As the only 4-port HBAs for Flex System and ThinkSystem respectively, the FC5054 and LPm16004B-L provide unmatched scalability and redundancy. In addition, these two 4-port adapters have two separate ASICs with no bridge chip, so data flows directly to an independent PCIe bus for high availability without a single point of failure.
- 2-port 16 Gb Fibre Channel adapter
- Single-ASIC controller using the Emulex XE201 design
- Auto-Negotiate to 16Gb, 8Gb, or 4Gb
- Up to 1.2 million IOPS on a single port (six times more IOPS than previous generation 8Gb FC HBAs)
- Cuts response times by up to 75% and doubles the throughput compared to the previous generation 8Gb FC HBAs
- Exceeds 10 million hours mean time between failure (MTBF) with the most advanced data integrity protection (T10 PI) offload to protect against silent data corruption
- PCIe Express 3.0 x8 host interface (5 GTps)
- MSI-X support
- x86 Fibre Channel common driver model with other Emulex adapters
- Arbitrated loop (supported on 4Gb and 8Gb speeds only)
- The FC5054 and LPm16004B-L four-port 16Gb FC adapters have these features:
- 4-port 16 Gb Fibre Channel adapter
- Dual-ASIC controller using the Emulex XE201 design
- Up to 2.4 million IOPS (dual ASICs: 2x 1.2 million IOPS)
- Two PCIe Express 3.0 x8 host interfaces (each 5 GTps), one for each ASIC
- ASICs treated as separate devices by the driver: No shared resources (that is, no PCIe bridge) between ASICs and each ASIC has its own firmware chip
- x86 Fibre Channel common driver model other Emulex adapters
- All four adapters offer the following Fibre Channel features:
- Fibre Channel protocol SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and Fibre Channel Internet Protocol (FCP-IP)
- Point-to-point fabric connection: F-Port Fabric Login
- Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and FCAL-2 FL-Port Login
- Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3
- LUN Masking, an initiator-based LUN masking for storage traffic isolation
- N_Port Id Virtualization (NPIV) allows multiple host initiator N_Ports to share a single physical N_Port, dramatically reducing SAN hardware requirements
- FCP SCSI initiator and target operation
- Full-duplex operation