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Abstract
The next generation Emulex 32 Gb LPe35000/LPe35002 1-port and 2-port Fibre Channel host bus adapters for ThinkSystem servers are an ideal solution when requiring high-speed data transfer in storage connectivity for virtualized environments, data backup, and mission-critical applications.
This product guide describes the Emulex HBAs and provides essential pre-sales information to understand the products, their key features and specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, and IT architects who want to learn more about the adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the September 17, 2024 update:
- Updated the industry standards - Technical specifications section
Introduction
Introduction
The next generation Emulex 32 Gb LPe35000/LPe35002 1-port and 2-port Fibre Channel host bus adapters for ThinkSystem servers are an ideal solution when requiring high-speed data transfer in storage connectivity for virtualized environments, data backup, and mission-critical applications. They are designed to meet the needs of modern networked all-flash array storage systems that utilize high performance and low latency solid state storage drives for caching and persistent storage as well as hard disk drive arrays.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35002 32Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
Did you know?
The Emulex 32 Gb FC HBAs have an advanced ASIC which can achieve 5M IOPS per adapter, 3x more than the previous generation adapter, which speeds up applications, all-flash arrays (AFAs), and allows you to handle peak workload I/O spikes.
Compared to the previous generation, Emulex Gen 7 FC HBAs offer up to 3x better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 32GFC SANs. The adapters support a PCIe 4.0 host interface which enables 2x more bandwidth per lane with servers that have PCIe 4.0 support.
Part number information
The following table lists the ordering information for the adapters.
V2 adapters: The v2 adapters listed in the table have identical features and functions as the other adapters listed in the table. The only difference is the servers and operating systems that are supported. See the Server support section and Operating system support section
The part numbers include the following items:
- An FC HBA adapter with one or two 32 Gb (32/16/8 Gbps speeds) FC SW SFP+ installed
- 3U (standard) bracket attached and 2U (low-profile) bracket included in the box
- Publications flyer
Fiber optic cables
The following table lists the fiber optic cables that are available from Lenovo.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35000 32Gb 1-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter.
Figure 2. ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35000 32Gb 1-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
Key features
Lenovo’s Emulex LPe35000 Gen 7 Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom are designed for demanding mission-critical workloads and emerging applications. Applications continue to grow and, to support them, enterprises are turning to new server technologies that contain hundreds of processor cores as well as high-performance storage solutions including low-latency NVMe, all-flash arrays (AFAs).
NVMe can significantly increase the performance of storage area networks (SANs), making the selection of high-speed networking technology the critical element for achieving maximum system-wide performance. Fibre Channel is purpose-built for storage networks, meeting the requirements for high availability, scalability, predictable performance and low latency.
Compared to the previous generation, Emulex Gen 7 FC HBAs offer up to 2x higher bandwidth, 3x better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 32GFC SANs. Emulex LPe35000-series HBAs are available with single or dual 32GFC optics to tackle the toughest workloads and future NVMe deployments. Gen 7 32GFC provides seamless backward compatibility to 16GFC and 8GFC networks.
Performance
The Emulex Dynamic Multi-core Architecture delivers unparalleled performance and the most efficient port utilization with eight processing cores and 16 threads that dynamically apply ASIC resources to any port that requires them, ensuring SLAs are met. The LPe35000 series delivers 12,800 MB/s (two 32GFC ports) full duplex and supports an industry-leading 5 million IOPS. These adapters have almost 3x lower latency and 3x more IOPS than the previous Gen 6 adapters.
The fastpath design provides hardware acceleration for Emulex’s Dynamic Multi-core architecture, reducing latency for each transaction by processing I/O requests in hardware, thereby operating significantly faster than software-based solutions. These performance advances enable Emulex Gen 7 HBAs to handle demanding workloads and I/O spikes experienced under peak workload conditions like no other Fibre Channel HBA in the industry.
LPe35000-series port aggregation capability (also known as trunking) provides a method to aggregate physical ports together to form a single logical port. Aggregating physical ports to make a single high-bandwidth datapath increases the logical connection bandwidth for applications that need it, such as data warehousing and virtual machine migration.
Operational Efficiency
LPe35000-series HBAs offer enhanced reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) including port isolation and port-based error isolation that enables users to easily detect, isolate, and recover from errors.
