Qlogic SANblade 2300 Series User Manual Download

Page: 1 / 108

FC2354601-00 A

Page i

S i m p l i f y

SANblade 2300 Series User’s Guide

2-Gb Fibre Channel to PCI-X Host Bus Adapters

Summary of Contents for SANblade 2300 Series

Page 1: ...FC2354601 00 A Page i S i m p l i f y SANblade 2300 Series User s Guide 2 Gb Fibre Channel to PCI X Host Bus Adapters...

Page 2: ...ear in this document No part of this document may be copied nor reproduced by any means nor translated nor transmitted to any magnetic medium without the express written consent of QLogic Corporation...

Page 3: ...er Settings 2 6 2 3 2 2 Selectable Boot Settings 2 6 2 3 2 3 Restore Default Settings 2 7 2 3 2 4 Raw NVRAM Data 2 7 2 3 2 5 Advanced Adapter Settings 2 7 2 3 2 6 Extended Firmware Settings 2 9 2 3 3...

Page 4: ...Adapter Settings 3 7 3 3 2 6 Extended Firmware Settings 3 9 3 3 3 Scan Fibre Channel Devices 3 11 3 3 4 Fibre Disk Utility 3 11 3 3 5 Select Host Adapter 3 11 3 4 FCode 3 12 3 4 1 Flashing a QLA2342 2...

Page 5: ...Network Driver 5 5 5 5 2 Updating the QL2x00IP NDIS Network Driver 5 6 5 5 3 QL2x00IP NDIS Driver and IP Address Configuration 5 7 5 5 3 1 Driver Configuration 5 7 5 5 3 2 IP Address Configuration 5...

Page 6: ...7 5 7 5 2 NumberOfRequests 7 6 7 5 3 FCTape 7 6 7 5 4 UseSameNN 7 7 Section 8 NetWare Driver Installation 8 1 Introduction 8 1 8 2 NetWare Driver Files and Parameters 8 1 8 3 Installing the NetWare D...

Page 7: ...olaris SPARC Driver from a CD ROM 10 1 10 3 Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from the QLogic Web Site 10 2 10 4 FCode 10 4 FIGURES Figure Page 2 1 QLA2340 2340L HBA Layout 2 1 2 2 QLA2340 2340L HBA...

Page 8: ...Page viii FC2354601 00 A 3 6 Fibre Channel Data Rates 3 15 3 7 QLA2342 2342L HBA Operating Environment 3 19 3 8 QLA2342 2342L HBA Specifications 3 19 5 1 Ql2x00ip sys Configuration Parameters 5 7 6 1...

Page 9: ...elligence and performance are derived from the ISP23xx chips making the QLA23xx HBA a leading edge host adapter The ISP23xx combines a powerful RISC processor a Fibre Channel protocol manager FPM with...

Page 10: ...neration Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface FC PH 3 standard Compliance with Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC AL 2 standard Compliance with U S and international safety and emissions stand...

Page 11: ...of the SANblade 2300 User s Guide describes the host bus adapters HBAs and how to install and configure them See the section that corresponds to your HBA Section 4 contains troubleshooting information...

Page 12: ...I Hardware I 2 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 13: ...unique serial number its location on the HBA is noted in figure 2 1 Take a minute to write down the serial number of the QLA2340 2340L HBA Figure 2 1 QLA2340 2340L HBA Layout LED1 J1 ISP CHIP 3 1 J3 N...

Page 14: ...e QLA2340 2340L HBA in your computer you need the following A screwdriver usually a Phillips 1 An optical mutimode cable with an LC style duplex connector CAUTION The QLA2340 2340L HBA contains parts...

Page 15: ...Q level and use interrupt line A for this slot NOTE Some motherboards have two kinds of PCI bus slots master and slave The QLA2340 2340L HBA must be in a PCI bus master slot Some motherboards have PCI...

Page 16: ...formation about enabling the QLA2340 2340L HBA BIOS see section 2 3 If the information displayed on your monitor is correct congratulations You have successfully installed the QLA2340 2340L HBA in you...

Page 17: ...ed configuration information for advanced users who want to customize the configuration of the QLA2340 2340L HBA and the connected devices The QLA2340 2340L HBA can be configured using Fast UTIL QLogi...

Page 18: ...s the adapter to attempt to use the ID specified in the Hard Loop ID setting The default is Disabled Hard Loop ID If the Adapter Hard Loop ID setting is enabled the adapter attempts to use the ID spec...

