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2 Brocade M6505 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN I/O Module Hardware Reference Manual
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Operating system support
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Operating system support
Brocade Fabric OS has no specific host operating system (OS) dependencies. The Fabric OS in the
switches allows for any Fibre Channel-compliant device to attach to switches as long as it conforms
to the standards for device login, name service, and related Fibre Channel features.
The operating systems listed in Table 1 are for the host machine running Brocade management
applications outside the Fabric OS, such as Brocade Network Advisor (BNA). For the latest
information on operating system support for these applications, refer to the latest released
versions of BNA documentation.
Hardware features and functionality
The SAN I/O Module ships in Access Gateway mode. It provides support for the following hardware
features and functionality:
• Twelve to 24 auto-negotiating Fibre Channel (FC) ports
• Diagnostic ports
• Up to eight small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+) optical transceivers supporting speeds of
16
Gbps, 8 Gbps and 4 Gbps
• System LEDs noting system power, switch status, and management health status
• One RJ-45 connector for serial console management
• Hot pluggable—Up to 4 hot-pluggable SAN I/O Modules per Dell M1000e Blade Server
Enclosure chassis
• Runtime elements that include health monitoring, uptime, memory information, CPU usage,
user information, power, and licenses
• Two internal 100 Mbps full-duplex Ethernet ports to connect to the redundant Dell M1000e
Chassis Management Controllers (CMCs)
• One serial console port on the front panel.
TABLE 1 Supported operating systems for management server
Operating system Description
Microsoft • Windows 2003 SP1, 64-bit (Standard, Enterprise and Web)
• Windows 2008 64-bit (Standard, Enterprise and Web)
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2
Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (EL) 5.5 32/64-bit (Standard and Advanced platform)
• SUSE Linux ES 11 (SP1 32/64-bit)
VMWare VMWare ESX 4.0 (U2)
XenServer XEN 6.0