Western Digital WD Arkeia RAx300T Installation and Configuration Guide - Manual (Page 32)

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WD Arkeia Physical Appliance Installation and Configuration Guide
6. OPTIONAL NETWORK HARDWARE
Administrators can install either or both of two optional networking cards in WD
Arkeia physical appliance models RA5300 and RA6330. At the time of
publication of this Guide, only two cards are supported: one dual 10 Gb
Ethernet card and one 8 Gb Fibre Channel card. See the
www.wd.com/wdarkeia/appliance page for a complete list of currently supported
cards.
The 8 Gb FC card allows for deployment of additional tape libraries,
autoloaders, virtual tape libraries (VTLs), and LAN-free backup support in SAN
environments (for physical and virtual machines).
6.1 Dual 10 Gb Ethernet card
The supported dual 10Gbps Ethernet controller card is:
Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S
The Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S requires the following cables:
SFP+ direct attached twin axial cabling, up to 10 meters.
Dual LC Fiber-optic connections SR, up to 300 meters.
6.2 Single 8 Gb Fibre Channel card
The supported 8Gb FC card is:
QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Fibre Channel Controller
Protocols:
FCP-3-SCSI
FC-Tape (FCP-2)
Topology:
FC-AL, FC-AL2, point-to-point, switched fabric
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