[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sharing zfs volume on QLogic QLE4062C

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:02:50AM +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Thanx for the pointer. I did all of this already, and I'm not talking about serving iscsi
> over ethernet via the OS, but letting the QLogic card implement the iscsi through its
> ready to run hardware.

The QLE4062C card is a hardware Iscsi initiator.  To the host it appears
like a normal SCSI HBA with directly-attached disks.  All of the Iscsi
configuration is done on the card itself, with Qlogic's CLI utility.
You can only use it as an initiator, not as a target.

> Da: Jonathan Adams
> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Data: 19 maggio 2011 21.12.44 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sharing zfs volume on QLogic QLE4062C
> have you seen:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/264560/openindiana-zfs-with-shareiscsi-property-missing
> On 19 May 2011 16:50, Gabriele Bulfon
> wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to follow some guides to share zfs volumse through hardware manged iscsi.
> I have installed an QLE4062C and original QLogic drivers.
> The system see the device and ports, QLogic cli commands can see everything correctly.
> I'm trapped now, because "fcinfo hba-port" does not see any adapter.
> Docs talk about switching from initiator mode to traget, by updating the driver from qlc to qlt.
> My driver is not qlc, but qla4xxx, or what am I missing?

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