HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Application Notes - QLogic HBAs and the LeftHand SAN 20071223

QLogic iSCSI HBA guide for SAN/iQ

powered SANs

Initial iSCSI Setup of QLogic HBAs

Follow the recommendations in the QLogic Quick Start Guide covering the

iSCSI HBA installation, driver installation, and the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA

Management application.

It is always the recommendation to use the latest firmware, boot code, drivers

and SANsurfer application available from QLogic Support. The SANsurfer

GUI or iscli Command Line Interface (CLI) may be used to set the

following settings:

• KeepAliveTO (Keep Alive Time Out) from default 30 to 600 seconds.

Configure the HBA Global Keep Alive Time Out under HBA Options tab,

Firmware sub tab, under the Configured Firmware Values.

• Enable ARP Redirect (iscli 0 ¡Vn IPARP on)

• Note the default password to SANsurfer is config

Microsoft Windows 2003

LeftHand Networks does not support MPIO with the QLogic iSCSI HBA at

this time.

QLogic offers 3 types of drivers for Windows platforms: SCSI miniport, STOR

miniport, and NDIS.

The SCSI miniport or STOR miniport driver may be used. STOR miniport is

the new Windows driver architecture. The SCSI miniport driver model will be

retired after Windows 2008. These drivers support the QLogic iSCSI HBA as a

SCSI and RAID controller type of device. The NDIS driver allows the QLogic

iSCSI HBA to be used as a TCP offload network interface and will require that