Host Bus Interface Specifications

Bus Interface

•• PCI Express Gen3 x4, Gen2 x8 (x8 physical connector)

Host Interrupts

••INTx and MSI-X

Compliance

••PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 3.0, PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, rev. 2.0, PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, rev. 1.2

Fibre Channel Specifications

Throughput

••16Gbps full-duplex line rate per port (maximum)

Logins

••Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active exchanges

Port Virtualization

••NPIV

Compliance

••SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2), and Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3)

Tools and Utilities

Management Tools and Device Utilities

••QConvergeConsole: a unified management tool (GUI and CLI) for Fibre Channel/FCoE, iSCSI, and networking

Boot Support

••BIOS, UEFI

APIs

••SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S

Physical Specifications

Ports

••QLE2660: single 16Gbps Fibre Channel

••QLE2662: dual 16Gbps Fibre Channel

Form Factor

••Low-profile PCIe card: (6.6 inches × 2.54 inches)

••Custom form factors also available

Environment and Equipment Specifications

Temperature

••Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F

••Storage: –20°C/–4°F to 70°C/158°F

Humidity

••Relative (noncondensing): 10% to 90%

••Storage: 5% to 95%

Platform/Operating System Support

Operating Systems

• RHEL® 5.7/5.8, RHEL 6.2/6.3, SLES® 10 SP4, SLES 11 SP2, Citrix® XenServer® 6.0.1/6.1, VMWare® ESX®/ESXi Server 4.1 U3, ESX/ESXi 5.0 U2, ESX/ESXi 5.1