Native Fibre Channel Drivers And Capabilities; Iscsi; Iscsi Api - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - ONLINE STORAGE GUIDE Manual

Host: /sys/class/fc_host/hostH/
• port_id
• issue_lip — instructs the driver to rediscover remote ports.

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"
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 port_id X
Host issue_lip X
Supported as of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Table 1. Fibre-Channel API Capabilities

3. iSCSI

This section describes the iSCSI API and the iscsiadm utility. Before using the iscsiadm
utility, install the iscsi-initiator-utils package first; to do so, run yum install iscsi-
initiator-utils.
In addition, the iSCSI service must be running in order to discover or log in to targets. To start the
iSCSI service, run service iscsi start

3.1. iSCSI API

To get information about running sessions, run:
iscsiadm -m session -P 3
Native Fibre Channel Drivers and Capabilities
describes the different fibre-channel API capabilities of each
qla2xxx zfcp
X X
X X
X X
X X
1
X
X X
X
mptfc
X
X
X
X
X
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