Physical Specifications |
Ports |
Single 4Gbps Fibre Channel |
Form factor |
Low-profile PCIe card |
(6.6 in. × 2.54 in.) |
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Environment and Equipment Specifications |
Airflow |
No airflow required |
Power Consumption |
5 Watts (maximum) |
Operating Temperature |
0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F |
Storage Temperature |
–20°C/–4°F to 70°C/158°F |
Relative Humidity |
10% to 90% (non-condensing) |
Storage Humidity |
5% to 95% |
Cable distances |
1Gbps: 500 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 300 meters 62.5/125 μm fiber |
2Gbps: 300 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 150 meters 62.5/125 μm fiber |
4Gbps: 150 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 70 meters 62.5/125 μm fiber |
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Host Bus Interface Specifications |
Bus interface |
PCI Express |
Memory |
1MB SRAM per port, 1MB flash (SPI), and 2KB NVRAM (SPI) |
Hardware platforms1 |
IA32 (x86), IA64, IEM64T, AMD Opteron™ 64, Sun™ SPARC®, Apple® G5 (Xserve® and Power Mac®) |
Compliance |
PCI Express Base Specification, revision 1.0a, PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, revision 1.0, PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, revision 1.1 |
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Fibre Channel Specifications |
Data rate |
4/2/1Gbps auto-negotiation (4.2480/2.1240/ 1.0625Gbps) |
Performance |
150,000 IOPS per port |
Topology |
Point-to-point (N_Port), arbitrated loop (NL_Port), and switched fabric (N_Port) |
Logins |
Support for F_Port and FL_Port login: 2,048 concurrent logins, and 2,048 active exchanges |
Class of service |
Class 2 and 3 |
Protocols |
FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2) |
Compliance |
SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH), Fibre Channel 2nd Generation (FC-PH-2), Third Generation Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH-3), Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2), Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment Technical Report (FC-FLA), Fibre Channel-Private Loop Direct Attach Technical Report (FC-PLDA), Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3), Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS) |
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Tools and Utilities |
Management tools |
QConvergeConsole: a unified management tool (GUI and CLI) for Fibre Channel |
Device utilities |
Utilities for flashing bootcode |
Linux® scripting tools |
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Boot support |
BIOS, EFI, FCode |
APIs |
SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI |
Operating systems |
Microsoft® Windows Server®, XP Professional, Vista®; Red Hat® Linux; Novell® SLES, NetWare®; VMware® ESX™/ESXi; Oracle® Solaris®, Linux; Citrix® XenServer™; Apple Mac OS® |
Agency Approvals |
EMI and EMC |
US: FCC Part 15, Class B |
Canada: Industry Canada ICES-003, Class B |
Safety |
UL60950, CSA C22.2 No.60950, Class 1 Laser Product per DHHS 21CFR J |