F a c t S H E E t
VMware
®
Support for
FC and FCoE Adapters
Drivers and Utilities for FC and
FCoE SAN Connectivity
Quick Facts
Fibre Channel (FC) natively supported by ESX and
•
ESXi
Unified driver model with integrated firmware
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FC topologies: Point-to-Point, FC-AL, FC-AL2, and
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Switched Fabric
Protocols: FCP-3 SCSI, FC-Tape
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Single driver support for 2/4/8Gb FC HBAs and
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10Gb Enhanced Ethernet (10GbEE) FCoE Converged
Network Adapter (CNA)
N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support for FC
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Adapters
Boot from SAN support
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Support for MSI-X on 4Gb/8Gb FC HBAs and FCoE
•
CNAs
Supports all hardware platforms and guest
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operating systems supported by ESX
High Availability
Support for LUN Multipathing Solution
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SCSI Path failover support for Active/Active and
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Active/Passive storage devices
Support for seamless live migration of Virtual
•
Machines (VMs) and VM storage using VMotion™
and Storage VMotion™
Manageability
Performance monitoring using VMware Virtual
•
Center or VMware
esxtop tool
Tools to configure and manage QLogic FC HBAs:
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SANsurfer
–
®
FC HBA Manager GUI
SANsurfer FC HBA Command Line Interface
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(CLI) for both interactive and scriptable modes
of operation
Integrated management support through VMware
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Infrastructure Client (VI Client) and VirtualCenter
Hardware and Software Support Specifications
Adapters*
10GbEE FCoE CNA: QLE8042
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8Gb FC: QLE25
•
xx
4Gb FC: QLA24
•
xx, QLE24xx, QMC24xx,
QME24
xx, QMH24xx
2Gb FC: QLA23
•
xx
Server Hardware
Platforms
x86, x64
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ESX Versions
ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5, ESX 3.0.
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x, ESX 2.5.x
Management
Tools
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager (GUI) and CLI
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Integrated HBA management via VMware
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VirtualCenter and VI Client
Fast!
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UTIL BIOS utility for configuring HBA
parameters
Supported
Storage*
EMC
•
®
CLARiiON
®
, Symmetrix
®
IBM
•
®
TotalStorage
®
DS4000/8000
HP
•
®
StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP
Hitachi
•
®
NetApp
•
®
Diagnostics
Loopback tests
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Read/Write buffer tests
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Link statistics
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Boot Support
BIOS
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Boot from SAN
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PCI Form Factors
PCIe
•
®
, PCI-X
®
, PCI Express
®
Module, Mezzanine
adapters
* For the latest list of supported platforms, guest OSs, storage, and I/O devices, refer to
the respective VMware compatibility guides for your ESX version at
www.vmware.com
.