Page 19: ...VRAM contents in hexadecimal format This is a QLogic troubleshooting tool you cannot modify the data 2 3 2 5 Advanced Adapter Settings From the Configuration Settings menu in Fast UTIL select Advanced...

Page 20: ...ates a global LIP reset to clear the target device reservations When this setting is No the driver initiates a global LIP reset with full login The default is No Enable LIP Full Login This setting ins...

Page 21: ...the maximum number of buffers from the firmware s buffer pool that are allocated to any one port The default is 256 buffers Extended Error Logging This setting provides additional error and debug info...

Page 22: ...his setting determines the type of ACK used When this setting is Enabled sequence ACK is used When this setting is Disabled frame ACK is used The default is Disabled NOTE The Class 2 Service setting m...

Page 23: ...nd generating an interrupt The default is 0 Data Rate This setting determines the data rate When this setting is 1 the QLA2340 2340L HBA runs at 2 Gbps When this setting is 2 Fast UTIL determines what...

Page 24: ...ion mode see section 2 4 2 3 Set the QLA2340 2340L HBA loop ID see section 2 4 3 4 Select the boot device see section 2 4 5 5 Build the bootable disk see section 2 4 6 2 4 1 Flashing a QLA2340 2340L H...

Page 25: ...tion mode type the show connection mode command ok show connection mode The connection mode and options display For example Current HBA connection mode 3 Point to point preferred otherwise loop Possib...

Page 26: ...mand ok show adapter loopid The loop ID displays For example Adapter loopid 7c 3 If the loop ID is not correct change it using the set adapter loopid command For example ok 0 set adapter loopid The ne...

Page 27: ...evice tree displays The QLA2340 2340L HBAs with FCode are referenced with QLGC qla For example ok show devs pci 1f 0 pci 1 QLGC qla 4 2 Select the QLA2340 2340L HBA attached to the Fibre Channel devic...

Page 28: ...arget ID LUN etc The device name shown in this example is for a device on the third PCI bus slot target ID 130 LUN 0 slice 0 You must have already completed the steps in the previous sections before a...

Page 29: ...At the format prompt type partition d At the partition prompt type print The partition table displays as in the following example e At the partition prompt type label Enter the label f At the label p...

Page 30: ...each reference to c0t0d0s0 is changed to c3t130d0s0 For example vi mnt etc vfstab 10 Shut down the system Type the following sbin init 0 11 Boot from the newly created boot disk For example boot pci...

Page 31: ...ng environment 3 3 V and 5 0 V buses supported PCI PCI X transfer rate 132 MBps maximum burst rate for 32 bit PCI operation at 33 MHz 264 MBps maximum burst rate for 32 bit PCI PCI X operation at 66 M...

Page 32: ...ents The QLA2340 2340L conform to the following requirements FCC Part 15 Class B EN 50081 1 Radiated Emission Class B Conducted Emission Class B ICES 003 Class B NVRAM 256 bytes field programmable Onb...

Page 33: ...nt Burst EN61000 4 5 1995 Fast Surge Common Differential EN61000 4 6 1996 RF Conducted Susceptibility EN61000 4 8 1994 Power Frequency Magnetic Filed EN61000 4 11 1994 Voltage Dips and Interrupt EN610...

Page 34: ...2 QLA2340 2340L Agency Certification 2 22 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 35: ...serial number its location on the HBA is noted in figure 3 1 Take a minute to write down the serial number of the QLA2342 2342L HBA Figure 3 1 QLA2342 2342L HBA Layout LED1 LED2 J1 J2 ISP CHIP 3 1 J3...

Page 36: ...n your computer you need the following A screwdriver usually a Phillips 1 Two optical mutimode cables with LC style duplex connectors CAUTION The QLA2342 2342L HBA contains parts that can be damaged b...

Page 37: ...Q level and use interrupt line A for this slot NOTE Some motherboards have two kinds of PCI bus slots master and slave The QLA2342 2342L HBA must be in a PCI bus master slot Some motherboards have PCI...

Page 38: ...formation about enabling the QLA2342 2342L HBA BIOS see section 3 3 If the information displayed on your monitor is correct congratulations You have successfully installed the QLA2342 2342L HBA in you...

Page 39: ...ed configuration information for advanced users who want to customize the configuration of the QLA2342 2342L HBA and the connected devices The QLA2342 2342L HBA can be configured using Fast UTIL QLogi...

Page 40: ...forces the adapter to attempt to use the ID specified in the Hard Loop ID setting The default is Disabled Hard Loop ID If the Adapter Hard Loop ID setting is enabled the adapter attempts to use the ID...

