Administrator Guide

Congure Emulex HBA Settings

Congure Emulex HBA settings to enable the HBA to communicate more eectively with the Storage Center. Congure Emulex HBA

settings with the Emulex HBAnywhere utility or the Emulex LightPulse BIOS. After conguring the settings based on the manufacturer of

the HBA, congure the settings that apply to the operating system running on the server.

Congure an Emulex HBA to match the following settings:

Table 22. Emulex HBA Settings

Field Setting

NodeTimeOut 60

QueueDepth 255

Topology Value that provides Point-to-Point

QLogic HBAs

Qlogic manufactures HBAs that are compatible with Storage Centers.

NOTE: For more information regarding the compatibility of an HBAs, see the Dell EMC Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS

Series Arrays. For more information about QLogic, see www.qlogic.com

Congure QLogic HBA Settings

Congure QLogic HBA settings to enable the HBA to communicate more eectively with the Storage Center. The following settings can be

congured on any of the compatible QLogic HBAs from the QLogic Fast!UTIL BIOS or the QLogic SANsurfer. After conguring the settings

based on the manufacturer of the HBA, congure the settings that apply to the operating system running on the server.

QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs

Congure a QLogic Fibre Channel HBA to match the following settings:

Table 23. Fibre Channel HBA Settings

Field Settings

Connection options 1 for point-to-point only

Port down retry count 60 attempts

Link down timeout 30 seconds

Execution Throttle 256

QLogic iSCSI HBAs

Congure a QLogic iSCSI HBA to match the following settings:

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HBA Server Settings