User`s guide

FC0054609-00 B vii
User’s Guide—Fibre Channel Adapter
2600 Series
Target Persistent Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Configuring Persistent Binding with the QCC GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Configuring Persistent Binding with the Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . 3-5
Configuring Persistent Binding with the Noninteractive QCC CLI . . . . 3-5
Boot Devices Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Configuring Boot Devices with the QCC GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Configuring Boot Devices with the Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Configuring Boot Devices with the Noninteractive QCC CLI. . . . . . . . 3-6
Configuring Boot Devices with the BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Virtual Ports (NPIV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Configuring NPIV with the QCC GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Configuring NPIV with the Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Configuring NPIV with the Noninteractive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
NPIV Quality of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Setting QoS by Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Setting QoS by Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with the QCC GUI. . . . 3-12
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with the
Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with the
Noninteractive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with the QLogic
QConvergeConsole Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Selective LUNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Out-of-Order Frame Reassembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Configuring OoOFR with the QCC GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Configuring OoOFR with the Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Configuring OoOFR with the Noninteractive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Personality Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Fibre Channel Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Fibre Channel Diagnostics Using the QCC GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Fibre Channel Diagnostics Using the Interactive QCC CLI . . . . 3-16
Fibre Channel Diagnostics Using the Noninteractive
QCC CLI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Fibre Channel Troubleshooting Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17