Introduction

Emulex® drivers have many properties that you can modify using the HBAnyware® configuration utility. The utility is client/server based and provides 'remote' configuration capability to other host platforms running the utility. This remote configuration capability can be provided by either Fibre Channel (FC) access (host systems on the same FC Storage Area Network (SAN) or by Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) access (from IP addresses of remote machines). The HBAnyware utility also enables local discovery of Emulex and OEM branded Emulex host bus adapters (HBAs).

This manual supports the following versions of the HBAnyware application.

Windows

Solaris LPFC

Solaris emlxs (SFS)

Linux

VMware ESX Server

Use the HBAnyware utility to do any of the following (see Table 1 to determine if a specific feature or task is supported by your operating system):

Discover local and remote hosts, HBAs, targets and Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs)

Enable local and FC discovery of Emulex and OEM branded Emulex HBAs

Reset HBAs

Set up persistent binding

Set HBA driver parameters simultaneously to multiple HBAs using Batch Update

Set global driver parameters to HBAs

Update firmware and FC boot code (x86 BootBIOS, OpenBoot or EFIBoot) on a single HBA or multiple HBAs using Batch Update

Enable or disable the x86 BootBIOS

Run diagnostic tests on HBAs

Manage local, FC remote and TCP/IP accessed HBAs

Locate HBAs using beaconing

Mask and unmask LUNS

Perform authentication using the Fibre Channel Security Protocol Diffie-Hellman Chal- lenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (FC-SP DH-CHAP)

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