Product Brief
For applications demanding high levels of storage connectivity,
performance, and Integrated RAID support. SAS 9311 HBAs connect
servers and appliances to internal and external storage, achieving over
1 million IOPS.
Overview
The SAS 9311 8 and 4-port, 12Gb/s SAS host bus adapter family provide increased connectivity and
maximum performance for high-end servers and appliances within internal storage, or connecting
to large scale storage enclosures.
The SAS 9311 HBA family is based on the SAS 3008 IO controller, integrating the latest
enhancements in SAS and PCI Express
®
technology. Each host bus adapter also supports 8 or 4 SAS
ports operating at 12Gb/s data transfer rates, and can reach over 1 million IOPs. The 9311 adapter
family supports 8 PCI Express lanes that comply with the latest PCI Express 3.0 specications. In
addition, these adapters are backwards compatible with previous SAS and PCIe generations through
automatic negotiation, and provide SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6, and 3 Gb/s per lane, and SATA
data transfer rates of 6 and 3Gb/s per lane.
The SAS 9311 adapter family oers Integrated RAID (0, 1, 1E, and 10) support. Due to simplifying
the conguration options and oering a IR rmware support for its 6Gb/s SAS host adapters, these
integrated RAID solutions provide a low cost option for the server or workstation market which
requires the extra performance, storage capacity, and/or redundancy of a RAID conguration.
Integrated RAID oers distinct performance and reliability advantages, including reduced CPU levels
on your host computer, and also volumes that are OS agnostic.
The Integrated RAID solution includes the following RAID features:
• The Integrated Mirroring solution, which provides features of RAID 1
• The Integrated Mirroring + Striping solution, which provides features of RAID 10
• The Integrated Mirroring Enhanced solution, which provides features of RAID 1
• The Integrated Striping solution, which provides features of RAID 0
Avago Storage by LSI
™
Avago Technologies products serve four primary target markets: wireless communications, wired
infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial. Avago Storage by LSI
™
oers the industry’s broadest
portfolio of storage solutions, backed by decades of experience and trusted by the world’s leading
server and storage suppliers. Avago provides the building blocks for storage solutions that help
customers understand, prioritize, store and protect critical data.
The Avago 12Gb/s SAS portfolio includes MegaRAID
®
controller cards, host bus adapters (HBAs),
advanced software options, Syncro
®
shared DAS solutions and SAS storage ICs, including RAID-on-
Chip (ROCs), I/O controllers and expanders.
Key Features
Eight/four ports of 12Gb/s SAS + SATA
ports
Eight lanes of PCI Express 3.0
Low-prole form factor
Mini-SAS HD connectors
SAS 3008 12Gb/s SAS+SATA controller
Supports SSDs, HDDs, and tape drives
Oers Integrated RAID (0, 1, 1E and 10)
Key Advantages
Provides connectivity in a low-prole
form factor
8 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 provides
fast signaling for high bandwidth
applications
High performance with 12Gb/s SAS
data transfer rates
Avago
®
SAS 9311 12Gb/s SAS
Host Bus Adapter Family
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Product Brief
Fusion-MPT
™
Architecture
Fusion-MPT architecture marks the next generation of I/O architecture
designed to deliver the highest performance available today while
reducing time to market, integration, and certication time. Fusion-MPT
devices are high performance, cost-eective protocol controllers that
represent the newest system- level integration technology in intelligent
I/O processors from Avago.
SAS 9311-8i SAS 9311-4i4e
IO Controller
SAS 3008 Fusion MPT 2.5 SAS 3008 Fusion MPT 2.5
Port Count
8 port, internal 4 port ext/4 port int
Connectors
Mini SAS HD
SFF8643 Two (x4)
Mini SAS HD
SFF8644 One (x4),
SFF8643 One (x4)
Storage Connectivity Data Transfer
Rates
12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant
SAS Bandwidth
Half Duplex (x8 wide bus)
9600 MB/s
Half Duplex (x8 wide bus)
9600 MB/s
Port Congurations
8 ea, x1 ports (individual drives)
2 ea, x4 wide port
8 ea, x1 ports (individual drives)
2 ea, x4 wide port
Host Bus
x8 lane, PCIe 3.0 x8 lane, PCIe 3.0
PCI Data Burst Transfer Rates
Half Duplex
x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s
Half Duplex
x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s
Form Factor
Low Prole Low Prole
Physical Dimensions
2.6” x 6.0” 2.6” x 6.0”
Brackets
Full Height and low prole vented Full Height and low prole vented
Cable Support
Passive Copper
Passive Copper
Active Optical (Ext only)
Operating Voltage
+12V +/-8%; 3.3V +/-9% +12V +/-8%; 3.3V +/-9%
LED Management
Reference SFF-8485 (SGPIO) compliant Reference SFF-8485 (SGPIO) compliant
PCI Power (Nominal)
13W 14.25W
Integrated RAID (IR)
14 spread across 2 volumes
RAID 0 10 per volume
RAID 1 2 per volume plus hot spare
RAID 1E 10 per volume
RAID 10 10 per volume
14 spread across 2 volumes
RAID 0 10 per volume
RAID 1 2 per volume plus hot spare
RAID 1E 10 per volume
RAID 10 10 per volume
Environmental
Operating: 0°C to 55°C
Storage: -45°C to 105°C
5 to 90% non-condensing
Airow: 200 LFM
Operating: 0°C to 55°C
Storage: -45°C to 105°C
5 to 90% non-condensing
Airow: 200 LFM
MTBF
>2,800,000 hours >2,800,000 hours
Regulatory Certications
EMC: Class B-US (CFR 47, P15B); Canada (ICES-003); Japan (V-3/02.04); Europe (EN55022/EN55024); Australia/New Zealand (AS/NZS 3548);
Korea (N-B 2-0001-404); Safety: EN60950; RoHS; WEEE
OS Support
Microsoft Windows, Linux (SuSE , Red Hat), Solaris, VMware, FreeBSD; See www.lsi.com/support for details on versions
* The HBA supports Solaris 10 and Oracle
®
provides a built in driver; installation of an Avago driver is not required. For more information on the Oracle Solaris 10
driver and installation, sign in at the following Oracle link: https://support.oracle.com/. Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
Warranty
3 years, free advanced technical support, advanced replacement option