Qlogic QLE2560 Software Manual

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F a c t S H E E tLinux™ Support for FCand FCoE AdaptersDrivers and Utilites for FC andFCoE SAN ConnectivityQuick FactsOpen Source based Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre•Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage connectivityInstalled in Linux data centers since 1999•Single, open source Linux driver for all QLogic•FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and 10GbE FCoEConverged Network Adapters (CNAs)Unified driver model with integrated firmware•Support for Linux 2.6 features such as FC transport•class, sysfs, udev, etc.N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support in upstream•drivers, and on RHEL and SLES platformsHigh AvailabilitySupports FC HBA failover solution on both 2.4 and•2.6 kernelsNative failover solution since 2001•Failover solution for active/active and active/passive•storage arraysSupport for Linux device-mapper and other third•party failover solutionsSimplified ManageabilitySANsurfer• ® HBA Manager Graphical User Interface(GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI) tools toconfigure and manage QLogic FC HBAsWizards for configuring failover, persistent binding,•LUN masking, and updating the HBA parametersduring HBA installationCLI support for interactive and scriptable modes of•operationDevice Driver Update Disk kits to support FC HBAs•not supported by the inbox driversHardware and Software Support SpecificationsFC HBAs 10Gb Ethernet FCoE CNA: QLE8042•8Gb FC HBAs: QLE25xx•4Gb FC HBAs: QLA24•xx, QLE24xx, QME24xx,QMH24xx, QMI24xx, QMI34xx2Gb FC HBAs: QLA23•xx, QMx23xxPlatforms IA32, x64, IA64, and Power PC• ®Linux 2.4and 2.6Distributions 1Red Hat• ® Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5Novell• ® SuSE® Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, and10Oracle• ® Enterprise Linux 4.4 and later, 5.xLinux Tools Driver installers, Dynamic Kernel Module Support•(DKMS)Driver Update Disk kits (DUD) for boot-from-SAN•supportHBA Snapshot•Dynamic Target and LUN discovery•LUN Transition – offline to online•Modify SCSI command timeout value•HBA Collect•ManagementTools/APISANsurfer FC HBA Manager GUI and CLI•SNIA HBA APIs, SMI-S APIs, FDMI•DriverDistributionIntegrated drivers into Linux upstream kernel•Inbox drivers on RHEL, Novell SLES, and OEL•Standard drivers through QLogic web site•FailoverConfigurationsIntegrated failover solution•Linux device mapper solution•EMC• ® PowerPath® , LSI Logic® RDAC, Vertias™Dynamic MultiPathing (DMP), and other third-party management solutionsDiagnostics Loopback tests, read/write buffer tests, and link•statisticsBoot Support BIOS, UEFI, FCode•Boot from SAN•Continued on next page.1. For latest list of supported distributions, visit:http://support.qlogic.com/support/drivers_software.aspx

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