EMULEX MPIO DRIVER

This process can be initiated from the local host or remote hosts. The Emulex management software appears to be geared for efficient deployment and use in large environments, more so than the Brocade software. This provides a consistent process and scales well to large environments. The current Brocade HBA products are much more limited with respect to industry support. This report also includes a basic performance evaluation of the respective HBAs. A management mode selection has three settings that restrict or expand the management scope. Resources for IT Professionals.

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We could find no equivalent function in the Brocade adapter.

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The screenshots below show the start and finish of this process, including an event log. I need to make sure that I'm using the correct path in order to get the best performance. The Brocade and HBAs are currently available through retail channels only. Emulex's product is called HBAanywhere. We could find no public Brocade statements regarding qualification or support of its current HBAs by any major server or storage vendor. In the installation test cases performed in our labs, the installation of the Emulex and Brocade HBA drivers and HBA management software was accomplished in under two minutes for each host server and no reboots were required, however the Brocade HBA management software installation required more interaction with the administrator.

I'm looking for the same information. A series of IOmeter tests were run spanning a wide range of block sizes and queue depths for reads and writes.

The following tables compare the operating environment support for the two brands of HBAs. Remove From My Forums. Each server has dual-processor, quad-core Intel Xeon E processors.

Emulex HBA Product Evaluation - Sept - Wikibon

HBAs are a part of the complete multipathing solution wmulex are typically certified to work with various multipathing solutions from operating system vendors, file system vendors, storage vendors and others. Brocade is fairly new in providing HBA customer support, as their traditional market has been for other types of products.

File Services and Storage. The evaluation includes the following topics:.

Emulex HBAs have been qualified, sold and supported by every major server and storage vendor. The of paths are proportional to the number of targets on the storage array, thus if you have 4 paths, you have 4 target ports on the storage array.

No reboots were required for Emulex HBA firmware updates. Wikibon is a professional community solving pmio and business problems through an open source sharing of free advisory knowledge.

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Sign in to vote. The online help for the Brocade HBA indicates a port-trunking feature where two HBA ports can be trunked together to form a single logical port. When the Brocade HCM online help is on the screen, the user cannot toggle back and forth between the help screen and the main HCM interface. The tests were also constructed to access the storage subsystem cache as much as possible and the physical disk drives as little as possible, in order to highlight the HBA performance.

The read response times were very close, with the Emulex HBA generally having a slightly better response time.

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In addition to the form factor required for tower and rack servers, blade servers often have their own special form factor, requiring a somewhat specialized HBA.

This allows for failover in the event of a failure along one path and can provide for load balancing across multiple paths.

File Services and Storage https: Tuesday, February 22, This provides a consistent process and scales well to large environments. Tuesday, August 20, 5: For example for one LUN I have 4 possible paths to pick from in a Failover only policy but the path's indentifying information is not adequate to properly identify the real hardware path. HBA operating environment support includes the drivers required for that operating environment and the management software application including graphical user interface GUI emulsx command-line CLI versions.

I believe mpclaim and fcinfo can be used to do this after at least one LUN is exported to each pathhowever the fcinfo command needed isn't stable with a large number of LUNs exported to the host.