The NC553m FlexFabric mezzanine adapter supports Virtual Connect Flex-10 that allows each port to be divided into four physical NICs to optimize bandwidth management for virtualized servers. For iSCSI storage,the NC553m supports full protocol offload providing better CPU efficiency enabling the server to handle increased virtualization workloads and compute-intensive applications. This combination of high-performance network and storage connectivity reduces cost and complexity and provides the flexibility and scalability to fully optimize BladeSystem servers. The NC553m delivers the performance benefits and cost savings of converged network connectivity for HP BladeSystem servers.