Native Fibre Channel Drivers And Capabilities; Iscsi; Iscsi Api - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX - ONLINE STORAGE RECONFIGURATION GUIDE BETA Configuration Manual

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2.2. Native Fibre Channel Drivers and Capabilities

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ships with the following native fibre channel drivers:
•
lpfc
•
qla2xxx
•
zfcp
•
mptfc
Table 1, "Fibre-Channel API Capabilities"
of each native Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 driver. X denotes support for the capability.
lpfc
Transport X
port_id
Transport X
node_name
Transport X
port_name
Remote Port X
dev_loss_tmo
Remote Port X
fast_io_fail_tmo
Host X
port_id
Host X
issue_lip
Table 1. Fibre-Channel API Capabilities

3. iSCSI

This section describes the iSCSI API and the

3.1. iSCSI API

To get information about running sessions, run:
iscsiadm -m session -P 2
This command displays the session/device state, session ID (sid) and some negotiated
parameters.
For shorter output (for example, to display only the sid-to-node mapping), run:
6
describes the different fibre-channel API capabilities
qla2xxx zfcp
X X
X X
X X
X X
X X
X
utility.
iscsiadm
mptfc
X
X
X
X
X