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Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Dell Compellent Storage Center Daniel Tan, Product Specialist Dell Compellent Technical Solutions November 2

10 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux At this point, the Linux install process can proceed. As is reflected in the Redhat Ente

11 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Figure 6 Select the boot from SAN Storage Center volume as the installation target It’

12 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux In line with the Redhat Enterprise Linux Best Practices guide (see Appendix A), the CNA

13 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux # scli Scanning QLogic FC HBA(s) and device(s), please wait... - SANsurfer FC/CNA HBA

14 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 3: Return to Previous Menu Note: 0 to return to Main Menu Enter Selection: In the out

15 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 1: Details 2: Raw 3: Return to Previous Menu Note: 0 to return to Main Menu Enter Se

16 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux # cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" #HWADDR="00:C0:DD:1B:A0:E0" NM_CON

17 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux # cat ifcfg-eth1.10 DEVICE="eth1.10" ONBOOT="yes" BOOTPROTO=stati

18 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 172.16.26.4:3260,0 iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d31000006924 Now that the targets hav

19 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Figure 7 Observe the iqn is represented by two (2) unique IP addresses Once the Server

2 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Revisions Date Revision Description Author Nov 2013 1.0 Initial release Daniel Tan

20 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Rescanning session [sid: 4, target: iqn.2002-03.com.compellent:5000d31000006924, portal:

21 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux multipaths { multipath { uid 0 alias mpatha gid 0 wwid "36000d3100002d40000000

22 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Instead of using LVM, a file system will simply be laid across the entire volume. For mo

23 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux which will then separate out management and configuration to each individual driver and

24 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 2 Leveraging traditional 10Gb Ethernet NICs in a converged environment with Linux In mo

25 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux The “dcbtool” is used to configure the parameters needed to allow FCoE traffic over the

26 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Command: Set Config Feature: Priority Flow Control Port: eth5 Status: Successful # d

27 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux # /usr/libexec/fcoe/dcbcheck.sh eth5 DCB is correctly configured for FCoE At this poin

28 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux eth5 | 100 | 00:0d:ec:f9:35:80 eth4 | 300 | 00:0d:ec:f9:35:80 Linux will create entrie

29 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 0x2000001b2182c2a2 2.1 Performance considerations Despite being a software implementat

3 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Table of contents Revisions ...

30 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux A Additional resources Dell Compellent Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6x Best Practices

4 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Executive summary Managing and scaling network infrastructure is often an expensive propo

5 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux 1 Leveraging Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) in a converged environment with Linux 1.

6 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Figure 1 CNA BIOS configuration

7 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux In the advanced configuration options, notice the “Link Down Timeout” setting; configurin

8 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux Once the appropriate zoning and connectivity configurations have been configured, the CNA

9 Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux After the Server Object has been created in the Storage Center, a boot volume can be crea