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Table of Contents
Preface
What’s in This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Related Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Documentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
License Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Technical Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Knowledge Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Legal Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Laser Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
FDA Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Agency Certification
QLogic Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
EMI and EMC Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
CNS 13438: Class A (QLE8xxx). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
MIC: Class A (QLE81xx) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Product Safety Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Quick Start
Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Step 1. Verify the Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Step 2. Install the Adapter Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Step 3. Install the Adapter Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
Step 4. Install QConvergeConsole Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
1 Product Overview
What is a Converged Network Adapter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
What is Enhanced Ethernet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
What is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
QLogic Converged Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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FCoE Network Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Hardware Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Boot Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Operating System Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Management Tools and Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Adapter Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
2 Management Tools
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
QConvergeConsole Web Management GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
QConvergeConsole Management Agents (qlremote/netqlremote) . . . . . . . 2-2
QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Offline Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
3 Installation in a Windows Environment
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Operating Systems Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Server and Switch Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Cabling Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Other Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Downloading QLogic Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Installing Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Install the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Verify the Adapter Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Installing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Creating the Driver Disk or Extracting the Driver File into a Folder. . . 3-8
Identifying Unnamed Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Installing and Updating Drivers Using Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Installing the NIC Driver for Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Installing the FCoE Driver for Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Installing the NIC Driver for Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Installing the FCoE Driver for Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Installing and Updating Drivers Using the Windows SuperInstaller. . . 3-23
Downloading the Windows SuperInstaller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23
Initial Windows Server 2003 Installation with the Converged
Network Adapter as Boot Device (for FCoE Driver Only) . . . . 3-25
Initial Windows Server 2008 Installation with the Converged
Network Adapter as Boot Device (for FCoE Driver Only). . . . . 3-27
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Removing the Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
Verifying Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31
Firmware Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Obtaining the QLogic Firmware/Boot Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Determining the Installed Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Upgrading the Firmware/Boot Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36
Using QConvergeConsole GUI or QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . 3-36
Updating Firmware Using QLogic BIOS and UEFI Utilities . . . . 3-38
Installing Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38
Obtaining QLogic Adapter Management Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39
Installing and Launching the QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40
Installing and Launching the QConvergeConsole CLI. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
Standard Windows Interactive (CLI) Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
Quiet or Unattended Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
Passive Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46
Overwrite Previous Windows Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
Starting the QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
4 Installation in a Linux Environment
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Operating System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Server and Switch Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Cabling Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Other Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Installing Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Install the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Verify the Adapter Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Installing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Installing the FCoE Driver (qla2xxx) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Installing the FCoE Driver for RHEL 5.3 Boot-from-SAN . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Installing the Networking Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Verifying the Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Removing Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Firmware Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Obtaining the QLogic Firmware/Boot Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Determining the Installed Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
Displaying the Firmware Version Using the QConvergeConsole 4-22
Displaying the Firmware Version Using sysfs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
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Upgrading the Boot Code (Firmware) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Upgrading the Boot Code Using the QConvergeConsole GUI. . 4-24
Using QLogic BIOS and UEFI Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26
Management Tool Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26
Obtaining the QLogic Adapter Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
Installing and Launching QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28
Installing and Launching the QLogic Linux Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35
5 Installation in a VMware Environment
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Installing Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Installing the FCoE and Networking Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Verifying Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Validating Driver and Firmware Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Identifying QLogic Adapters Using vSphere Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Configuring NIC Using the vSphere Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Configuring the Driver Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
Configuring a Hard Drive in a Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Configuring a Network Adapter in a Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
Deploying NPIV for VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
Requirements for Using NPIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
Assigning WWNs to Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
6 Configuring NIC Functionality in the Converged Network Adapter
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Configuring the NIC in a Windows Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Managing the NIC Function with Windows Property pages . . . . . . . . 6-1
Managing the NIC Function with the QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . 6-3
