HP FCA2404 AB232A AB232A manual Performance Specifications

Adapter Features

Performance Specifications

The AB232A HBA offers a highly integrated 2 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA for use in Itanium servers based on the latest PCI-X expansion bus. The features of the AB232A HBA provides the flexibility and broad interoperability needed for complex, highly scalable SANs.

The AB232A HBA also features sophisticated hardware that provides superior performance in SANs and provides best in class server CPU offload. This exclusive hardware delivers low latency and high throughput in switched fabric, arbitrated loop, and clustered environments. Support for fiber optic cabling is provided through an embedded small form factor (LC) optical interface.

The AB232A HBA is both ANSI Fibre Channel and PCI Local Bus Compliant and supports:

■Full duplex 2 Gbps Fibre Channel that provides data transfers of up to 400 MBps.

■Full fabric boot support to multiple LUNs.

■FC-Tape (FC-2) devices.

■Point-to-point, arbitrated-loop, and switch fabric FC connections.

■Storage protocol.

■Fibre Channel class 2 and 3.

■Automatic speed negotiation and topology detection.

■End-to-end parity protection for high data integrity.

Collectively, these characteristics create a high-performance Fibre Channel HBA.

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