HP PCIe 16GB 1 port and 2 port Fibre Channel QLogic HBAs using HP-UX Installation Guide
1 HBA Features
This chapter describes these HBA features:
• “Environmental specifications” (page 7)
• “Physical specifications” (page 7)
• “Maximum Cable Distances” (page 7)
Environmental specifications
Table 3 Environmental specifications
MaximumMinimumEnvironment
55°C/131°F0°C/32°FOperating temperature
70°C/158°F–20°C/–4°FStorage temperature
90%10%Relative humidity (non-condensing)
Physical specifications
Table 4 HBA specifications
SpecificationComponent
Bus Interface: PCI Express Gen3 x4, Gen2 x8 (x8 physical connector)Host bus
NOTE: Although the card is Gen3, the server runs only up to Gen2. The card will down shift
to Gen2.
Host Interrupts: INTx and MSI-X
Complies with:
• PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 3.0
• PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, rev. 2.0
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, rev. 1.2
Bus type: fiber optic mediaFibre Channel
specifications
Throughput: 16Gb full-duplex line rate per port (maximum)
Logins:
• Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active exchanges
• Expandable to 16K concurrent logins and 32K active exchanges
Port Virtualization: NPIV
Compliance:
• SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP)
• Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2)
• Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2)
• Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3)
Maximum Cable Distances
Table 5 (page 8) lists multi-mode optic cables and distances.
Environmental specifications 7