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User’s Guide
Converged Network Adapter
8100 Series
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Information furnished in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications described in this document for any of these products are for illustrative purposes only.
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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. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters FCoE Network Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Hardware Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Boot Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Operating System Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Firmware . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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 Laun
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 7 Configuring FCoE in a Windows Environment Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1 Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1 Operation Mode (ZIO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4 Interrupt Delay Timer (IDT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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) . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 9 Offline Utilities Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1 Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2 Starting Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2 Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters List of Figures Figure Page i Illustration of Sample Motherboard and Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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:
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters 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 T
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User’s Guide Converged Network Adapter 8100 Series Adapters xviii FE0254601-00 A
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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
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Preface Intended Audience 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
