[Info-vax] DL380 HBAs

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 9/1/2021 7:36 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 9/1/2021 7:21 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
>> On 9/1/21 4:36 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On 9/1/2021 1:17 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have a list of the fibre channel HBAs that VMS will support in a DL380?  My SAN switches only support 8G so I don't need any of the newer higher bandwidth ones but it would be nice to have a list somewhere.
>>>
>>> I've been told that a buying guide is in the works.
>>>
>>> For fibre HBA's, it'll be a subset of Qlogic 16Gb/sec adapters, which
>>> will work with 8Gb/sec and 4Gb/sec switches.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm,
>>
>> I have a Qlogic QLE2564 and can get a Qlogic QLE2672-CK.  That first one might only be 8Gb but are either of these likely to work?
> 
> I'll ask around; I know that the 2660/2662 works.

It's possible that my above statement about the 2660/2662 is wrong (that's the one that works on IA64; I
thought we'd gotten it to work on X86, but I'll verify that).

This one definitely works . . .

$ sho dev fga/fu

Device FGA0:, device type Qlogic ISP266X FC, is online, shareable, error logging
     is enabled.

     Error count                    0    Operations completed                576
     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC                      [SYSTEM]
     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot              S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W
     Reference count                0    Default buffer size                   0
     Current preferred CPU Id       3    Fastpath                              1
     Current Interrupt CPU Id       3
     FC Port Name 5140-2EC0-110F-D268    FC Node Name        5140-2EC0-110F-D269
     Firmware version         9.03.00    Adapter       QLogic ISP2692 PCIe Fibre
     Current speed (Gbits/sec)      8    Adapter max speed (Gbits/sec)        16


Its part number and description (from iLO) is HPE SN1100Q 16Gb 2P FC HBA

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                       -- Rob