Emulex

[rubendob]

Hi all

I have blade system, one of amazing things i've discovered is the emulex hardware, now i can login from iscsi emulex bios to any iscsi target i want. But I don't know what happen when operative system starts. I mean, I have a Centos  6.X installed.

Then, I usually do

yum install iscsi-initiator-utils and then 

iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 10.0.0.100

and then, I login in target and format the iscsi device,

but now I know there is installed hardware like emulex I don't know if Im doing right. Is this ok ? Or I have to install some different driver from Emulex to Linux in order to use Emulex Iscsi Card of my server?

Thanks guys

[rubendob]

I have downloaded HP driver for Emulex Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (MODEL hp nc551i dual port flex)

However Im not able to list HBAs from CentOS 6

# lspci |grep Emulex
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (rev 02)
04:00.2 Mass storage controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb iSCSI Initiator 

# lsmod |grep iscsi

be2iscsi 78979 0
iscsi_boot_sysfs 9650 1 be2iscsi
libiscsi 47617 1 be2iscsi
scsi_transport_iscsi 53047 2 be2iscsi,libiscsi

# modinfo be2iscsi

modinfo be2iscsi
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko
license: GPL
author: Emulex Corporation
version: 4.2.162.0
description: Emulex OneConnectOpen-iSCSI Driver version4.2.162.0 Driver 4.2.162.0
srcversion: 4AA0D30B52121BB06726605
alias: pci:v000019A2d00000712sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000019A2d00000703sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000019A2d00000702sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000019A2d00000222sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000019A2d00000212sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: libiscsi,iscsi_boot_sysfs,scsi_transport_iscsi
vermagic: 2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: be_iopoll_budget:int
parm: enable_msix:int
parm: be_max_phys_size:Maximum Size (In Kilobytes) of physicallycontiguous memory that can be allocated.Range is 16 - 128 (uint)

# hbacmd listhbas pt=iscsi

#

I got emply LIST.

Anybody has idea? Maybe downloading driver from Emulex web? :-(

[rubendob]

I also installed Emulex HBA utility from HP, following advices of hp staff guys and then I have installed some rpms which installed new services and all are running

# /etc/init.d/elxmilid status
OneCommand MILI Management Daemon mili2d (pid 2774) is running...
# /etc/init.d/elxhbamgrd status
elxhbamgrd (pid 2662) is running...
# /etc/init.d/elx
elxhbamgrd elxmilid elxsnmpd
# /etc/init.d/elxsnmpd status
BE2SNMP (pid 3021) is running...

[rubendob]

sOLVED

HP driver for this emulex card is not ok. You have to download driver iscsi from emulex web.