11:52 p.m.
I have HP BL460c Gen9 blades with BCM57840 NetXtreme II
10/20-Gigabit Ethernet via a HP Virtual connection. In my ovirt 4.1
environment I have fibre channel working great.
However in the new environment that I want to bring the data domain over
too ultimately, I am having issues with ovirt interfering with the hosts
ability to see the Fiber Channel storage. If i build a clean CentOS 7
installation and get my FCoE module installed and Fiber channel set up
on my appropriate interfaces, it works and sees the fiber channel
interface every time I type fcoeadm -i, I can reboot a million times,
does not go away. However once I turn it into a oVirt 4.2 node and add
it to my environment and reboot the blade it is hit or miss if fcoeadm
-i is going to return interface information.
If I then type "systemctl restart network" my fiber channel comes
online, but I should not need to do this. I can see in my dmesg logs
that the fiber channel is initializing on boot.
[ 39.465578] cnic: QLogic cnicDriver v2.5.22 (July 20, 2015)
[ 39.465594] bnx2x 0000:06:00.2 eno51: Added CNIC device
[ 39.475618] bnx2x 0000:06:00.3 eno52: Added CNIC device
[ 39.495575] bnx2fc: QLogic FCoE Driver bnx2fc v2.11.8 (October 15, 2015)
[ 39.505971] bnx2fc: bnx2fc: FCoE initialized for eno52.
[ 39.506299] bnx2fc: [06]: FCOE_INIT passed
[ 39.516308] bnx2fc: bnx2fc: FCoE initialized for eno51.
[ 39.516654] bnx2fc: [06]: FCOE_INIT passed
Reminder I have not added a FC storage domain yet, because I need to
turn off and detach the domain from the old 4.1 environment first.
However that should not keep the fiber channel interfaces from coming up...
And I need to know its working before I do that.
Below is what an fcoeadm -i should return when it seems to be working.
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fcoeadm -i
Description: BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet
Revision: 11
Manufacturer: Broadcom Limited
Serial Number: 5CB901C7EE00
Driver: bnx2x 1.712.30-0
Number of Ports: 1
Symbolic Name: bnx2fc (QLogic BCM57840) v2.11.8 over eno51
OS Device Name: host10
Node Name: 0x50060b0000c27a05
Port Name: 0x50060b0000c27a04
Fabric Name: 0x1000c4f57c218ff4
Speed: unknown
Supported Speed: 1 Gbit, 10 Gbit
MaxFrameSize: 2048 bytes
FC-ID (Port ID): 0x0a025c
State: Online
Description: BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet
Revision: 11
Manufacturer: Broadcom Limited
Serial Number: 5CB901C7EE00
Driver: bnx2x 1.712.30-0
Number of Ports: 1
Symbolic Name: bnx2fc (QLogic BCM57840) v2.11.8 over eno52
OS Device Name: host11
Node Name: 0x50060b0000c27a07
Port Name: 0x50060b0000c27a06
Fabric Name: 0x1000c4f57c21979d
Speed: unknown
Supported Speed: 1 Gbit, 10 Gbit
MaxFrameSize: 2048 bytes
FC-ID (Port ID): 0x14037b
State: Online
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However if I reboot the node from the ovirt console and wait a few
minutes after it has rebooted then type fcoeadm -i I get the following.
fcoeadm -i
fcoeadm: No action was taken
Try 'fcoeadm --help' for more information.
it is not until I perform a systemctl restart network, that I get the
correct output from above.
Any help or insight into fiber channel with ovirt 4.2 would be greatly
appreciated.
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Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690