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2 Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA, Emulex Installation Guide • December 2008
HBA Features and Specifications
The Sun StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCI-Express HBA, Emulex (single port: SG-XPCIE1FC-
EM8-Z, dual port: SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z) consists of a single-wide, FC bus expansion
board. The board interfaces a four- or eight-lane PCI-Express bus, with the four or
eight lanes supporting one or two Fibre Channel (FC) optical media ports. Each
independent FC port operates at 8 Gbit/sec and features 8/4/2 autonegotiation.
See TABLE 1-1 for a list of the HBA features.
TABLE 1-1 HBA Features and Specifications
Feature Description
PCIconnector x8
PCI signaling environment PCI Express x8 (8 active lanes)
PCI lane usage x8 lanes
PCItransfer rate
(maximum) PCI Express Generation One (GT/s) x8
PCI Express Generation Two (5.0 GT/s) x8
Number of FC ports One (single port) or Two (dual port)
Number of devices
supported 126 devices per FC loop; 510 devices in Fabric mode
FC bus type (external) Fiber-optic media, short-wave, multi-mode fiber (400-M5- SN-S)
FC transfer rate 400 MBps per port maximum, half-duplex
800 MBps per port maximum, full-duplex
FC topologies Switched fabric (N-Port), arbitrated loop (NL-Port), and point-to-point (N-Port)
RAM 1.5 MB, parity protected, per port
BIOS ROM (FC) One 4-MB (dual-port) or 2-MB (single-port) flash ROM
NVRAM One 2-KB EEPROM per port
External connectors One Small-Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) multimode optic with LC-style
connectors per port