Cisco Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs

LPe32000-Series for Cisco UCS C-Series and MDS 9000 Product Family

Faster Flash. Better Virtualization. Lossles Networking.

The Emulex Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom are designed to address the demanding performance, reliability and
management requirements of modern networked storage systems
that utilize high performance and low latency solid state storage drives for caching and persistent storage as well as hard disk drive arrays.

Fibre Channel is the gold standard for network storage connectivity in enterprise and cloud deployments. The latest Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs offer higher performance, lower latency, enhanced diagnostics and manageability for Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers. The LPe32000-series HBAs are available with single or dual 32GFC optics.

• Performance Features
• Doubling the maximum FC link rate from 16GFC to 32GFC and enhanced virtualization capabilities, help support IT "green" initiatives.
• Frame-level multiplexing increases link efficiency and maximizes HBA performance.
• Accelerates network access to SSDs with NVMe over Fibre Channel ready feature-supports the upcoming NVMe over FC T11 standard
• Data Protection Features
• End-to-end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC and other advanced error checking and correction algorithms ensure data is safe from corruption.
• Enhanced silent data corruption protection provided by T10-PI with high-performance offload. T10-PI provides additional protection against corruption in Oracle Unbreakable Linux environments.
• Deployment and Management Features
• Universal boot capability allows the appropriate boot environment to be automatically selected for any given hardware.
• Boot from SAN capability reduces system management costs and increases uptime.