Overview

HP StorageWorks 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

The HP StorageWorks 4Gb PCI-Express Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support customers using HP ProLiant servers with PCIe I/O slots running a broad range of operating systems. These Fibre Channel HBAs are second generation products that support this new higher speed I/O bus architecture and provide customers the ability to use it to connect to their HP StorageWorks arrays.

For supported Fibre Channel SAN Switches, please consult the SAN Design Reference Guide at the following URL: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/san/documentation.html

Models
Brocade
	Description	Part Number
HP StorageWorks 41B 4Gb PCIe FC HBA	HP StorageWorks Single Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	AP767A

HP StorageWorks 42B 4Gb Dual-Port PCIe FC HBA	HP StorageWorks Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	AP768A

Emulex
HP StorageWorks FC2142 4Gb PCIe HBA	HP StorageWorks Single Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	A8002A

HP StorageWorks FC2242 Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe HBA	HP StorageWorks Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	A8003A

QLogic
HP StorageWorks FC1142 4Gb PCIe HBA	HP StorageWorks Single Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	AE311A

HP StorageWorks FC1242 Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe HBA	HP StorageWorks Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter	AE312A

What's New

HP StorageWorks 41B and 42B PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters now support ProLiant G6 servers.

At A Glance

Industry leading PCI-Express based solutions for Fibre Channel

Agility: Adds 4Gb PCI Express single and dual channel I/O connectivity to HP storage arrays.
Throughput: 4 Gbps FC increases aggregate throughput rate to 800 MBps per channel in full-duplex mode.
Performance: PCI-Express host bus interface for high throughput applications.
High Transfer Rate: Minimum 150,000 IOPS per channel delivers high I/O transfer rates for storage applications.
Management: Enterprise wide management capabilities.

Warranty

3-0-0 Three-year parts exchange warranty. Additional warranty protection can be purchased.
HP Global Services provides a three-year, limited warranty, fully supported by a worldwide network of resellers and service providers toll-free 7 x 24 hardware technical phone support for the duration of the warranty. In addition, available service offerings include a full range of HP Care Pack packaged hardware and software services.
NOTE: Certain restrictions and exclusions apply. Consult the HP Customer Support Center for details.

Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information

HP Care Pack Services. Scalable, Flexible, Dependable. Like your storage.
Your storage is evolving. Get scalable support that evolves with it. HP Care Pack Services is an easy-to-buy, easy-to-use portfolio of packaged services covering your lifecycle needs. You can rely on our highly skilled, HP certified professionals to offer a breadth of expertise across leading storage technologies, and work side by side with you for optimal results. Partner with HP Technology Services to boost availability and avoid costly downtime by mitigating technology-related business risks. To help take the worry out of deploying, supporting and managing your storage technologies, we've designed a portfolio of service options that are as flexible, scalable and affordable as our storage.

Protect your business beyond the warranty
Standard warranty protects against product defects and some causes of downtime. HP Care Pack Services helps you proactively guard against unplanned downtime which can reduce your productivity and profitability. By using a standard approach to warranty uplifts, such as HP Care Pack Services, customers can be certain of consistency of operations for both mission-critical and standard business computing.

Extending warranties with HP Care Pack Services
The key to normalizing the warranty of combined solutions-is making service uplift simple: HP Care Pack Services. This portfolio of predefined packages, extending across the entire IT lifecycle, offering consulting, education, technical support, optimization, risk assessment, and more. It's entirely flexible allowing customers to extend the cover to the precise level of support required. Customer's standard hardware warranty, for example, can be upgraded to next-business-day response, to same-day coverage, or even to a committed six-hour call-to-repair service available 24 hours every day of the week.

Provide consistent, predictable levels of support across your entire department or business
Give you direct access to proven technical and problem-solving expertise
Offer a choice of response-time and repair-time commitments
Are available whenever and wherever you do business

For many products, post-warranty HP Care Pack Services are available when your original warranty has expired. Choose the support levels that meet your business requirements, from basic to mission-critical. In the new world of business technology, when your technology has to work for your business to work, who can you trust to make your technology work? HP Technology Services, the trusted business technology experts who manage your technology in action, because when technology works, business works. http://www.hp.com/hps/storage

NOTE: Care Pack Services availability may vary by product and country.

