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Overview

The HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BLc Adapter is the newest member of the c-Class 10gb adapter portfolio and the most powerful. Based on the latest version of the Mellanox ConnectX family, the HP NC542m delivers the highest overall throughput and the lowest latency of all our current 10GbE adapters. Perfect for mission critical applications such as financial services and virtualized environments, the adapter works with all BladeSystem c-Class G6 servers. When paired with the new ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch, the combination provides a comprehensive high bandwidth, high performance interface between the server edge and the network

What's new

Introducing the HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BLc Adapter, a high performance, low latency mezzanine for c-Class blade servers. Designed around the new Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN controller, the HP NC542m improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth to the CPU and providing enhanced performance, especially in virtualized server environments.
  • Future support for Mellanox "LLE" technology for extremely low latency
  • TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware
  • 40GbE (full duplex) to each server per adapter. Up to 3 adapters per FH server!

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

Financial Services
  • Meets the low latency specifications required of today's demanding high speed networks
  • Support for "Low Latency Ethernet" applications
  • Reduce the number of upstream ports, reduce cables and maintenance

Virtualized server environments
  • High bandwidth and throughput to handle the needs of multiple virtualized servers per blade
  • Future support for all Flex-10 features
  • 20,000 Mbps bandwidth per port full duplex facilitates consolidation of workloads and applications into fewer and fewer servers.

Customers requiring high performance networks
  • Applications such as database clusters, server, I/O & fabric consolidation, VoIP, and VOD.
  • Customers in a broad range of advanced computing environments requiring 10Gb bandwidth

 
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