HP LH6000r HP Netserver Fibre Channel HBA Guide - Page 8

What Is Needed Besides the Adapter, Adapter Overview

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• Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) • A Hewlett-Packard Navigator CD containing the available adapter driver(s) • A documentation CD containing the Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Installation Guide • This installation guide What Is Needed Besides the Adapter Besides the Fibre Channel HBA, you will need the following: • A GBIC module supported by the Fibre Channel HBA • A fibre channel cable, either optical or copper • A fibre channel device (such as the Fibre Channel Hub) to connect to the GBIC module Adapter Overview The HP Fibre Channel Adapter is a PCI to Fibre Channel controller card that provides a one Gigabit serial interface between a server and a Fibre Channel storage system. The cabling between the storage system and the interface card can be either fiber optic or copper. 2

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Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
A Hewlett-Packard Navigator CD containing the available adapter
driver(s)
A documentation CD containing the Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Installation Guide
This installation guide
What Is Needed Besides the Adapter
Besides the Fibre Channel HBA, you will need the following:
A GBIC module supported by the Fibre Channel HBA
A fibre channel cable, either optical or copper
A fibre channel device (such as the Fibre Channel Hub) to connect to the
GBIC module
Adapter Overview
The HP Fibre Channel Adapter is a PCI to Fibre Channel controller card that
provides a one Gigabit serial interface between a server and a Fibre Channel
storage system. The cabling between the storage system and the interface card
can be either fiber optic or copper.