Can I use Brocade SPFs on my apple HBAs or do I have to buy SPFs through apple?

I just got two shiny new HBAs so that I can connect them to the EMC SAN. Unfortunately I didn't know about the SPFs not being included and that they would be anything other than optical.

I need to get this project started no to reach my deadline.
Could I simply "recover" a few SPFs from my Brocade switch until we get the official ones form applE?

• Asked by Gcc A from Glendale
• May 14, 2012
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will this card work for an older xraid

I want to upgrade the mac that I have to run final cut pro server - it is not an intel mac hence the upgrade - I need to know if I will be able to use my old XRaid as the raid 5 storage for this intel mac for FCP server with this fiber card in it, the mac I have currently running the xraid is a pci-x buss mac and the cards won't swap, and will the raid admin software run on the intel mac - it is a Mac Pro, dual core intel Xeon 3 Ghz - or is there another way to do this.
thanks in advance
tim ivy

• Asked by J. I from Williamsburg
• Dec 15, 2009
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can i use a fibre channel pci card in a macbook pro?

• Asked by Simon M from London
• Jun 29, 2010
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Can this Card be configured to work as a Network Interface let's say with a FibreChannel Switch?

• Asked by Ludwig W
• Dec 10, 2009
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I have a Mac Pro Raid Card fitted, can I add the Apple Dual-Channel 4Gb Fibre PCI-Express card as well ?

AppleMacPro Server One 2.80GHz Quad-Core/8GB/4x2TB fitted with Apple Mac Pro Raid Card, I want to connect to a Promise VTrak E-Class 8x SATA RAID Subsystem (TV272ZM). I assume I need a Apple Dual-Channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express Card (MB842G/A). Is there a free slot in the machine to allow me to have both cards fitted at the same time.

• Asked by Dave B from Didcot
• May 3, 2011
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Can the Apple Dual-Channel 4Gb Cards from the PowerMac G5's be used on the Mac Pros and vice versa?

The new cards seems to look like the older Powermac G5 cards. Are the old and new interchangeable from PowerMac to Mac Pro and vice versa?"

• Asked by Stacey B from Montreal
• Nov 8, 2009
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Can someone explain in simple language what a Channel 4GB fibre channel PCI-Express card is?

Hello,

For all us "common folk", would someone be so kind as to explain what this item is used for? Is it some form of of superfast VCR but for computers?

Thanks,
Stacey Bindman
Montreal,Quebec

• Asked by Stacey B from Montreal
• Oct 26, 2009
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Can anyone recommend brands and/or manufacturers of optical transceivers that they have used with the Apple Fiber Channel cards?

I do not see in the Apple documentation any qualified transceivers for using a fiber switch.

• Asked by Brad G from Santa Clara
• May 18, 2010
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Can the Apple Dual-Channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card be used to directly connect to raid array without a fibre switch and use xsan.

• Asked by Hector M from Galt
• Sep 16, 2010
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Can someone please tell me what is the benefits of using just one of the 4gb plugs instead of both? right now at my job everyone is using just one?

everyone at my job has mac pros with the fiber cards installed in them but everyone is only using one of the two fiber plugs on the card? is there a benefit to using both of the plugs? just please explain it to me if it would be worth it to have both fiber plugs in use or if one will do it? i work for television network and we transfer a lot of data back and fourth mostly graphics videos and audio?

• Asked by Eric S from Baton Rouge
• May 11, 2010
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