Quick Reference Guide

Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual 1
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Chapter
1
Product Overview
In this chapter
•Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
•Converged network adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
•Host bus adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
•Adapter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
•Adapter management features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
•Adapter software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
•Items shipped with your adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Boot installation packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•Downloading software and publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
•Using BCU commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fabric Adapters
The Brocade 1860 stand-up Fabric Adapter is a low-profile MD2 form factor PCI Express (PCIe) card
that installs in standard host computer systems. Figure 2 illustrates major components of the
dual-port Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter. Brocade 1860 single or dual-port adapter models can ship
with the following configurations of small form factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers:
• Single-port model - 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SFP+, 10GbE SFP+, or without optics.
• Dual-port model - Two 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SFP+, two 10GbE SFP+, or without optics.
Although adapters may ship with specific optics (or no optics) installed, you can replace with
compatible optics, such as 8 Gbps FC SFPs, long-wave SFPs, and SFP+ direct-attach copper cables.
Refer to “Hardware compatibility” on page 4 for more information.
Please note that the following illustration is representative and may have minor physical
differences from the card that you purchased.