NIC Driver Parameters (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Offload Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Receive Side Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Header Data Split (HDS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
NIC Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Switch Independent Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Switch Dependent Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Creating and Configuring a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
Deleting a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20
VLAN Tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21
Configuring VLAN Tagging Using the Adapter NIC Function . . . 6-21
Removing VLAN ID Assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
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PXE Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
Prerequisites for PXE Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
PXE Protocol Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27
Configuring the NIC in a Linux Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
NIC Driver Parameters (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
Modifying NIC Driver Parameters (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-31
Using modprobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-31
Using sysfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-34
Using ethtool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-35
Using ifconfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
Identifying the QLogic 8100 Adapter Network ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
Interrupt Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
Offload Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
NIC Bonding (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
Switch Independent Bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
Switch Dependent Bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
Bonding Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-42
Bonding Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-42
Loading the Bonding Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-45
Unloading the Bonding Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-46
Changing Bonding Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-46
Bonding Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-48
Verify the Bonding Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-50
Disabling a Bonding Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
VLAN Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-52
VLAN Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-52
Loading the VLAN 802.1q Kernel Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
Unloading the VLAN 802.1q Kernel Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
Configuring a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
Verify the VLAN configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
Disabling a VLAN interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-56
Creating a VLAN on a Bond Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-56
Wake On LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-57
PXE Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-57
Prerequisites for PXE Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
Setting the Client Servers BIOS Boot Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
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7 Configuring FCoE in a Windows Environment
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Operation Mode (ZIO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Interrupt Delay Timer (IDT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
N_Port ID Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
QLogic CNA NPIV Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
NPIV Deployment Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
Creating Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Verifying the Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
Deleting Virtual Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Verifying Deletion of Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Virtual Port Features and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Implementing Adapter-Based Quality of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Setting QoS by Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Boot from SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Boot-from-SAN Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Host/Server Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Converged Network Adapter Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
FCoE Switch Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
Storage Array Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
Boot-from-SAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
Boot-from-SAN Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
Single-Path Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
Multipath Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
Configuring an Adapter to Boot-from-SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
8 Configuring FCoE in a Linux Environment
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
FCoE Driver Parameters for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Configuring Driver Parameters Using modprobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
Making Nonpersistent Changes Using modprobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
Making Persistent Changes Using modprobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7
Configuring Driver Parameters Using sysfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Configuring FCoE Parameters Using QLogic Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
Configuring FCoE Driver Parameters Using QConvergeConsole. . . . 8-10
Configuring FCoE Driver Parameters Using Fast!UTIL. . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12
Displaying FCoE Driver Parameters Using sysfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
Identifying the SCSI Host ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
Displaying and Modifying sysfs Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21
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Online Storage Configuration and Reconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21
Adapter FCoE Performance Tuning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22
Operation Mode (ZIO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22
Interrupt Delay Timer (zio_timer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22
Queue Depth (qla2xmaxqdepth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23
N_Port ID Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23
QLogic CNA NPIV Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
NPIV Deployment Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
Creating Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25
Verifying the Creation of Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-26
Deleting Virtual Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
Differentiating Virtual Ports from Physical Ports in sysfs. . . . . . . . . . . 8-28
Boot-from-SAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29
Boot-from-SAN Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Host/Server Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Converged Network Adapter Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
FCoE Switch Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
Storage Array Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Boot-from-SAN Configuration Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Single-Path Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Multipath Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Configuring an Adapter to Boot-from-SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-35
Booting from SAN Using a LUN Other Than LUN 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40
Using the QLogic Linux Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41
Dynamic TGT-LUN Discovery Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42
Using the Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-43
HBA Collect Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47
Using the Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47
FC HBA Snapshot Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
Using the Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
FC HBA Change LUN State Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
Using the Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
Set Device Command Timeout Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-52
Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-53
Using the Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-53
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9 Offline Utilities
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1
Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Starting Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Adapter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Selectable Boot Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Restore Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Raw NVRAM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Advanced Adapter Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Scan Fibre Channel Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Fibre Disk Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Loopback Data Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Select Host Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Exit Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12
EFICFG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12
FlasUTIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Installing FlasUTIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Using FlasUTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Installing the Multi-boot Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
EFIUTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16
A Adapter Port LEDs
B Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Configuration
Enable FCoE on the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Create and Configure the VLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
Configure the Physical Ethernet Interface Switch Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
Create and Configure a Virtual Fibre Channel Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4
Verify that the Adapter Is Logged into the Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5
C Brocade CEE/FCoE Switch/Blade Configuration
Enable the Ethernet Switch Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2
Create and Configure FCoE VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-3
Create and Configure CEE-MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4
Configure LLDP/DCBX for FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-5
Configure CEE Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6
Verify that the Adapter is Logged into the Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-7
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1-1 Encapsulated Fibre Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
1-2 Combined SAN and LAN Function on One Converged Network Adapter . . . . . . . . 1-3
1-3 FCoE Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
1-4 8100 Series Adapter Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
1-5 Driver Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
3-1 Select an Adapter and a Windows Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
3-2 Download Drivers for Windows Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
3-3 Adapter Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
3-4 Drivers Command Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
3-5 Device Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
3-6 Sample QLogic Vendor IDs and Device IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
3-7 QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Device Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
3-8 Installing an NIC Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
3-9 Typical QLogic 8100 Series Ethernet Adapter Port Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
3-10 Updating an NIC Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
3-11 Starting the Hardware Update Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
3-12 Confirming the Ethernet Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
3-13 QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Device Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-14 Installing an FCoE Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-15 Typical QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Port Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-16 Updating an FCoE Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
3-17 Confirming the FCoE Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
3-18 QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Device Entries—Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
3-19 Installing an NIC Driver—Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3-20 Typical Ethernet Adapter Port Entries for Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3-21 Updating an NIC Driver for Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3-22 Starting the Update Driver Software Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
3-23 Select Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
3-24 QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Device Entries for Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
3-25 Installing an FCoE Driver for Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
3-26 Typical QLogic 8100 Series Adapter Port Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
3-27 Updating an FCoE Driver for Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
3-28 Starting the Update Driver Software Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
3-29 Select Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
3-30 Prompt to Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23
3-31 Select an Adapter and a Windows Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
3-32 Download the Windows SuperInstaller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
3-33 Specify Additional Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25
3-34 Insert Driver Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26
3-35 Select QLogic FCoE Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26
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3-36 Install Additional Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27
3-37 Windows Installation Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28
3-38 Windows Installation Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28
3-39 Insert the Driver Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
3-40 Select the Driver to Be Installed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
3-41 Select Disk/LUN on which to Install Windows 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
3-42 Confirming Port Classification and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31
3-43 Network Adapters and Storage Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32
3-44 NIC and FCoE Adapter Driver Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32
3-45 Select an Adapter and a Windows Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
3-46 Download the Multi-boot Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
3-47 Displaying the Adapter Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35
3-48 Displaying the Multi-boot Image Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36
3-49 QConvergeConsole—Update Entire Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-37
3-50 QConvergeConsole Download Selections (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39
3-51 Install the QConvergeConsole: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40
3-52 Install the QConvergeConsole: Install Tomcat on Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
3-53 Install the QConvergeConsole: Pre-Installation Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
3-54 Install the QConvergeConsole: Installation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
3-55 Install the QConvergeConsole: Enable SSL Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
3-56 Install the QConvergeConsole: Install Complete Notification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43
3-57 QConvergeConsole Main Window on the Server Where
QConvergeConsole Resides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
3-58 Entering QConvergeConsole Web Address (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
3-59 QConvergeConsole Main Window from a Remote Computer
—Unpopulated View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
4-1 Adapter Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
4-2 Drivers Command Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
4-3 Select an Adapter and a Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
4-4 Download the FCoE Adapter Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
4-5 Compiling the QLogic Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
4-6 Executing the build.sh Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
4-7 Select an Adapter and Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
4-8 Download the FC-FCoE DD-Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
