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- HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 1
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 - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 2
Introduction HP Virtual Connect (VC) Flex-10 technology is a hardware-based solution that lets you split a 10 Gb/s server network connection the system ROM, OS, or hypervisor as a discrete physical NIC with its own driver instance. It is not a virtual NIC contained in a software layer. Figure 1. - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 3
using OS or driver generated VLAN tags (Figure 2). Figure 2. FlexNICs share a physical link but isolate the traffic using VLAN tags BladeSystem Server Flex-10 may be in addition to any OS-generated VLAN tags. The outer VLAN tag is an industry-standard "service" or "provider" VLAN tag.1 Provider - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 4
driver places a VLAN tag in the packet. The VC Flex-10 module preserves or translates the VLAN tag when it travels through the module. Virtual Connect can act as a VLAN bridge and translate between the VLAN numbering scheme used on the servers only supports untagged packets from the server NIC - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 5
modules determine the destination of the packet via a MAC address lookup on that vNet. The VC module forwards the packet to the appropriate downlink (server) or uplink (SUS) port. The packet remapping from vNet to downlink or uplink follows the same process in reverse operation. OS-tagged packets - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 6
. Mapping makes the server-side VLANs independent of the network-side VLANs. However, on a mapped connection, the VC firmware limits the connections to ignoring the VLANs, there are no limits to the number of VLANs supported by a dedicated uplink in a Virtual Connect Domain operating in VLAN - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 7
method used in tunneling mode Figure 6 illustrates a Virtual Connect Flex-10 VLAN tunneling configuration. This example shows one dedicated uplink for tunneling OS-generated tags through a Flex-10 NIC device and VC module to an external data center switch. If the OS sends an orange-tagged packet - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 8
two ports. OS TAG OS TAG OS TAG OS TAG VM BladeSystem server BladeSystem server FlexNIC FlexNIC Flex-10 LOM/ FlexNIC FlexNIC Mezz Card port 1 1Gb NIC will fail and you will get an error. You must reboot the server before any FlexNIC network assignment changes take effect. You can enable port - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 9
communicate directly with other server NICs and FlexNICs in the same network. These ports can only send traffic upstream through the VC domain and out the uplinks to your external networks. In the reverse direction, there is no restriction on upstream ports. Flex-10 supports both VLAN tunneling and - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 10
the maximum available bandwidth. The Flex-10 modules support non-FlexNIC 1 Gb server ports, but you cannot configure bandwidth speeds on them. Convergence with VC FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters HP has launched - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 11
Figure 8. VC FlexFabric module configured for Fibre Channel and IP traffic FlexFabric Adapter ports Midplane Server Edge HP VC FlexFabric Interconnect Module Blade server Port 1 Adapter Port 2 Hypervisor IP VM IP 4 IP IP 3 VM FC 2 IP IP FCoE IP FC IP IP 1 VM IP 4 10Gb/s downlinks - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 12
. Each PF advertises its VLAN assignment designated by the VCM server profile. The advertised device type and VLAN assignment steers individual FlexFabric Adapter IPFCoEIPIP MAC PHY 10Gb port 2 HBA driver support You can use the same drivers for the FlexHBA function on a FlexFabric adapter as - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 13
one per port Failover support Support for Multipath I/O2 (MPIO) logic in OS for FlexHBAs CHAP3 and Mutual CHAP support for iSCSI FlexHBA point-to- , iSCSI BIOS Utility, and/or OS for each FlexHBA FlexHBA addressing Just as with FlexNICs, you can use either VC-assigned or server factory default - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 14
servers same external SAN Fabric. You can assign server Fibre Channel or FCoE ports to only one uplink ports. This will load balance each server's connection to a vFabric as an N_Port FlexFabric products With VC firmware v3.15, VC found in Flex-10. VC firmware 4 N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 15
iSCSI storage traffic over Ethernet networks. HP FlexFabric Converged Network adapters FlexFabric adapters are integrated or optional mezzanine cards. Most ProLiant G7 server blades include either integrated NC551i or NC553i FlexFabric adapters. FlexFabric adapters support all VC Flex-10 and VC - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 16
HP Insight Dynamics, Orchestration, and Insight failover and recovery services will also support VC , and installation requirements, you'll require fewer spares and fewer firmware updates. server blades. If you want redundancy, you need two VC FlexFabric modules to support a full C7000 enclosure. 16 - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 17
the number of physical NIC and interconnect modules required to support multi-network configurations. This is well suited for virtual machine environments hosted on ProLiant blade servers. HP VC FlexFabric modules and HP FlexFabric adapters extend the Flex-10 capabilities to include converged - HP Integrity NonStop NB54000c | HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergen - Page 18
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HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology:
Convergence with FlexFabric components
Technology brief
Introduction
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HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 overview
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Traffic flow in Flex-10 devices and modules
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Mapping mode
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Tunneling mode
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Virtual Connect Flex-10 management
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FlexNIC addressing
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Virtual Connect server profiles and Flex-10
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Convergence with VC FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters
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VC FlexFabric adapters
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FlexFabric physical function assignments
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Determining FlexFabric adapter “personality”
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FlexHBA addressing
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Mapping FlexHBAs to vNets or vFabrics
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VC FlexFabric products
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HP FlexFabric Converged Network adapters
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HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-port module
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Interoperability of Flex-10 and FlexFabric components
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HP management software support for FlexFabric
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Transition to FlexFabric technology
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Future capabilities
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Conclusion
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For more information
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Call to action
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