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1 Introduction
Audience for this Manual
This guide is intended for network administrators, maintenance engineers or
qualified personnel who maintain and/or update servers. Since installing this
Adapter involves both hardware and software installation functions, it is
important that the person installing the adapter is familiar with performing such
tasks as installing PCI cards, connecting cables, and installing software drivers.
What is the Hewlett-Packard Fibre Channel
Adapter?
The Hewlett-Packard Fibre Channel Adapter is a reliable, high performance
serial I/O storage interface for servers. The serial nature of Fibre Channel brings
the flexibility and ease of use of LAN connectivity to storage attachment,
introducing the idea ofStorage Area Networks (SAN). Fibre Channel simplifies
the physical configuration issues related to the I/O channel. Peripherals may be
positioned at considerable distances from the server (depending on cabling
media) for convenience or for data security. More reliable in data transfer than
conventional LAN, Fibre Channel offers Gigabit performance and greater
device connectivity than parallel SCSI. The 32/64 bit, 33 MHz, 1 Gigabit HP
Fibre Channel Adapter provides the I/O channel scalability required for
continuous growth in storage capacity and availability needs.
The Hewlett-Packard Fibre Channel Adapter is configured to run on an
Arbitrated Loop, or a Fabric environment, Class 3 operation with the SCSI FCP
protocol. The SCSI FCP protocol allows the use of the standard Windows NT
SCSI miniport interface, thus blending the Hewlett-Packard Fibre Channel
Adapter’s revolutionary I/O technology with evolutionary requirements of
standards-based servers.
Contents of the Fibre Channel Adapter Kits
This section describes what is in the HP Fibre Channel Adapter kit. The kit
contents are as follows: