Overview

HyperFabric Products

 

HyperFabric Products

 

HyperFabric hardware consists of host-based interface adapter cards, interconnect

 

cables and optional switches. HyperFabric software resides in Application Specific

 

Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and firmware on the adapter cards and includes user space

 

components and HP-UX drivers.

 

Currently, fibre based HyperFabric hardware is available. In addition, a hybrid switch

 

that has 8 fibre ports is available to support HF2 clusters.

 

The various HyperFabric products are described below. See the HP HyperFabric Release

 

Note for information about the HP 9000 systems these products are supported on.

 

 

NOTE

This document uses the term HyperFabric (HF) is used in general to refer to the

 

hardware and software that form the HyperFabric cluster interconnect product.

 

The term HyperFabric2 (HF2) refers to the fibre based hardware components:

 

• The A6386A adapter.

 

• The A6384A switch chassis.

 

• The A6388A and A6389A switch modules. (Although the A6389A switch module has

 

4 copper ports it is still considered a HF2 component because it can only be used with

 

the A6384A HF2 switch chassis).

 

• The C7524A, C7525A, C7526A, and C7527A cables.

 

HyperFabric Adapters

 

 

The HyperFabric adapters include the following:

 

• A6386A HF2 PCI (4X) adapter with a fibre interface.

 

Switches and Switch Modules

 

The HyperFabric2 switches are as follows:

 

• A6384A HF2 fibre switch chassis with one integrated Ethernet management LAN

 

adapter card, one integrated 8-port fibre card, and one expansion slot. For the

 

chassis to be a functional switch, one of these two switch modules must be installed

 

in the expansion slot:

 

— The A6388A HF2 8-port fibre switch module. This gives the switch 16 fibre ports

 

(8 from the integrated fibre card and 8 from the A6388A).

 

— The A6389A HF2 4-port copper switch module. This gives the switch 12 ports—a

 

mixture of 8 fibre ports (from the integrated fibre card) and 4 copper ports (from

 

the A6389A module).

 

The A6384A HF2 switch chassis with either module installed is supported beginning

 

with the following HyperFabric software versions:

 

HP-UX 11i v3: HyperFabric software version B.11.31.01

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