Lenovo FC5052 2-port and FC5054 4-port 16Gb FC Adapters

The Flex System FC5052 2-port and FC5054 4-port 16Gb FC Adapters enable the highest FC speed access for Flex System compute nodes to an external storage area network (SAN). These adapters are based on the proven Emulex Fibre Channel stack, and work with 16 Gb Flex System Fibre Channel switch modules.

• 2-port 16 Gb Fibre Channel adapter
• Single-ASIC controller using the Emulex XE201 design
• Auto-Negotiate to 16Gb, 8Gb, or 4Gb
• Up to 1.2 million IOPS on a single port (six times more IOPS than previous generation 8Gb FC HBAs)
• Cuts response times by up to 75% and doubles the throughput compared to the previous generation 8Gb FC HBAs
• Exceeds 10 million hours mean time between failure (MTBF) with the most advanced data integrity protection (T10 PI) offload to protect against silent data corruption
• PCIe Express 3.0 x8 host interface (5 GTps)
• MSI-X support
• x86 Fibre Channel common driver model with the FC3052 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter, and FCoE on the CN4054 10 Gb Ethernet and Flex System x222, x240, and x440 LOMs
• Arbitrated loop (supported on 4Gb and 8Gb speeds only)
• Fabric Manager support

Part Code:

FC5052