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Emulex HBAnyware Software Evaluation

January 2007

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2 – HBA Management Software Configuration

Discovery of the HBAs and the SAN fabric is another area where Emulex and QLogic differ in

basic philosophy. Emulex HBAnyware performs discovery in-band by default and can also perform

discovery out-of-band. QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager only performs discovery out-of-band.

At first initialization, the Emulex HBAnyware software automatically and immediately discovered

all the Emulex HBAs in the local server and those visible in the fibre channel SAN from that host,

without any manual intervention or mouse clicks. This was a simple, one-step process.

At first initialization, the QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager requests that the user select a host

to inquire for HBAs. If the host has QLogic HBAs, a general configuration wizard is started that

begins the discovery process for each HBA on the specified host. This is a six-step process for each

HBA for each host with HBAs. In an environment with 50 servers and 2 HBAs each, this would

have been 600 steps. We felt that this was much more cumbersome and not efficient for large

environments. The screen shots below provide a visual comparison of the HBA discovery process.

Emulex Initial HBA Discovery

QLogic Initial HBA Discovery

The six

step process above was repeated three

times to discover all four HBAs in two servers,

leading to the following completed discovery screen.

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