Page 41: ...VRAM contents in hexadecimal format This is a QLogic troubleshooting tool you cannot modify the data 3 3 2 5 Advanced Adapter Settings From the Configuration Settings menu in Fast UTIL select Advanced...

Page 42: ...ates a global LIP reset to clear the target device reservations When this setting is No the driver initiates a global LIP reset with full login The default is No Enable LIP Full Login This setting ins...

Page 43: ...the maximum number of buffers from the firmware s buffer pool that are allocated to any one port The default is 256 buffers Extended Error Logging This setting provides additional error and debug info...

Page 44: ...his setting determines the type of ACK used When this setting is Enabled sequence ACK is used When this setting is Disabled frame ACK is used The default is Disabled NOTE The Class 2 Service setting m...

Page 45: ...nd generating an interrupt The default is 0 Data Rate This setting determines the data rate When this setting is 1 the QLA2342 2342L HBA runs at 2 Gbps When this setting is 2 Fast UTIL determines what...

Page 46: ...ion mode see section 3 4 2 3 Set the QLA2342 2342L HBA loop ID see section 3 4 3 4 Select the boot device see section 3 4 5 5 Build the bootable disk see section 3 4 6 3 4 1 Flashing a QLA2342 2342L H...

Page 47: ...tion mode type the show connection mode command ok show connection mode The connection mode and options display For example Current HBA connection mode 3 Point to point preferred otherwise loop Possib...

Page 48: ...mand ok show adapter loopid The loop ID displays For example Adapter loopid 7c 3 If the loop ID is not correct change it using the set adapter loopid command For example ok 0 set adapter loopid The ne...

Page 49: ...evice tree displays The QLA2342 2342L HBAs with FCode are referenced with QLGC qla For example ok show devs pci 1f 0 pci 1 QLGC qla 4 2 Select the QLA2342 2342L HBA attached to the Fibre Channel devic...

Page 50: ...arget ID LUN etc The device name shown in this example is for a device on the third PCI bus slot target ID 130 LUN 0 slice 0 You must have already completed the steps in the previous sections before a...

Page 51: ...At the format prompt type partition d At the partition prompt type print The partition table displays as in the following example e At the partition prompt type label Enter the label f At the label p...

Page 52: ...each reference to c0t0d0s0 is changed to c3t130d0s0 For example vi mnt etc vfstab 10 Shut down the system Type the following sbin init 0 11 Boot from the newly created boot disk For example boot pci...

Page 53: ...ng environment 3 3 V and 5 0 V buses supported PCI PCI X transfer rate 132 MBps maximum burst rate for 32 bit PCI operation at 33 MHz 264 MBps maximum burst rate for 32 bit PCI PCI X operation at 66 M...

Page 54: ...equirements The QLA2340 2340L conform to the following requirements FCC Part 15 Class B EN 50081 1 Radiated Emission Class B Conducted Emission Class B ICES 003 Class B NVRAM 256 bytes field programma...

Page 55: ...nt Burst EN61000 4 5 1995 Fast Surge Common Differential EN61000 4 6 1996 RF Conducted Susceptibility EN61000 4 8 1994 Power Frequency Magnetic Filed EN61000 4 11 1994 Voltage Dips and Interrupt EN610...

Page 56: ...3 QLA2342 2342L Agency Certification 3 22 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 57: ...orrect seating is to switch the connectors on either the QLA23xx HBA or the device then restart your system If the BIOS is enabled devices attached to the QLA23xx HBA are displayed on the screen Is th...

Page 58: ...AID controller using the utilities provided by the manufacturer Some Fibre Channel switches support zoning Make sure that your switch is configured correctly Make sure that Data Rate setting on the QL...

Page 59: ...cate and download the appropriate drivers for your operating system The latest version of the QLA23xx drivers are located on the QLogic Web site http www qlogic com QLogic drivers are self extracting...

Page 60: ...II Software II 2 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 61: ...rating system that has an older version of the driver 5 2 Windows NT Driver Files The latest version of the software drivers and documentation for Windows NT are available on the QLogic Web site Be su...

Page 62: ...an appropriate drive then press ENTER 7 Select QLogic QLA2300 PCI Fibre Channel Adapter then press ENTER 8 Follow the standard Windows NT installation instructions to complete the Windows NT setup 5 3...

Page 63: ...ng that it is the saved file For example copy Ql2300 sys Ql2300 sav 4 Insert the disk that contains the updated QLogic driver in an appropriate drive 5 Copy the new driver over the old driver For exam...

Page 64: ...RECT driver in an appropriate drive 3 Execute the Setup exe installation program on the disk and follow the instructions on the screen 4 Remove the disk that contains the QLDIRECT driver 5 Restart you...

