Emulex VMWARE LP21000 - Manual (Page 15)

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Unified management of Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs and CNAs
• VPort monitoring and configuration
• Online boot from SAN configuration
• On-line WWN management
• Flexible, customizable reporting capability
The availability of graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI) options provides greater
flexibility with HBAnyware. The application is available for a broad set of operating systems including Linux,
Windows, Solaris and VMware ESX platforms and supports cross-platform SANs. Some of the highly valued
capabilities of HBAnyware that make it more attractive for enterprise scalability and high availability are
firmware management, with the ability to update or “flash” firmware without having to bring down the CNA
or HBA, and the ability to flash a set of adapters on remote servers with just a few mouse clicks.
Figure 15: HBAnyware 4.0 common Management Application for HBAs and CNAs that can be local or remote
Of additional value for data center management is the common driver architecture where the same driver
can be used with all generations of Emulex HBAs and CNAs. This reduces driver update errors and
simplifies administration.
The benefits of LP21000 CNA management that are provided with HBAnyware and the Emulex common
driver architecture enable existing data centers to seamlessly extend their Fibre Channel management
processes to FCoE attached servers, facilitating efficiency in a multiprotocol, multi-operating system
enterprise SAN. HBAnyware also provides functions for assigning bandwidth for individual traffic types by
apportioning bandwidth assignments for each priority group as shown in Figure 15.