Product Features
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
Up to 40Gb/s bi-directional near line rate throughput
Hardware acceleration TCP/IP/UDP stateless offloads, as well as for TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
Improved small packet performance
Low profile design shipping with standard height and low-profile brackets
SR-IOV capable in hardware (requires server FW, SW and OS support)
Active Health Systems support via FW (OCBB), I2C capable
PXE, Jumbo Frames, Checksum & Segmentation Offload, IPv6 and RSS
On chip temperature monitor (OCSD)
Standard server operating system support
Standard NC series option kit warranty, support, services
Field replaceable and upgradeable
Support for Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
Integrated PHY and MAC
IEEE 1588 (Time Synchronization)
Support for SR-IOV (Windows)
Dual-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Throughput
The HP adapter delivers 20 Gbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port (40 Gbps per adapter),
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 more.
Jumbo Frames
The HP 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.
TCP/IP Stateless
Offloading
TCP, IP, UDP checksum offload, Large Send Offload (LSO), TCP, Segmentation Offload (TSO). These
features optimize host efficiency, leaving the CPU available for other duties.
The HP Adapter by Broadcom offers TCP/IP stateless offloading capability.
MSI and MSI-X
Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load
balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores. The HP Adapter by Broadcom supports MSI and MSI-X.
802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port of the HP
adapter to be separated into multiple virtual NICs 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 HP Adapter by Broadcom
provides support for 802.1Q (VLAN).
TOE
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) shifts the processing of data in the TCP protocol stack from the server CPU to
the adapter's processor, freeing server CPU cycles for other operations.
QuickSpecs
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLR-SFP+ Adapter
Standard Features
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