Emulex 4Gb Single Port Fibre Channel PCI-X 2.0 Host Bus Adapter

Emulex LP110002-M4

The LP11002-M4 is a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter manufactured by Emulex. We gathered information from several on-line sources and complied it here. We hope you find it helpful. If you have any more useful information about this product, please let us know so we can add it to this site.

Overview:

The Emulex LP11000 family of host bus adapters offers highly-integrated 4Gb/s Fibre Channel connectivity solutions for enterprise-class storage area networks. The LP11000 HBAs deliver exceptional performance through the use of ‘Helios', Emulex's seventh-generation Fibre Channel I/O controller. The Helios high-performance controller is a dual-channel device that combines ARM11 microprocessors, 1Gig/2Gig/4Gig SERDES, buffer memory, and an advanced Fibre Channel protocol engine into a single module. The LP11000 family includes both single- and dual-channel HBAs in a low-profile PCI card form factor that adapts to either standard height or low profile server slots. Emulex LP11000 HBA's unique architecture performs transactions at the frame level, making it ideal for mixed-workload environments such as simultaneous tape and disk operations. This unique architecture also produces highest efficiency in mixed speed networks.

• single-channel PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb/s Fibre Channel model
• auto speed negotiation allows seamless integration into existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs
• PCI-X 2.0 mode 2, 266MHz bus compatibility and extended high-availability support with ECC
• also compatible with PCI 33/66 and PCI-X 66/100/133 MHz slots
• Universal Boot Support: simultaneous on-board support for Windows & Linux remote boot in x86, x64 and Itanium (BootBIOS and EFI), as well as UNIX Open Boot
• large on-board hardware context cache for superior fabric support and high transaction performance
• multiprotocol support (SCSI and IP)
• FC service class 2 and 3 support
• firmware-upgradeable architecture: update HBA features and functionality, preserve investment value
• hardware-independent drivers ease management and allow driver upgrade independent of HBA firmware
• broadly tested and certified by major OEMs and ISVs make Emulex HBAs easy to deploy in end-to-end qualified enterprise solution

The Emulex LP11000 host bus adapter offers highly-integrated 4Gb/s Fibre Channel connectivity solutions for enterprise-class Storage Area Networks. The LP11000 HBA delivers exceptional performance through the use of the Emulex Helios Fibre Channel I/O controller. The high-performance Helios controller combines ARM11™ microprocessors, 1Gig/2Gig/4Gig SERDES, buffer memory, and an advanced Fibre Channel protocol engine into a single module. The LP11000 HBA uses a low-profile PCI card form factor that adapts to either standard height or low profile server slots.

The Emulex LightPulse® HBAs architecture performs transactions at the frame level, making it ideal for mixed-workload environments such as simultaneous tape and disk operations on the same HBA. This unique architecture also produces the highest efficiency in mixed speed networks.

The robust features of Emulex LightPulse® HBAs provide the flexibility and broad interoperability needed for complex, highly-scalable heterogeneous SANs. The LP11000 builds upon the Emulex software architecture that enables the independence of an operating system's device driver from the underlying HBA platform. This exclusive HBA architecture is the foundation for proven reductions in the total cost of SAN ownership. The Emulex LP11000 HBA architecture provides a platform that is fully software-compatible with previous generations of market leading Emulex HBAs. This enables customers to effortlessly migrate to new Emulex HBAs, while also allowing for simplified integration into existing Storage Area Networks.

Choosing to standardize on Emulex HBAs provides significant investment protection. The Emulex firmware-based architecture provides the capability to update prior generation HBAs to current standards while leveraging newly-released management capabilities and performance features.

The Emulex centralized HBA management suite, HBAnyware™ reduces both total cost of ownership and server downtime. This feature is available on the LP11000 as well as previous generations of Emulex HBAs. Complementing the Emulex software architecture, HBAnyware enables sophisticated management capabilities such as remote firmware upgrades from a single console anywhere in the SAN.

Emulex LP11000 HBAs feature specialized hardware, which yields superior performance in SANs and provides best-in-class server CPU offload. Emulex HBA architecture also delivers low latency and high throughput in switched-fabric and arbitrated-loop topologies, and in clustered environments.

Where to buy: