IBM 00WT165 server / storage / networking hardware Server Hardware / Parts

The IBM 00WT165 is a PCIe2 8Gb 4-port Fibre Channel adapter, providing four independent 8Gb Fibre Channel ports from a single PCIe2 slot for connecting a Power Systems or System x server to SAN storage. Four-port Fibre Channel HBAs of this kind are typically used where a single server needs to attach to multiple independent SAN fabrics for redundancy, or where port density matters more than per-port bandwidth, such as consolidated virtualization hosts running many guest workloads against shared storage. It is part of IBM’s PCIe2 8Gb Fibre Channel adapter family, the generation IBM fitted across Power7/Power8-era systems needing 8Gb SAN connectivity. Tech-Star supplies the 00WT165 as a refurbished adapter for engineers maintaining or expanding SAN connectivity on these platforms, UK-based and shipped worldwide.