Emulex HBAs are easy to manage and save administrators time and operating costs with features such as no reboots for firmware updates, queue depth changes, or optics replacements. Emulex Gen 7 hot plug (hot-swappable) optics enables optics to be removed and replaced without shutting down the system, allowing for uninterrupted service.
The Emulex HBA Manager (formerly named Emulex OneCommand Manager) application provides centralized management of current and previous generations of Emulex FC HBAs. Emulex HBA troubleshooting is simplified with OneCapture, an Emulex utility that gathers system, adapter, and device driver information. Data collected by OneCapture is compressed into a single file and can be sent to Broadcom/Lenovo Technical Support for analysis when debugging system issues or for diagnostic purposes.
Emulex HBAs fully support the Brocade Fabric Vision suite of features facilitating a solution from the switch to the server end-points that have Emulex HBAs installed. Supported features include ClearLink (D_port), Link Cable Beaconing, Host Name Registration, Read Diagnostic Parameters, VMID, BB_Credit Recovery, Fabric-assigned Boot LUN, Fabric-assigned PWWN, FC Trace Route, FC Ping, Rest APIs, and more.
Security
One of the key initiatives for enterprises is that their infrastructure is safe from network attacks. Fibre Channel has field proven security in protecting the world’s most sensitive data in banking, finance, healthcare, government, and military for over 20 years. Fibre Channel is protected from threats coming from IP networks because there is no direct connectivity for an attack from the IP network. This makes Fibre Channel a very strong link in the security chain.
Emulex Gen 7 HBAs provide unmatched security features for Fibre Channel environments. LPe35000-series are the only Fibre Channel HBAs with Silicon Root of Trust security embedded into the hardware itself. Firmware digital signatures are verified each time the system is booted as well as before installing any new firmware, providing a tamper proof solution.
Emulex’s digitally signed drivers are integrated with all the major enterprise operating systems. Drivers are digitally signed and are verified to be authentic code written by Broadcom before they can be installed.
Technical specifications
The Emulex 32 Gb Gen 7 FC HBAs have the following specifications:
- Based on the Emulex LPe35000 (single port) and LPe35002 (dual port) adapters
- I/O controller: Emulex Engine 601 (XE601) I/O Controller (IOC)
- Host interface: PCIe 4.0 x8 (compatible with PCIe 3.0)
- Ports: Single-port and dual-port SFP+ based adapters
- Link speed: Support for 32 Gb, 16 Gb and 8 Gb FC link speeds, which are automatically negotiated
- Data rate: 28.05 (3200 MBps), 14.025 Gbps (1600 MBps), and 8.5 Gbps (800 MBps) autosensing (per port), with full duplex
- Performance: Up to 5,000,000 IOPS per adapter
- Support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
- Industry standards:
- Current ANSI/IETF Standards: FC-PI-7; FC-FS-5; FC-LS-3; FC-GS-7; FC-PI-5; FC-PI-6; FC-DA; FC-DA-2; FCP-4; SPC-4; SBC-3; SSC-4; FC-NVMe; FC-NVMe/AM1
- Legacy ANSI/IETF Standards: FC-PI-4; FC-FS-3; FC-FS-4; FC-LS-2; FC-GS-6; FC-PH; FC-PH-2; FC-PH-3; FC-PI; FCPI-2; FC-PI-3; FC-FS; FC-GS-2/3/4/5; FCP-2/3; FC-HBA; FC-TAPE; FC-MI; SPC-3; SBC-2; SSC-2; SSC-3
- Fibre Channel Class 3
- Topology: Point-to-point and switched fabric
- Hot-pluggable 32 Gbps Fibre Channel SFP+ short wave optical transceivers (850 nm) with LC connectors (included with the adapters). Note: Other transceivers are not supported.
The transceivers support the following cable lengths:
- Operating at 32 Gbps:
- Up to 20 m on 50/125 µm OM2 Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF)
- Up to 70 m on 50/125 µm OM3 MMF
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Up to 100 m on 50/125 µm OM4 MMF
- Operating at 16 Gbps:
- Up to 15 m on 62.5/125 µm OM1 Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF)
- Up to 35 m on 50/125 µm OM2 MMF
- Up to 100 m on 50/125 µm OM3 MMF
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Up to 125 m on 50/125 µm OM4 MMF
- Operating at 8 Gbps:
- Up to 21 m on 62.5/125 µm OM1 MMF
- Up to 50 m on 50/125 µm OM2 MMF
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Up to 150 m on 50/125 µm OM3 MMF
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
- Only supported with EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors
Operating system support
The following tables list the supported operating systems for the adapters.
