Operating System and Technology Requirements
Chapter 1 • HBA Overview
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Feature
Description
1600 MBps per port maximum, full-duplex
FC topologies
FC-SW switched fabric (N-Port), FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL-Port), and point-to-point (N-
Port)
Nonvolatile memory
Type: Flash (SPI)
Size (total for all ports): 2 MB
Purpose: Firmware, Universal Boot Code, POST Store persistent data, such as driver trace
info Store HBA parameters Store VPD data Non-volatile error log to reduce number of “no
defect found” returned adapters. Error log can wrap around. Software should be able to read
this error-log (IBM request Section 1.6.2)
External FC connectors
Two small form-factor pluggable (SFP) multimode optics with LC-style connectors
FC rate: multi-mode optic distance
Limited: 2Gb OM1 – 150m OM2 – 300m OM3 – 500m 4Gb OM1 – 70m OM2 – 150m OM3
– 380m 8Gb OM1 – 21m OM2 – 50m OM3 – 150m
Linear: 2Gb OM1 – n/a OM2 – n/a OM3 – n/a 4Gb OM1 – n/a OM2 – n/a OM3 – n/a 8Gb
OM1 – 40m OM2 – 100m OM3 – 300m
LED indicators
Three LEDs per FC channel (yellow, green, amber) on front panel as status indicators
Maximum power consumption
SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z (single port): 7.3 watts
SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z(dual port): 9.7 watts
Form Factor
Low profile MD2, PCI-Express HBA
Operating System and Technology Requirements
The HBA requires the operating system (OS) and technology versions listed in
.
TABLE 1-2
Supported Operating System/Technology Versions (Minimum)
Operating System/Technology
Supported Versions (minimum)
Oracle Solaris OS for the x86 (64-bit) platform
■ Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 with patches 149176-02 and 145649-04, at minimum
■ Oracle Solaris 11.1 with SRU 7
To obtain the latest patches and SRUs, go to
Oracle Solaris OS for the SPARC (64-bit) platform
■ Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 with patches 149175-02 and 145648-04, at minimum
■ Oracle Solaris 11.1 with SRU 7
To obtain the latest patches and SRUs, go to
Linux OS
■ Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.9 (Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) and
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) 2, at minimum)
■ Oracle Linux 6.4 (RHCK and UEK2, at minimum)
■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (64-bit)
■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (64-bit)
■ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Microsoft Windows
OS Standard, Enterprise, and
Datacenter Editions
■ Window Server 2008 R2 including SP1 (64-bit)
■ Windows Server 2012