4-9 RHEL 5.3 Boot Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
4-10 RHEL 5.3 Installer Boot Options Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
4-11 Select an Adapter and a Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
4-12 Download the Networking Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
4-13 Make Install Command Execution Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
4-14 Select an Adapter and a Linux Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
4-15 Download the Multi-boot Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
4-16 Displaying the Adapter Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23
4-17 Displaying the Adapter MPI Firmware Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
4-18 QConvergeConsole—Update Entire Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25
4-19 Download Linux Adapter Management Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
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4-20 Install the QConvergeConsole: Directory Containing Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28
4-21 Install the QConvergeConsole: Terminal Window—Verify Permission to Execute . 4-28
4-22 Install the QConvergeConsole: Run in Terminal Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28
4-23 Install the QConvergeConsole: Installer Extracts FIles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
4-24 Install the QConvergeConsole: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
4-25 Install the QConvergeConsole: Pre-Installation Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
4-26 Install the QConvergeConsole: Installation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31
4-27 Install the QConvergeConsole: Install Complete Notification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-32
4-28 QConvergeConsole Main Window on the Server Where
QConvergeConsole Resides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-33
4-29 Entering QConvergeConsole Web Address (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34
4-30 QConvergeConsole Main Window from a Remote Computer
—Unpopulated View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34
5-1 Adapter Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5-2 Select Adapter Software for VMware by Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
5-3 Placing the ESX Host Server in Maintenance Mode Using vSphere . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
5-4 Selecting the Summary Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
5-5 Selecting Browse Datastore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
5-6 Creating a Temporary Folder in Which to Store the Driver ISO Files. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-7 Opening the Temporary Driver Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-8 Uploading Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-9 Verifying Adapter Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
5-10 Displaying FCoE Adapter Driver Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
5-11 Displaying Networking Adapter Driver Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
5-12 Displaying Networking Driver and Firmware Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
5-13 Displaying Storage Adapters Using the vSphere Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
5-14 Displaying Network Adapters Using the vSphere Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
5-15 Configuring Networking Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
5-16 Add a Labeled Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
5-17 Selecting the Virtual Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
5-18 Modifying the Network Label and the VLAN ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
5-19 Exiting Maintenance Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
5-20 Selecting the Virtual Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
5-21 Virtual Machine Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
5-22 Add Hardware—Device Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
5-23 Add Hardware—Select a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
5-24 Add Hardware—Select Target LUN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
5-25 Add Hardware—Select Datastore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
5-26 Add Hardware—Compatibility Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
5-27 Add Hardware—Advanced Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
5-28 Add Hardware—Ready to Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23
5-29 Confirming the New Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23
5-30 Exiting Maintenance Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
5-31 Selecting the Virtual Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
5-32 Virtual Machine Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-25
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5-33 Add Hardware—Select Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
5-34 Add Hardware—Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
5-35 Add Hardware—Ready to Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27
5-36 Confirm New Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27
5-37 Selecting a Managed Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
5-38 Create New Virtual Machine—Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
5-39 Create New Virtual Machine—Select a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30
5-40 Create New Virtual Machine—Select Target LUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31
5-41 Create New Virtual Machine—Select Datastore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31
5-42 Create New Virtual Machine—Compatibility Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
5-43 Create New Virtual Machine—Ready to Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
5-44 Virtual Machine Properties—Generate New WWNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
5-45 Confirm Node and Port WWNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
6-1 Accessing Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6-2 Adapters Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
6-3 Main Interactive Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
6-4 Receive Side Scaling Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
6-5 Displaying RSS Status—Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6-6 Enabling RSS—Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6-7 Enabling RSS—Windows Advanced Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
6-8 Disable RSS—Windows 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
6-9 Disable RSS Per Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
6-10 Enabling or Disabling HDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
6-11 Host Level Info and Operations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
6-12 Confirm VLAN/Teaming Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
6-13 Creating a Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
6-14 Logical Interface—QLogic VT-IM Miniport Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
6-15 Deleting a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20
6-16 Host Level Info & Operations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
6-17 Installing VLAN Teaming Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
6-18 Adding a VLAN to a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
6-19 VLAN Local Area Connection Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
6-20 Removing VLAN ID Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
6-21 Boot Order in BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27
6-22 PXE Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
6-23 Example modprobe.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33
6-24 ethtool -k eth0 Command Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-35
6-25 udev Rule Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-36
6-26 Verify the MTU Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
6-27 Identify NIC Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
6-28 Verify NIC Driver qlge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
6-29 Device ID Soft Link Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
6-30 eth0 Interface Sample Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
6-31 Verifying that the Bonding Driver Is Loaded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-45
6-32 Loading the Bonding Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-46
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6-33 Examine the Bond0 Network Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-50
6-34 ifconfig Command Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
