- Supports Gen8 c-Class ProLiant BladeSystem servers
- Type A Adapter Dual 10 Gb ports provide up to 40 Gb full duplex per adapter
- Hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP and TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
- Supports HP's Flex-10 technology that allows setting bandwidth from 100 Mb to 10 Gb in 100 Mb increments on up to four physical function NICs or Flex NICs per port when combined with the 10Gb Flex-10 Virtual Connect module
- Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems
- Supports the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
The HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-port 552M is a Flex-10 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) mezzanine card for BL-c Gen8 servers that utilizes the Emulex BE3 controller. The HP 552M adapter supports Virtual Connect Flex-10, which allows 10 Gb port to be divided into four physical NICs to optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. The HP 552M optimizes network and storage traffic with hardware acceleration and offloads for stateless TCP/IP and TCP Offload Engine (TOE).