Recommended Services	HP Care Pack Services recommended for optimal satisfaction of all deployments of your product.
	3-Year HP Support Plus 24 for HP Host Bus Adapters (HBA)	HP Host Bus Adapters (HBA) take on the support level of the HP server in which it is installed. For HBA's installed outside of an HP environment: 3-Year HP Support Plus 24 For a higher return on your storage investment, HP Support Plus 24 provides integrated hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology. Available 24x7, this 3-year combined reactive support option delivers onsite hardware support and over-the-phone software support around-the-clock. Leverage the full strength of HP Technology Services - customers can trust the services professionals at HP to work collaboratively with them, putting our strategic and technical know-how to work across their entire infrastructure.
	HP Install Storage HBAs SVC	For customers purchasing HBA as an add-on to existing HP Server or for installation into a non-HP server, HP Hardware Installation provides initial hardware installation of your product into your technology environment (System configuration is not included)
	Product Number	Product Name	Service Name	Care Pack Services Product #	Alternate Care Pack Services Product #
	NOTE: HP Host Bus Adapters (HBA) take on the support level of the HP server in which it is installed. For support of an HP HBA in a non-HP Server, the following services are recommended:
	AP767A	HP 41B PCIe 4Gb FC Single Port HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	AP768A	HP 42B PCIe 4Gb FC Dual Port HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	AE311A	HP StorageWorks FC1142 4Gb PCIe HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	AE312A	HP StorageWorks FC1242 Dual Channel 4Gb PCIe HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	A8002A	HP StorageWorks FC2142 4Gb PCIe HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	A8003A	HP StorageWorks FC2242 Dual Channel 4Gb PCIEe HBA	3-Year HP Support Plus 24	HA110A3-8D4
	NOTE: Installation is included with Server install if purchased together. If HBA is ordered as an add-on to existing HP Server or for installation into a non-HP Server, the following service is recommended:
			HP Install Storage HBAs SVC	HA113A1-527	U6305E

eSupport

HP eSupport is a portfolio of technology-based services that assist you with managing your business environment - from the desktop to the data center.

Support Portal
The HP support portal provides one-stop access to the information, tools and services you need to manage the daily operations of your IT environment.

Features include:

Access to self-solve tools (including search technical knowledge base)
Efficient logging and tracking of support cases
Collaboration with other business and IT professionals
Download of patches and drivers
Access to diagnostic tools
Proactive notification of relevant information

Access to certain features of the support portal requires an HP service agreement. To access the support portal, visit: http://www.hp.com/support

Customer Technical Training

Consider education as an integral part of your strategy to get the best return on investment for your HP storage solution. HP offers a variety of training courses on storage software, networking, archiving and disk storage systems. Our classes are available in many delivery modalities from traditional instructor-led courses at one of our 80 training centers worldwide to on-site training customized to your needs or online. www.hp.com/learn/storage

HP Services Awards

HP Services continues to be recognized for service and support excellence by customers, partners, industry organizations and publications around the world. Recent honors and award reflect our services team's dedications, technical expertise, professionalism and uncompromising commitment to customer satisfaction. For a list of all our awards, please visit: http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/433028-0-0-225-121.html

Additional Services Information

For more information about HP Care Pack Services for Storage, please visit: http://www.hp.com/hps/storage

If you have specific questions, contact your local HP representative. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at "Contact HP" http://www.hp.com

