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Emulex HBAnyware Software Evaluation

January 2007

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No reboots were required for Emulex HBA firmware updates. We found the event log to be quite

useful, and would find it to be very valuable in managing large environments.

Updates to the QLogic HBAs are performed through the utilities tab. If more than one HBA port

is selected, Flash BIOS and NVRAM updates can be made to each selected item. BIOS updates

require a server reboot. No event log entries were noted when either the BIOS or NVRAM were

updated. This process was a bit confusing for the QLogic HBAs, as these features are called

different things with different QLogic HBAs, and it was not entirely clear which function updated

which HBA features.

Both products have a “beacon” function. HBAnyware has a “Beacon On” and “Beacon Off” radio

button on the diagnostics tab. SANsurfer FC HBA Manager uses the right-click on the HBA port

for the beacon function. The beacon function was visible on the diagnostics tab in HBAnyware, but

the QLogic software required a Help lookup to find the beacon function.

For many of the advanced functions, HBAnyware has a number of settings that can be changed

under the “Driver Parameters” tab including queue depth, coalesce response count, and many

others. HBAnyware provides a handy description of the feature and the range of allowable values,

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x HBAnyware HBA Driver Parameters

QLogic HBA Firmware Update Process

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