How To Use This Guide; General Description; What Is Fibre Channel - Qlogic QLE2360 User Manual

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How to Use this Guide

The SANblade QLogic host bus adapters (HBAs) supported in this document are
described in the following paragraphs; they are collectively referred to as the
QLE2360/2362 HBA unless otherwise noted.
QLE2360 (single channel, half size, full-height bracket, optical media)
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QLE2362 (dual channel, half size, full-height bracket, optical media)
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The QLE2360/2362 is a PCI Express to Fibre Channel optical media host adapter.
First, install the QLE2360/2362 HBA according to the directions in the hardware
installation section
for software installation instructions.
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General Description

Thank you for selecting the QLE2360/2362 Fibre Channel (FC) HBA. The
QLE2360/2362 HBA is an intelligent, high-performance adapter designed for
high-end systems. The intelligence and performance are derived from the ISP2322
FC Controller, making the QLE2360/2362 HBA a leading-edge host adapter. The
ISP2322 combines a powerful RISC processor, a Fibre Channel protocol manager
(FPM) with one or more 2-Gb Fibre Channel transceivers, and a peripheral
component interconnect-extended (PCI-X) local bus interface. The QLE2360/2362
HBA supports all FC peripherals that support private loop direct attach (PLDA) and
fabric loop attach (FLA). Installation of the QLE2360/2362 HBA is quick and easy.
The QLE2360/2362 HBA is a single-slot PCI Express bus expansion board that
interfaces a x4 (four-lane) PCI Express bus to two FC optical media buses. The
QLE2360/2362 HBA supports one- and four-lane operations. One ISP2322 FC
Controller supports two independent fibre channel ports. An Intel 41210 PCI Express
to PCI-X bridge interfaces the ISP's PCI-X bus to the host's PCI Express bus.
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What is Fibre Channel?

Fibre Channel technology is outlined in the SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol
(SCSI-FCP) standard. Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transport technology
used for mass storage and networking. It connects mainframes, super computers,
workstations, storage devices, and servers.
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Section 1
Introduction
(see section 2). Please refer to the software driver Readme files
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