6-35 Verifying that the VLAN 802.1q Kernel Module Is Loaded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
6-36 Creating a Network Configuration File—VLAN Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
6-37 Verify the VLAN Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
6-38 PXE Flow Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-58
6-39 Boot Order in BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
7-1 N_Port ID Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
7-2 Select Port to Create a Virtual Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
7-3 Verifying Additional Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
7-4 Select Virtual Ports to Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
7-5 Priority and Bandwidth-Based QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
7-6 Single-Path Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
7-7 Multipath Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
7-8 Selectable Boot Settings Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
7-9 Driver Configuration Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23
7-10 Edit Boot Settings Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
8-1 Adding the Options Line to modprobe.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7
8-2 QConvergeConsole HBA Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
8-3 QConvergeConsole Advanced HBA Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12
8-4 Fast!UTIL Adapter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
8-5 Fast!UTIL Advanced Adapter Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
8-6 Locating QLogic 8100 Adapter PCI Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20
8-7 Identifying the Adapter Port PCI Device ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20
8-8 Identifying the SCSI Host ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21
8-9 N_Port ID Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
8-10 Displaying All Virtual Ports for Physical Port host4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
8-11 Comparing NPIV Physical and Virtual Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29
8-12 Single-Path Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
8-13 Multipath Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34
8-14 Selectable Boot Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36
8-15 Driver Configuration Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38
8-16 Edit Boot Settings Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39
8-17 Select Advanced Boot Loader Options RHEL 5 Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40
8-18 Select Advanced Boot Loader Options RHEL 5 Install step2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41
8-19 Dynamic TGT-LUN Discovery Utility Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44
8-20 HBA Collect Utility Execution Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47
8-21 FC HBA Change LUN State Utility Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-52
8-22 Set Device Command Timeout Utility Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-56
8-23 Select Target for HostX Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-57
8-24 Modify/Display Timeout Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-57
9-1 Fast!UTIL Startup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
9-2 Selecting an Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
9-3 Fast!UTIL Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
9-4 Adapter Settings Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
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9-5 Selectable Boot Setting Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
9-6 Select Fibre Channel Device Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
9-7 Advanced Adapter Settings Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
9-8 Disk Utility Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
9-9 FlasUTIL FW Upgrade In Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16
A-1 QLogic 8100 Series Adapter LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
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Table Page
1-1 QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
1-2 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
1-3 8100 Series Adapter Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
1-4 Software and Firmware Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
1-5 Physical and Electrical Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
1-6 Transceiver Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
1-7 FCoE Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
1-8 Ethernet Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
1-9 Management Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
4-1 QLogic Linux Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35
4-2 QLogic Linux Utility Directories and Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35
5-1 esxcfg-module Configurable Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
6-1 NIC Driver Parameters for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
6-2 NIC Driver Parameters for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
6-3 Sysfs Locations and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-34
6-4 Linux Bonding Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-42
7-1 Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7-2 Operation Mode Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
8-1 FCoE Driver Parameters for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
8-2 FCoE Driver Parameters that can be Modified with Sysfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
8-3 QConvergeConsole and Fast!UTIL Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
8-4 QConvergeConsole GUI FCoE Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
8-5 Fast!UTIL FCoE Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
8-6 sysfs FCoE Driver Parameters and File Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15
8-7 Operation Mode Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22
8-8 Unique Physical and Virtual Port sysfs Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28
8-9 QLogic Linux Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41
8-10 Dynamic TGT-LUN Discovery Utility Package Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42
8-11 TGT-LUN Discovery Utility Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-43
8-12 TGT-LUN Discovery Utility Tasks and Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44
8-13 Dynamic TGT-LUN Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45
8-14 Select Host to Scan Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45
8-15 HBA Collect Utility Package Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47
8-16 FC HBA Snapshot Utility Package Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
8-17 FC HBA Snapshot Utility Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-49
8-18 FC HBA Snapshot Utility Command Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-49
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8-19 FC HBA Change LUN State Utility Package Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
8-20 FC HBA Change LUN State Utility Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-51
8-21 HBA Change LUN State Utility Command Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-51
8-22 Set Device Command Timeout Utility Package Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-53
8-23 Set Device Command Timeout Utility Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-54
8-24 Set Device Command Timeout Utility Command Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-55
8-25 Set Device Command Timeout Utility Main Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-56
8-26 Select Target for HostX Menu Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-57
8-27 Modify/Display Timeout Menu Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-58
9-1 Adapter Setting Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
9-2 Selectable Boot Settings Window Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
9-3 Advanced Settings Window Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
9-4 FlasUTIL Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
A-1 Configuration Options for Virtual Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
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Preface
This guide provides detailed instructions on the installation, configuration, and
troubleshooting of QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter for
Windows
®
, Linux
®
, and VMware
®
. It also provides details on the use of QLogic
adapter features to enhance the value of server virtualization using VMware
ESX™/ESXi 4.0. Such features include virtual adapter configuration using N_Port
ID virtualization (NPIV) and boot-from-SAN configuration.
