Universal HBA Features and Specifications
Oracle's Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) ExpressModule
Universal HBA (part number 7101682) is a dual-port ExpressModule
universal host bus adapter, which uses QLogic technology. The HBA
is considered universal because it is a configurable board that
enables you to change its operating protocol mode from a two-port
16 Gb FC to a two-port 10 GbE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged
Network Adapter. The universal HBA has four possible configurations:
10 GbE FCoE
Copper – This configuration provides twin-ax
copper cable connectivity and 10 GbE FCoE universal host bus adapter
functionality. No optical modules are installed in, nor provided
with, this configuration of the universal HBA.
16 Gb FC SW (shortwave)
Optical – This configuration requires installing
16 Gb FC shortwave optical transceiver modules in the SFP+ connectors
of the universal HBA, enabling 16 Gb FC HBA functionality.
10 GbE FCoE SR (short-range)
Optical – This configuration requires installing
10 GbE short-range optical transceiver modules in the SFP+ connectors
of the universal HBA, enabling 10 GbE FCoE Converged Network Adapter functionality.
16 Gb FC LW (longwave) Optical – This configuration
requires installing 16 Gb FC long-range optical transceiver modules in the SFP+
connectors of the universal HBA, enabling 16 Gb FC HBA functionality.
Note -
If you are using the Universal HBA in an FCoE Converged Network Adapter
configuration, keep in mind that Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) cannot be
used on the same port as FCoE or iSCSI.
10 GbE FCoE Copper Configuration shows the physical features
of the universal HBA, without any cables or optical transceiver
modules attached.
Figure 1 10 GbE FCoE Copper Configuration
Figure 1, Table 1, Universal Host Bus Adapter Features and Specifications lists the features and
specifications for the universal HBA. For a list of supported operating
systems, see Figure 2, Table 2, Supported Operating System/Technology Versions (Minimum).
Table 1 Universal Host Bus Adapter Features and Specifications
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Form factor |
PCI ExpressModule, single wide |
Connector types |
Small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+)
cages that can be connected with twin-ax cabling from supported
switch manufacturers (see Switch Compatibility)
can have the following transceivers:
SFP+ 16 Gb shortwave (part number 7101676)
SFP+ 10 Gb short-range (part number 7101678)
SFP+ 16 Gb longwave (part number 7101680)
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PCIe specification compliance |
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Lanes |
PCI Express Gen
2 x8
PCI Express Gen 3 x4
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PCIe hot-plug and hot-swap functionality |
Supported |
Maximum power consumption |
Approximately 24 watts |
Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration |
Supported |
FCoE full offload in hardware |
Supported |
Boot support |
Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet,
and Ethernet for all operating systems (see Boot Support) |
Test suite |
Provided by Oracle VTS software |
Receive side scaling (RSS) |
Supported |
MSI-X |
Supported |
Fibre Channel support |
Dual-port Fibre
Channel with 16/8/4 autonegotiation
Topologies supported: FC-SW switched fabric (N_Port),
FC-AL arbitrated loop (NL_ Port) (not supported at 16 Gb), and Point-to-point
(N_Port)
Dual-port Fibre Channel over Ethernet
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FC and FCoE compatibility |
Fibre Channel
Physical and Signaling (FC-PH, FC-PH2, FC-PH3)
Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-3)
Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)
Fibre Channel Physical Interface (FC-PI)
Fibre Channel Tape and Medium Changers (FC-Tape)
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-3-SCSI)
Fibre Channel Switch Fabric (FC-SW-4)
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI Support (FC-FCP,
FC-FCP2)
FMA support
FC and FCoE boot code for all supported operating
systems
Note -
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) cannot be used on the
same port as FCoE or iSCSI.
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Ethernet and NIC support |
Standard Ethernet and Enhanced Ethernet:
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
IEEE 802.1p and 802.1D
IEEE 802.3x
IEEE 802.1Qbb
IEEE 802.1Qaz
DCBX CEE Rev 1.01
Controller hardware support:
Jumbo frames support for frame sizes
of at least 9 KB
Hardware TCP/UDP checksum generation
Hardware IPv4/IPv6 checksum offload
Hardware large segmentation offload
Hardware header and data split
Full-duplex operation is supported
Up to 128 MAC addresses
Unicast and multicast address filtering
VMware NetQueue
Packet filtering based on MAC address or VLAN tag
Microsoft receiveside scaling (RSS)
NIC teaming
PCI hot-plug functionality
Pre-boot eXecution environment (PXE) boot
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