For more information, see "iSCSI and FCoE port assignments (on page 173)" and "Creating FCoE HBA connections for a BL890c i4 (on page 190)."

•FC profile connection entries are mapped to blades such that all of the FC HBAs on the first blade are mapped first, then the HBAs on the second blade, and so on. When a profile is first created, it has enough FC profile connections for the HBAs on one blade. The maximum number of FC connections allowed is 4 times the original number of entries.

Rare situations exist where VCM is not able to retrieve information about all of the blades in a multi-blade server, such as certain hardware failures that keep a blade from being in a normal state prior to applying power. In such cases, VCM displays the Major error status icon. Where text is shown with the icon, the text is “Missing Data”. This indicates a serious problem with the multi-blade server that needs to be fixed. VCM cannot properly map profile connections to a server when it is in this state.

Integrity servers do not support iSCSI.

For more information, see "Appendix A: Using Virtual Connect with nPartitions (on page 289)."

Flex-10 overview

Flex-10 technology is exclusive to Virtual Connect environments. When Flex-10-enabled 10Gb NICs are connected to an HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module or HP Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D Module, each NIC port becomes four individual NICs, called FlexNICs.

Although these four FlexNICs share a single 10Gb physical interface, Virtual Connect is able to keep traffic for the FlexNICs isolated, and each FlexNIC is assigned to one or more distinct Virtual Connect networks.

Each FlexNIC can be assigned a different transmit bandwidth (from 100Mb to 10Gb), which is enforced by hardware mechanisms. The FlexNICs share a total of 10Gb, so one could be set to 5Gb, one could be set to 1Gb, and the remaining two could each be set to 2Gb. Using the optimized bandwidth feature, you can set a preferred speed to guarantee the minimum bandwidth for the port, and also a maximum bandwidth. The total actual shareable bandwidth cannot exceed 10Gb; however, the preferred speed and maximum

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