Agilent HHBA-5218, HHBA-5219
Low Profile, 2 Gb/s Host Adapters for High
Performance Fibre Channel Applications
Product Brief
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5218 and
HHBA-5219 are low profile,
2Gb/s, 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI to
Fibre Channel host bus adapters
(HBAs) for enterprise Storage
Area Network (SAN) applica-
tions. The low profile HBAs
provide auto-speed negotiation
for seamless integration in one
and two Gigabit environments.
The low profile host adapters are
specifically designed for use in
1U and 2U servers. The versatil-
ity of the new HBAs is based on
Agilent’s market-leading Tachyon
Fibre Channel (FC) controllers,
offering unmatched performance
and flexibility.
Broad Product Offering
Agilent’s low profile 2 Gb/s
adapters support both fiber-optic
and copper cable connections.
For high-end applications where
performance and reliability are
critical, the HHBA-5219 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-5218
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
•Low profile, MD2 short card
•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-5218: Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) cage
–HHBA-5219: 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
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Specifications
Fibre Channel Operation
Fibre Channel Data Rate 2 Gbit/sec: 200 MBytes/sec (half duplex), 400 MBytes/sec (full duplex)
Auto-Speed Negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
BIOS Support INT13, Legacy BIOS for IA-64, Extensible Firmware Interface (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 status indicator
Compliance FC-PH, FC-AL, FC-PLDA, FCP-SCSI
PCI
Compliance PCI Local Bus Specifications Rev. 2.2
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 Low Profile PCI Card, MD2 form factor (length 6.6" x height 2.536")
PCB Power 7W 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 XP (64-bit) — all include FC Tape Class 3
Red Hat LINUX 7.X
IBM* AIX 5L
TurboLinux* Linux (32 and 64-bit)
*Software available upon OEM request.
Certifications
FCC Class B US/FDA/CDRH Laser AEL Class 1 (2 CFR)
CE TÚV Rheinland Laser AEL Class 1 (EN60825-1+A11)
VCC ITE Class Yes
C-TICK (AZ/NZS 3548) Yes
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Product Offering Description
Low Profile Products
HHBA-5218x Single Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5218xK Kits include Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5218xP Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5418xK1 Kits include Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5218xP1 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver
HHBA-5218xK2 Kits include Adapter card with SFP copper connector, user manual and software driver diskette(s)
HHBA-5218xP2 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP copper connector
HHBA-5219x Single Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5219xK Kits include Adapter card with SFF transceiver, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5219xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with SFF transceiver
Standard Products
HHBA-5220x Single Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xK Kits include Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5220xP Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xK1 Kits include Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5220xP1 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver
HHBA-5220xK2 Kits include Adapter card with SFP copper connector, user manual and software driver diskette(s)
HHBA-5220xP2 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP copper connector
HHBA-5221x Single Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5221xK Kits include Adapter card with SFF transceiver, user manual, and O/S driver diskette
HHBA-5221xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with SFF transceiver
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April 3, 2002
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