Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs
Product Guide
The Brocade 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) from QLogic are part of a family of high-
performance FC HBA solutions for System x. These HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small
and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of
servers, storage, and SANs.
Figure 1 shows the single-port adapter (SFP+ is not present).
Figure 1. Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port adapter (with 3U bracket attached, standard SFP+ is not present)
Did you know?
Brocade 16Gb FC HBAs enhance availability via a unified driver with integrated firmware and simplified
broadcast of driver updates across the fabric, including a proactive driver/firmware check of version levels
to ensure synchronization. Fabric boot LUN discovery allows a server to boot-from-SAN, simplifying
startup and reducing image management complexity. Fabric Assigned World Wide Name (FA-WWN) auto-
assigns the switch port WWN upon install, simplifying server deployment and ongoing management.
Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports) are a new port type supported by the Brocade 16Gb HBAs that enables
administrators to quickly identify and isolate 16 Gbps optics, port and cable problems, reducing fabric
deployment and diagnostic times. If the optical media is found to be the source of the problem, it can be
transparently replaced, as 16 Gbps optics are hot-pluggable.
Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs
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