Hba Management; Fabric Adapter Management - Dell Brocade Adapters Installation And Reference Manual

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Adapter management features

HBA management

BCU commands and HCM provide the following features for HBAs and for Fabric Adapter ports
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HCM and BCU commands provide the following features only for Brocade Fabric Adapter ports
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Fabric Adapter management

Management features in BCU commands and HCM for Fabric Adapters are summarized under the
following sections, depending on the operating mode set for the Fabric Adapter port:
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Port statistics display
Discovery of adapters and connected storage devices in your SAN
Adapter configuration
Persistent binding
End-to-end QoS
Target rate limiting
Performance monitoring, such as port and target statistics
Supportsave operation
Adapter diagnostics display
N_Port trunking configuration
Adapter, port, target, and Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) operation monitoring
Security features for adapter access.
Event notifications for adapter conditions and problems.
Monitor and analyze traffic between N_Port pairs through a mirrored port on the switch (HBA
Analyzer)
Virtual FC ports creation
vHBA statistics display
FCP IM Module statistics display
Fabric statistics display
Port configuration
LUN masking configuration
Historical statistics
vHBA discovery and display in HCM
vHBA enable and disable
vHBA data query
vHBA statistics display
Port set to CNA mode - "CNA management"
Port set to HBA mode - "HBA management"
Port set to NIC mode - "NIC Management"
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