sun ultra 5 fibre channel HBA 3

[sm42]

Hello

Do any of you use a fibre channel HBA with an Ultra 5 workstation?

Is such a configuration available?

 

[ac325ci]

i thought hba cards were only available for high end servers not workstations..

 

[cndcadams]

sm42;

There are no supported fibre cards for Ultra 5.

CA

 

[huebs]

We use a Sun branded QLogic 2 GBit HBA with SUNWqlc and SFS/SUNWsan in a Sun Blade 150 and an original JNI HBA with JNIC drivers in a Sun Blade 100 ... both are almost Ultra 5 ;-)

 

[cndcadams]

The SunBlade 150 does support fibre channel host adaptor.
You could try it on the ultra 5 but it will not be supported by Sun if a service call is placed.

CA

 

[comtec17]

Doesn't the HBA cost more than the Ultra 5? Why would you even consider doing this? The cost would be enormous to attach to a SAN for a $75 Workstation.

 

[Annihilannic]

We have an Ultra-2 with two Emulex LightPulse 2000S HBAs connected to a SAN, and an Ultra 2 with a JNI FCE-1063 HBA. Both work fine and are a supported configuration by EMC.

Annihilannic.

 

[sm42]

Thanks for the replies!
and sorry for the loooong delay

well there are many things in a company that don't make sense
like spending £10,000 on a useless application
like having an enterprise volume manager on a SPARC ultra 5 etc
many things don't make sense
I just work here!


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