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With Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, you can partition a 10 GbE connection into multiple smaller connections and adjust the data speed of each partition. HP has extended the basic Flex-10 capabilities with FlexFabric adapters to support converged networking. Virtual Connect Virtual Connect technology is a set of interconnect modules and embedded software that implements server-edge virtualization. It puts an abstraction layer between the servers and the external networks (Figure 14). To establish server connections to LANs and SANs, Virtual Connect uses connection profiles in combination with dynamic pools of unique MAC and WWN addresses. The server connection profiles contain MAC, WWN, and boot-from-SAN definitions that are assigned to BladeSystem enclosure bays and not to individual servers. The physical server in each bay uses the MAC and WWN assignments in the bay profile instead of its default NIC or HBA addresses. Even if a server is replaced, the MAC and WWN assignments for the device bay remain constant, and the change is invisible to the network. For more information, see the HP Virtual Connect technology brief at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00814156/c00814156.pdf Figure 14. HP Virtual Connect technology provides server-edge virtualization Virtual Connect Flex-10 Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology is a hardware-based technology that lets you separate the bandwidth of a single 10GbE port into four physical NIC devices using Virtual Connect Flex-10 interconnect modules and Flex-10 NICs. Through the Virtual Connect Manager, you can set the 19