Universal Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Connectivity

Use the Universal Host Bus Adapter to connect to a FC and FCoE networks. The universal HBA is a configurable board that enables you to change its operating protocol mode from a two-port 16 Gb FC HBA to a two-port 10 GbE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapter. The universal HBA has four possible configurations:

• 10 GbE FCoE Copper — This configuration provides twin-ax copper cable connectivity and 10 GbE FCoE HBA functionality. No optical transceiver modules are installed in, nor provided with, this configuration of the universal HBA.

• 16 Gb FC SW (shortwave) Optical — This configuration requires installing 16 Gb FC shortwave optical transceiver modules in the SFP+ connector of the universal HBA, enabling 16 Gb Fibre Channel HBA functionality.

• 10 GbE FCoE SR (short-range) Optical — This configuration requires installing 10 GbE short-range optical transceiver modules in the SFP+ connectors of the universal HBA, enabling 10 GbE FCoE Converged Network Adapter functionality.

• 16 Gb FC LW (longwave) Optical—This configuration requires installing 16Gb FC long-range optical transceiver modules in the SFP+ connectors of the universal HBA, enabling 16 Gb FC HBA functionality.