HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 1

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergence with FlexFabric components Technology brief Introduction...2 HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 overview...2 Traffic flow in Flex-10 devices and modules 3 Mapping mode...4 Tunneling mode ...6 Virtual Connect Flex-10 management ...8 FlexNIC addressing...9 Virtual Connect server profiles and Flex-10 9 Convergence with VC FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters 10 VC FlexFabric adapters ...11 FlexFabric physical function assignments 11 Determining FlexFabric adapter "personality 13 FlexHBA addressing ...13 Mapping FlexHBAs to vNets or vFabrics 13 VC FlexFabric products ...14 HP FlexFabric Converged Network adapters 15 HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-port module 15 Interoperability of Flex-10 and FlexFabric components 15 HP management software support for FlexFabric 16 Transition to FlexFabric technology ...16 Future capabilities...17 Conclusion...17 For more information...18 Call to action ...19