Qlogic QLA2500 Supplementary Manual

VMware Support for
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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
• FC topologies: Point-to-Point, FC-AL, FC-AL2, and
Switched Fabric
• Protocols: FCP-3 SCSI, FC-Tape
• Single driver support for 2/4/8Gb FC HBAs and
10Gb Enhanced Ethernet (10GbEE) FCoE Converged
Network Adapter (CNA)
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support for FC
Adapters
• Boot from SAN support
• Support for MSI-X on 4Gb/8Gb FC HBAs and FCoE
CNAs
• Supports all hardware platforms and guest
operating systems supported by ESX
High Availability
• Support for LUN Multipathing Solution
• SCSI Path failover support for Active/Active and
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:
– SANsurfer FC HBA Manager GUI
®
– SANsurfer FC HBA Command Line Interface
(CLI) for both interactive and scriptable modes
of operation
• Integrated management support through VMware
Infrastructure Client (VI Client) and VirtualCenter
Hardware and Software Support Specifications
Adapters* • 10GbEE FCoE CNA: QLE8042
• 8Gb FC: QLE25
• 4Gb FC: QLA24
QME24 xx , QMH24 xx
• 2Gb FC: QLA23
Server Hardware • x86, x64
Platforms
ESX Versions • ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5, ESX 3.0.
Management • SANsurfer FC HBA Manager (GUI) and CLI
Tools
• Integrated HBA management via VMware
VirtualCenter and VI Client
• Fast! UTIL BIOS utility for configuring HBA
parameters
Supported • EMC
®
Storage*
• IBM TotalStorage
®
• HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP
®
• Hitachi
• NetApp
Diagnostics • Loopback tests
• Read/Write buffer tests
• Link statistics
Boot Support • BIOS
• Boot from SAN
PCI Form Factors • PCIe , PCI-X
®
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.
F a c t S H E E t
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xx , QLE24 xx , QMC24 xx,
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x , ESX 2.5. x
CLARiiON , Symmetrix
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DS4000/8000
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, PCI Express Module, Mezzanine
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