Dell DC774 QLogic 4Gb QLE2460 HBA Fibre Channel Adapter PCI-E Card

Dell Part Number: DC774, equivalent to PF323, UD551

QLogic Part Number: QLE2460

Tested working. Pulled from a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server.

The Qlogic QLE2460 HBA is a single-ported host bus adapter created for enterprise customers and engineered to support the most stringent storage networking requirements, regardless of bus interface. It is capable of delivering outstanding performance by leveraging a single ASIC design and combining a unique hardware architecture to offer up to 150,000 IOPs per port and 750MB throughput in full duplex while supporting a native x4 PCI Express.

• 4-Gbps link speed
• PCI-Express
• Intelligent networking features, such as: data protection, management & frame routing

Host Bus Specifications

Bus Interface: x4 PCI Express

Memory: 1 MB SRAM per port, 1 MB FLASH (SPI), and 2 KB NVRAM (SPI)

Compliance: Conforms to PCI Express Base Specification rev. 1.0a, PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, rev. 1.0a, PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification revision 1.1

Fibre Channel Specifications

Data Rate: 4/2/1 Gb/s auto-negotiation (4.25/2.125/1.0625 Gb/s)

Performance: 150,000 IOPS per port

Throughput: 750 MB/s maximum per port

Topology: Point-to-point (N_Port), Arbitrated Loop (NL_Port), and Switched Fabric (N_Port)

Logins: Support for F_Port and FL_Port login. 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active exchanges.

Class of Service: Class 2 and 3

Protocols: FCP (SCSI-FCP), IP (FC-IP), FICON (FC-SB-2), FC-TAPE (FCP-2)

Buffer Credits: 3 credits available (2,112 Byte frame payload)

Compliance: SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH), Fibre Channel 2nd Generation (FC-PH-2), Third Generation Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH-3), Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2), Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment Technical Report (FC-FLA), Fibre Channel-Private Loop Direct Attach Technical Report (FC-PLDA), Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3), Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3), Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)

Form Factor

Ports: Single (QLE2460)

Connections: Small Form Factor Fixed (SFF) multimode optic with LC-style connector

Bracket size: Standard: 1.84 cm x 12.08 cm (.73 in. x 4.76 in.)

Software Environments

Applications
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager, SANsurfer FC CLI, SANsurfer Express

Operating Systems
Windows Server™ 2003, Windows® 2000, Solaris™ 9,10, Linux® Red Hat® AS 3.0, 4.0, Linux SUSE® SLES 8, 9, VMWare

HW Platforms
IA32 (x86), IA64, IEM64T, AMD Opteron 64, SUN SPARC

Flash Utilities
Utilities for firmware, driver, boot code, and NVRAM

Boot Support
BIOS, EFI, and FCode

Compliance
SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FC-SP/DH-CHAP, and FDMI