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52 Implementing Cisco InfiniBand on IBM BladeCenter
3. Uncomment the lines in the ics_srp.cfg file as shown in Figure 4-20 (at the bottom) and
update the information based on your desired configuration.
Figure 4-20 The ics_srp.cfg file
This creates a virtual Fibre Channel HBA (SRP initiator) on your system that
communicates through the specified SRP IO Controller on your Fibre Channel bridge
module. The following components are used in your config file:
– card: The HCA adapter that you want to use. 0 represents the first HCA on the PCI
bus.
– port: The HCA port that you want to use. 1 represents the first port on the HCA. In a
BladeCenter environment each port will only communicate with one switch module. For
example, in a BCH chassis InfiniBand HCA port 1 communicates with an InfiniBand
switch module in bay 7.
– targetIOCGUID: The SRP IOC of the IO Controller that you want to use
– initiatorExtension: A designation that will allow you to create multiple Virtual Fibre
Channel HBAs on the same InfiniBand HCA port.
4. Restart SRP on your system using the command ics_srp restart so that the new virtual
HBA configuration settings (ics_srp.cfg) are applied. This creates SRP initiators that you
can discover from your bridge module.
session
begin
card: 0
port: 1
targetIOCGuid: 0x00066a01e000018c
initiatorExtension: 1
end
adapter
begin
description: "ITSO HBA 1"
end