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Hitachi STORAGE 9900 User Manual

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About the Fibre Channel Interface Board s

Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 13, has four Interface

Processors for management of connectivity to the host. Each port supports a transfer rate of
2Gbit/sec (gigabits/second) in conformance with the Fibre Channel standard. An optional
eight-port Fibre Channel Interface Board is also available.

With the Lightning 9900 V Series industry-leading implementation of “virtual” Fibre

Channel ports, each interface card is equivalent to multiple interface cards in competitive
systems. Each interface card also contains Oracle

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Figure 13 – A 2Gbit/sec
Fibre Channel host
adapter board and its
major hardware
components.

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