Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Brocade adapters, Host Bus Adapters

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Brocade adapters

The following sections describe the three Brocade adapter types:

•“Host Bus Adapters”

•“Converged Network Adapters”

•“Fabric Adapters”

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 49.

TABLE 49	Brocade Fibre Channel HBA models
Model number	Description	Number of ports
825	Dual-port stand-up HBA with a per-port maximum of 8 Gbps using an 8 Gbps	2
	SFP.1
815	Single-port stand-up HBA with a maximum of 8 Gbps using an 8 Gbps SFP.1	1
8042	Dual-port mezzanine HBA with a per-port maximum of 8 Gbps. This HBA installs	2
	in server blades that install in
	supported blade system enclosures.
425	Dual-port stand-up HBA with a per-port maximum of 4 Gbps using a 4 Gbps	2
	SFP.3
415	Single-port stand-up HBA with a maximum of 4 Gbps using a 4 Gbps SFP.3	1

1A 4 Gbps SFP installed in Brocade 815 or 825 HBAs allows 4, 2, or 1 Gbps speed only.

2Brocade 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 (SFP transceivers) are involved. With the exception of no SFP transceivers, the Brocade 804 mezzanine FC HBA card functions the same as the other Brocade HBAs.

3An 8 Gbps SFP installed in Brocade 425 or 415 HBAs allows 4 or 2 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.

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