Controller

• BladeEngine 2

Standards

• ANSI INCITS T11 FC-BB-5 2.0, FC-PI-2, FC-GS-4, FC-TAPE, and FCP-3
• PCI Express base spec 2.0 PCI Bus Power Management Interface, rev. 1.2, Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
• IEEE 802.3ae (10Gb/s Ethernet), 802.1q (VLAN), 802.1p (QoS/CoS), 802.3ad (link aggregation), 802.3x (flow control)
• Enhanced Ethernet (draft): Enhanced Transmission Selection, ETS (P802.1Qaz); Priority-based Flow Control, PFC (P802.1Qbb); Data Center Bridging Capabilities eXchange Protocol, CIN-DCBX and CEE-DCBX (P802.1Qaz)
• PHP hot plug-hot swap

Architecture

• Dual-channel, 10Gb/s Ethernet Link speed
• PCIe Express 2.0 (x8, 5GT/s), MSI-X support
• Integrated data buffer and code space memory

FCoE Features

• Common driver for HP FCoE CAN and Fibre Channel HBAs from Emulex
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
• Support for FIP and FCoE Ether Types
• Fabric Provided MAC Addressing (FPMA) support
• 1024 concurrent port logins (RPIs)
• 1024 active exchanges (XRIs) per port

Ethernet Features

• IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP checksum offload; Large Send Offload (LSO); Large Receive Offload; Receive Side Scaling (RSS); IPv4 TCP Chimney Offload
• VLAN insertion and extraction
• Jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes (8000 bytes for ports using FCoE)
• Preboot eXecutive Environment (PXE) 2.0 network boot support
• Interrupt coalescing
• Load balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance (AFT), switch fault tolerance (SFT), adaptive load balancing (ALB), teaming support and IEEE 802.3ad

Accelerated iSCSI Features

• Target discovery methods
• Authentication modes
• INT 13 Boot

Comprehensive OS Support

• Microsoft Windows Server
• VMware ESX
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

HP’s Flex-10 Support

• Up to 4 physical function NICs per port
• 100Mb/s to10Gb/s speeds

Interconnect Compatibility

• 10GbE Flex-10 and FlexFabric Virtual Connect module
• ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch
• HP 10GbE Pass-Thru Module
• All currently shipping Virtual Connect, switch, and pass thru modules with 1Gb downlinks

Servers

• ProLiant BL465c G7
• ProLiant BL685c G7