Broadcom Emulex LPe32000 FC Host Bus Adapter
Single-Port 32GFC Gen 6 PCIe 3.0 Fibre Channel HBA
Product Category
Broadcom Emulex LPe32000 FC Host Bus Adapter
Port Count
1
Port Speed
32GFC autosensing (32/16/8/4 GFC)
Host Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8 (backward compatible with PCIe 2.0)
Controller / ASIC
Broadcom Emulex XE501 I/O Controller
Product Description
The Broadcom Emulex® LPe32000 is a single-port, Gen 6 PCIe 3.0 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter engineered for the performance, reliability, and management demands of modern networked storage built on low-latency, all-flash and solid-state media. Powered by the Emulex XE501 controller and Dynamic Multi-core Architecture, the LPe32000 autonegotiates 32GFC, 16GFC, 8GFC, and 4GFC link speeds and delivers up to 1.6 million IOPS on its single port with less than half the latency of the previous HBA generation. ExpressLane application prioritization protects mission-critical traffic in congested fabrics, while support for up to 255 virtual functions and 1,024 message-signaled interrupts suits high-density virtualized hosts. Boot-from-SAN, universal boot, and detailed real-time event logging simplify deployment and troubleshooting, and the adapter is managed through Emulex OneCommand Manager with a full scriptable CLI. Backed by a published 10 million hour field MTBF and secure firmware update protection, the LPe32000 remains a proven, widely deployed choice for enterprises standardizing on 32Gb Fibre Channel SANs.