Re: Support for QLogic FC HBA

We have a windoze box (PE1550) in the same rack, with Dell Open Manage or
Clariion Navisphere you can configure the luns thru serial port or HBA FC
card.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Mackey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: 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]>
> >> 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
> >>>
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> >>> Sr. Software Engineer
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> >>>
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