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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.