Dell Brocade Adapters User Manual

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Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual

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Host Bus Adapters

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ATTENTION

For stand-up HBAs, use only Brocade-branded SFP laser transceivers supplied with this product.

Cable connector
(stand-up adapters)

LC

ASIC

•

Provides the Fibre Channel functionality for all
HBA models.

•

Two on-board processors, each operating at
400 MHz, generate signal timing and link
protocol in compliance with Fibre Channel
standards.

External serial FLASH
memory

•

Stores firmware and HBA BIOS code

•

4 MB capacity

Data Rate
Per Port - Full Duplex

•

1600 MB at 8 Gbps

•

800 MB at 4 Gbps

•

400 MB at 2 Gbps

Performance Per Port

500,000 IOPs (maximum)

Distance Support
(stand-up adapters)

50 m at 8 Gbps with 62.5/125 micron multimode
fiber

Topology Point-to-Point

(N_Port)

Protocols

•

SCSI over FC (FCP)

•

FCP3 - initiator mode only

•

FC-SP Authentication

•

NPIV

Other Features

•

ASIC Flip-flops Parity Protected

•

ECC Memory Parity Protected

•

Quality of Service (QoS)

•

Target Rate Limiting

•

Boot Over SAN

•

Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery

•

I/O Interrupt Coalescing

•

T10 Data CRC

•

Multiple Priority (VC_RDY)

•

Frame-Level Load Balancing

•

Persistent Binding

•

Fabric-Based Configuration

TABLE 26

Supported Fibre Channel features (continued)

Feature

Description

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