Lenovo 4XC7A76525 ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35002 32Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter V2

Feature code BJ3H (option 4XC7A76525) is the ThinkSystem Emulex LPe35002 32Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter V2, a dual-port Gen 7 host bus adapter for connecting a server to a Fibre Channel SAN. It is built on the Emulex XE601 I/O controller with a PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface (PCIe 3.0 compatible), auto-negotiates 32, 16 and 8 Gb FC, and Lenovo rates it at up to 5 million IOPS per adapter. It supports NPIV and the FC-NVMe standard.

Lenovo states that the V2 adapter has identical features and functions to the original LPe35002, 4XC7A08251 (feature B5SY); the only difference is which servers and operating systems are supported. The original is now withdrawn. The single-port version is the LPe35000 V2, 4XC7A76498 (BJ3G).

The adapter ships with 32 Gb short-wave SFP+ optical transceivers (850 nm, LC) installed, and Lenovo states that other transceivers are not supported. At 32 Gbps the reach is 20 m on OM2, 70 m on OM3 and 100 m on OM4 multimode fiber. A full-height bracket is attached and a low-profile bracket is included.

Lenovo lists it for V3 servers (SR630 V3, SR650 V3, SR645 V3, SR665 V3, SR850 V3, SR860 V3, SR950 V3, ST650 V3), V2 servers (SR630 V2, SR650 V2, ST650 V2, SR850 V2, SR860 V2) and first-generation SR630, SR650, SR850, SR860 and SR950, among others. Confirm the server is on that list and that the SAN switch ports run 32, 16 or 8 Gb.