Figure 1, hba card, there are two modules. This professional term is called SFP optical module (the picture is the Finisar module interface card). There are currently two main HBA cards on the market:The HBA card is abbreviation, and the exact name should be: Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which is a circuit board or integrated circuit adapter that provides input/output (I/O) processing and physical connection between the server and the storage device. It is responsible for input/output support and processing. Most of time, a HBA works as an. Such a network card is called It HBA card. According to this definition, like the video card is connected to the video bus and memory, the network card is connected to the network bus and memory, SCSI-FC card is. Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data centers. Its principal job is to manage I/O processing for the storage subsystem, thereby freeing this time-consuming.
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