00YK542 Lenovo ThinkSystem QLogic QLE2742 PCIe 32Gb 2-port SFP+ Fibre Channel Adapter

Spare 00YK542 is the QLogic QLE2742 dual-port 32Gb Fibre Channel adapter for ThinkSystem, which carries option 7ZT7A00518 and feature code AUNU. Two ports are fitted, and the model completes the QLogic QLE2740 series pairing with its single-port sibling.

The card sits on a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface, and both ports autosense 32, 16 and 8 Gb/s speeds with full-duplex data rates up to 3200 MBps. Two hot-pluggable 850 nm SFP+ modules with LC connectors are included. Combined throughput reaches 1,300,000 IOPS, which is 650,000 IOPS on each port.

Topologies are point-to-point and switched fabric. Reach at 32 Gb/s is 20 m on OM2, 70 m on OM3 and 100 m on OM4 multimode fiber. QLogic QConvergeConsole manages the card, and the APIs work with VMware vCenter and Brocade Network Advisor. Dimensions are 168 mm by 69 mm, with standard and low-profile brackets (3U and 2U) provided. Running temperature range is 0 to 55 degrees C, while storage tolerates -20 to 70 degrees C.

For 00YK542 the supported ThinkSystem hosts are the SD530 (7X21), SR860 (7X69, 7X70), SR655 (7Y00, 7Z01) and SR635 (7Y98, 7Y99), with SR650 and SR630 also listed. The one-port QLE2740 adapter is 7ZT7A00516, and the Emulex two-port 32Gb card is 7ZT7A00519.