Agilent HHBA-5220, HHBA-5221
2 Gb/s, 64-bit, 66 MHz Host Adapters
High Performance Fibre Channel
Product Brief
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5220 and
HHBA-5221 are 2 Gb/s, 64-bit,
66 MHz PCI to Fibre Channel
host bus adapters (HBAs) for
enterprise Storage Area Network
(SAN) applications. The HBAs
provide auto-speed negotiation
for seamless integration in one
and two Gigabit environments.
The versatility of the new HBAs
is based on Agilent’s market-
leading Tachyon Fibre Channel
(FC) controllers, offering un-
matched performance and
flexibility.
Broad Product Offering
Agilent’s 2 Gb/s adapters sup-
port both fiber-optic and copper
cable connections. For high-end
applications where performance
and reliability are critical, the
HHBA-5221 comes with a Small
Form Factor (SFF) embedded LC
optical transceiver for use with
mutimode optical cable. For
applications requiring either an
optical or copper interface, the
HHBA-5220 includes a cage
(receptacle) for a Small Form
Factor Pluggable (SFP) LC
optical or an HSSDC-2 copper
transceiver.
Scalable Performance Matches
Demanding SAN Requirements
The 2 Gb/s HBAs are powered by
Agilent Tachyon controllers,
based on a Finite State Machine
(FSM) architecture. The FSM
allows performance to scale
seamlessly with increased server
CPU power. By contrast, proces-
sor-based adapters are limited by
the maximum performance of the
processor itself.
Widest Range of Software Support
Agilent offers reference drivers
for Microsoft® Windows® 2000,
Windows NT®, and Linux.
Agilent’s drivers also support the
Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) application
program interface (APIs) for
storage management applica-
tions. Additionally, Agilent
supports drivers for upcoming
64-bit operating systems.
Features
•64-bit, 66 MHz universal PCI
interface (2.2 compliant)
•Fibre channel data transfer rates:
–Up to 200 MB/s (half duplex)
–Up to 400 MB/s (full duplex)
•Auto speed negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
•LED link speed indicator
•Loop and fabric boot BIOS, EFI
support
•FC class 2 and 3
•FC tape class 3
•Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
•Copper and optical media
interfaces
–HHBA-5220: Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) cage
–HHBA-5221: Small Form Factor
(SFF) LC optical transceiver
Applications
•Storage Area Networks (SANs)
•Clustering
•Back-up
•Near on-line storage
•Video editing and CAD
•Data Mining
•Data warehousing
•OLTP
•RAID and JBOD