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6. Set up iSCSI HBA connections. See "Creating iSCSI connections (on page 185)."
7. Set up FC HBA connections. Two Fibre Channel connections exist for each set of horizontally adjacent
interconnect bays in the enclosure that contain VC-FC modules. For each connection, do the following:
a. Click the down arrow under FC SAN Name to select an available SAN.
b. Click the down arrow under Port Speed to select Auto, 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb, or Disabled for that
port. The default is Auto.
8. To modify the Fibre Channel boot parameters, select the Fibre Channel Boot Parameters check box
under the FC HBA connections. See "Fibre Channel boot parameters (on page 196)."
After selecting an item from the pull-down menu in the SAN Boot Setting column, you must click outside
the grid to complete the selection. This is the same procedure that is followed when selecting a fabric or
network for an FC or Ethernet connection, respectively. After the Boot Setting column has been
completed, you can edit the Target Port Name and LUN.
9. Set up FCoE HBA connections:
o Click on the down arrow under FC SAN/FCoE Network Name to select an available SAN or FCoE
network.
o Click on the Port speed to select 1, 2, 4, 8, Custom, Preferred, or Disabled for SAN connections or
Auto, Custom, Preferred, or Disabled for FCoE connections. The default is Preferred, and the Custom
option allows you to choose a value between 100Mb and 10Gb in 100Mb intervals.
For an FCoE network, if Auto is selected for the port speed, VCM determines the appropriate port
speed based on the available bandwidth for the port.
10. To modify the Fibre Channel boot parameters for booting over FCoE, select the Fibre Channel Boot
Parameters check box under the FCoE HBA connections. See "Fibre Channel boot parameters (on page
196)."
After selecting an item from the pull-down menu in the SAN Boot Setting column, you must click outside
the grid to complete the selection. This is the same procedure that is followed when selecting a fabric or
network for an FC or Ethernet connection. After the Boot Setting column has been completed, you can
edit the Target Port Name and LUN.
11. To assign the server profile to a device bay, click the down arrow next to Select Location to select an
enclosure and bay number. This step can be deferred.
If the VC domain is configured for double-dense server mode, and a profile is assigned to an empty
server bay, then a hot-plug installation of a single-dense server into that server bay results in the profile
not being activated. To recover the profile, unassign the profile, and then reassign it.
Be sure that the type of server blade in the bay, or planned for the bay, can support the configuration.
For example, not all server blades support FCoE connections.
If a server blade is present in the selected location, it must be powered off for the profile to be saved and
assigned properly.
For more information on server power requirements when assigning or removing server profiles, see
"Server profile troubleshooting (on page 271)."
Click Apply to save current changes and remain on this screen. Click Apply & Close to apply the
changes and go to the Server Profiles summary screen.
Creating FCoE HBA connections for a BL890c i4
Additional steps are necessary when a BL890c i4 is installed, and the enclosure has FCoE modules in bays
1 and 2. The figure below shows the first four connections created by default, plus four additional
connections that were added manually. The FCoE entries for I/O bays 1 and 2 (highlighted below) get