Sun P16190-10 Storagetek 6540 4 Port 4Gb Fc Controller

Product Description

The Sun P16190-10, identified by its SKU, is a 4-port 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) controller card, part of the Storagetek 6540 series. This controller is designed to provide high-speed, reliable connectivity for Storage Area Networks (SANs), enabling servers to communicate efficiently with storage devices like disk arrays and tape libraries. The 4Gbps speed per port offers significant bandwidth, crucial for performance-intensive storage operations, database access, and large-scale data management. This controller card typically utilizes a PCI-X interface, which was a common high-performance bus standard for servers during the era of 4Gb FC technology. The four ports provide flexibility, allowing a single server to connect to multiple storage devices or SAN fabrics, enhancing redundancy and scalability. This is particularly important in enterprise environments where high availability and robust data access are critical requirements. As a Storagetek product, originally developed by Storagetek and later acquired by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), this controller is built for enterprise-grade performance and reliability. It would have been integrated into Sun servers or other compatible systems to serve as the primary interface to a SAN. The P16190-10 is essential for environments that rely on Fibre Channel technology for their storage infrastructure, ensuring efficient and dependable data movement between servers and storage resources.