Agilent HHBA-5220, HHBA-5221
2 Gb/s Host Adapters for High Performance
Fibre Channel Applications
Product Brief
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5220 and
HHBA-5221 are 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI
to 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus
adapters (HBAs) for enterprise
Storage Area Network (SAN)
applications. Supporting both one
and two Gigabit link speeds, the
new HBAs provide auto-negotiation
for seamless integration in the one
and two Gigabit environments. The
versatility of the new HBAs is
based on Agilent’s market-leading
Tachyon Fibre Channel (FC)
controllers, offering unmatched
performance and flexibility.
Flexible Connection Options
Agilent’s 2 Gb/s HBAs are available
with both fiber-optic and copper
cable connections. For high-end
applications where performance
and reliability are critical, the
HHBA-5221 has a Small Form
Factor (SFF) pin through-hole LC
optical transceiver for use with
multimode optical cable.
For cost-sensitive applications, the
HHBA-5220 offers a High Speed
Serial Data Connector (HSSDC)
interface for copper cabling, and
also includes a cage (receptacle)
for a Small Form Factor Pluggable
(SFP) LC transceiver. The SFP
option allows customers to up-
grade the HHBA-5220 to optical
media, as their applications change
and require higher reliability and
longer distances.
Scalable Performance Matches
Demanding SAN Requirements
The 2 Gb/s HBAs are powered by
Agilent Tachyon controllers, which
employ a Finite State Machine
(FSM) architecture. The FSM allows
performance to scale seamlessly
with increased server CPU power
as opposed to processor-based
adapters, which are limited by the
maximum performance of the
processor itself.
Widest Range of Software Support
To support the 2 Gb/s HBAs,
Agilent offers drivers for
Microsoft® Windows® 2000,
Windows NT®, and Linux. Agilent’s
drivers also support the Storage
Networking Industry Association
(SNIA) application program
interfaces (APIs) for storage
management applications. Addi-
tionally, Agilent is developing
drivers for upcoming 64-bit
servers. Agilent drivers for Win-
dows® 2002, 64-bit Linux, and AIX
5L will be available to support
production versions of the new
operating systems.
Features
•Fibre channel data transfer rates:
– up to 200 MB/s (half duplex)
– up to 400 MB/s (full duplex)
•Two physical interface styles
– HHBA-5221: Small Form Factor
(SFF) LC optical transceiver
– HHBA-5220: standard HSSDC
copper connector and Small Form
Factor Pluggable (SFP) LC optical
transceiver
•Bootable BIOS, EFI support
•Auto-negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
•2 Gb/s LED link speed indicator
•Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
•FC class 2 and 3
•64-bit, 66 MHz universal PCI
interface (2.2 compliant)
Applications
•Storage Area Networks (SANs)
•Data warehousing
•Clustering
•Remote back-up
•Near on-line storage
•Video editing & CAD
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Data subject to change.
Copyright © 2001 Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Obsoletes 5988-3671EN
September 25, 2001
5988-4291EN
Specifications
Fibre Channel Operation
Fibre Channel Data Rate 2 Gbit/sec, 200 MBytes/sec (half duplex), 400 MBytes/sec (full duplex)
Auto-speed Negotiation The HHBA-5221 and the HHBA-5220 auto-negotiation at 1 or 2 Gb/s
Bootable Support BIOS (INIT13), EFI
Topology Arbitrated Loop – Public and private, Fabric support (F- and FL-login)
FC Service Class Class 2 (Ack_0, Ack_1) and Class 3
Upper Layer Protocol SCSI FCP - On-chip automation of complete SCSI I/O
Loop Initialization Completely hardware-based for high availability
Link Diagnostics Link Status indicators, internal/external loopback
Link Speed 2 Gb/s status indicator
Compliance FC-PH, FC-AL, FC-PLDA, FCP-SCSI
PCI
Compliance PCI Local Bus specification v2.2
Rate & Width 66/33 MHz, 64/32-bit PCI
Burst Transfer Rate 528 Mbytes/sec, guaranteed for length of frame, inbound & outbound at 64-bit, 66 MHz
Dual Address Cycle Support Yes (64-bit PCI addressing)
Hot Plug Support Yes
Additional PCI Features Zero wait state multiple cache line bursting capable up to full frame size, 32-byte cache line
Tachyon XL2 Architectural Features
Complete Hardware-based Design Less than one interrupt per I/O
Numerous independent functional blocks concurrently processing inbound data, outbound data,
control and commands in hardware
Automation of complete I/O on-chip in hardware results in lowest latency & I/O overhead and highest
levels of parallelism
Physical and Environmental
PCB Size Universal PCI short card
PCB Power HHBA-5221: 7W max at 5V ± 5%; HHBA-5220: 9W max at 5V ± 5%
Supply Voltage 3.3V ± 5%, 5V ± 5%
Operating Temperature Range 0° to 55° Centigrade (no airflow)
Storage Temperature Range -40° to 70° Centigrade
Relative Humidity up to 90% (non-condensing)
Operating System Support
Microsoft Windows NT 4 (includes FC Tape Class 3)
Windows 2000, Windows 2002 (64-bit) – all include FC Tape Class 3, and IP Support
IBM AIX 5L
Turbolinux Linux (32 and 64-bit)
Novell NetWare* 5.0 NWPA
SCO UnixWare* 7.0
Solaris x86* 7.0
Red Hat LINUX* 6.0
*Software available upon OEM request.
Certifications
FCC Class A US/FDA/CDRH Laser AEL Class 1 (2 CFR)
CE TÚV Rheinland Laser AEL Class 1 (EN60825-1+A11)
VCCI ITE Class
C-TICK (AZ/NZS 3548)
Product Offering Description
HHBA-5221x Single Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5221xK Kits include Adapter card with SFF transceiver, user manual, and OS driver diskette
HHBA-5221xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5220x Single Adapter card with HSSDC connector and SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xK
Kits include Adapter card with HSSDC connector and SFP transceiver cage, user manual, and OS driver diskette
HHBA-5220xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with HSSDC connector and SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xK-01
Kits include an Adapter card with HSSDC connector and an SFP transceiver, user manual, and OS driver diskette
HHBA-5220xP-01 Bulk packaging Adapter card with HSSDC connector and SFP transceivers
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