- Support for the 1-port adapter
- Support for the 2-port adapter
- Support for the 1-port V2 adapter
- Support for the 2-port V2 adapter
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
1 HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors. HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
3 HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors
1 HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors. HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
3 HW is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
SAN switches
Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DB Series of Fibre Channel SAN switches for high-performance storage expansion. See the DB Series product guides for models and configuration options:
- ThinkSystem DB Series SAN Switches:
https://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/rack#rt=product-guide
For information about interoperability with storage servers, see the Lenovo Storage Interoperability Links article, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0584-lenovo-storage-interoperability-links
Warranty
The adapters carry a one-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, the adapters assume the servers’s base warranty and any Lenovo Services warranty upgrade.
Physical specifications
The adapters have the following dimensions (approximate):
- Low Profile form factor card
- 168 mm x 69 mm (6.60 in. x 2.7 in.)
- Standard (3U) and low-profile (2U) brackets included
Operating environment
The adapters are supported in the following environment:
- Temperature:
- Operating: 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
- Storage: -20 to 85 °C (-4 to 185 °F)
- Relative humidity: 5 - 95% (non-condensing)
Agency approvals
The adapters conform to the following regulations:
- AS/NZS CISPR22:2009+A1, Class A
- Australian EMC Framework (RCM)
- China RoHS compliant
- cUR recognized to CSA 22.2, No. 60950-1-07
- EN55022:2010, Class A
- EN55024:2010
- EN55032:2012
- EU (CE Mark)
- FCC Rules, Part 15, Class A
- Industry Canada, ICES-003, Class A
- Japan VCCI, Class A
- Korea MSIP, Class A
- RoHS Compliant (Directive 2011/65/EU)
- TUV certified to EN60950-1+A11+A1+A12+A2
- Taiwan BSMI, Class A
- UL recognized to UL60950-1 2nd Edition
Related publications and links
For more information, see the following resources:
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Lenovo Press paper, "Benefits of an End-to-End NVMe over FC Solution with Lenovo ThinkSystem"
https://lenovopress.com/lp0955 -
Lenovo ThinkSystem networking options product page
https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers - Lenovo Storage Interoperability Links
https://lenovopress.com/lp0584-lenovo-storage-interoperability-links - Broadcom product page for the LPe35000 Series adapters:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters/lpe35000-m2 - Lenovo support
http://support.lenovo.com - Lenovo ServerProven
http://static.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/xseries/sharedstorage/samatrix.shtml - Emulex HBA Manager (formerly Emulex OneCommand Manager)
https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters/emulex-hba-manager
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Full Change History
Changes in the September 17, 2024 update:
- Updated the industry standards - Technical specifications section
Changes in the June 15, 2022 update:
- The following adapters have been reactivated:
- ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35000 32Gb 1-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter, 4XC7A08250
- ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35002 32Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter, 4XC7A08251
Changes in the June 1, 2022 update:
- The following adapters are now withdrawn from marketing:
- ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35000 32Gb 1-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter, 4XC7A08250
- ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35002 32Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter, 4XC7A08251
Changes in the April 20 update:
- Added operating system support information for the V2 adapters - Operating system support section
Changes in the March 25 update:
- New V2 adapters for use with SR665 and SR645 with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors
Changes in the February 23, 2021 update:
- The server support tables are now automatically updated - Server support section
Changes in the October 13, 2020 update:
- Added the SR850 V2 and SR860 V2 servers - Server support section
Changes in the July 30, 2020 update:
- The adapters support NPIV - Technical specifications section
Changes in the February 25, 2020 update:
- The adapters are now supported in the SD530 server - Server support section
Changes in the January 7, 2020 update:
- Added SR850P to the server support table - Server support section
Changes in the October 29, 2019 update:
- The adapters are now supported in the SR850 and SR860 - Server support section
Changes in the September 8, 2019 update:
- Added SE350, SR635 and SR655 to the server table - Server support section
- OS support tables are now generated from ServerProven - Operating system support section
First published: 23 July 2019
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