From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (rdassen_at_novell.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 08:38:51 CEST
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:38:51 +0200 From: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <rdassen@novell.com> Message-ID: <20060608063851.GA3025@xinara.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] IBM BladeCenter H20 anyone?
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 17:02:52 -0500, Eli Criffield wrote:
> For Networking the blades show up with 2 "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
> BCM5704S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)"
>
> To configure these and use vlan's i have to download the bcm5700 and basp
> drivers from broadcom and setup /etc/basp/team-vlan. I've looked at the
> newer tg driver and it doesn't have anywhere to say what vlan to use?
> Anyone else BCM5704S's on vlans? Do you use something besides the basp
> driver?
Please note that the basp drivers are not supported by Novell Technical
Services (NTS). For an NTS-supported way of setting up teaming, refer to
the article "Setting Up Bonding on SLES 9",
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2004/09/tami_sles9_bonding_setup.html
The bcm5700 driver is deprecated in favour of the tg3 driver; see
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php#97
I'm not familiar with setups where bonding is combined with VLANs, but I
would assume that bonding and VLANs are mostly orthogonal and that the
appropriate configuration can be achieved either by configuring trunking on
the switches involved or by using Linux' 802.1q support,
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2004/11/dcon_vlan_sles9.html
> For SAN, we sanboot, the blades have 2 "QLogic Corp. QLA2312 Fibre Channel
> Adapter (rev 02)". I use the qla2300 driver that comes with the sles
> kernel and this line in /etc/modprobe.conf.local.
>
> options qla2xxx ql2xmaxqdepth=16 qlport_down_retry=8 \
> ql2xloginretrycount=8 ql2xfailover=1 ql2xlbType=1
>
> This gets multipathing working if i have multiple paths to the same disk
> though one SVC (a san device that manages our disks). If i enable the
> second SVC (required for SVC failover) i see two disks. I've tried
> multipath-tools to combine these two disks into one disk in devicemapper
> but i get odd errors and or it runs and nothing shows up.
>
> How do others have it configured with multipaths to the same disk using
> qlogic cards. Does anyone have multipath-tools working on qlogic cards or
> a blade?
TID 817, "Dynamically adding storage for use with multipath I/O",
https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/390/817_f.SAL_Public.html
may prove helpful here.
HTH,
-- Ray Dassen Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical Services Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise http://www.novell.com/open --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
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