Supported Fiber HBA - Current or Future

[reinhardtjh]

> VSI is planning on supporting VMDirectPath for Fiber Channel at some point.
> I am curious about the card and/or driver.

The "support" won't require any changes to VMS; we're in the process of testing it now; results look good!

The adapters that we're testing are the 16Gb/sec Qlogic QL2692 and a 32 Gb/sec adapter whose HPE part number is
SN1600Q.

We already support the QL2692 on IA64 systems.

For now, the focus is on QLogic where the VMS driver is currently running on 8/16/32Gb QLogic HBAs.

Paul A. Jacobi
VMS Software

Would the 8GB fiber include the QLogic QLE2500 series?

[roberbrooks]

This is from an Alpha V8.4-2L2 system (EISNER)

This is a shared file across all architectures; we only support
Emulex fibre on Alpha.

$ sea sys$system:sys$config.dat qlogic
device = "Qlogic ISP1020 SCSI-2"
device = "Qlogic ISP1080 Ultra2"
device = "Qlogic ISP12160 Ultra160"
device = "Qlogic ISP2312 Fibre"
device = "Qlogic ISP2422 Fibre"
device = "Qlogic ISP2432 PCIe Fibre"
device = "Qlogic ISP2532 PCIe Fibre"
device = "QLogic EP2422 Fibre"
device = "QLogic ISP2660 PCIe Fibre"

[reinhardtjh]

Thanks Rob. I should have looked there to begin with.

The list from x86 is about the same as the Alpha. I see Integrity list is a little shorter. Both support the ISP2532 chip so my QLE2562's should be okay in both x86 and Integrity.

x86:

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device          = "Qlogic ISP1020 SCSI-2"
device          = "Qlogic ISP1080 Ultra2"
device          = "Qlogic ISP12160 Ultra160"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2312 Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2422 Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2432 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2532 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "QLogic EP2422 Fibre"
device          = "QLogic ISP2660 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "QLogic ISP2692 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "QLogic ISP2692 PCI Fibre"

Integrity:

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device          = "Qlogic ISP1020 SCSI-2"
device          = "Qlogic ISP1080 Ultra2"
device          = "Qlogic ISP12160 Ultra160"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2312 Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2422 Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2432 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "Qlogic ISP2532 PCIe Fibre"
device          = "QLogic EP2422 Fibre"
device          = "QLogic ISP2660 PCIe Fibre"

[mberryman]

I have a 2564 in my system (which is simply two 2532s in one card). I have not tried to boot from it but I have had no trouble running all data disks from it.

[reinhardtjh]

I have a 2564 in my system (which is simply two 2532s in one card). I have not tried to boot from it but I have had no trouble running all data disks from it.

Thanks Mark! I don't know if I would boot from mine either. I have one in my RX2660 and then the Intel NUC that is the ESXi host has one. Hopefully the Virtual FC support works for that when it comes.

[pjacobi]

The exact list of supported QLogic Fibre Channel adapters has not been determined.

For 8Gb QLogic Fibre Channel adapters, find the existing entry in SYS$CONFIG.DAT. Duplicate the entry but change the Bus parameter from PCIE to PCI. VMware presents physical PCIE passthrough adapter as virtual PCI adapters inside the VM. Of course, this is totally unsupported since testing and qualification has not been completed.

Paul A. Jacobi
VMS Software