Hba features and specifications – Sun Microsystems SG-XPCIE1FC-EM8-Z User Manual

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Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA, Emulex Installation Guide • December 2008

HBA Features and Specifications

The Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA, Emulex (single port: SG-XPCIE1FC-
EM8-Z, dual port: SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z) consists of a single-wide, FC bus expansion
board. The board interfaces a four- or eight-lane PCI-Express bus, with the four or
eight lanes supporting one or two Fibre Channel (FC) optical media ports. Each
independent FC port operates at 8 Gbit/sec and features 8/4/2 autonegotiation.

See

TABLE 1-1

for a list of the HBA features.

TABLE 1-1

HBA Features and Specifications

Feature

Description

PCIconnector

x8

PCI signaling environment

PCI Express x8 (8 active lanes)

PCI lane usage

x8 lanes

PCItransfer rate
(maximum)

PCI Express Generation One (GT/s) x8
PCI Express Generation Two (5.0 GT/s) x8

Number of FC ports

One (single port) or Two (dual port)

Number of devices
supported

126 devices per FC loop; 510 devices in Fabric mode

FC bus type (external)

Fiber-optic media, short-wave, multi-mode fiber (400-M5- SN-S)

FC transfer rate

400 MBps per port maximum, half-duplex
800 MBps per port maximum, full-duplex

FC topologies

Switched fabric (N-Port), arbitrated loop (NL-Port), and point-to-point (N-Port)

RAM

1.5 MB, parity protected, per port

BIOS ROM (FC)

One 4-MB (dual-port) or 2-MB (single-port) flash ROM

NVRAM

One 2-KB EEPROM per port

External connectors

One Small-Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) multimode optic with LC-style
connectors per port

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