Dell Brocade Adapters User Manual
Brocade adapters, Installation and reference manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- About This Document
- In this chapter
- How this document is organized
- Supported adapter hardware and software
- Host operating system support for adapter drivers
- Host operating system support for HCM
- What’s new in this document
- Document conventions
- Notice to the reader
- Additional information
- Providing details for support
- Document feedback
- Product Overview
- Hardware Installation
- Software Installation
- In this chapter
- Introduction
- Installation notes
- Using the Brocade Adapter Software Installer
- Using software installation scripts and system commands
- Confirming driver package installation
- Verifying adapter installation
- Installing SNMP subagent
- Updating drivers with HCM
- Installing HCM to a host from the HCM Agent
- HCM Agent operations
- HCM configuration data
- Setting IP address and subnet mask on CNAs
- Boot Code
- In this chapter
- Boot support
- Boot code updates
- Network boot
- Boot over SAN
- Brocade BIOS support for boot over SAN
- Brocade UEFI support for boot over SAN
- Host system requirements for boot over SAN
- Storage system requirements for boot over SAN
- Disabling N_Port trunking
- Configuring boot over SAN
- Operating system and driver installation on boot LUNs
- Installing the full driver package on boot LUNs
- Fabric-based boot LUN discovery
- Boot systems over SAN without operating system or local drive
- Updating Windows driver on adapter used for boot over SAN
- Specifications
- Adapter Configuration
- MIB Reference
- List of Acronyms
- Index