • • •

TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) • • •

Accelerated iSCSI •

Remote direct memory access

Not supported Not supported Add-on upgrade


1-year parts** 1-year parts** 1-year parts** 1 year parts** 1 year parts**

Part number 655639-B21 656590-B21 647586-B21 416585-B21 467799-B21

* Note: Teaming available with Windows except Windows 2012** Note: Or the warranty of the server the adapter is installed in, whichever is greater.


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Ethernet network adapters—mezzanine adapter options

* Teaming available with Windows except Windows 2012

NC542m Dual Port 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter

NC550m Dual Port 10 Gb Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter

NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter

NC552m Dual Port 10 Gb 2-Port Flex-10 Ethernet Adapter

NC553m Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter

IEEE compliance 802.1p, 802.1q, 802.3u, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBASE-KX4), 802.3x, and 802.3z

802.1p, 802.1q, 802.1qau, 802.3u, 802.3ad, 802.3ae, 802.3ap (10GBASE-KX4), 802.3x, and 802.3z




Bus type x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 2.0

Form factor Type 1 mezzanine card Type 1 mezzanine card Type 2 mezzanine card Type 1 mezzanine card Type 1 mezzanine card

Ports and transfer rate 20,000 Mb/s full-duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port





Network controller Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN Emulex BE2 Emulex BE2 Emulex BE3 Emulex BE3

ProLiant adapter teaming* • • • • •

ProLiant essentials upgrade

• • • • •


• • • • •

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) • • • • •

Jumbo frames • • • • •

TCP checksum and segmentation

• • • • •

Receive Side Scaling (RSS) • • • • •

TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) • • • • •

Accelerated iSCSI • • • • •

Remote direct memory access

Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported


1 year parts 1 year parts 1 year parts 1 year parts 1 year parts

Part number 539857-B21 581204-B21 580151-B21 610609-B21 613431-B21


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Fibre Channel HBA—mezzanine cards

Emulex LPe1105-HP

4 Gb FC HBA for

HP BladeSystem c-Class

HP QLogic QMH2462

4 Gb FC HBA for


Emulex LPe1205-HP

dual-channel PCI Express

8 Gb/s FC HBA for


QLogic QMH2562

8 Gb FC HBA for


Performance and form factor

Blade type PCI Express Type 1 mezzanine card

PCI Express Type 1 mezzanine card

PCI Express Type 1

mezzanine card

PCI Express Type 1

mezzanine card

Performance 115,000 IOPS per port 150,000 IOPS per port 200,000 IOPS per channel 200,000 IOPS per channel

Port configuration Dual 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports Dual 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports Dual 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports Dual 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports

Media types 62.5/125 multimode fiber optic cable with LC type connector

62.5/125 multimode fiber optic cable with LC type connector



Management and protocols

Management features Emulex installation and management tools automate installation and provide local and remote HBA configuration and management

QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager for centralized management and remote control of distributed HBAs

Emulex installation and management tools automate installation and provide local and remote HBA configuration and management

QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager for centralized management and remote control of distributed HBAs

High-availability features Multipath support for redundant HBAs and paths

Multipath support for redundant HBAs and paths



Protocols supported Full support for both FC service Class 2 and 3

Full support for both FC service Class 2 and 3



Deployment

Maximum per enclosure Server dependent Server dependent Server dependent Emulex driver support for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux, and VMware ESX 3.5

Server dependent QLogic driver support for Windows, Linux, HP-UX, and VMware

Options available Emulex driver support for x86 and x64 Linux and Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2003 x64

QLogic driver support for x86 and x64 Linux and Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2003 x64

Emulex driver support for Server 2000, 2003, and 2003 x64

QLogic driver support for Server 2000, 2003, and 2003 x64


1 year parts, 1 year labor, 1 year onsite



1 year/1 year/1 year

Part number 403621-B21 403619-B21 456972-B21 451871-B21590647-B21


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