- 20Gb bandwidth improves performance and accelerates virtualized workloads
- Flex-20/FlexFabric technology simplifies I/O hardware and reduces costs
- Centralized Life-cycle management streamlines operations
The HPE FlexFabric 630M is a 2-port 20GbE Mezzanine adapter, featuring 20Gb Ethernet offering in a single chip solution on a mezzanine form factor that further reduces power requirements for 2 ports of 20Gb Ethernet. It is designed for use with HPE BladeSystem c-Class Gen8 blade server platform's type A and Type B mezzanine slots.
It provides full duplex high performance Ethernet connectivity with support for HPE Virtual Connect Flex-20 blade interconnect technology, allowing each 20GbE port to be divided into four physical NICs and optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. The HPE FlexFabric 630M adapter, now has storage I/O functionality making it a full-Converged Network Adapter (CNA).
The HPE 630M 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. It also supports virtualization features such as SR-IOV (Windows, Linux, VMware), VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ.