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Corporate Headquarters

    QLogic Corporation    26650 Aliso Viejo Parkway    Aliso Viejo, CA 92656    949.389.6000           

www.qlogic.com

Europe Headquarters 

  QLogic (UK) LTD.    Surrey Technology Centre    40 Occam Road Guildford    Surrey GU2 7YG UK    +44 (0)1483 295825

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Host Bus Interface Specifications

Bus interface

64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X

Memory

Integrated 512KB SRAM per port 
1-MB flash (SPI)
2-KB NVRAM (SPI)
4-KB EEPROM (I

2

C)

Hardware platforms

IBM HS21
IBM LS21
IBM LS41
IBM JS21

Compliance

PCI-X Protocol Addendum to the PCI Local 
Bus Specification

, revision 2.0a

PCI Bus Power Management Interface 
Specification

,

 

revision 1.1

Fibre Channel Specifications

Data rate

4/2/1 Gbps auto-negotiation 
(4.25/2.125/1.0625 Gbps)

Performance

150,000 IOPS per port

Topology

Point-to-point (N_Port)
Arbitrated loop (NL_Port)
Switched fabric (N_Port)

Logins

Support for F_Port and FL_Port login
2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active 
exchanges per port










Protocols

FCP (SCSI-FCP)
FC-TAPE (FCP-2)

Compliance

SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol  
(SCSI-FCP)
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface 
(FC-PH)
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface 
2nd Generation (FC-PH-2

Third Generation Fibre Channel Physical and 
Signaling Interface (FC-PH-3)
Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2)
Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment 
Technical Report (FC-FLA)
Fibre Channel-Private Loop Direct Attach 
Technical Report (FC-PLDA)
Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) profile
SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2)
Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-
GS-3)
Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-
GS-3)
Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)

Physical Specifications

Ports

Dual 4-Gbps FC

Form factor

IBM Combo Form Factor (CFFv)

Environment and Equipment 
Specifications

Airflow

No airflow required

Temperature

Operating:  0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F
Storage:  -40°C/-40°F to 70°C/158°F






Humidity

Relative (non-condensing):  5% to 95%
Storage:  5% to 95%

Power dissipation

8.0W (maximum)

Tools and Utilities

Management tools

SANsurfer FC HBA Manager
SANsurfer FC HBA Command Line Interface (CLI)

Device utilities

FLASUTIL for updating:

Firmware
Boot code
HBA parameters

Boot support

BIOS
FCode

APIs

SNIA HBA API V2
SMI-S
FDMI

Operating systems

Windows 
Linux – Red Hat 
Linux – SuSE
NetWare
Solaris
VMware
AIX (IBM supplied driver)

Ordering Information

The QMI2472 is available from IBM 
(IBM part number: 41Y8527)














SANblade QMI2472

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