High Performance
•300,000 IOPS delivers high I/O transfer rates for
storage applications.
•Intelligent interleaved DMA (iiDMA) ensures
maximum utilization of data links.
•Out-of-order frame reassembly (OoOFR) reduces
congestion and retransmissions.

Superior Scalability
•Multi-ID and N_Port virtualization ready. Allows
physical ports to be part of multiple logical
networks.
•Cisco® VSAN ready. Allows physical ports to be part
of multiple logical networks.
•Comprehensive operating system (OS) driver
support including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®,
NetWare®, Mac OS®, Citrix®, Oracle®, and VMware®.
•Universal boot support manages multiple hardware
platforms and boot options.

Enhanced Reliability
•Overlapping protection domains for continuous
protection of internal data paths.
•T10 cyclic redundancy check (CRC) ensures endto-
end data integrity across storage area networks
(SANs)
•Three LEDs per port display real-time status and
link activity information

Host Bus Interface Specifications
 

Bus interface
•PCI Express x4
Memory
•1MB SRAM per port, 1MB flash (SPI), and 2KB
NVRAM (SPI)
Hardware platforms1
•IA32 (x86), IA64, IEM64T, AMD Opteron™ 64, Sun™
SPARC®, Apple® G5 (Xserve® and Power Mac®)
Compliance
•PCI Express Base Specification, revision 1.0a, PCI
Express Card Electromechanical Specification,
revision 1.0, PCI Bus Power Management
Interface Specification, revision 1.1
 

Fibre Channel Specifications
Data rate
•4/2/1Gbps auto-negotiation (4.2480/2.1240/
1.0625Gbps)
Performance
•150,000 IOPS per port
Topology
•Point-to-point (N_Port), arbitrated loop (NL_Port),
switched fabric (N_Port)
Logins
•Support for F_Port and FL_Port login: 2,048 con-
current logins and 2,048 active exchanges per port
Class of service
•Class 2 and 3
Protocols
•FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2)
Compliance
•SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre
Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH),
Fibre Channel 2nd Generation (FC-PH-2), Third
Generation Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling
Interface (FC-PH-3), Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop
(FC-AL-2), Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment
Technical Report (FC-FLA), Fibre Channel-Private

Loop Direct Attach Technical Report (FC-PLDA),
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), Fibre Channel
Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)

Physical Specifications
Ports
•Dual 4Gbps Fibre Channel
Connections
•Small form factor fixed (SFF) multimode optic
with LC-style connector
Form factor
•Low-profile PCI Express card: 16.765 cm × 6.89
cm (6.6 in. × 2.713 in.)
Tools and Utilities
Management tools
•SANsurfer® Fibre Channel HBA Manager
Device utilities
•Command line interface; utilities for firmware,
driver, boot code, NVRAM
Boot support
•BIOS, EFI, FCode
APIs
•SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI
Operating systems
•Windows Server® 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; Windows
2000; Windows XP Pro; Windows Vista®; Solaris 10;
OpenSolaris™ 2008, 2009; Red Hat® RHEL 3, 4, 5;
Novell® SLES 8, 9, 10, 11; Novell NetWare® 6.5; Mac
OS X; Citrix XenServer™ 3.2–4.1, 5.0, 5.5; Oracle
Enterprise Linux 4, 5; VMware ESX™/ESXi 3.5, 4.0
 

Environment and Equipment Specifications
Airflow (no airflow required)
Temperature
•Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F
•Storage: –20°C/–4°F to 70°C/158°F

Humidity
•Relative (non-condensing): 10% to 90%
•Storage: 5% to 95%
Power dissipation
•6.5 W (maximum)
Cable distances
•1Gbps: 500 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 300 meters
62.5/125 μm fiber
•2Gbps: 300 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 150 meters
62.5/125 μm fiber
•4Gbps: 150 meters 50/125 μm fiber, 70 meters
62.5/125 μm fiber