1–Product Overview Hardware Components

Table 1-4. Software and Firmware Components

Component

Operating System

Comments

(QLogic

Supported a

 

 

 

Windows FCoE

Windows

Install the teaming driver only if the

Driver

 

teaming function is required.

Windows NIC Driver

 

NIC management is provided by

Windows Teaming

 

Windows Property Pages through

 

Device Manager and QConverge-

Driver

 

 

Console CLI.

 

 

 

 

 

Linux FC/FCoE

Red Hat RHEL

The teaming function on Linux is

Driver (qla2xxx)

Novell SLES

provided by the Linux bonding

Linux NIC Driver

driver.

 

 

 

(qlgc)

 

NIC management is fully integrated

 

 

with Linux tools, such as ethtool,

 

 

ifconfig, and vconfig.

 

 

 

QConvergeConsole

Windows

Provides data center bridging

Web Management

Red Hat RHEL

exchange protocol (DCBX) logs,

GUI

ETS, port-level statistics, Fibre

Novell SLES

QConvergeConsole

Channel support quality of service

 

 

(QoS), N_Port ID virtualization

CLI

 

 

(NPIV), and FCAPS capabilities.

 

 

 

 

 

QLogic SuperIn-

Windows

Windows utility that installs:

staller for Windows

 

FC-FCoE and Ethernet Network-

 

 

 

 

ing (NDIS) drivers.

 

 

VLAN and Teaming driver.

 

 

QConvergeConsole Command

 

 

Line Interface (CLI) manage-

 

 

ment utility.

 

 

FC-FCoE and Networking man-

 

 

agement agents to enable

 

 

remote access using the QCon-

 

 

vergeConsole (GUI) manage-

 

 

ment utility.

 

 

 

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