FUJITSU 6 Gbit/s SAS HBA Mezzanine Card Data transfer from and to server blade external storage media requires high performing I/O controllers on the one hand, and on the other hand the optional concurrent or dedicated use of the provided storage capacity. The new SAS HBA mezzanine card meet both: operating with up to 6 Gbit/s transfer rate they guarantee high speed transmission of data, while the connection to external SAS storage subsystems via a SAS connection blade offers more than one kind of usage: disk capacity may be assigned exclusively to the server blade, or disk capacity can be used concurrently (sharing) with other server blades, assuming the operating systems supports this. Controller Silicon: LSISAS 2008 Controller type: SAS HBA Mezzanine Card Certified or supported operating systems and virtualization software: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware vSphere 4.0 Number of ports: 2 Data transfer rate up to 6 Gbit/s Auto Negotiation support Yes Bus interface: PCIe Gen2 x8 Bus type: PCIe 2.0 Bus width: x8