Quick Reference Guide

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Adapter management features

HBA management

BCU commands and HCM provide the following features for HBAs and for Fabric Adapter ports

configured in HBA mode:

• Port statistics display

• Discovery of adapters and connected storage devices in your SAN

• Adapter configuration

• Persistent binding

• End-to-end QoS

• Target rate limiting

• Performance monitoring, such as port and target statistics

• Supportsave operation

• Adapter diagnostics display

• N_Port trunking configuration

• Adapter, port, target, and Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) operation monitoring

• Security features for adapter access.

• Event notifications for adapter conditions and problems.

• Monitor and analyze traffic between N_Port pairs through a mirrored port on the switch (HBA

Analyzer)

• Virtual FC ports creation

• vHBA statistics display

• FCP IM Module statistics display

• Fabric statistics display

• Port configuration

• LUN masking configuration

• Historical statistics

HCM and BCU commands provide the following features only for Brocade Fabric Adapter ports

configured in HBA mode:

• vHBA discovery and display in HCM

• vHBA enable and disable

• vHBA data query

• vHBA statistics display

Fabric Adapter management

Management features in BCU commands and HCM for Fabric Adapters are summarized under the

following sections, depending on the operating mode set for the Fabric Adapter port:

• Port set to CNA mode - “CNA management” on page 33

• Port set to HBA mode - “HBA management” on page 36

• Port set to NIC mode - “NIC Management” on page 35