IBM Flex System FC5022 - Fibre Channel Features

Introduction 5
Features and specifications
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• Management APIs for integration with a management application, such as IBM System Storage®
Network Advisor, and other management frameworks.
• Plug-n-play and power management for all supported operating systems.
• RoHS-6. Certification by the European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
(RoHS) that adapter hardware components do not contain any of the six restricted materials. These
are mercury, chromium VI, cadmium, polybrominated biphenyl ether, lead, and polybrominated
biphenyl.
• Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
Specification supporting the Common Information Model (CIM) Provider, which allows any
standard Common Information Model (CIM) and SMI-S-based management software to manage
installed Brocade adapters.
NOTE
Although SMI-S Provider and CIM Provider may be used interchangeably, CIM is the more
generic term, while SMI-S is storage-specific.
• Open Fabric Manager (OFM) based WWN provisioning.
• Windows Management Implementation (WMI).
• Windows Server 2008, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES), and
VMware ESX Server.
• Windows Server Core, a minimal server option for Windows Server 2008 operating systems that
provides a low-maintenance server environment with limited functionality. All configuration and
maintenance is done through command line interface windows or by connecting to a system
remotely through a management application.
• Windows 7. Windows 7 x86 is supported by Windows 2008 x86 drivers. Windows 7 x64 is
supported by Windows 2008 R2 X64 drivers.
Fibre Channel features
The IBM Flex System FC5022 2-Port 16Gb FC Adapter supports the following Fibre Channel features
for enhanced performance and connectivity in the SAN:
• Over 500,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) per port for maximum I/O transfer rates.
• Up to 1,600 Mbps throughput per port full duplex.
• Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) device management and Brocade Command Line Utility
(BCU) tools.
• Management APIs for integration with a Management application, such as Network Advisor, and
other management frameworks.
• Quality of Service (QoS) feature working in conjunction with the Advanced SAN Fabric QoS
feature on Brocade switches to assign high, medium (default), or low traffic priority to a given
source or destination traffic flow.
The following licenses must be installed on the switch connected to each adapter port:
- Adaptive Networking (AN) license
- Server Application Optimization (SAO) license
To determine if these licenses are installed on a connected Brocade switch, execute the Fabric OS
licenseshow command. For more information about Fabric OS commands and QoS support, refer
to the Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.