Intel SBCEFCSW, SBFCM manual General information, Related publications

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Fibre Channel technology is outlined in the SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP) standard. Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transport technology used for mass storage and networking.

By adding Fibre Channel Expansion Cards to the blade servers and Fibre Channel switch modules to the Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBCE, you can attach the blade server to an external storage area network (SAN) through the external 2 Gbps (gigabits per second) optical ports on the switch modules. The Fibre Channel Expansion Card supports data-transfer rates up to 200 MB per second half-duplex and 400 MB per second full-duplex.

Related publications

This Hardware Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide contains information to help you slve problems yourself or to provide helpful information to a service technician. In addition to this guide, the following related documentation is provided with your switch module:

•Intel® Blade Server Switch Module SBCEFCSW Management and User’s Guide

This publication is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Intel® Blade Server Switch Module SBCEFCSW Reource CD. It describes how to use the SAN Utility application, describes how to start the Telnet CLI, and lists the CLI commands and their usage.

•Intel® Blade Server Chassis SBEFCSW Installation Guide

This publication is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Resource CD. It contains installation and setup instructions for your switch module. It also provides general information about your switch module, including getting started, configuring your switch module, and how to access and use on- line help.

•Intel® Blade Server Compute Switch Module SBCFM Installation and User’s Guide

This publication is provided in PDF on the Resource CD. It contains instructions for installing the Intel Fibre Channel Expansion card into an Intel Blade Server Compute. This publication contains information about

—Installing and configuring the expansion card

—Updating the BIOS and device drivers of the expansion card

•QLogic® SAN Solutions Guide

This publication is provided in PDF on the Resource CD. It provides a user-oriented discussion of how Fibre Channel options are used to provide different SAN storage solutions for various application requirements. This document also provides an overview and description for backup and restore, business continuance and high availability, and storage consolidation and data sharing solutions.

•QLogic® Switch Interoperability Guide

This publication is provided in PDF on the Resource CD. It provides detailed Fibre Channel switch configuration data and step-by-step configuration procedures for integrating the Blade Server Chassis SBCE into other vendor switch fabrics. Each vendor configuration includes:

—An initial integration checklist

—Configuration limitations

—Supported switch and firmware versions

—Specific management application operations

—A successful-integration checklist.

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