Fabric Manager Users Guide, Version 6.1, Revision A - QLogic

1–Overview of the QLogic Fabric Manager Suite
QLogic Fabric Manager Interoperability
• Support for IB multicast, including MLID sharing, pre-creating groups, and
other fine tuning of multicast performance
• Advanced monitoring and logging capabilities to quickly react to fabric
changes and produce historical logs of changes and problems in the fabric
• Support for Virtual Fabrics with both QoS and partitioning capabilities
• Support for configuring and enabling adaptive routing in QLogic 12000
series switches
QLogic Fabric Manager Interoperability
The QLogic Fabric Manager supports many InfiniBand products in a fabric, and
may be used in a fabric that is running any of the following:
• QLogic core switch chassis
• QLogic edge switches, both internally and externally managed
• QLogic Host Channel Adapters
• QLogic Virtual IO Controllers (FVIC and EVIC)
• Other InfiniBand-compliant Host Channel Adapters and switches
• FastFabric
• Qlogic OFED+ with its assorted Upper Level Protocols (ULPs) and
applications
• 3rd Party Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications and middleware
The interoperability is seamless and requires no special configuration.
Terminology Clarification – “FM” vs. “SM”
In written documentation and verbal communication, there often arises confusion
between the terms “FM” and “SM”. In some cases they may seem synonymous,
while in others they denote distinct differences. Here are some guidelines for the
usage of the terms:
• In general, SM refers specifically to the Subnet Manager, while FM refers to
the QLogic Fabric Manager suite, consisting of SM/SA, PM/PA, BM, and
usually FE.
• When speaking of the product or set of running software processes, SM and
FM may be interchangeable, due to the fact that the software is bundled and
installed/operated together. Therefore, a phrase such as “start the SM”
means to start all of the FM processes.
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