Oracle StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCIe HBA, Installation Manual

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HBA Features and Specifications
10 StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCIe HBA From QLogic Installation Guide • March 2015
HBA Feature Summary
The following is a summary of the HBA features (see Table 1-1 for a detailed list of features):
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Adherance to the PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification
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Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration support
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Fibre Channel boot for all supported operating systems
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Oracle VTS diagnostics support
Fibre Channel Feature Summary
The following is a summary of the Fibre Channel features of the HBA:
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Support for these FC topologies:
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FC-SW switched fabric (N_Port)
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FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL_Port)
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Point-to-point (N_Port)
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Removable SFP shortwave optics for attachment to multi-mode fiber with LC-style
connectors
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Compatibility with:
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Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling (FC-PH, FC-PH-2, FC-PH-3)
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Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)
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Fibre Channel Physical Interface (FC-PI)
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Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-3)
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Fibre Channel Tape and Medium Changers (FC-Tape)
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Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FC-FCP)
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Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, 2nd version (FCP-2)
Table 1-1 lists the HBA features and specifications.
TABLE 1-1
HBA Features and Specifications
Feature Description
PCIe connector x8
PCIe signaling environment PCI-Express x8 (8 active lanes)
PCIe transfer rates (maximum) PCI-Express Gen 1 x8 at 2.5 Gbps
PCI-Express Gen 2 x4 at 5 Gbps
Number of FC ports One (single port) or two (dual port)
FC bus type (external) Fiber-optic media, short-wave, multimode fiber
(400‐
M5- SN-S)
FC transfer rate 800 MBps per port maximum, half-duplex