HBA Feature Summary

The following is a summary of the HBA features (see HBA Features and Specifications for a detailed list of features):

Adherance to the PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification
Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration support
Fibre Channel boot for all supported operating systems
Oracle VTS diagnostics support

Fibre Channel Feature Summary

The following is a summary of the Fibre Channel features of the HBA:

Support for these FC topologies:
- FC-SW switched fabric (N_Port)
- FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL_Port)
- Point-to-point (N_Port)
Removable SFP shortwave optics for attachment to multi-mode fiber with LC-style connectors
Compatibility with:
- Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling (FC-PH, FC-PH-2, FC-PH-3)
- Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)
- Fibre Channel Physical Interface (FC-PI)
- Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-3)
- Fibre Channel Tape and Medium Changers (FC-Tape)
- Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FC-FCP)
- Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, 2nd version (FCP-2)

HBA Features and Specifications lists the HBA features and specifications.

Table 1-1 HBA Features and Specifications

Feature	Description
PCIe connector	x8
PCIe signaling environment	PCI-Express x8 (8 active lanes)
PCIe transfer rates (maximum)	PCI-Express Gen 1 x8 at 2.5 Gbps PCI-Express Gen 2 x4 at 5 Gbps
Number of FC ports	One (single port) or two (dual port)
FC bus type (external)	Fiber-optic media, short-wave, multimode fiber (400‐M5- SN-S)
FC transfer rate	800 MBps per port maximum, half-duplex 1600 MBps per port maximum, full-duplex
FC topologies	FC-SW switched fabric (N-Port), FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL-Port), and point-to-point (N-Port)
Nonvolatile memory	Type: Flash (SPI) Size (total for all ports): 2 MB Purpose: Firmware, Universal Boot Code, POST Store persistent data, such as driver trace info Store HBA parameters Store VPD data Non-volatile error log to reduce number of “no defect found” returned adapters. Error log can wrap around. Software should be able to read this error-log (IBM request Section 1.6.2)
External FC connectors	Two small form-factor pluggable (SFP) multimode optics with LC-style connectors
FC rate: multi-mode optic distance	Limited: 2Gb OM1 – 150m OM2 – 300m OM3 – 500m 4Gb OM1 – 70m OM2 – 150m OM3 – 380m 8Gb OM1 – 21m OM2 – 50m OM3 – 150m Linear: 2Gb OM1 – n/a OM2 – n/a OM3 – n/a 4Gb OM1 – n/a OM2 – n/a OM3 – n/a 8Gb OM1 – 40m OM2 – 100m OM3 – 300m
LED indicators	Three LEDs per FC channel (yellow, green, amber) on front panel as status indicators
Maximum power consumption	SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z (single port): 7.3 watts SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z(dual port): 9.7 watts
Form Factor	Low profile MD2, PCI-Express HBA

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HBA Feature Summary

Fibre Channel Feature Summary