Page 65: ...ize IP configuration parameter If a QL2x00IP NDIS network driver is not installed on your system perform the installation procedures in section 5 5 1 If an older QL2x00IP network driver is already ins...

Page 66: ...ique and all QLA22xx QLA23xx HBAs must use the same subnet mask For example Adapter 1 IP address 10 0 0 1 Subnet mask 255 255 0 0 Adapter 2 IP address 10 0 0 2 Subnet mask 255 255 0 0 11 Click OK 12 R...

Page 67: ...work must have the same MTU size value QLogic recommends a default value of 8192 Buffer Count This parameter specifies the number of receive buffers that the QL2x00IP driver allocates during initializ...

Page 68: ...fy the QL2x00IP NDIS driver configuration 1 Click the Start button point to Settings and click Control Panel 2 Double click the Network icon click the Adapters tab select the QLogic QL2X00IP Network D...

Page 69: ...eed to remove the QLA2x00IP NDIS driver perform the following steps 1 Click the Start button point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 Double click the Network icon click the Adapters tab selec...

Page 70: ...5 Windows NT Driver Installation QL2x00IP NDIS Network Driver Installation 5 10 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 71: ...containing the files needed to install the Windows XP driver 1 Locate the driver you want on the QLogic web site http www qlogic com and click Link to driver 2 If prompted What would you like to do wi...

Page 72: ...detects the QLA23xx HBA Press ENTER to continue the driver installation 8 Press ENTER to continue the Windows 2000 installation 9 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the Windows 2000 ins...

Page 73: ...ollers icon 3 Double click the QLogic QLA2300 PCI Fibre Channel Adapter icon click the Drivers tab and then click Update Driver 4 The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard dialog box displays Click Next 5 Sele...

Page 74: ...ion 7 00 00 or above The latest version of the QLDIRECT driver and Ql2300 sys enhanced miniport driver for Windows 2000 are available on the QLogic Web site 6 4 2 QLDIRECT Installation If QLDIRECT is...

Page 75: ...00IP NDIS Network Driver Installation Your system must meet the following requirements for the QL2x00IP network driver interface specification NDIS network driver to function properly The QL2300 SCSI...

Page 76: ...8 Insert the disk that contains the QLogic driver in an appropriate drive 9 In the Select Network Adapter dialog box click Have Disk 10 Type the path to the QL2x00IP NDIS network driver For example A...

Page 77: ...procedures The QL2x00IP NDIS driver provides drive configuration parameters The drive configuration parameters are listed in table 6 1 and described in the following paragraphs MTU Size This paramete...

Page 78: ...n one QLA23xx HBA You can use Fast UTIL to determine the node names for all QLA22xx QLA23xx HBAs in the system see the Fast UTIL section that corresponds to your QLA23xx HBA Perform the following step...

Page 79: ...ng the QL2x00IP NDIS Driver If you need to remove the QLA2x00IP NDIS driver perform the following steps 1 Click the Start button point to Settings and then click Control Panel 2 Double click the Add R...

Page 80: ...6 Windows 2000 Driver Installation QL2x00IP NDIS Network Driver Installation 6 10 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 81: ...install the Windows XP driver 1 Locate the driver you want on the QLogic web site http www qlogic com and click Link to driver 2 If prompted What would you like to do with this file choose Save this p...

Page 82: ...s ENTER 6 The following message displays The software you are installing for this hardware QLogic QLA22xx PCI Fibre Channel Adapter has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with...

Page 83: ...play devices that are automatically detected by Windows XP Perform the following steps to add the QL2300 SYS driver to a previously installed Windows XP system 1 Connect the QLA23xx HBA to the appropr...

Page 84: ...click My Computer click Properties select Hardware Tab Top Bar Open Device Manager then select SCSI and RAID controller 2 Double click QLogic QLA2300 PCI Fibre Channel Adapter 3 Click the Driver tab t...

Page 85: ...wer down your computer and remove the HBA from your computer according to the manufacturer s instructions NOTE You do not have to use the Device Manager or the Hardware Wizard to uninstall the QLA23xx...

Page 86: ...21h 5 Click OK 6 Exit the REGEDT32 program then restart the system 7 5 2 NumberOfRequests The NumberOfRequests registry parameter specifies the maximum number of outstanding requests per adapter When...

Page 87: ...t to have the world wide node name for each HBA to be based on its own NVRAM content set the UseSameNN parameter to 0 Follow these steps to change the UseSameNN parameter 1 Click Start select Run and...

