Re: Support for QLogic FC HBA

So, it can work....

What software did you use to configure your SAN?

I am considering a direct-connect (for now) pe7150 - 660F configuration, 
and I don't have experience configuring these things.

Can you connect a PC running Windows to configure the 660F (or update 
firmware, etc).  As I understand it, the 660F can have two hosts on the 
direct connect.


On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 04:20 PM, Fernando Ortiz wrote:

> Here we have a PE7150 with RH7.1 (System tag 4716211) connected with a
> PowerVault 650F (System tag 4B21211) thru FC Qlogic.
>
> It's still in testing due to lack of Informix port of the Database. 
> That's
> why I only have filesystems om the array but so far so good, no errors 
> nor
> corruption detected.
>
> As soon as the Informix port is available I will also test raw I/O 
> access to
> the PV650F.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mackey" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Support for QLogic FC HBA
>
>
>> Thanks for your reply Matt.
>>
>> I am the principal investigator on a research project which will use
>> this new server.
>>
>> I understand that Dell isn't supporting the PowerVault 660F and the
>> QLogic QLA2200A for the PE7150 running Linux, but I am thinking of the
>> future growth of our datacenter, and current (as well as future) costs
>> to maintain our systems.
>>
>> If I were to purchase the 660F and associated controllers, with the 
>> idea
>> that possible instabilities of the controller would be temporary (and
>> without any guarantees from you), would I still be able to manage the
> 660F?
>>
>> I have some experience dealing with such problems, as I developed
>> systems using Alpha Linux during the period of time when Linux wasn't
>> stable on that platform.
>>
>> So, I am trying to find out if it is even possible to manage a
>> direct-connect (for now) 7150-660F system, even with a buggy driver.
>> Don't I need software to manage the 660F?
>>
>> I have used hardware RAID systems before (specifically, an HSZ40
>> controller on an DEC AlphaServer), but I have no experience with SAN's.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Dose anyone know if the QLogic QLA2200F card is supported by
>>>> ia64 linux?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, Red Hat Linux 7.2 for Itanium has a driver for this card, 
>>> though I
>>> can't recommend using the driver included there.  I don't consider it
> stable
>>> enough to trust my data to it.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Qlogic has new driver source code on its web site (all written in C);
>>>> will this code compile and work correctly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since uncovering a number of problems with the qla2x00 driver, 
>>> (Itanium
> was
>>> good at bringing problems to light), Red Hat, Dell, and EMC have been
>>> working closely with QLogic to improve their device driver so that it
> works
>>> well on x86 and ia64 platforms.  The driver that's currently posted to
> their
>>> site is v6.00 beta 20, which includes a lot of that cleanup work.
> However,
>>> being "beta" status, and as such has not passed anyone's rigorous
> testing
>>> process yet, Dell can't recommend its use on production systems yet.
> Once
>>> the driver work is complete and has passed QLogic/Dell/EMC/Red Hat
> testing,
>>> then we will be happy to recommend that solution.  The EMC Support
> Matrix
>>>
> http://www.emc.com/horizontal/interoperability/interop_support_matrices.jsp,
>>> updated monthly, is what our salespeople use to know when a particular
>>> solution has been tested and can be recommended.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am purchasing a Dell 7150 server and am considering an FC
>>>> storage system.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Excellent hardware choice.  :-)  At present Dell doesn't offer an FC
> storage
>>> system on a PE7150 running Linux for the reasons outlined above.  We'd
> be
>>> happy to sell you PowerVault 2xxs and PERC 3/QC RAID cards for direct
>>> attached SCSI storage though.  Your salesperson can give you 
>>> additional
>>> details.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matt Domsch
>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>> Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
>>> Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
>>> #1 US Linux Server provider for 2001!
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Prof. Michael A. Mackey ([email protected])
>> Biomedical Engineering / Radiology
>> University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
>> Voice: 319-335-6058 Fax: 319-335-5631
>
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