TABLE 1-1
HBA Features and Specifications
TABLE 1-1
Feature
PCIe connector
PCIe signaling environment
PCIe transfer rates (maximum)
Number of FC ports
FC bus type (external)
FC transfer rate
FC topologies
Nonvolatile memory
External FC connectors
FC rate: multi-mode optic
distance
FC rate: single-mode optic
distance
lists the HBA features and specifications.
Description
x8
PCI-Express x8 (8 active lanes)
PCI-Express Gen 1 x8 at 2.5 Gbps
PCI-Express Gen 2 x4 at 5 Gbps
One (single port) or two (dual port)
Fiber-optic media, short-wave, multimode fiber (400-M5- SN-S)
800 MBps per port maximum, half-duplex
1600 MBps per port maximum, full-duplex
FC-SW switched fabric (N-Port), FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL-Port), and
point-to-point (N-Port)
Type:
Size (total for all ports): 2 MB
Purpose:
Two small form-factor pluggable (SFP) multimode optics with LC-style
connectors
Limited:
2Gb
OM1 – 150m
4Gb
OM1 – 70m
8Gb
OM1 – 21m
Linear:
2Gb
OM1 – n/a
4Gb
OM1 – n/a
8Gb
OM1 – 40m
2Gb
10KM
4Gb
10KM
8Gb
10KM
Flash (SPI)
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)
OM2 – 300m
OM3 – 500m
OM2 – 150m
OM3 – 380m
OM2 – 50m
OM3 – 150m
OM2 – n/a
OM3 – n/a
OM2 – n/a
OM3 – n/a
OM2 – 100m
OM3 – 300m
Chapter 1
HBA Overview
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