The first step in troubleshooting FC HBA issues is to check the status of the HBA and its ports. You can use various tools and commands to monitor the HBA status, such as the SAN Health utility, the fcinfo command, or the HBA vendor's management software. Log in to the VMware ESX host as the root user. To view the. I got my brocade switch attached to my fabric interconnects. But when I boot up my ucs blade I am not seeing that blades hbas showing up in the brocade switch any. Fibre Channel and Ethernet are two separate and incompatible technologies created to solve different problems. Fibre Channel protocol was originally created to connect computers to disk drives. QLogic and Emulex are the two leading producers of FC HBAs, and many HBA drivers are provided in-box with the operating systems. The interface type is divided into optical port and electrical port. Customer did not purchase FC switcher, during configuration, connect VTL6000 engine to FC host port of S2600 through optical fiber.