Users Guide

User’s Guide—Fibre Channel Adapter
QLE266x-DEL, QLE269x-DEL, QLE269xL-DEL, and QME26x2-DEL
v CU0354604-00 R
Setting Fibre Channel Adapter Parameters with Noninteractive
QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring Target Persistent Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring Persistent Binding with QConvergeConsole GUI. . . . . . . 44
Configuring Persistent Binding with Interactive QConvergeConsole CLI 44
Configuring Persistent Binding with Noninteractive QConvergeConsole CLI
45
Configuring Boot Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring Boot Devices with QConvergeConsole GUI. . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring Boot Devices with Interactive QConvergeConsole CLI . . 45
Configuring Boot Devices with Noninteractive QConvergeConsole CLI 46
Configuring Boot Devices with the BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring Virtual Ports (NPIV). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring NPIV with QConvergeConsole GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring NPIV with Interactive QConvergeConsole CLI. . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring NPIV with Noninteractive QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . 47
Configuring NPIV Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting QoS by Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting QoS by Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with QConvergeConsole GUI
53
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with Interactive
QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with Noninteractive
QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring Fibre Channel Driver Parameters with
QConvergeConsole VMware vCenter Server Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring Selective LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring OoOFR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring OoOFR with QCC GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring OoOFR with Interactive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring OoOFR with Noninteractive QCC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring the UEFI Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Setting Queue Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing the Windows Queue Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Changing the Linux Queue Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Changing the ESXi Queue Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Setting an FA-PWWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65