Architecture

Dual Port 8Gbps Fibre Channel

PCI Express Base Specifications rev. 2.0

200,000+ initiator and target IOPs Per Port

Offers up to 3200 MBps throughput at full duplex/port

256 Queue Pairs for enhanced Virtualization performance

SAN-Level Authentication (FC-SP), Fabic Level Isolation (NPIV) and End-to-End Data Integrity (T10)

QLogic StartPower^TM  with Dynamic Power Management and Cool HBA^TM  technologies

Unified HBA Driver and Firmware Architecture

  Fibre Channel Specifications

8/4/2 Gbps auto-negotiation

Class of service: 3

Topology: FC-AL, FCAL2, point to point, switched fabric

Protocols: FCP-3-SCSI, FC-Tape (FCP-2)

HBA Distance Support: with Multi-Mode optics (with various cable types) at 8Gb rate - OM1-21m, OM2=50m, OM3-150m

  Physical Dimensions

Dell Blade Mezzanine

  Tools and Utilities

Management Tools:

SANsurfer^®  FC HBA Manager

SANsurfer FC HBA CLI

Device Utilities:

Utilities for flashing bootcode

Linux scripting tools

Boot support:

BIOS

APIs:

SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI

  Power and Environmental Requirements

Power consumption: 5.6 Watts (typical)

Operating temperature: 0° to 55°C (32° to 131°F)

Airflow required: None

Storage temperature: -40° to 70°C (-40° to 158°F)

Relative humidity: 10% to 90% (operating, non-condensing) and 5% to 93% (non-operating, non-condensing)

RoHS compliance: RoHS 6

  Regulatory Compliance

US/Canada: FCC Part 15, Subpart B, Class A, ICES-003, Class A

Europe: EN55022, Class A

New Zealand/Australia: AS/NZS 3548 Class A

Japan: VCCI V-3/2004.4, Class A

Korea: MIC

Taiwan: BSMI (CNS 13438)

US/Canada: Safety Approvals

* UL, cUL - UL60950, CSA C22.2 No.60950, Class 1 Laser Product per

DHHS 21CFR J

Europe:Safety Approvals

* 73/23/ECC Low Voltage Directive

* TUV: EN60950-1:2001, EN60825-1:1994+A1+A2,

EN60825- 2:1994+A1

  Servers Supported

Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  M600, M605, M805, M905, M610, M710

Operating System Support

Windows Server^®  2003 and 2008

Linux Red Hat^®  AS 4.7, 5.2

Novell^®  SLES 10 SP2

VMware ESXServer 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (targeted versions)