Page 88: ...7 Windows XP Driver Installation System Registry Parameters 7 8 FC2354601 00 A...

Page 89: ...README TXT file for both new and changed information You can load the QL2300 HAM driver with optional switches to modify driver functionality The switches are described in table 8 1 Table 8 1 QL2300 H...

Page 90: ...nfigure disk and storage device drivers 4 Select Select an additional driver 5 Press INSERT to install an unlisted driver 6 Insert the disk that contains the QLogic driver in an appropriate drive 7 Pr...

Page 91: ...the Red Hat Linux 6 2 operating system and the qla2x00 driver perform the procedures in section 9 2 1 To create a driver floppy disk for installing a new or upgrading an older version of the qla2x00...

Page 92: ...talled Red Hat Linux 6 2 or 7 0 operating system 1 Download the qla2x00 x xx xx i386 rpm file from the QLogic Web site 2 If What would you like to do with this file displays select Save this file to d...

Page 93: ...e driver disk insert the floppy disk 1 created in section 9 2 1 Tab to OK then press ENTER NOTE If you are installing Red Hat Linux 7 0 or later you must complete the operatingsystem installation then...

Page 94: ...3xx HBA must be the only boot device in the system during qla2x00 driver installation Perform the following steps to install the qla2x00 driver on the boot drive 1 Create a directory for the Red Hat P...

Page 95: ...atically loads the qla2x00 driver at boot time if you include it in a custom kernel Perform the following steps to build a custom kernel 1 Copy the qla2x00src vx xx tgz file on the qla2x00 source code...

Page 96: ...i directory cp home qla2x00 c usr src linux drivers scsi cp home qla2x00 h usr src linux drivers scsi c For Red Hat Linux 6 2 add the following lines to the Makefile in usr src linux drivers scsi Use...

Page 97: ...ss ENTER b Fromthe SCSISupportMenu selectSCSIlow leveldriversand press ENTER c From the SCSI Low Level Drivers Menu scroll down and select QLA2x00 QLC driver support New Press the SPACEBAR twice to se...

Page 98: ...the boot partition on your system read only In the above example the lines tell the Linux boot loader to load the new kernel image called newsmp in boot and mount the root partition using device dev...

Page 99: ...s a number from 1 9 2 Copy the object file to lib modules kernel release version scsi Red Hat Linux 6 2 or 7 0 lib modules kernel release version drivers scsi Red Hat Linux 7 1 and 7 2 3 Build a new r...

Page 100: ...irectory For Red Hat Linux 7 1 and 7 2 lib modules kernel release version drivers scsi directory Type the following command to load the driver modprobe qla2x00 Under the directory that contains the ql...

Page 101: ...Hat Linux version number sbin mkinitrd boot newinitrd image x x xx x xsmp 5 Modify the etc lilo conf file to load the new ramdisk image For a single processor system change the following line where x...

Page 102: ...2x00 driver manually modprobe r qla2300 9 5 Building a Driver from the Sources If your Linux kernel version does not match the one built by QLogic prebuilt driver binaries you need to build the driver...

Page 103: ...at SMP kernel it must be compiled with the same version number that was assigned to the original SMP kernel built by Red Hat This step is not required for Red Hat Linux 7 0 7 1 or 7 2 For Red Hat Linu...

Page 104: ...Yes The system saves a new config file config in the current directory 5 Type the following make dep 6 Using the floppy disk you created in section 9 2 3 copy the qla2x00src vx xx tgz file to the hom...

Page 105: ...temporary directory on the machine where the driver is to be installed then continue with step 4 in section 10 3 10 2 Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from a CD ROM Perform the following steps to i...

Page 106: ...t the command prompt change the directory cd to the directory where the file was downloaded 4 At the command prompt type uncompress qla2300 Z 5 Step 4 produces a file in the same directory called qla2...

Page 107: ...t Using as the package base directory Processing package information Processing system information Verifying disk space requirements Checking for conflicts with packages already installed Checking for...

Page 108: ...10 Solaris SPARC Driver Installation FCode 10 4 FC2354601 00 A 10 4 FCode If you need FCode see the appropriate section for instructions on how to install or update the FCode on the QLA23xx HBA...

Search results

Summary of Contents for SANblade 2300 Series

Reviews:

Related manuals for SANblade 2300 Series

Brands by name

Popular brands

Qlogic SANblade 2300 Series, User Manual

Search results

Summary of Contents for SANblade 2300 Series

Reviews:

Related manuals for SANblade 2300 Series

Brands by name

Popular brands