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Introduction
18 Host Bus Adapter for Windows and Linux Installation Guide
Performance Specifications
The PCI-X host bus adapter offers a highly integrated 2Gbps Fibre Channel HBA
for use in servers based on either PCI or the latest PCI-X expansion bus. The
features of this PCI-X based HBA provide the flexibility and broad
interoperability needed for complex, highly scalable SANs.
The HBA also features sophisticated hardware that provides superior performance
in SANs and provides best in class server CPU offload. This exclusive hardware
delivers low latency and high throughput in switched fabric, arbitrated loop, and
clustered environments. Support for fiber optic cabling is provided through an
embedded small form factor (LC) optical interface.
The HBA is both ANSI Fibre Channel and PCI Local Bus Compliant and
supports:
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Simultaneous full duplex 2 Gbps PCI bus speed data transfers of 400 MBps
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Full fabric support using F_PORT and FL_Port connections
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Full fabric boot support in x86 environments to multiple LUNs
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FC-Tape (FC-2) devices
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Point-to-point arbitrated-loop, and switch fabric FC connections
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Storage protocol
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Fibre Channel class 2 and 3
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Automatic speed negotiation and topology detection
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End-to-end parity protection for high data integrity
Collectively, these characteristics create a high-performance Fibre Channel HBA.