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Atto hba installation – IBM SYSTEM STORAGE DS5000 User Manual

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Product Features

Celerity HBA‟s

FC84EN

FC82EN

FC81EN

Fibre Channel Ports

4

2

1

Maximum Data Rate

8Gb

8Gb

8Gb

Maximum Transfer Rate (Full Duplex)

6.4 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

1.6 GB/s

Maximum Transfer Rate (Half Duplex)

3.2 GB/s

1.6 GB/s

800 MB/s

Bus Type

PCIe 2.0

PCIe 2.0

PCIe 2.0

Bus Characteristics

X8

X8

X8

Optical Interface

SPF+LC

SPF+LC

SPF+LC

Maximum Cable Length

300m-2GB
150m-4GB

50m-8GB

300m-2GB
150m-4GB

50m-8GB

300m-2GB
150m-4GB

50m-8GB

Low Profile Form Factor

NO

YES

YES

Advanced Data Streaming (ADS)

YES

YES

YES

Software RAID Support

YES

YES

YES

Developers Kit (Target Mode and API)

YES

YES

YES

Windows (Server)

YES

YES

YES

Windows (work station / client)

PLANNED

PLANNED

PLANNED

Linux (Red Hat, SUSE)

YES

YES

YES

MAC OSX

YES

YES

YES

VMWare ESX

YES

YES

YES

RoHS Compliant

YES

YES

YES

http://www.attotech.com/selectioncharts/Celerity_Selection_Chart.pdf

ATTO HBA INSTALLATION

ATTO Technology and IBM have teamed up to offer a high performance Fibre Channel multipathing connection
into the IBM DS Series for MAC OS X, Windows and Linux.

Multipathing = failover + load balancing

Key Components:

ATTO Celerity 8Gb FC HBAs (FC-81EN, FC-82EN, FC-84EN)
ATTO custom Multipathing driver for IBM DS Series Storage
ATTO Configuration Tool
IBM DS Series Storage

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