HBA Features and Specifications

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The Sun Storage 16 Gb FC ExpressModule HBA, Emulex (marketing part number 7101690) is a standalone PCI Express ExpressModule host bus adapter (HBA).

The board interfaces an eight-lane PCI Express bus, with eight lanes supporting two Fibre Channel (FC) ports. Each independent FC port operates at 16 Gb/sec and features 16/8/4 autonegotiation.

See Figure 1, Table 1, HBA Features and Specification for a list of the HBA features.

Table 1 HBA Features and Specification

Feature	Description
PCI connector	x8
PCI signaling environment	PCI Express x8 (8 active lanes)
PCI transfer rate (maximum)	PCI Express Generation Three (8 GT/s) x8
PCIe specification compliance	PCI Express Card Version 3.0 Specification
PCIe hot-plug and hot-swap functionality	Supported
Number of ports	Two
Number of devices supported	126 devices per FC loop (not supported at 16 Gb); 510 devices in Fabric mode
FCoE full offload in hardware	Meets requirement
FC bus type (external)	Fiber-optic media, short-wave laser, multi-mode fiber (400‐M5-SN-S)
FC transfer rate	16 Gb/s
FC topologies	Switched fabric (N_Port), arbitrated loop (NL_Port) [FC-AL support for 4 G/8 G only]; and point-to-point (N_Port))
Receive Side Scaling	Supported
MSI-X	Supported
Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration	Supported
Diagnostic Support	Provided by Oracle VTS software
Boot support	For all supported operating systems. For more information about boot support for the HBA, see Figure 3, Table 3, HBA Boot Support.
RAM	1.5 MB, parity protected, per port
BIOS ROM	One 32-MB flash ROM, field-programmable
NVRAM	One 32-KB EEPROM
External connectors	SFP+ direct attach copper (DAC) twinaxial (twin-ax) cables from the supported switch manufacturers listed in Switch Support.
Small form-factor pluggable (SFP+)	Supporting options with short range, short-wave, and twin-ax cabling
Maximum FC cable length	At 16 Gb/s, up to 125 meters using 50/125 mm core OM4 fiber. Longer lengths are possible at slower data rates.
LED indicators	Two LEDs per channel (yellow and green) on the front panel as status indicators Power LED, Service RequiredLED, and a button on the front panel to support hot-swap functionality
Maximum power consumption	13.3 watts
Form Factor	PCI Express ExpressModule, single-wide (198 mm x 112 mm x 21 mm)