What’s in This Guide
This preface covers the intended audience, related materials, document
conventions used, license agreements, technical support, and legal notices. The
remainder of the guide is organized into the following sections and appendices:
Quick Start describes how to install and configure your new QLogic
Converged Network Adapter in four simple steps.
Section 1 provides an overview of the QLogic 8100 Series Converged
Network Adapter, including hardware components, software components,
and adapter specifications.
Section 2 describes the QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter
management tools, including the QConvergeConsole web management
interface, the server agent, QConvergeConsole Command Line Interface
(CLI), and CNA Networking CLI.
Section 3 describes how to install a QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter in a Windows environment, including system requirements,
hardware installation, driver installation, and software installation.
Section 4 describes how to install a QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter in a Linux environment, including system requirements, hardware
installation, driver installation, and software installation.
Section 5 describes how to install a QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter in VMware, including hardware installation, driver installation, and
software installation.
Section 6 describes the NIC parameters, management tools, and
configuration options for the QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter for a Windows environment and a Linux environment.
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Section 7 describes the characteristics, configurations, and features of the
QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter FCoE function for
Windows.
Section 8 describes the characteristics, configurations, and features of the
QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter FCoE function for Linux.
Section 9 describes offline adapter configuration and Flash programming
utilities with the adapter multi-boot code for advanced users.
Appendix A describes the QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter
Storage Traffic and Link/Ethernet Traffic port LEDs.
Appendix B describes the use of the Cisco
®
Nexus™ FCoE switch CLI to
configure the switch port as a virtual Fibre Channel port.
Appendix C describes the use of the Brocade
®
FCoE switch CLI to configure
the switch port as a virtual Fibre Channel port.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for those responsible for deploying QLogic Fibre Channel
and Converged Network Adapters on Windows, Linux, and VMware: users
ranging from end users, such as data center managers and system
administrators, to the test and development community.
Related Materials
For additional information, refer to the QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter Read Me and release notes files, available on the QLogic Web site:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
.
Documentation Conventions
This guide uses the following documentation conventions:
NOTE: provides additional information.
CAUTION!
indicates the presence of a hazard that has the potential of
causing damage to data or equipment.
WARNING!!
indicates the presence of a hazard that has the potential of
causing personal injury.
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Tex t in blue font indicates a hyperlink (jump) to a figure, table, or section in
this guide, and links to Web sites are shown in underlined blue
. For
example:
Table 9-2 lists problems related to the user interface and remote agent.
See “Installation Checklist” on page 3-6.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com
.
Tex t in bold font indicates user interface elements such as a menu items,
buttons, check boxes, or column headings. For example:
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click
Command Prompt.
Under Notification Options, select the Warning Alarms check box.
Tex t in Courier font indicates a file name, directory path, or command line
text. For example:
To return to the root directory from anywhere in the file structure:
Type
cd /root and press ENTER.
Enter the following command: sh ./install.bin
Key names and key strokes are indicated with UPPERCASE:
Press CTRL+P.
Press the UP ARROW key.
Tex t in italics indicates terms, emphasis, variables, or document titles. For
example:
For a complete listing of license agreements, refer to the QLogic
Software End User License Agreement.
What are shortcut keys?
To enter the date type mm/dd/yyyy (where mm is the month, dd is the
day, and yyyy is the year).
Topic titles between quotation marks identify related topics either within this
manual or in the online help, which is also referred to as the help system
throughout this document.
License Agreements
Refer to the QLogic Software End User License Agreement for a complete listing
of all license agreements affecting this product.
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Technical Support
Customers should contact their authorized maintenance provider for technical
support of their QLogic products. QLogic-direct customers may contact QLogic
Technical Support; others will be redirected to their authorized maintenance
provider.
Visit the QLogic support Web site listed in Contact Information for the latest
firmware and software updates.
QLogic Technical Support for products under warranty is available during local
standard working hours excluding QLogic Observed Holidays. For customers with
extended service, consult your plan for available hours.
For details about available service plans, or for information about renewing and
extending your service, visit the Service Program web page at
http://www.qlogic.com/services
.
