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Installation Guide Storage Networking (Unified Fabric Pilot)
List of Figures
Figure
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3-1
Reference Architecture Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3-2
4-1
Driver Download Page Model Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-3
4-2
Driver Download Page Driver Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-4
4-3
Driver Download Page Driver and Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-4
4-4
Device Manager Interface—Verify Server and Adapter Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-10
4-5
Device Manager Interface—Verify Storage Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-10
4-6
NETApp Zone Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-11
4-7
SANsurfer Management Validation Screen 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-12
4-8
SANsurfer Management Validation Screen 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4-12
5-1
Setup for Validating Unified Fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-1
5-2
Analyzer TraceControl Configured to Capture LLDP Frames Only Between the
Adapter, Switch, and Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-2
5-3
DCBX Exchanges Between QLogic QLE8152 Adapter and the
Cisco Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-4
5-4
FCoE Switch Validation with Emulator Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-5
5-5
FIP Test Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-6
5-6
FIP Verification Results—Converged Network Adapter
and FCoE Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-8
5-7
Test Results of FIP Keep_Alive and Discovery Advertisement for FCoE Virtual Link
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-9
5-8
Time Difference Between Two Adjacent FIP Keep_Alive Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-9
5-9
Time Difference Between Two Adjacent FIP Discovery Advertisement Multicast
Frames (to All_E_Nodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-10
5-10
Link De-instantiated by the Switch 20 Seconds after the Last Keep Alive Frame . .
5-10
5-11
Time Difference Between the Last FIP Keep Alive Sent and the FIP Clear
Virtual Link Message from the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-11
5-12
I/O Test with Fibre Channel SAN Storage Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-12
5-13
MLTT Configures Various I/O Applications to Verify I/O Benchmarking
Performance of Different Storage Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-13
5-14
PFC Validation Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-15
5-15
Trace Shows the PFC Event to Pause the Transmitting FCoE Data Frame Further
5-16
5-16
Expert Validating the Reaction to PFC Pause Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-17
5-17
Expert Generates Reports with Detailed Protocol Analysis and Statistics . . . . . . . .
5-17
5-18
Verifying ETS with Write Operations to the Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-19
5-19
Verifying ETS with Read Operations from the Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-19
5-20
Throughput per Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-20
5-21
FCoE Traffic in a Read Operation from Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-21
5-22
FCoE Traffic Plus TCP Traffic in a Read from Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-21
5-23
Enabling Cross Port Analysis in Expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-22
5-24
Switch Issue Pause to Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-22
5-25
LAN Traffic Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-23
5-26
Relationship Between FCoE, TCP Traffic, and Pause Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-24
5-27
Read Latency Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5-25
Summary of Contents for Storage Networking (Unified Fabric Pilot)
Page 10: ...Preface Documentation Conventions x 51031 00 A...
Page 12: ...1 Overview 1 2 51031 00 A...
Page 18: ...3 Architecture Reference Architecture Description 3 4 51031 00 A...
Page 66: ...A Hardware and Software QLogic 5800V Series Fibre Channel Switch A 4 51031 00 A...
Page 72: ...C References C 2 51031 00 A...
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