Emulex LPe32002-AP Product Introduction

1. Product Overview

      The Emulex LPe32002-AP is a 32Gb fiber channel (32GFC) dual port HBA designed by Broadcom (formerly Emulex) specifically for high-performance enterprise storage networks. It provides ultra-low latency and high throughput, suitable for modern data centers, virtualized environments, and critical business applications.

2. Key characteristics

High speed connection:

           Supports 32Gb/s fiber channel, compatible with 16Gb/s, 8Gb/s, and 4Gb/s rates, ensuring smooth upgrades.

Ultimate performance:

         Up to 2000000 IOPS and sub microsecond latency, meeting high-density virtualization and big data requirements.

Advanced data protection:

         Hardware accelerated T10 PI (end-to-end data integrity check) to prevent silent data corruption.

         Support link level encryption (such as FC-SP-2).

Virtualization optimization:

          NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) support allows a single port to host multiple virtual ports (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.).

        Compatible with containerized environments such as Kubernetes CSI.

Energy efficiency and density:

          Low power design, with better performance and power consumption ratio per port compared to previous generation products.

         Low profile appearance, suitable for high-density server deployment.

3. Technical specifications

Interface and bandwidth:

          PCIe 3.0 x8 (compatible with PCIe 2.0), with a theoretical bandwidth of 64Gbps (bidirectional).

        Port configuration: Dual port SFP+, supporting hot swappable fiber optic modules (compatible with 32GFC SFP+).

Protocol support:

        FC-PI-7 (Fiber Channel Protocol), FCP (SCSI over FC), FICON (optional for mainframe environments).

Operating system support:

         Windows Server、Linux（RHEL、SLES、Ubuntu）、VMware ESXi、Solaris。

Management tools:

         Emulex OneCommand Manager: Unified configuration, monitoring, and firmware updates.

          Integrated into platforms such as vCenter and HPE OneView.

4. Application scenarios

          High performance storage network: Connect all flash arrays (such as Pure Storage, Dell EMC PowerMax).

         Cloud and hyper converged architecture: providing low latency storage access for VMware vSAN and Nutanix.

          Key Business Database: Supports low latency demand scenarios such as SAP HANA and Oracle RAC.

         Media and Big Data: High speed data transmission (4K/8K video streams, AI training datasets).