F a c t S H E E t
Solaris
®
Support
for FC HBAs
Drivers and Utilities for FC SAN
Connectivity
Quick Facts (qla and qlc Drivers)
The qlc driver is a native Fibre Channel (FC) driver
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for the Sun Leadville stack. This driver works with
both Sun and QLogic branded HBAs.
The qla driver is a SCSI-to-FC emulation driver (an
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“sd” attached driver), and attaches only to QLogic
branded HBAs
A qla driver installed on a system that already has
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a qlc driver installed will only attach to QLogic
branded HBAs, leaving Sun branded HBAs to the qlc
driver
Topology support includes Point-To-Point F_port,
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FL_port, N_port, and Arbitrated Loop
Protocol support includes SCSI-FC, FC-IP, and FC-
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Tape
MSI-X enabled for 4/8Gb HBAs
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Supports 256 LUNs/target (qla)
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Supports 16K LUNs/target (qlc)
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Enhanced loop ID support (2048 loop IDs) in F_port
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configuration
FC Tape device support
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Beacon support (except QLA200 and QLA210)
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Quick Facts (qla Driver)
Processes RSCN without I/O interruption of other targets
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Persistent name binding by WWPN and fabric port ID
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Attended installation using
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pkgadd
Unattended installation using QLogic SANsurfer Solaris Driver Installer
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(
ql_autoinstall
)
utility
FC-SP
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High Availability
MPxIO failover (qlc)
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Integrated failover (qla)
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Manageability
Tools to configure and manage QLogic FC HBAs:
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SANsurfer FC HBA Manager (GUI)
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SANsurfer FC HBA CLI support for both interactive and scriptable
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modes of operation
Wizards for configuring failover, persistent binding, LUN masking, and
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updating the HBA parameters during HBA installation
Other
“Solaris Ready” qualified (qla)
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Fully Solaris qualified (qlc)
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