Why does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installer is detecting 8 NIC cards instead of four which are present?

Issue

• After installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 using kickstart file, the four NICs are there but it shows 8 in total. Why?

[root@RHEL7 ~]# ifconfig -a | grep BROADCAST
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
5: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
6: enp2s0f4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
7: enp2s0f5: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
8: enp2s0f6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
9: enp2s0f7: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000

• So all the usual eth interfaces exist, which is good, but then have got these other 4. They're also using predictable network names too, as be can seen.
• The hardware used is HP BL460c blades that have a FlexLOM port, so the NICs are virtual.