The HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 561 FLR-T FlexibleLOM adapter features the latest generation 10 GbE Intel® Ethernet Controller X540. The HP 561FLR-T is a low-cost, low-power, dual port 10GBASE-T adapter designed for use in HP ProLiant Gen8 rack, tower and scalable servers.

The HP 561FLR-T addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center by providing unmatched features for virtualization, scalability to keep up with the HP ProLiant Gen8 server platform, with proven and reliable performance HP customers have come to expect. The HP 561FLR-T adapter enables connections with standard CAT6 cabling.

The HP 561FLR-T supports high performance networking features such as VLAN tagging, Low latency interrupts, TCP and UDP checksum offloading, MSI-X, NIC teaming (bonding), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), WOL, jumbo frames, PXE boot and virtualization features and is VMDq and SR-IOV ready.
What's new
10GBase-T technology
Supports IEEE 1588 (Time Stamping) & Time synchronization (802.1AS)
RJ-45 ports for twisted pair cabling utilizing CAT 6A or better
Features
Dual-port 10Gb Ethernet PCIe Gen FlexibleLOM adapter designed for maximum network performance.
20 Gbps full duplex Ethernet transfer rate per port
Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c) with VMDq and SR-IOV supports VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ helping to meet the performance demands of consolidated virtual workloads
Supports Wake-on-LAN (WOL) at 1Gb, has PXE , MSI-X support, Teaming, IPv6
Adapter supports HP Sea of Sensors 3D Technology
New Intel® Data Direct I/O technologies reduces system power, increases I/O performance and reduces I/O latency.
Network processor
Intel® X540 Controller

Data rate
Two ports, each at 20 Gbps full duplex
40 Gbps aggregate full duplex theoretical bandwidth.

Bus type
PCIe v2.1 (Gen 2) x 8

Form factor
FlexibleLOM

Power
19.2W Maximum

Server supported
ProLiant servers

IEEE compliance
802.3, 802.3x, 802.3ad, 802.1Qaz, 802.1Qau, 802.1Qbb, 802.1ax

Compatible operating systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server 2012, HPC Server 2008, Small Business Server 2011, Multipoint Server 2011
Hyper-V
RHEL 5.7/5.8/5.9/6.1/6.2/6.3
SLES 10 and 11
Solaris 10/11
VMware vSphere 4.1 and 5.0
Citrix XenServer 6.0/6.1

Product differentiator
Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 561FLR-T Adapter
Dimensions and weight
Dimensions (W x D x H)
5.72 x 24.13 x 19.05 cm (2.25 x 9.5 x 7.5 in)
Weight
0.45 kg (1 lb)