Brocade Communications Systems 804 manual This chapter, Host bus adapters

	Chapter
Host Management Overview	1

In this chapter

•Host bus adapters	1
•HCM software	2
•HCM features	2
•Tree node pop-up menus	3

Host bus adapters

Brocade offers five models of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). These models provide reliable, high-performance host connectivity for mission-critical SAN environments. The Brocade HBAs are listed in Table 1.

TABLE 1		Brocade Fibre Channel HBA models
Model Number		Port Speed	Number of Ports
415		4 Gbps maximum2	1
425		4 Gbps maximum2	2
804		8 Gbps maximum	2
815		8 Gbps maximum1	1
825		8 Gbps maximum1	2
1	A 4 Gbps SFP installed in Brocade 815 or 825 HBAs allows 4, 2, or 1 Gbps speed only.
2	An 8 Gbps SFP installed in Brocade 425 or 415 HBAs allows 2 or 4 Gbps speed only.

Using Brocade HBAs, you can connect your server (host system) to devices on the Fibre Channel SAN. The combined high performance and proven reliability of a single-ASIC design makes these HBAs ideal for connecting hosts to SAN fabrics based on Brocade Fabric or M-Enterprise operating systems.

NOTE

Brocade 804 mezzanine cards connect to the embedded switch modules or embedded interconnect modules on the Blade System chassis by way of an internal backplane and therefore, no optical modules (SFPs) are involved. With the exception of no SFPs, the Brocade 804 mezzanine FC HBA card functions the same as the other Brocade HBAs.

Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide	1
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