Sun Microsystems StorageTek SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z, Installation Manual

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2 Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA Installation Guide • September 2009
HBA Features and Specifications
The Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA (single port: SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z,
dual port: SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z) consists of a PCI-Express Small Form Factor HBA.
The board interfaces an eight-lane PCI-Express bus, with the eight lanes supporting
either one or two Fibre Channel (FC) optical media ports. Each independent FC port
operates at 8 Gbit/sec and features 8/4/2 autonegotiation.
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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SunVTS 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)