- Two 10 Gb Ethernet ports (1 Gb and 10 Gb auto-negotiation)
- Full-duplex (FDX) capability (40 Gbps throughput)
- 10 Gb ports operating either in a virtual NIC (vNIC) or physical NIC (pNIC) mode
- IPv4/IPv6 offload
- IPv4 TCP chimney offload
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
- VLAN insertion and extraction
- Jumbo frames up to 9000 bytes
- Load balancing and failover teaming support
- Enhanced Ethernet (draft) support
- Supports Serial over LAN (SoL) and concurrent KVM (cKVM)
- Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) support
- Wake on LAN support
- Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X) support
- CFFh form factor can be combined with a CIOv expansion card on the same blade server
- BladeCenter HS23's onboard dual-port 10 GbE NIC pass-through capability
These adapters are supported on the HS23 blade to enable up to four uplink/downlink ports for increased I/O bandwidth and maximum performance. The combination of HS23 and Emulex options enable clients to simplify their I/O infrastructure by reducing the number of switches needed inside the chassis, while supporting Ethernet and virtual NICs (vNICs) using the same hardware components.
The virtual NICs are configured to meet the client's mix of network connectivity and throughput demands for today's complex server application environments. Both physical 10 Gbps ports on the adapter can be divided into four virtual ports with bandwidth allocation in 100 Mbps increments up to the maximum of 10 Gbps per physical port. The Emulex 10GbE VFA Advanced II adds FCoE and iSCSI hardware initiator functionality to enable data center infrastructure convergence.