HBA Features

The internal Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA (SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z, SG-SAS6-R-INT-Z) is a low-profile, PCI Express 2.0 RAID controller that supports eight internal 6 Gb SAS/SATA ports through two SFF-8087 x4 internal mini SAS connectors.

You can connect the LSI intelligent Battery Backup Unit 08 (LSIiBBU08) directly or remotely to the HBA. For more information about this battery backup unit, refer to the LSI document, MegaRAID iBBU08 Intelligent Battery Backup Unit Quick Installation Guide, located at the Oracle support area of the LSI web site: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/RAID Controllers/RAID Controllers Common Files/46307-00_MegaRaid_LSIiBBU08_QIG.pdf

The HBA supports the following features:

• Two internal connectors

• PCI Express host interface, as defined in the PCI Express Specification, revision 2.0, that is backward compatible with previous revisions of the PCI bus and PCI-X bus

• PCI Express x8 lane width (with support for x16 connection)

• Simplified cabling between devices with point-to-point, serial architecture

• PCI Express performance up to 5 Gbit/s per lane

• High performance through the MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) architecture

• High throughput and low CPU utilization to offload the host processor