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1 General information
Fibre Channel technology is outlined in the SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP) standard.
Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transport technology used for mass storage and networking.
By adding Fibre Channel Expansion Cards to the blade servers and Fibre Channel switch modules to
the SBCE unit, you can attach the blade server to an external storage area network (SAN) through
the external 2 Gbps (gigabits per second) optical ports on the switch modules. The Fibre Channel
Expansion Card supports data-transfer rates up to 200 MB per second half-duplex and 400 MB per
second full-duplex.
Related publications
This Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide contains information to help you
solve problems yourself or to provide helpful information to a service technician.
In addition to this Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide, the following related
documentation is provided with your switch module:
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Intel® Server Switch Module SBCEFCSW Management and User’s Guide
This publication describes how to use the Intel® Fibre Channel Manager Module Utility, also
known as SAN utility. In addition, it describes how to start the Telnet CLI and lists the CLI
commands and their usage.
The Intel® Fibre Channel Manager Module Utility will be referred to throughout this book as
the SAN Utility.
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Intel® Server Switch Module SBCEFCSW Installation Guide
This publication contains detailed installation instructions for the switch module. This
publication also provides general information about your switch module, including information
about features, how to install and set up your switch module, how to install the SAN Utility
application, and how to get help.
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Intel® Server FC Expansion Card SBFCM Installation and User’s Guide
This publication contains instructions for installing your Fibre Channel Expansion Card in an
blade server and information about:
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Configuring the Expansion Card
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Updating the BIOS code and device drivers of the Expansion card
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Intel® SAN Solutions Guide
This publication is provided in PDF on the Resource CD. It provides a user-oriented discussion
of how Fibre Channel options are used to provide different SAN storage solutions for various
application requirements. This document also provides an overview and description for backup
and restore, business continuance and high availability, and storage consolidation and data
sharing solutions.
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Intel® Switch Interoperability Guide
This publication is provided in PDF on the Resource CD. It provides detailed Fibre Channel
switch module configuration data and step-by-step configuration procedures for integrating the
