The adapter is a dual port 10GbE mezzanine, that when paired with the new 10Gb Virtual Connect Module provides up to eight physical function NICs that can be configured to operate at any speed from 100Mbs to 10Gbs.

The NC532m works as a standard dual port 10GbE NIC when connected to non Virtual Connect devices such as the ProCurve 6120XG. The adapter ships with support for VLAN tagging, QoS, teaming (bonding), Receive Side Scaling (RSS), PXE.