Training
QLogic offers training for technical professionals for all iSCSI, Converged
Network, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel products. From the main QLogic web
page at www.qlogic.com
, click the Support tab at the top, then click the Training
and Certification on the left. The QLogic Global Training Portal offers online
courses, certification exams, and scheduling of in-person training.
Technical Certification courses include installation, maintenance, and
troubleshooting QLogic products. Upon demonstrating knowledge using live
equipment, QLogic awards a certificate identifying the student as a certified
professional. You can reach the training professionals at QLogic by e-mail at
training@qlogic.com
.
Contact Information
For Support phone numbers, see the Contact Support link at support.qlogic.com.
Support Headquarters
QLogic Corporation
4601 Dean Lakes Blvd.
Shakopee, MN 55379 USA
QLogic Web Site
www.qlogic.com
Technical Support Web Site
http://support.qlogic.com
Technical Support E-mail
support@qlogic.com
Technical Training E-mail
training@qlogic.com
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Knowledge Database
The QLogic knowledge database is an extensive collection of QLogic product
information that you can search for specific solutions. We are constantly adding to
the collection of information in our database to provide answers to your most
urgent questions. Access the database from the QLogic Support Center:
http://support.qlogic.com
.
Legal Notices
Warranty
For warranty details, please check the QLogic Web site at
http://www.qlogic.com/Support/warranty.aspx
.
Laser Safety
FDA Notice
This product complies with DHHS Rules 21CFR Chapter I, Subchapter J. This
product has been designed and manufactured according to IEC60825-1 on the
safety label of laser product.
Class 1 Laser Product Caution—Class 1 laser radiation when open
Appareil laser de classe 1 Do not view directly with optical instruments
Produkt der Laser Klasse 1
Luokan 1 Laserlaite Attention—Radiation laser de classe 1
Ne pas regarder directement avec des instruments
optiques Vorsicht—Laserstrahlung der Klasse 1
bei geöffneter Abdeckung
Direktes Ansehen mit optischen Instrumenten
vermeiden
Varoitus—Luokan 1 lasersäteilyä, kun laite on auki
Älä katso suoraan laitteeseen käyttämällä optisia
instrumenttej
Agency Certification
QLogic Adapters
The following sections contain a summary of EMC/EMI test specifications
performed on the QLogic adapters to comply with radiated emission, radiated
immunity, and product safety standards.
CLASS I LASER
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EMI and EMC Requirements
FCC Part 15 compliance: Class A (QLE8xxx) FCC compliance
information statement: This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause
harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired operation.
ICES-003 compliance: Class A (QLE8xxx) This Class A digital apparatus
complies with Canadian ICES-003.Cet appareil numériqué de la classe A est
conformé à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
CE Mark 2004/108/EC EMC Directive compliance:
EN55022:2006+A1:2007/CISPR22:2006: Class A (QLE8xxx)
EN55024:1998
EN61000-3-2: Harmonic Current Emission
EN61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuation and Flicker
Immunity Standards
EN61000-4-2: ESD
EN61000-4-3: RF Electro Magnetic Field
EN61000-4-4: Fast Transient/Burst
EN61000-4-5: Fast Surge Common/ Differential
EN61000-4-6: RF Conducted Susceptibility
EN61000-4-8: Power Frequency Magnetic Field
EN61000-4-11: Voltage Dips and Interrupt
VCCI: 2009-04 Class A (QLE8xxx)
AS/NZS CISPR22: Class A (QLE8xxx)
CNS 13438: Class A (QLE8xxx)
This is a Class A product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio
interference, in which case, the user may be required to take adequate measures.
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MIC: Class A (QLE81xx)
Korea MIC Class
Korean KCC:
KN22 KN24(08.05.19) Class A (QLE81xx)
Korea Class A Certified
Product Name/Model Fibre Channel Adapter
Certification holder—QLogic Corporation
Manufactured date—Refer to date code listed on product
Manufacturer/Country of origin QLogic Corporation/USA
Korean Language Format— Class A
Product Safety Compliance
UL, cUL product safety: QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter
UL60950-1 (2
nd
Edition), 2007-03-3-27
UL CSA C22.2 60950-1-07 (2nd Edition)
Use only with listed ITE or equivalent.
