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53-1002144-01

5 August 2011

®

Brocade Adapters

Installation and Reference Manual

Supporting CNA models 1741, 1020, 1010, 1007

Supporting HBA models 825, 815, 804, 425, 415

Supporting Fabric Adapter model 1860

Copyright © 2011 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCFM, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronView, NetIron, SAN Health, ServerIron, TurboIron, and

Wingspan are registered trademarks, and Brocade Assurance, Brocade NET Health, Brocade One, Extraordinary Networks,

MyBrocade, VCS, and VDX are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other

countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective

owners.

Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCFM, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronView, NetIron, SAN Health, ServerIron, TurboIron, and

Wingspan are registered trademarks, and Brocade Assurance, Brocade NET Health, Brocade One, Extraordinary Networks,

MyBrocade, VCS, and VDX are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other

countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective

owners.

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open source license agreements. To find-out which open source software is included in Brocade products, view the licensing

terms applicable to the open source software, and obtain a copy of the programming source code, please visit

http://.brocade.com/support/oscd.

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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001254-01 New document June 2009

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001254-02 Updates for Release 2.1 September 2009

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001254-03 Update for Release 2.2 May 2010

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001581-01 Updates to support Release

2.1.1 and the Brocade 804

adapter.

June 2010

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001254-04 Update for Brocade 1007

adapter

September 2010

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001926-01 Updates to support Release

2.3

October 2010

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1001926-02 Updates to support Brocade

1741 adapter

November 2010

Brocade Adapters Installation and

Reference Manual

53-1002144-01 Updates to support Adapter

release 3.0 and Brocade

1860 adapter

August 2011

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Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

How to use this document for installing adapters. . . . . . . . . . . xii

Supported adapter hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

CNAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Fabric OS and switch support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Host operating system support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Host operating system support for adapter drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Fibre Channel support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

FCoE support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Ethernet support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Hypervisor support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Host operating system support for HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx

Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Providing details for support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii

Support Save overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Initiating Support Save through HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

Initiating Support Save through BCU commands . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

Initiating Support Save through the internet browser . . . . . . . xxvi

Initiating Support Save through a port crash event. . . . . . . . .xxvii

Support Save differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii

Chapter 1 Product Overview

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

AnyIO technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Hardware compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Converged network adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Stand-up adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Mezzanine adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hardware compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

WoL and SoL limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Host bus adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Stand-up models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Mezzanine models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Hardware compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Adapter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

General features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

FCoE features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Data Center Bridging and Ethernet features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

HBA features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Adapter management features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

General adapter management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Fabric Adapter management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

CNA management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

NIC Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

HBA management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Fabric Adapter management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Adapter software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Driver packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Management utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Host Connectivity Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Boot code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

CIM Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Adapter event messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Software installation and driver packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Software installation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Items shipped with your adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Stand-up adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Mezzanine adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Boot installation packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Downloading software and publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using BCU commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

ESD precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Stand-up adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

What you need for installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Connecting an adapter to a switch or direct-attached

storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Removing and installing SFP transceivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Replacing an adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Mezzanine adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Brocade 804 HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Brocade 1007 CNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Brocade 1741 CNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Chapter 3 Software Installation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Installation notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Brocade Adapter Software Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Using the GUI-based installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Software installation using Software Installer commands . . . . 76

Software removal using Adapter Software Uninstaller . . . . . . .83

Software upgrade using Adapter Software Installer . . . . . . . . . 87

Software downgrade using Adapter Software Installer . . . . . . . 88

Installer log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Using software installation scripts and system commands. . . . . . .89

Software installation and removal notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Driver installation and removal on Windows systems. . . . . . . . 91

Driver installation and removal on Linux systems . . . . . . . . . . .95

Driver installation and removal on Solaris systems . . . . . . . . . 97

Driver installation and removal on VMware systems . . . . . . . .99

Confirming driver package installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Confirming driver installation with HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Confirming driver installation with Windows tools. . . . . . . . . .104

Confirming driver installation with Solaris tools . . . . . . . . . . .106

Confirming driver installation with VMware tools . . . . . . . . . . 107

Verifying adapter installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Installing SNMP subagent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Windows systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Linux systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Updating drivers with HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Installing HCM to a host from the HCM Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

HCM Agent operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Managing the HCM Agent on Linux and VMware systems . . .112

Managing the HCM Agent on Solaris systems . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Managing the HCM Agent on Windows systems . . . . . . . . . . .114

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HCM configuration data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Backing up configuration data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Restoring configuration data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Setting IP address and subnet mask on CNAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

VMware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Chapter 4 Boot Code

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Boot support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Boot code updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Updating boot code with HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Updating boot code with BCU commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Network boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Brocade BIOS support for network boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Host system requirements for network boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Driver support for network boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Configuring network boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Boot over SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Brocade BIOS support for boot over SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Brocade UEFI support for boot over SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Host system requirements for boot over SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Storage system requirements for boot over SAN. . . . . . . . . . .130

Disabling N_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Configuring boot over SAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Operating system and driver installation on boot LUNs . . . . .148

Installing the full driver package on boot LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Fabric-based boot LUN discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Configuring fabric-based boot LUN discovery (Brocade

fabrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Configuring fabric-based boot LUN discovery (Cisco

fabrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Boot systems over SAN without operating system or local drive . .167

Using a LiveCD image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Creating a WinPE image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Updating Windows driver on adapter used for boot over SAN . . . .170

Chapter 5 Specifications

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

PCI Express interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Hardware specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Adapter LED operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Environmental and power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

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Converged Network Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

PCI Express interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Hardware specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Cabling (stand-up adapters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Adapter LED operation (stand-up adapters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Environmental and power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Host Bus Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

PCI Express interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Hardware specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Cabling (stand-up adapters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Adapter LED operation (stand-up adapters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Environmental and power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Fibre Channel standards compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Stand-up adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Mezzanine adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Appendix A Adapter Configuration

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Storage instance-specific persistent parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Managing instance-specific persistent parameters . . . . . . . .205

Storage driver-level parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Linux and VMware driver configuration parameters . . . . . . . .206

Windows driver configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

Solaris driver configuration parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Network driver parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

VMware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Enabling jumbo frames for Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Appendix B MIB Reference

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Appendix C List of Acronyms

Index

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