[OmniOS-discuss] Brocade Fc HBA 825

Thu Oct 3 16:13:21 UTC 2013

Till: Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se>
Från: GMX <fabior at gmx.net>
Datum: 2013.10.03 10:13
Kopia: omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Brocade Fc HBA 825

"Hi Johan,

I have a good few of these Brocade HBA cards working very well with a variety of OSes, including Windows, Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) and VMware ESXi servers. I've also done quite a bit with them on Solaris 10 and 11. In my environment they're usually connected to enterprise arrays (block) and we run POCs with them all year round. They're really grand, comparable to Emulex and QLogics. The only test I haven't done yet is with OpenSolaris or OmniOS. 

In all the other OSes I've mentioned, it does need the driver to be downloaded from Brocade and loaded, before you can do anything with them. I'm also using Brocade 1020 CNAs (10GbE) and they're the same.

Yesterday I've completed a full NexentaStor community edition v3.1.5 install and it did not recognised my 1020 CNA. I might give a try with OmniOS as well and try to load the Solaris driver (now OmniTI guys, let me know if this would be unsupported from your perspective). I just don't have a timeframe for this yet.

Anyway, with regarding quality, you're safe enough with the Brocade cards.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

---
Fabio Rodrigues"

Thanks for the info, Fabio!

I'd be most interested in the compatibility with omnios, of coarse, since that is what we use as storage platform and as well as host platform.
 Which means we need both target and initiator support. I don't have much hope of a target implementation of the brocade driver, got to use good ol' qlogic instead, I suppose, but perhaps the initiator would work.

 Anyone else that has experience with this HBA?

 Rgrds Johan

On 2 Oct 2013, at 18:45, Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Someone knows something about the Brocade Fc HBA 825? It's a dual port 8 Gbit HBA, and since I got hold of some of them, I wanted to test them. I thought they were either Emulex or Qlogic, or perhaps LSI, but they don't bind to any drivers, what I can see.
> 
> Anyone got some experience of these?
> 
> http://www.brocade.com/products/all/adapters/product-details/415-425-815-825-fibre-channel-hba/index.page
> 
> 
> 
> Here I did some stuff to check things:
> 
> 
> root at omni:~# mdb -k
> Loading modules: [ unix genunix specfs dtrace mac cpu.generic uppc pcplusmp scsi_vhci zfs sata sd ip hook neti sockfs arp usba uhci stmf stmf_sbd md lofs mpt_sas random idm nfs crypto ptm cpc kvm smbsrv ufs logindmux nsmb ]
> 
> Can't find any drivers loaded there...
> 
> 
> And as well:
> 
> root at omni:~# fcinfo hba-port
> No Adapters Found.
> 
> 
> No adapters....
> 
> 
> So I try:
> 
> root at omni:~# prtconf -pv
> 
> 
> And here, at least, I can see that they are discoverd as fibre channel devices:
> 
> 
> 
>  Node 0x000026
>                 assigned-addresses:  83220010.00000000.dfdc0000.00000000.00020000.83220018.00000000.dfdb8000.00000000.00004000
>                 reg:  00220000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.03220010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00020000.03220018.00000000.00000000.00000000.00004000
>                 compatible: 'pciex1657,13.1657.14.1' + 'pciex1657,13.1657.14' + 'pciex1657,13.1' + 'pciex1657,13' + 'pciexclass,0c0400' + 'pciexclass,0c04' + 'pci1657,13.1657.14.1' + 'pci1657,13.1657.14' + 'pci1657,14' + 'pci1657,13.1' + 'pci1657,13' + 'pciclass,0c0400' + 'pciclass,0c04'
>                 model:  'Fibre Channel'
>                 power-consumption:  00000001.00000001
>                 devsel-speed:  00000000
>                 interrupts:  00000001
>                 subsystem-vendor-id:  00001657
>                 subsystem-id:  00000014
>                 unit-address:  '0'
>                 class-code:  000c0400
>                 revision-id:  00000001
>                 vendor-id:  00001657
>                 device-id:  00000013
>                 name:  'pci1657,14'
> 
>             Node 0x000027
>                 assigned-addresses:  83220110.00000000.dfde0000.00000000.00020000.83220118.00000000.dfdbc000.00000000.00004000
>                 reg:  00220100.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.03220110.00000000.00000000.00000000.00020000.03220118.00000000.00000000.00000000.00004000
>                 compatible: 'pciex1657,13.1657.14.1' + 'pciex1657,13.1657.14' + 'pciex1657,13.1' + 'pciex1657,13' + 'pciexclass,0c0400' + 'pciexclass,0c04' + 'pci1657,13.1657.14.1' + 'pci1657,13.1657.14' + 'pci1657,14' + 'pci1657,13.1' + 'pci1657,13' + 'pciclass,0c0400' + 'pciclass,0c04'
>                 model:  'Fibre Channel'
>                 power-consumption:  00000001.00000001
>                 devsel-speed:  00000000
>                 interrupts:  00000002
>                 subsystem-vendor-id:  00001657
>                 subsystem-id:  00000014
>                 unit-address:  '0,1'
>                 class-code:  000c0400
>                 revision-id:  00000001
>                 vendor-id:  00001657
>                 device-id:  00000013
>                 name:  'pci1657,14'
> 
> 
> They seem to have a downloadable driver för Solaris 10 x86, haven't tried it yet, don't want to put in too much work, perhaps they're not worth it...?
> 
> Any info would be nice...
> 
> Rgrds Johan
> 
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