
Overview
HyperFabric Products
| HyperFabric Products |
| HyperFabric hardware consists of |
| 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 |
| 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. |
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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 |
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| 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 |
| chassis to be a functional switch, one of these two switch modules must be installed |
| in the expansion slot: |
| — The A6388A HF2 |
| (8 from the integrated fibre card and 8 from the A6388A). |
| — The A6389A HF2 |
| 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: |
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