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Difference between NICs and FlexNICs

Jitz — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:58:54 GMT

Hi, Could anyone explain me The Difference between NICs and FlexNICs.?

Re: Difference between NICs and FlexNICs

Johan Guldmyr — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:38:54 GMT

Hello,

With the flexnics you can fine tune the bandwidth. You can for example specify that the NIC should get 3gigabit or 5 or something like that.

Re: Difference between NICs and FlexNICs

Cederberg — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:53:55 GMT

As Johan Writes but the main thing is that you need HP Virtual Connect or HP virtual Connect Flex10 to make use of the features if you don't and have for example a cisco switch the flex nic is used as a normal 1 gb NIC.

Regards.
//Cederberg

Re: Difference between NICs and FlexNICs

Jimmy Vance — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:48:02 GMT

HP Virtual Connect (VC) Flex-10 technology is a hardware-based solution that lets you split a 10 Gb/s server network connection into four variable partitions. when connected to a non Flex environment the connection is seen as a 10Gb NIC

More detailed information can be found in this paper

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology: Convergence with FlexFabric components

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01608922/c01608922.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN