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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA

Michael WojnarProduct Line Marketing ManagerSeptember 2008

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8Gb FC – Industry View• “Fibre Channel continues to deliver”

> Highest performance> Superior application uptime> Investment protection

>Backward and forward compatibility> Continuous innovation

>Virtualization (NPIV, VSAN), Security

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“8Gb Fibre Channel: Providing the need speed”

8Gb FC – Industry View

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBAStrategic Fit

• The Sun StorageTek 8GB FC HBA addresses customer need for 8Gb FC connectivity and increased performance for next generation servers

• Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA- Provides support for PCIe Gen 2 support- Enables consumption of larger CPUs and more cores- Highly leverages previous released FC HBAs

• Utilizes QLogic & Emulex 8Gb FC technology• Fully compatible with existing driver stack (Leadville)

- Supports 8Gb FC switch offerings• 8 GbFC HBA enables the delivery of high-performance

servers and storage- 8 Gb FC HBAs will become a “check off” item for server

customer RFQs

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA Overview

• Connectivity• Single and Dual Port 8Gb FC • 8/4/2 Auto negotiation• PCI-Express 2.0

• 8Gb FC • PCIe low profile form factor• Supports Sun Rack Servers

• Operating Systems Support• Solaris 10 x64, Solaris 10 SPARC• Windows, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, VMware

• Storage Support• ST2500 series array • ST3000 series array• ST6000 series array• ST9000 series array

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA

FC ASIC

2 – SFP+ 8Gb FCTransceivers

3 LEDs / port

PCIe x8 Connector

Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBAOperating System Support

• Solaris 10 x64, Solaris 10 SPARC• RedHat

- RHEL 4- RHEL 5

• SuSE - SLES 9- SLES 10

• Windows Server 2003, 2008• VMware ESX 3.01 & 3.05• SAN boot support

- Universal boot feature supported

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb FC HBA Features• Higher Performance: 

> Reduces response time of mission critical Datacenter applications and backup time-windows

> >1550 MBps/Port; 200,000 IOPs/Port

• Virtualization Optimized:> Delivers enhanced security, Quality-of-Service and

Dynamic Provisioning during live migration

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb HBA Features • RAS Optimized:

> Overlapping Protection Domains (OPD) extended for “control” and “data” paths to ensure data integrity

• Security Optimized:> Enhanced Authentication (FC-SP), Data Integrity (T10) and

Network isolation (NPIV)

• Management Optimized: > Providing faster deployment through comprehensive

device management tools

• Guaranteed Interop & Investment Protection: > Certified with all major operating systems, servers,

storage, and applications

> Backward compatible with 2Gb and 4Gb Storage Networks

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Sun StorageTek 8Gb HBA Summary• Sun StorageTek 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs

> Doubles performance > Reduces back-up time> Cut down disk-to-disk replication time

> Avoids potential I/O bottlenecks> Investment protection and backward compatibility> Virtualization (NPIV, VSAN), Security (FC-SP)> Lower power

> Dynamic Power Management

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Sun StorageTek Dual 8Gb FC HBAAvailability

• Release Plans- Qlogic version

• Sun Part Number (single port): SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z• Sun Part Number (dual port): SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z• Announce: 9-16-08• RR & GA: 10-13-08

- Emulex version• Sun Part Number (single port): SG-XPCIE1FC-EM8-Z• Sun Part Number (dual port): SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z• Announce: 9-16-08• RR & GA: 10-13-08

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● http://www.sun.com/storagetek/networking.jsp● http://www.emulex.com/sun/support/index.jsp● http://support.qlogic.com/support/sun_page.asp

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