Technical Specifications

Family Comparison Table
	41B/AP767A	42B/AP768A	FC2142SR / A8002A	FC2242SR / A8003A	FC1142SR / AE311A	FC1242SR / AE312A
Number of channels	Single	Dual	Single	Dual	Single	Dual
Port Speed	4 Gbps	4 Gbps	4 Gbps	4 Gbps	4 Gbps	4 Gbps
Slot type supported	PCI Express to Fibre Channel	PCI Express to Fibre Channel	PCI Express to Fibre Channel	PCI Express to Fibre Channel	PCI Express to Fibre Channel	PCI Express to Fibre Channel
OS Supported NOTE: Always refer to the HP StorageWorks Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HP Storage Products at: www.hp.com/storage/spock for specific product support information.
Windows Server 2003	x86, x64	x86, x64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
Windows Server 2008	x86, x64	x86, x64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
VMware v2.x minimum	N/A	N/A
RHEL 4	N/A	N/A	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
RHEL 5	x86, x64	x86, x64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
SLES 10	x86, x64	x86, x64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
SLES 11	x86, x64	x86, x64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64	x86, x64, IA64
Solaris 10 x86	N/A	N/A	N/A	x86	x86	x86
	Always refer to the HP StorageWorks Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HP Storage Products at: www.hp.com/storage/spock for specific product support information.
Servers Supported	HP ProLiant ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 G6 only DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 ML350 ML370	HP ProLiant ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 G6 only DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 ML350 ML370	HP ProLiant and HP Integrity ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 DL785 ML350 ML370	HP ProLiant and HP Integrity ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 DL785 ML350 ML370	HP ProLiant and HP Integrity ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 DL785 ML350 ML370	HP ProLiant and HP Integrity ProLiant G5/G6: DL160 DL165 DL180 DL185 DL320 DL360 DL365 DL370 DL380 DL385 DL580 DL585 DL785 ML350 ML370
Array Platforms Supported	EVA4000, EVA4100, EVA4400, EVA4400s EVA6000, EVA6100 EVA8000, EVA8100 MSA2000fc	EVA4000, EVA4100, EVA4400, EVA4400s EVA6000, EVA6100 EVA8000, EVA8100 MSA2000fc	EVA3000, EVA4x00, EVA4400s EVA5000, EVA6x00, EVA8x00, XP Disk Arrays, MSA1000 MSA1500, MSA2000fc	EVA3000, EVA4x00, EVA4400s EVA5000, EVA6x00, EVA8x00, XP Disk Arrays, MSA1000 MSA1500, MSA2000fc	EVA3000, EVA4x00, EVA4400s EVA5000, EVA6x00, EVA8x00, XP Disk Arrays, MSA1000, MSA1500, MSA2000fc	EVA3000, EVA4x00, EVA4400s EVA5000, EVA6x00, EVA8x00, XP Disk Arrays, MSA1000, MSA1500, MSA2000fc
Environmental - Operating Temperature	32º to 122º F (0º to 50º C) (dry bulb)	32º to 122º F (0º to 50º C) (dry bulb)	32° to 113° F (0° to 45° C)	32° to 113° F (0° to 45° C)	32° to 131° F (0° to 55° C)	32° to 131° F (0° to 55° C)
Environmental - Storage Temperature	-40º F to 163º F (-43º to 73º C) (dry bulb)	-40º F to 163º F (-43º to 73º C) (dry bulb)	-4 ° to 158° F (-20° to 70° C)	-4 ° to 158° F (-20° to 70° C)	-20° to 158° F (-4° to 70° C)	-20° to 158° F (-4° to 70° C)
Environmental - Relative Humidity - Operating	5% to 93% (relative, non-condensing)	5% to 93% (relative, non-condensing)	5% to 95% non-condensing	5% to 95% non-condensing	5% to 95% non-condensing	10% to 90% non-condensing
Product Dimensions (HxW)	1.63 x 6.5 in (43 x 165 mm)	1.63 x 6.5 in (43 x 165 mm)	6.60 x 2.54 in (167.64mm x 64.4 mm)	6.60 x 2.54 in (167.64mm x 64.4 mm)	6.60 x 2.54 in (167.64 x 64.4 mm)	6.60 x 2.54 in (167.64 x 64.4 mm)
Media	Multi-mode Optic	Multi-mode Optic	Multi-mode Optic	Multi-mode Optic	Multi-mode Optic	Multi-mode Optic
Connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector	Short wave laser with LC type connector
Brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets	Shipped with both ½ height and full-height brackets

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