Lenovo Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port, 81Y1675, Brocade 16Gb FC Dual-port, 81Y1668 Product Manual

Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs

Product Guide

The Brocade 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) from QLogic are part of a family of high­performance FC HBA solutions for System x. These HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small
and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of
servers, storage, and SANs.

Figure 1 shows the single-port adapter (SFP+ is not present).

Figure 1. Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port adapter (with 3U bracket attached, standard SFP+ is not present)

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Brocade 16Gb FC HBAs enhance availability via a unified driver with integrated firmware and simplified
broadcast of driver updates across the fabric, including a proactive driver/firmware check of version levels
to ensure synchronization. Fabric boot LUN discovery allows a server to boot-from-SAN, simplifying
startup and reducing image management complexity. Fabric Assigned World Wide Name (FA-WWN) auto­assigns the switch port WWN upon install, simplifying server deployment and ongoing management.

Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports) are a new port type supported by the Brocade 16Gb HBAs that enables
administrators to quickly identify and isolate 16 Gbps optics, port and cable problems, reducing fabric
deployment and diagnostic times. If the optical media is found to be the source of the problem, it can be
transparently replaced, as 16 Gbps optics are hot-pluggable.

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Part number information

Table 1. Ordering part numbers and feature codes

Part number Feature code Description

81Y1668 A2XU Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port HBA

81Y1675 A2XV Brocade 16Gb FC Dual-port HBA

The part numbers for the Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs include the following items:

FC HBA adapter with one or two short-wave (SWL) 16 Gb (16/8/4 Gb support) SFP+ installed and
3U bracket attached

Quick install guide

Documentation CD

Low profile (2U) bracket

Warranty Flyer

Important Notices Flyer

Figure 2 shows the dual-port adapter (SFP+ is not present).

Figure 2. Brocade 16Gb FC Dual-port adapter (with 3U bracket attached, standard SFP+ is not present)

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Features

The Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs have the following features:

16 Gbps Fibre Channel
16 Gb FC enables I/O consolidation of multiple 2/4/8 Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs into a single
adapter to dramatically reduce CapEx/OpEx costs. It can also provide 50% server rack space
savings by reducing from a 2U to 1U rack-mount server with fewer PCIe adapter slots.

Over 500,000 IOPS per port
The industry’s most powerful FC adapter that achieves the highest transaction performance to
maximize density of VMs per server, performance of 315,000 IOPS for E-mail Exchange, and
205,000 IOPS for SQL Database.

16 Gbps and 8 Gbps optical media support
Investment protection for existing previous-generation 8 Gbps optics.

Fabric Assigned World Wide Name (FA-WWN)
FA-WWN virtualizes host WWNs to simplify server deployment by enabling pre-provisioning prior to
initial install and to eliminate time-consuming fabric reconfigurations when replacing adapters and
servers.

Boot-From-SAN
Automate SAN Boot LUN discovery to simplify boot from SAN and reduce image management
complexity and support for Direct Attached Storage (DAS point-to-point topology).

Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO)
Quality of Service (QoS) levels assignable to VM applications and support for N_Port Trunking of
2×16 Gbps links into a single logical 32 Gbps link to improve application performance and
availability.

Direct I/O
This enables native (direct) I/O performance by allowing VMs to bypass the hypervisor and
communicate directly with the adapter.

Brocade Network Advisor
This simplifies and unifies the management of Brocade adapter, SAN, and LAN resources through a
single pane-of-glass.

Brocade Diagnostics (D-Port)
This improves detection and isolation of 16 Gbps optics problems between adapters and switches.

LUN Masking
Initiator-based LUN masking for storage traffic isolation.

Target Rate Limiting (TRL)
This throttles data traffic when accessing slower speed storage targets to avoid back pressure
problems.

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