HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2P 533FLR-T Adptr

Description

LED indicators

The colored LEDs on each port of the HPE 533 FLR-T adapter indicate link status and link activity.

Dual-port 10 Gigabit

The HPE 533FLR-T adapter delivers 20 Gbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port, providing the network performance needed to improve response times and alleviate bottlenecks that impact Ethernet Throughput performance of next generation data centers. 10 Gb Ethernet bandwidth is ideal for high performance computing, database clusters, and more.

Jumbo frames

The HPE 533 FLR-T adapter supports jumbo 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 improve CPU utilization. These attributes are particularly useful for database transfer and tape backup operations.

MSI and MSI-X

Message Signaled Interrupt (Extended) provides performance benefits for multi-core servers by load balancing interrupts between CPUs/cores. The HPE 533 FLR-T 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 HPE 533 FLR-T 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.

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.

Optimized for virtualization

I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ help meet the performance demands of consolidated virtual workloads. Compliant with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), accommodating multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to share single PCIe resources.

Checksum and Segmentation offload

Normally the TCP Checksum is computed by the protocol stack. By selecting one of the "Checksum Offload" parameters, the checksum can be computed by the adapter. Segmentation Offload is technique for increasing outbound throughput of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. The technique is also called TCP segmentation offload (TSO) when applied to TCP, or generic segmentation offload (GSO). The HPE 533 FLR-T adapter by Broadcom has Checksum and Segmentation Offload capabilities.

Time synchronization implementations

Synchronization of system clocks throughout a network, achieving clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond range, making it suitable for measurement and control systems. The HPE 533 FLR-T Adapter by Broadcom supports Precision Time Protocol-ready (PTP).

Network adapter teaming

The HPE 533 FLR-T adapter support for NIC teaming helps IT administrators increase network fault tolerance and increased network bandwidth, The team of adapters can work together as a single virtual adapter.

HPE sea of sensors 3D

Support for HPE's sea of sensors which is a collection of 32 sensors that automatically track thermal activity - heat - across the server. When temperatures get too high, sensors can kick on fans and make other adjustments to reduce energy usage. What makes it better is the upgrade from all six fans kicking on at one time to system where only one kicks on - the one in proximity of the area that started heating up - thus reducing the amount of energy used for cooling.