Sun StorageTek SAS RAID Host Bus Adapters

Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA

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Specifications

The StorageTek SAS RAID HBAs support both SAS and SATA drives, providing you with the flexibility to deliver advanced data protection and to scale both internal and external storage. The fast Intel I/O processor offloads RAID functions from the host CPU to enhance performance, and the easy-to-use GUI-based StorageTek RAID Manager software enables easy setup, configuration, and monitoring.


Key Specifications

  • RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 1E, 5, 6, 50, 5EE, 60
  • Eight 3 Gb/sec SAS channels
  • PCI Express x8 host interface
  • 256 MB 533 MHz DDR2 cache memory
  • Supports up to 128 drives
Description and Model Numbers
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Sun StorageTek SAS RAID
HBA Internal

Sun part number: SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z
Data sheet
Sun StorageTek SAS RAID
HBA, External

Sun part number: SG-XPCIESAS-R-EXT-Z
Data sheet
Architecture
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Host Interface PCI Express x8

Ports Eight 3 Gb/sec SAS channels

Connectors Two x4 internal mini SAS (compliant with SFF-8086 and SFF-8087) Two x4 external mini SAS (compliant with SFF-8086 and SFF-8087)

LEDs Two (activity and fault)

Form Factor Low-profile MD2 PCI Express card
Supported Operating Systems
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Operating Systems
  • Solaris 10 x64 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Solaris 10 SPARC
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, 5.0 (32 and 64 bit)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, 10.0
  • VMware ESX Server 3.x
  • Microsoft Windows Standard/Enterprise Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit)
Supported Platforms
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Server Platforms

Storage Expansion
  • Up to 16 internal drives
Storage Management Tools
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Management Tools
  • StorageTek RAID Manager GUI-based software
  • BIOS-level configuration utility
  • Uniform command line interface (UCLI) utility
RAID Features
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
RAID Levels
  • RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50
  • Advanced RAID 1E (striped mirror)
  • Advanced RAID 5EE (hot spare)
  • Advanced RAID 6/60 (dual drive failure protection)

Drive/Volume Support
  • Up to 24 volumes
  • Up to 128 hard disk drives
  • Up to 10 arrays per drive
  • 16 KB-1 MB stripe size
  • Up to 512 TB array sizes
  • 128 MB metadata storage

RAID Functions
  • Online array optimization
  • Capacity expansion
  • RAID level migration
  • Stripe size configuration
  • Array roaming
  • Optimized disk utilization
  • Configurable hot spare (dedicated, pooled or global)
  • Copyback hot spare
  • Hot swap disk support
  • Patrol read
  • Snapshot backup
  • Flexible logical drive initialization schemes
  • Native Command Queuing (NCQ) support
Physical Dimensions
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
  • 167.64 mm x 64.42 mm
  • 6.60 inches x 2.54 inches
Environment
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Operating Temperature 0° to 40°C, non-condensing

Storage Temperature -40° to 70°C, non-condensing

Relative Humidity
  • Operating: 10% to 90%, non-condensing
  • Storage: 93%

Power Dissipation: 15W maximum
Regulations
RAID HBA Internal RAID HBA External
Standards
  • PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a
  • PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification 1.1
  • PCI Express hot-plug support
  • ANSI INCITS 417-2006 Serial Attached SCSI – 1.1 (SAS-1.1)
  • BIOS Boot Specification Version 1.01
  • IEEE 1275-1994
  • OpenBoot
  • RoHS-6

EMI/EMC
  • US: FCC Title 47 Part 15,Subpart J, Class "B"
  • Canada: ICES-003, Class B
  • Europe: CE EMC Directive 89/336/EEC EN55022
  • Japan: VCCI CISPR22, Class B
  • Taiwan: BSMI CNS13438, Class B
  • Australia/New Zealand: AUSTEL AS/NZS CISPR22, Class B
  • Korea: RRL MIC Notice No. 1997-41 (EMC), 1997-42 (EMI)
  • International: CISPR 22

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