HP DL360 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers - Page 12

Figure 7. HP VC Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module 1x 10GBASE-CX4 Ethernet or 1x SFP+ module (X1) 5x SFP+ modules (X2-6) (1GbE or 10GbE) Port Number & Status Indicators Indicates whether a data center link (green), stacking link (amber), or highlighted port (blue). Recessed module reset button 2x Crosslinks (midplane) or 2x SFP+ module (X7-8) Figure 8 illustrates that the Flex-10 Ethernet mezzanine card has two dedicated 10GbE ports. Each has four PCIe physical functions (PF) that are treated as separate hardware FlexNICs by the operating system. Each of these FlexNICs has its own MAC address. Figure 8. Flex-10 architecture BladeSystem Server Flex10 LOM or Mezz Card FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC FlexNIC port 01 port 02 10GBase-KR single lane of 10GbE for each Port For each FlexNIC, VC sets: -- speed (0.1 to 10Gb/s) -- port type (NIC or iSCSI) -- MAC address -- vNet connection vNet 1 vNet 2 vNet 3 vNet 4 VC Flex-10 Enet Module 12