LP0096/x3250M6-8x25-Front.png' alt='Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' title='Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' />Emulex 1. Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters Product Guide Lenovo Press. Abstract. The Emulex 1. Gb Fibre Channel FC host bus adapters HBAs are part of a family of high performance FC HBA solutions. These Generation 5 HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of servers, storage, and SANs. This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the HBAs and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about Emulex 1. Gb FC HBAs and consider their use in IT solutions. Change History. Changes in the October 2. Video walk through with David Watts and Tom Boucher. Introduction. The Emulex 1. Operating system support. The Emulex 16Gb FC Singleport and Dualport HBAs support the following operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition. Gb Fibre Channel FC host bus adapters HBAs are part of a family of high performance FC HBA solutions. These Generation 5 HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of servers, storage, and SANs. These adapters provide an ideal solution for all System x servers requiring high speed data transfer in disk connectivity for virtualized environments and data backup, mission critical applications. Emulex Generation 5 1. Gb HBAs now seamlessly supports Brocade Clear. Link diagnostics through Emulex One. Command Manager, ensuring the reliability and management of storage network configurations when connected to Brocade Gen 5 FC SAN fabrics. In addition, the adapters can offer end to end Quality of Service Qo. S application prioritization with Express. Lane technology. The following figure shows the single port adapter SFP is not present. Figure 1. Emulex 1. Gb FC Single port HBA with 3. U bracket attached SFP is not presentDid you know The highly integrated multiprocessor design of the Emulex 1. Gb FC HBA minimizes onboard components and improves host performance and efficiency. Advanced error checking features ensure the integrity of block data passing through the storage area network SAN. The Emulex One. Command Manager enterprise class management application features a multiprotocol and cross platform architecture that provides centralized management of all Emulex HBAs. The unique One. Command Manager plug in for VMware v. Center enables HBAs to be managed directly within the VMware environment, simplifying management. Part number information. Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' title='Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' />The following table shows the part number and feature codes for ordering the Emulex 1. Gb FC HBAs. Table 1. Ordering part numbers and feature codes. System x3100 Server. The IBM System x3100 M4 tower server is a value with an innovative compact design that can help reduce heat and noise and offers management. View and Download IBM X3250 M2 manual online. System server. X3250 M2 Server pdf manual download. The part numbers for the Emulex 1. Gb FC Single port and Dual port HBAs include the following items An FC HBA adapter with one or two short wave SWL 1. Gb 1. 684 Gb support SFP installed and 3. Microsoft Office 2010 Activator For X86-X64 - Kms Version -Rpt more. U bracket attached. Quick installation guide. Documentation CDLow profile 2. U bracket. Warranty Flyer. Important Notices Flyer. The following figure shows the dual port adapter SFP are not present. Figure 2. Emulex 1. Gb FC Dual port HBA with 3. U bracket attached SFP are not presentFeatures. The Emulex 1. 6Gb Fibre Channel HBAs have the following features Maximum performance with over 1 million inputoutput operations per second IOPS to support larger server virtualization deployments and scalable cloud initiatives, and performance to match new multicore processors, SSDs, and faster server host bus architectures. Supports new Generation 5 technology. Seamlessly supports Brocade Clear. Link diagnostics through Emulex One. Command Manager, ensuring the reliability and management of storage network configurations when connected to Brocade Gen 5 FC SAN fabrics. Offers end to end Quality of Service Qo. S application prioritization with Express. Lane technology. Frame level multiplexing and out of order frame reassembly increases link efficiency and maximizes HBA performance. Scale performance and scalability Multicore ASIC engine with eight cores supports 2. VFs, 1. 02. 4 MSI X, and 8. VM density. 2x management functionality, which takes half the time to manage with One. Command Manager. Unique One. Command Manager plug in for VMware v. Center for centralized management of adapters within a VMware environment. Green. State power efficiency reduces data center power consumption and associated operational expenses by delivering exceptional power to port ratios. End to end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC, and other advanced error checking and correcting algorithms, which ensures that data is safe from corruption. Block. Guard data integrity offload ensures high performance and end to end data integrity. Engine CPU offload lowers the processor burden on the host server, enabling support for more VMs. Rock solid reliability and thermal characteristics, which are essential for mission critical, cloudm and virtualized applications. Support for Message Signaled Interrupts e. Xtended MSI X improves host utilization and enhances application performance. Support for 1. 6 Gb, 8 Gb, and 4 Gb FC devices. Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for NPort ID Virtualization NPIV and Virtual Fabric. Host to fabric Fibre Channel Security Protocol FC SP authentication. A common driver model allows a single driver to support all Emulex HBAs on a given OS. Reduces the number of cards, cables, and PCIe slots required. Exceptional performance per watt and priceperformance ratios. Integrates seamlessly into existing SANs. Allows application of SAN best practices, tools, and processes with virtual server deployments. Ensures data availability and data integrity. Universal boot capability allows the appropriate boot environment to be automatically selected for any given hardware. Boot from SAN capability reduces the system management costs and increases uptime. Detailed and real time event logging and tracing enables quick diagnosis of SAN problems. The beaconing feature flashes the HBA LEDs, simplifying their identification within server racks. The environmental monitoring feature helps optimize SAN availability. Technical specifications. The Emulex 1. 6Gb FC Single port and Dual port HBAs have the following specifications Based on the Emulex LPe. LPe. 16. 00. 2 dual port adapters. Host interface PCIe 3. Single port or dual port SFP based adapters. Support for 1. 6 Gb, 8 Gb and 4 Gb FC link speeds, which are automatically negotiated. Data rate 1. 4. 0. Gbps 1. 60. 0 MBps, 8. Gbps 8. 00 MBps, 4. Gbps 4. 00 MBps, and 2. Gbps 2. 00 MBps autosensing per port, with full duplex. Performance Over 5. IOPS per port over 1,0. IOPS per dual port adapterIndustry standards. IBM-x3630M4-7158IUC-Server.png' alt='Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' title='Ibm Server X3250 M4 Installation Cd' />Current ANSIIETF standards FC PI 4, FC PI 5, FC FS 2 with amendment 1, FC AL 2 with amendments 1 and 2, FC LS 2, FC GS 6, FC DA, FC SP 2, FCP 4, FC MJS, FC SB 4, FC SP, SPC 4, SBC 3, SSC 3, and RFC4. Legacy ANSIIETF standards FC PH, FC PH 2, FC PH 3, FC PI, FC PI 2, FC FS, FC AL, FC GS 2345, FCP, FCP 2, FC SB 2, FC FLA, FC HBA, FC PLDA, FC TAPE, FC MI, SPC 3, SBC 2, SSC 2, and RFC2. Topology Point to point and switched fabric. Supported media 1. Gbps Fibre Channel LC SFP short wave optical transceivers 8. Distance support. Gbps on 6. 2. 51. OM1 Multi Mode Fiber MMF. Gbps on 5. 01. 25 m OM2 MMF. Gbps on 5. 01. 25 m OM3 MMF. Gbps on 5. 01. 25 m OM4 MMF. Management software.