Dell Brocade Adapters Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual - Page 30
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1 Fabric Adapters 1 2 3 6 4 5 FIGURE 2 Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter (heat sink removed) 1 LEDs for port 1 SFP 2 Cable connectors for port 1 and port 0 SFPs (Fiber optic SFP illustrated) 3 LEDs for port 0 SFP 4 Low-profile mounting bracket. Note: The adapter ships with the standard (full-height) mounting bracket installed. 5 PCIe x8 connector 6 ASIC ATTENTION Only use Brocade-branded SFP+ laser transceivers supplied with stand-up Fabric Adapters. AnyIO technology Although the Brocade 1860 can be shipped in a variety of SFP configurations, you can change port function to the following modes using the Brocade AnyIO technology, provided the correct SFP is installed for the port: • HBA or Fibre Channel mode. This mode utilizes the Brocade Fibre Channel storage driver. An 8 or 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SFP can be installed for the port. The port provides Host Bus Adapter (HBA) functions on a single port so that you can connect your host system to devices on the Fibre Channel SAN. Ports with 8 Gbps SFPs configured in HBA mode can operate at 2, 4, or 8 Gbps. Ports with 16 Gbps SFPs configured in HBA mode can operate at 4, 8, or 16 Gbps. Fabric Adapter ports set in HBA mode appear as "FC" ports when discovered in HCM. They appear as "FC HBA" to the operating system. NOTE Fibre Channel mode and HBA mode may be used interchangeably in this document. 2 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual 53-1002144-01