Does procurve switch downgrades to 1G when using flexNIC?

[Nima Gh.]

Does procurve switch downgrades 10G downlink to 1G when using a flexNIC?

[Steven Clementi · Accepted solution]

Are you referring to the HP Procurve 6120 LAN switch?

As far as I can tell, no. I have a BL280c with a 522 card.. it connects at 10GB.

Steven

[Nima Gh.]

I mean HP Procurve 6120XG Blade switch.

[JKytsi]

How You can use flexnics on non flex-10 module ?

You 10Gb downlink to blade (2 if You have to Procurves)

[Steven Clementi]

Yes, That is the one I am referring to.

As stated... I have a BL280c server wit ha NC522m care in it. The network connections link up at 10G/bs.

Steven

[Steven Clementi]

Direct from the website...

"The NC522m also supports full 10GbE connections when used with the ProCurve 6120XG or other 10Gb interconnect modules."

"The NC532m works as a standard dual port 10GbE NIC when connected to non Virtual Connect devices such as the ProCurve 6120XG"


So the question is... are you talking about the onboard Flex-10 nics? or add-in mezz cards?

Which server model do you have?

Which NIC model?


Steven

[Nima Gh.]

Somewhere I read that the procurve downlink speed degrades to 1G when using FlexNICs but I cannot find that text now! I do not want to partition those NICs! I mean both mezzanine cards and Flex NICS. Servers are BL460c G6.

[Nima Gh.]

I herewith sent you a snapshot of the port status!
port 7 is connected to a 10G port of nc522m mezzanine card and is in the same vlan of uplink #18. As you can see, the uplink is 10G but the downlink is 1G!

[Steven Clementi]

What is the Operating System reporting?

What are the nic settings in the OS? (port speed/duplex)

Updated Drivers in the OS?

What OS?


Steven

[Nima Gh.]

I don't think it is a matter of OS! The Switch console reports the state of its down-link! However, the OS is Ubuntu 10.04 and the port status of the mezzanine card works well with Virtual Connect Flex-10!