Users Guide

8–VMware Driver Software
iSCSI Support
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Installation Check
To verify the correct installation of the driver and to ensure that the host port is
seen by the switch, follow these steps.
To verify the correct installation of the driver:
1. Verify that the host port shows up in the switch fabric login (FLOGI)
database by issuing the one of the following commands:
show flogi database (for a Cisco FCF)
fcoe -loginshow (for a Brocade FCF)
2. If the host WWPN does not appear in the FLOGI database, provide driver
log messages for review.
Limitations
FCoE support has the following limitations:
 NPIV is not currently supported on ESXi with dependent hardware solutions,
due to dependencies on supporting (libfc, libfcoe) components and modules.
 Non-offload FCoE is not supported with offload-capable QLogic devices.
Only the full hardware offload path is supported.
iSCSI Support
QLogic provides the bnx2i driver to support iSCSI. The QLogic BCM57xx and
BCM57xxx iSCSI driver, bnx2i, is a QLogic VMware iSCSI Host Bus Adapter
driver. Similar to bnx2fc, bnx2i is a kernel mode driver used to provide a
translation layer between the VMware SCSI stack and the QLogic iSCSI firmware
and hardware. The bnx2i functions under the Open-iSCSI framework.
VLAN Configuration for iSCSI Offload (VMware)
iSCSI traffic on the network may be isolated in a VLAN to segregate it from other
traffic. When this is the case, you must make the iSCSI interface on the adapter a
member of that VLAN.
To configure the VLAN using the V-Sphere client (GUI):
1. Select the ESXi host.
2. Click the Configuration tab.
3. On the Configuration page, select the Networking link, and then click
Properties.
4. On the selected vSwitch Properties, Ports page, click the virtual switch or
port groups, and then click Edit.