Complies with 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11.
2006/95/EC low voltage directive: QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network
Adapter
TUV:
EN60950-1:2006+A11 2nd Edition
EN60825-1:1994+A1+A2
EN60825-2:2004+A1
IEC60950-1 2nd Edition (2005) CB
CB Certified to IEC 60950-1 2nd Edition
A class equipment
(Business purpose info/telecommunica-
tions equipment)
As this equipment has undergone EMC registration for
business purpose, the seller and/or the buyer is asked
to beware of this point and in case a wrongful sale or
purchase has been made, it is asked that a change to
household use be made.
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Quick Start
Installation Instructions
This Quick Start section describes how to install and configure your new QLogic
Converged Network Adapter in four simple steps:
Step 1. Verify the Package Contents.
Step 2. Install the Adapter Hardware.
Step 3. Install the Adapter Drivers.
Step 4. Install QConvergeConsole Management Tools.
Step 1. Verify the Package Contents
The QLogic adapter is shipped with the following items:
Low-profile bracket.
Step 2. Install the Adapter Hardware
To install the adapter hardware, you need to open the computer and locate the
appropriate bus slot. If necessary, consult your computer system manual for
instructions to remove the computer cover.
Follow these steps to install the adapter hardware:
1. Power off the computer and all attached devices such as monitors, printers,
and external components.
2. Disconnect the power cable.
3. Remove the computer cover and find an empty PCIe x8 or larger bus slot.
CAUTION!
Keep the adapter in the antistatic bag until installation. The adapter contains
parts that can be damaged by electrostatic discharge (ESD). Before
handling the adapter, use standard methods to discharge static electricity.
Place the adapter on the bag when examining it. Retain the bag for future
use.
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4. Pull out the slot cover (if any) by removing the screw or releasing the lever.
5. Install the low-profile bracket (if required).
6. Grasp the adapter by the top edge and seat it firmly into the appropriate slot
(see the illustration below).
7. Refasten the adapter’s retaining bracket using the existing screw or lever.
8. Close the computer cover.
9. Plug the appropriate Ethernet cable (either copper or optical) into the
adapter.
Optical models ship with optical transceivers already installed. 8100
Series Adapters will only operate with optical transceivers sold by
QLogic.
For copper connectivity, see the list of approved copper cables on
QLogic's Web site:
http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/Documents/LineCards/Copper_Cabl
es_Support_Matrix_Line_Card.pdf
10. Plug in the power cable and turn on the computer.
Figure i Illustration of Sample Motherboard and Slots
Step 3. Install the Adapter Drivers
To install the FCoE and Ethernet drivers:
1. Go to the QLogic Driver Downloads/Documentation page at
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
.
2. Click QLogic Products.
3. From the table at the bottom of the page, select Converged Network
Adapters, the appropriate adapter model, and your operating system, and
then click Go. The product download page opens.
ADAPTER RETAINING
BRACKET
LEVER
SLOT COVERS
SYSTEM
CHASSIS
PCI EXPRESS X8 SLOT
REQUIRED FOR
QLOGIC ADAPTERS
SCREW
ADAPTER
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4. On the download page under Drivers, select the appropriate driver and
download it to your system.
5. Follow the instructions provided in the driver read me file for installing the
downloaded driver.
Step 4. Install QConvergeConsole Management
Tools
To install the QConvergeConsole web management interface:
1. Go to the QLogic Driver Downloads/Documentation page at
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com.
2. From the table at the bottom of the page, select Converged Network
Adapters, the appropriate adapter model, and your operating system, and
then click Go. The product download page opens.
3. On the download page under Management Tools, select
QConvergeConsole and download it to your system.
4. Follow the instructions
in the QConvergeConsole read me file for installing the
downloaded software.
Additional Resources
To obtain the most current drivers, management tools, user instructions, and
documentation, please visit the QLogic Web site at
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
and download the latest versions.
See What’s in This Guide for descriptions of user instructions provided in
this manual.
For descriptions and procedures related to QConvergeConsole, use the
built-in help system.
The following sections contain additional information about the QLogic adapter,
the warranty, and laser safety information.
Quick Start
Additional Resources
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