Fiber Channel Specifications

Negotiation

• 8/4/2Gbps auto-negotiation

IOPS

• 200,000 initiator and target IOPS per port

Class of service

• 2 and 3

Topology

• FC-AL, FC-AL2, point-to-point, switched fabric

Protocols

• FCP-3-SCSI

• FC-Tape (FCP-2)

PCI Express Interface

Compliance

• PCI Express Base Specification rev. 2.0

• PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification

rev. 2.0

• PCI Bus Power Management Interface

Specification rev. 1.2

• PCI Hot Plug Specification rev. 1.0

Physical and electrical

• PCIe x8 physical connector

• Maximum x8 lanes for Gen1 and Gen2 rates

Platforms

Hardware platforms

• IA32 (x86), IA64, Intel® 64

• AMD™ Opteron64

• Sun™ SPARC®

Tools and Utilities

Management tools and device utilities

• SANsurfer® FC HBA Manager

• SANsurfer FC HBA CLI

• Utilities for flashing bootcode

• Linux® scripting tools

• Windows PowerShell virtual port scripts

Boot support

• BIOS, FCode, UEFI, EFI

APIs

• SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI

Operating systems

• Windows® Server™ 2003, Windows XP Pro x64,

Windows Vista™ (Business and Enterprise),

Windows Server 2008

• Solaris™ 10 (x86 and SPARC, Open Solaris)

• Red Hat® AS 5.x, 4.x

• Novell® SLES 11, 10, 9

• VMware® ESX/ESXi 3.5

• NetWare® 6.5

Physical Specifications

Ports

• Quad 8Gbps Fibre Channel

• SFP+ with LC-style connector

Form factor

• 6.6 in x 4.376 in (167.6 mm x 111.2mm)

Environment and Equipment

Specifications

Airflow

• No airflow required

Temperature

• 0 to 55°C (operating)

• -40 to 70°C (non-operating)

Relative Humidity

• 10% to 90% (operating, non-condensing)

• 5% to 93% (non-operating, non-condensing)

Power consumption

• 13W (typical)

RoHS compliance

• RoHS 6

Cable distances

Multi-Mode Optic

Cable Type and Distance (m)

Rate OM1 OM2 OM3

2Gbps 150 300 500

4Gbps 70 150 380

8Gbps 21 50 150