Digital Tape Solutions: Hardware

Hardware - Emulex

Emulex is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, with a large number of the world's leading suppliers of servers and storage systems selecting Emulex products to implement Fibre Channel connectivity.

Emulex HBAs

Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) are recognized for lowering total cost of ownership, providing investment protection, simplifying SAN management and having industry wide interoperability. Emulex FC HBA features sophisticated hardware that provides superior performance in SANs and provides best in class server CPU offload. This exclusive hardware design delivers low latency and high throughput in switched fabric, arbitrated loop and clustered environments.

HBA Selection Guide - Business Use

Business Type	PCI Express	PCI-X 2.0	PCI-X 1.0	PCI	cPCI	SBus
Bus/Lane Speed	x4	up to 266MHz	up to 133MHz	up to 66MHz	up to 66MHz	25MHz
Link Speed¹	2/4 Gb/s	4Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s
SME			LP101
Midrange2	LPe1150 LP1050Ex	LP1150	LP1050 LP1050DC LP982	LP952L
Enterprise	LPe11000 LPe11002	LP11000 LP11002	LP1005DC LP10000 LP10000DC LP9802 LP9802DC LP9402DC	LP9002L LP9002DC	LP9002C	LP9002S

HBA Selection Guide - Configuration

Business Type	PCI Express	PCI-X 2.0	PCI-X 1.0	PCI	cPCI	SBus
Bus/Lane Speed	x4	up to 266MHz	up to 133MHz	up to 66MHz	up to 66MHz	25MHz
Link Speed¹	2/4 Gb/s	4Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s	2Gb/s
Dual Port	LPe11002 LP10000ExDC	LP11002	LP1005DC LP10000DC LP1050DC LP9802DC LP9402DC	LP9002DC
Single Port	LPe11000 LPe1150 LP1050Ex	LP11000 LP1150	LP101 LP10000 LP1050 LP9802 LP982	LP9002L LP952L	LP9002C	LP9002S

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 | Windows 2000 | Windows NT
Linux | NetWare | AIX | HP-UX | Solaris

1 2Gb/s and 4Gb/s are backwards compatible to 1Gb/s
2 Windows (NT, 2000 & Server 2003), Linux and NetWare only
3 Windows (2000 & Server 2003), Linux and NetWare only
4 Solaris only
5 Available to OEMs only

HBA - Other Selection Guide

Dell qualified - provides Dell part numbers and qualified operating systems
EMC qualified - part numbers and qualified operating systems
HDS certified - GA release date and product positioning
HP certified - HP/Emulex part number cross reference and OS support
Sun Sun branded HBA

HBA Handout pdf