- 16 Gbps Fiber Channel
- Over 500,000 IOPS per port
- Fabric Assigned World Wide Name (FA-WWN)
- Boot-from-SAN
- Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO)
- Direct I/O
- Brocade Network Advisor
- Brocade Diagnostics (D-Port)
- LUN masking
- Target Rate Limiting (TRL)
The Brocade 16 Gb Fiber Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) for IBM System x are part of a family of high-performance FC HBA solutions. These HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of servers, storage, and SANs.
Brocade 16Gb FC HBAs enhance availability via a unified driver with integrated firmware and simplified broadcast of driver updates across the fabric, including a proactive driver/firmware check of version levels to ensure synchronization. Fabric boot LUN discovery allows a server to boot-from-SAN, simplifying startup and reducing image management complexity. Fabric Assigned World Wide Name (FA-WWN) auto-assigns the switch port WWN upon install, simplifying server deployment and ongoing management.