Emulex LightPulse LPe11000

The Emulex LightPulse LPe11000 is available from NexStor. NexStor offers the most competitive prices for the Emulex systems and parts.

Emulex LightPulse LPe11000
The Emulex LightPulse LPe11000 family is a high performance 4Gb/s PCI Express x4 host bus adapter solution. The LPe11000 balances the advanced bus speeds and efficiency of PCI Express with exceptional 4Gb/s Fibre Channel performance. With unsurpassed robustness, reliability and performance, the LPe11000 provides the optimum I/O connectivity solution for a wide spectrum of server, storage and system area networks (SANs).

Emulex LightPulse LPe11000 Features

• 4Gb/s Fibre Channel link speed support including automatic speed negotiation with existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs
• native PCI Express 1.0a host interface
• x4 PCI Express connector
• 4–lane negotiation (2.5Gb/s per lane per direction)
• superior performance
• each channel is capable of sustaining up to 100,000 I/Os per second
• single– and dual–channel models
• full fabric support with automatic topology and speed adaptation
• common HBA API support (FC-MI) enables simplified SAN management
• onboard hardware context cache for superior fabric support and high transaction performance
• support for use of multiple concurrent protocols (SCSI & IP)
• FC service class 2 and 3 support
• FC-Tape (FCP-2) device support
• Universal Boot: simultaneous on–card support for remote boot in x86, Itanium (BootBIOS and EFI), and OpenBoot in Unix environments
• Emulex BlockGuard™ provides end–to–end data protection
• largest standard on–card data buffer in the industry
• firmware upgradeable architecture: update HBA features & functionality, preserve investment value
• hardware independent drivers ease management & allow driver upgrade independently of HBA firmware