Broadcom Emulex LPe37002 Dual-Port 64Gb Fibre Channel HBA

The Broadcom Emulex LPe37002 is a dual-port 64Gb Gen 7 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter built on Broadcom's seventh-generation LightPulse architecture. Operating at 64GFC per port with backward compatibility across 32GFC, 16GFC, and 8GFC speeds, the adapter delivers the raw throughput and deterministic low-latency performance required by modern all-flash storage arrays and high-density NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe/FC) environments. The PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface ensures the host-side bus is not a bottleneck even under simultaneous dual-port saturation, making it well suited for latency-sensitive OLTP databases, AI/ML data pipelines, and large-scale virtualization platforms.

The LPe37002 integrates Broadcom's Secure Boot and end-to-end data path protection capabilities, supporting T10 DIF/DIX data integrity and hardware-accelerated encryption features aligned with modern SAN security requirements. The adapter supports NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization), enabling multiple virtual ports per physical port for flexible virtual machine and container workload isolation within VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualization, and other leading hypervisors. Universal driver support spanning Windows Server, Linux, VMware ESXi, and Solaris simplifies deployment across heterogeneous enterprise environments.

Targeted at tier-1 enterprise SAN fabrics built around 64GFC switches from Brocade and Cisco MDS platforms, the LPe37002-M2 is engineered for mission-critical storage connectivity in financial services, healthcare, and cloud service provider infrastructures where maximum fabric throughput, five-nines availability, and seamless integration with enterprise storage arrays from Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi Vantara are mandatory. Its low-profile form factor with both full-height and low-profile brackets supports deployment in dense rack servers including HPE ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, and Lenovo ThinkSystem platforms.

Ideal for

• Connecting all-flash NVMe storage arrays to enterprise SAN fabrics requiring 64GFC bandwidth to eliminate storage I/O bottlenecks in high-frequency OLTP and real-time analytics workloads
• Deploying NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) end-to-end storage fabrics to deliver sub-100 microsecond latency for latency-sensitive financial trading, fraud detection, and core banking applications
• Providing high-density virtual machine SAN connectivity via NPIV in large VMware vSphere or Red Hat Virtualization clusters, isolating per-VM storage traffic without additional physical HBA ports
• Serving as primary SAN fabric uplinks in AI and machine learning infrastructure where large sequential dataset transfers between GPU compute nodes and shared storage arrays demand maximum sustained throughput
• Consolidating legacy 8GFC and 16GFC SAN workloads onto a single modern 64GFC fabric through backward-compatible auto-negotiation, enabling phased infrastructure modernization without host-side re-cabling
• Fulfilling enterprise storage availability requirements in healthcare PACS, EHR, and life sciences genomics platforms where continuous access to large unstructured datasets and strict data integrity guarantees are non-negotiable

Technical specifications

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