FACT SHEET
Solaris
®
Support
for FC HBAs
Drivers and Utilities for FC SAN
Connectivity
Quick Facts (qla and qlc Drivers)
The qlc driver is a native Fibre Channel (FC) driver •
for the Sun Leadville stack. This driver works with
both Sun and QLogic branded HBAs.
The qla driver is a SCSI-to-FC emulation driver (an •
“sd” attached driver), and attaches only to QLogic
branded HBAs
A qla driver installed on a system that already has •
a qlc driver installed will only attach to QLogic
branded HBAs, leaving Sun branded HBAs to the qlc
driver
Topology support includes Point-To-Point F_port, •
FL_port, N_port, and Arbitrated Loop
Protocol support includes SCSI-FC, FC-IP, and FC- •
Tape
MSI-X enabled for 4/8Gb HBAs •
Supports 256 LUNs/target (qla) •
Supports 16K LUNs/target (qlc) •
Enhanced loop ID support (2048 loop IDs) in F_port •
configuration
FC Tape device support •
Beacon support (except QLA200 and QLA210) •
Quick Facts (qla Driver)
Processes RSCN without I/O interruption of other targets •
Persistent name binding by WWPN and fabric port ID •
Attended installation using • pkgadd
Unattended installation using QLogic SANsurfer Solaris Driver Installer •
(ql_autoinstall) utility
FC-SP •
High Availability
MPxIO failover (qlc) •
Integrated failover (qla) •
Manageability
Tools to configure and manage QLogic FC HBAs: •
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager (GUI) –
SANsurfer FC HBA CLI support for both interactive and scriptable –
modes of operation
Wizards for configuring failover, persistent binding, LUN masking, and •
updating the HBA parameters during HBA installation
Other
“Solaris Ready” qualified (qla) •
Fully Solaris qualified (qlc) •
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Solaris Support for FC HBAs Driver and Utilities for FC SAN Connectivity
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HSG-FS08002 FC0032904-00 A 2
Hardware and Software Support Specifications
FC HBAs 8Gb: QLE25 •
xx
4Gb: QLA24 •
xx
, QLE24
xx
, QME24
xx
,
QMH24
xx
, QMI24
xx
, QMI34
xx,
QEM2462,
QEM3472 (FC + Ethernet)
2Gb: QLA23 •
xx
, QM
x
23
xx
Supported
Server Hardware
Platforms
SPARC, x86/x64 •
Supported
Operating
Systems
1
Solaris 10 •
Support for 2/4/8Gb (qlc and qla) –
SPARC not supported with QLA2 –
xx
,
QLE220, QL
x
2440
PCIe and PCI-X support –
Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 •
Support for 1/2/4Gb (qlc) –
Support for 2/4Gb (qla) –
PCI-X only (SPARC –
®
not supported with
QLA2
xx
, QLE220, QL
x
2440)
Management
Tools/API
SANsurfer •
®
FC HBA Manager (GUI)
and SANsurfer FC HBA Command Line
Interface (CLI)
SNIA HBA API, FDMI •
Inbox Driver
Distribution
Fibre Channel (Leadville) qlc drivers and •
update patches on SunSolve web site
Standard Driver
Distribution
SCSI emulation FC driver (qla) on QLogic •
web sites
Diagnostics Loopback tests (driver and boot code) •
Read/Write buffer tests (driver and boot •
code)
Link statistics •
Boot Support BIOS, UEFI, FCode •
Boot from SAN •
Hardware and Software Support Specifications
PCI Form
Factors
Standard, Mezzanine, and ExpressModule •
form factors for PCIe and PCI-X bus
interfaces
Server and
Storage
Interoperability
Interoperable with servers, storage, •
and networking products from ADIC
®
,
Brocade
®
, Cisco
®
, Computer Associates,
Dell
®
, EMC
®
, HDS, HP, IBM
®
, LSI
®
Logic,
NetApp
®
, Quantum™, Sun™, Symantec™
(Veritas™), etc.
1. For latest list of supported operating systems, visit:
http://support.qlogic.com/support/drivers_software.aspx
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