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Emulex HBAnyware Software Evaluation

January 2007

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Summary and Conclusion

Although both Emulex HBAnyware and QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager provide a full set of

management functions for their respective HBAs, we found the HBAnyware interface to be easier

to use, more intuitive, and required fewer steps to perform some functions. We liked the logging of

firmware updates and diagnostic tests, and organizing firmware updates by host. We found toggling

between the host and fabric views of HBAnyware very handy when taking a larger look at the SAN

fabric.

We found that the Emulex HBAnyware design lends itself to scaling out to large environments

well, and that many of the functions were designed with installation and management of large

numbers of HBAs in mind, so that some tasks would not have to manually repeated for each HBA.

For example, all appropriate HBAs can be selected automatically for a given firmware update.

We have summarized a few of our findings in the table below.

Emulex HBAnyware QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager

Combined driver and management

software installation

Yes No

Total number of steps to install 2 10

Total number of steps to discover HBAs 1 6x number of HBAs

In-band discovery Yes No

Out-of-band discovery Yes Yes

Host view of HBAs Yes Yes

Fabric view of HBAs Yes No

Firmware update without server reboot Yes No, for some functions

Batch mode selection of all HBAs for

firmware update

Yes No

Batch mode selection of all HBAs for driver

parameter update

Yes No

Description and value range of HBA driver

parameters

Yes No

HBA beaconing Yes Yes

Online, HBA POST Yes No

HBA driver/firmware diagnostic dump Yes No

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