Users Guide

User’s Guide—Converged Network Adapter
QMD8262-k, QLE8262, QME8262-k
v CU0354602-00 M
Installing the QConvergeConsole VMware vCenter Server Plug-in . . 35
Installation Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
QConvergeConsole VMware vCenter Server
Plug-in Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Plug-in Unregistration from a Manual Install. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling and Disabling the Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Uninstalling the QConvergeConsole VMware
vCenter Server Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the QLogic Adapter CIM Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Uninstalling the QLogic Adapter CIM Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing the vSphere Web Client Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Uninstalling the vSphere Web Client Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3 Adapter Management Applications
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
General Management with QConvergeConsole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring the NIC Driver with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring iSCSI with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring FCoE with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring iSCSI Offload with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Adapter-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying Adapter-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Modifying Adapter-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Port-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Displaying Port-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Modifying Port-Level iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Summary of Target Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Target Session-Level iSCSI Negotiated Parameters . . . . . . . . . 59
Target Session-Level Persistent iSCSI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 60
Configuring iSCSI Initiators with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Configuring the Windows iSCSI Initiator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Configuring the Linux iSCSI Initiator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring the ESX iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Enabling CHAP Authentication with QConvergeConsole . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuring CHAP with QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Linking to a CHAP Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Windows Management Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Windows NIC Driver Management Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72