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Server connection, fcoe for vmware esx driver settings for non-fujitsu converged network adapter cards

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Chapter 2

Setup Procedure for QLogic Converged Network Adapter Cards

2.2

Setting Up the Converged Network Adapter Cards

When the value for this setting is changed, refer to "FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX Configuration

Guide -Server Connection- (FCoE) for VMware

Outstanding Disk Requests for virtual machines as well.

Use the following command to change the setting values when the driver parameter name is

"ql2xmaxqdepth", the number of I/Os is "8", and the module name is "qla2xxx".

# esxcli system module parameters set -p ql2xmaxqdepth=8 -m qla2xxx

Input the number of I/Os ("8" in this example) for the driver parameter setting.

This option cannot be individually applied to each port on the Converged Network Adapter card.

All ports on the target Converged Network Adapter card are configured with the same settings.

Reboot VMware ESXi.

# reboot

After rebooting VMware ESXi, check the setting values.

# esxcli system module parameters list -m qla2xxx | grep ql2xmaxq

ql2xmaxqdepth

2.2.5.3

For VMware vSphere 4

Record the module name for the Converged Network Adapter card that is loaded into VMware ESX.

The underlined portion indicates the loaded module name. In the following example, "qla2xxx" is the

module name.

# vmkload_mod -l | grep qla*

qla2xxx

Module names may vary depending on the Converged Network Adapter card that is used.

FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX Configuration Guide -Server Connection- (FCoE) for VMware

ESX" and change the setting value for the Maximum

int

Maximum queue depth to report for target devices.

ESX

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