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FC680i Mezz Network Adapter

User Guide

New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
https://www.h3c.com/en/

Document version: 6W100-20230205

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Page 1: ...FC680i Mezz Network Adapter User Guide New H3C Technologies Co Ltd https www h3c com en Document version 6W100 20230205...

Page 2: ...espective owners Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice All contents in this document including statements information and recommendations are believed to be accur...

Page 3: ...hat are optional x y Braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical bars from which you select one x y Square brackets enclose a set of optional syntax choices separated by vert...

Page 4: ...s a Layer 2 or Layer 3 switch or a router that supports Layer 2 forwarding and other Layer 2 features Represents an access controller a unified wired WLAN module or the access controller engine on a u...

Page 5: ...Documentation feedback You can e mail your comments about product documentation to info h3c com We appreciate your comments...

Page 6: ...ers and ICM compatibility 1 Network adapter and ICM interconnection 2 Networking applications 4 Configuring the network adapter 0 Viewing mapping relations between network adapter ports and ICM ports...

Page 7: ...ESD prevention Electrostatic charges that build up on people and other conductors might damage or shorten the lifespan of the network adapter Preventing electrostatic discharge To prevent electrostat...

Page 8: ...using PCIe x8 channels and uses the two 16G KR ports to connect to the ICMs through the mid plane It supports applications such as FC SAN FC Boot and NPIV Network adapter view The view of the network...

Page 9: ...25 05 61 60 95 00 mm 0 99 2 43 3 74 in Weight 100 g 3 53 oz Environment parameters Temperature Operating 5 C to 45 C 41 F to 113 F Storage 40 C to 70 C 40 F to 158 F Humidity Operating 8 RH to 90 RH...

Page 10: ...he FC680i network adapter supports FC Boot FC Boot is an extension of FC SAN It enables users to start an operating system from a remote storage device through FC NICs and SAN provided that the operat...

Page 11: ...lade servers Blade server model Blade server type Network adapter slots Applicable slots H3C UniServer B5700 G3 2 processor half width 3 Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 H3C UniServer B5800 G3 2 processor full width...

Page 12: ...ositions on a 2 processor full width blade server Figure 4 Network adapter installation positions on a 4 processor full width blade server Compatible ICMs Network adapters and ICM compatibility The ne...

Page 13: ...in slots 1 and 4 Network adapter in Mezz2 is connected to ICMs in slots 2 and 5 Network adapter in Mezz3 is connected to ICMs in slots 3 and 6 Figure 5 Network adapter and ICM mapping relations 2 proc...

Page 14: ...igure 6 Network adapter and ICM mapping relations 4 processor full width blade server Figure 7 ICM slots Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 Mezz4 Mezz5 Mezz6 1 4 2 3 5 6 1 2 LOM P1 LOM P2 Blade ICM Mid plane OM Embedd...

Page 15: ...ort 16G FC service applications and the external ports are connected to the FC SAN to provide storage network access for the blade server on which the network adapter resides Figure 8 Mezzanine networ...

Page 16: ...her a network adapter port has been identified in the operating system It uses CentOS 7 4 and Windows Server 2012 R2 as examples Linux operating system 1 Execute the lspci grep ISP2722 command to view...

Page 17: ...t driver and then try again For more information about driver installation see Installing andor uninstalling removing thea driver in the operating system Figure 11 Viewing Device Manager Installing or...

Page 18: ...es restart the system or execute the rmmod qla2xxx and modprobe qla2xxx commands to have the driver take effect d Execute the modinfo qla2xxx command again to view the driver version and verify that t...

Page 19: ...nstall the driver installed by using an rpm file execute the rpm e qla2xxx command Then restart the system or execute the rmmod qla2xxx and modprobe qla2xxx commands to load the old driver To uninstal...

Page 20: ...ct Control Panel Hardware Device Manager Figure 16 Opening Device Manager 3 Right click the fibre channel adapter port for the FC680i network adapter and then select Properties Driver Figure 17 Device...

Page 21: ...r You must first obtain the driver from the H3C official website To install the driver If the driver file is an exe file a Double click the executable file and then click Next b After the installation...

Page 22: ...compressed file for example q23wx64 version _WHQL zip a Decompress the driver b Open Device Manager and right click the fibre channel adapter port for the FC680i network adapter Select Update Driver...

Page 23: ...ninstalling the driver 1 Click the Start icon to enter the menu page 2 Select Control Panel Hardware Device Manager 3 Right click the network adapter whose driver is to be removed select Properties Dr...

Page 24: ...rage server execute the lsblk command in the system to verify if new disks exist If yes it indicates that FC SAN has been identified If not execute the echo 1 sys class fc_host hostnum issue_lip comma...

Page 25: ...k storage devices 3 Right click the Start icon at the lower left corner of the system and open Disk Management Verify that a disk in Unknown state is displayed Figure 27 Disk Management 4 Right click...

Page 26: ...Figure 28 Bringing the disk online 5 Right click the disk name again and select Initialize Disk Figure 29 Initializing the disk 6 Right click the Unallocated area and create a new volume as instructe...

Page 27: ...ure 30 Configuring volumes 7 After volume creation verify that the disk status has changed Figure 31 Volume configuration completed 8 Access This PC and view the new volume FC SAN configuration is com...

Page 28: ...d correctly For information about configuring FC on the switching fabric module see the relevant configuration guide and command reference 2 During the server startup process press Delete or Esc as pr...

Page 29: ...nabling Adapter Driver 5 Press F4 to save the configuration and mount the system image to start installing the operating system This section installs Windows Server 2012 R2 as an example 6 In the dial...

Page 30: ...tinue the installation Figure 36 Selecting a disk 8 If the operating system does not come with a driver for the FC680i network adapter the system cannot identify the SAN disk allocated by the storage...

Page 31: ...the driver c Select the identified driver file and click Next to install the driver Figure 38 Installing the driver When the driver is installed the SAN disk can be identified 9 Continue to install t...

Page 32: ...2 Copy the QCC tool to the operating system and install the tool Linux operating system Execute the rpm ivh QConvergeConsoleCLI version x86_64 rpm command Then execute the qaucli command in the comma...

Page 33: ...s are similar for Linux and Windows operating systems This section uses a Windows operating system as an example To configure NPIV 1 Select 1 Adapter Information 1 FC Adapter Information view the netw...

Page 34: ...nter 98 to return to the main menu 3 Select 2 Adapter Configuration 6 Virtual Ports NPIV and select the port to be configured to enter the NPIV configuration screen Figure 42 NPIV configuration screen...

Page 35: ...nfiguration select 2 Generate 2 Commit Figure 43 Creating vPorts 6 Enter 98 to return to the main menu Then enter 1 to refresh the configuration The NPIV configuration finishes Figure 44 Refreshing th...

Page 36: ...20 Figure 45 Viewing WWPNs...

Page 37: ...e F FC Fiber Channel FCoE Fiber Channel Over Ethernet N NPIV N_Port_ID Virtualization OS Operating system P PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express R RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives...

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