QLogic QLE2560 DELL with FreeNAS 11. 2U7

[mst]

Can anybody spare how to make the card visible in Freenas?

 

[mst]

[root@freenas ~]# lspci | grep "ISP"
42:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)
[root@freenas ~]#


I see this, but under networking there are only 1GB ports listed

 

[kdragon75]

[root@freenas ~]# lspci | grep "ISP"
42:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)
[root@freenas ~]#


I see this, but under networking there are only 1GB ports listed

Fiber Channel is not that kind of network interface. It a way of sharing block devices. FreeNAS does not support Fiber Channel with out some hacking.

 

[mst]

i have found this;

Updated guide for Fibre Channel on FreeNAS 11.1u4

This is the discussion thread for this Resource. To find the actual document, please use the tabs above.

www.ixsystems.com

and basically after tweaking some settings and dac cables all is working fine,

is that possible to have iscsi same storage shared between multiple esxi hosts ? I plan to buy Mikrotik 8 SFP+ and connect 3 ESXi hosts to single Freenas

 

[kdragon75]

i have found this;

Updated guide for Fibre Channel on FreeNAS 11.1u4

This is the discussion thread for this Resource. To find the actual document, please use the tabs above.

www.ixsystems.com

and basically after tweaking some settings and dac cables all is working fine,

is that possible to have iscsi same storage shared between multiple esxi hosts ? I plan to buy Mikrotik 8 SFP+ and connect 3 ESXi hosts to single Freenas

The storage is shared when using Fiber Channel even with direct links. If you want to move to iSCSI you would need the switch and 10gb network cards.

 

[mst]

I have it working when its direct connected using both cards QLOGIC 2560 - for unknown reason I cannot get it work with Mikrotik 10GB SFP+ CRS309
Is that because card is 8GB and switch is 10GB ?

 

[kdragon75]

Fiber Channel and Ethernet are not compatible. If you want to use the cards you have you need a fiberchannel switch. If you want to use the mikrotek, you need Ethernet cards. Its two different things.