The HP Flex-10 10 Gb 2-port 552M adapter, a mezzanine Type A card designed for the HP Blade System c-Class Gen 8 platform, delivers the performance benefits of 10 Gb Ethernet with the scalability & flexibility that HP Virtual Connect & Flex-10 provide. It supports up to 8 Flex NICs per adapter, with each Flex NIC having a unique MAC address & identity on the LAN. Bandwidth can be uniquely allocated for virtual server functions & applications. Hardware acceleration & offloads for stateless TCP/IP & TCP Offload Engine (TOE) enable optimum use of CPU resources. 128MB The HP 552M supports Virtual Connect Flex-10, increasing bandwidth for virtualized servers. One platform for network & storage connection. Multiple protocol offloads for optimum server efficiency. Industry leading performance per watt for power savings. Easy to deploy & manage. Supports receive-side scaling (RSS) for the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems.