[ovirt-users] Fwd: FC QLogic question

Bill Dossett bill.dossett at pb.com
Thu Sep 11 11:35:35 UTC 2014


>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I did a lsmod | grep qxl  and it returned nothing...  did you perhaps mean qla?
>
> [root at ovirt141 ~]# lsmod | grep qla
> qla2xxx               466573  56
>
> I think that is the one
>
> lsscsi does list all of the LUNs...  so that's working!
>
> But nothing in ovirt engine when I try to add a storage domain.
>
> Thanks again, I guess I will try and get a bit further with the installs I have...
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Helgenberger [mailto:daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de]
> Sent: 11 September 2014 11:53
> To: Bill Dossett
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] FC QLogic question
>
> On 11.09.2014 12:17, Bill Dossett wrote:
>> Thanks for responding Daniel.
> Never mind!
>> I was wondering and thought the message may be irrelevant.  But yes,
>> it doesn't appear to be working.  When I try to add a FC storage
>> domain, no hosts are showing in the drop down box of hosts.  I have
>> loaded the latests ovirtnode (3.4.something.) on two hosts now and
>> neither are working.
> Lets first try to isolate your FC issure. So you are using the latest ovirt-node? EL6? Keep in mind, the kernel is standard Linux and therefore should support Qlogic adapters out of the box (IMHO they are the best supported HBAs in Linux).
> Please try a:
> # lsmod  | grep qxl
> to see whatever the qxl module is loaded. Keep in mind you can run into problems with other conrollers in your host, though I only had this with LSI SAS / FC controllers so far.
>
> Further check on the FC switch if the N port is logged in and the zoning is correct.
>
> Finally, check with
> # lsscsi
> if you can see the luns.
>
>> Also having a lot of issues with configuring the network.  I configure
>> an interface I can ping it, but it shows as unconfigured. on one host
>> I have added it to the manager and I see the interfaces anyway, but on
>> the second host I configure the eth0, I can ping it, it added to the
>> ovirt engine but it shows no NICs.  Should I be using an earlier version maybe?
>>
>> thanks again and best regards.
>>
>>
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>> On Sep 11, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Helgenberger
>> <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de <mailto:daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Bill,
>>>
>>> what are your problems acually? Is fibre channel not working (as expected)?
>>>
>>> The log snippet you provided is completly normal and the messages
>>> can safely be ignored. This is also unrelated to oVirt but rather
>>> CentOS (or the distro you are running) I suppose.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> On 11.09.2014 10:51, Bill Dossett wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I seem to have run into a problem setting up ovirt with Fibre Channel storage.
>>>>
>>>> I have a 2MBs SAN and qlogic cards in the nodes.  I used this same
>>>> setup with RHEV about 6 months ago and it just worked, storage was
>>>> there no problems.  Now booting with ovirtnode distro, I am seeing
>>>>
>>>> Sep  9 08:01:27 localhost kernel: qla2xxx [0000:0c:00.0]-0091:1:
>>>> Firmware images can be retrieved from: http://ldriver.qlogic.com/firmware/.
>>>>
>>>> Sep  9 08:01:27 localhost kernel: scsi1 : qla2xxx
>>>>
>>>> Sep  9 08:01:27 localhost kernel: qla2xxx [0000:0c:00.0]-00fb:1:
>>>> QLogic QLE2460
>>>> - QLogic 4GB FC Single-Port PCI-E HBA for IBM System x.
>>>>
>>>> Sep  9 08:01:27 localhost kernel: qla2xxx [0000:0c:00.0]-00fc:1:
>>>> ISP2432: PCIe (2.5GT/s x4) @ 0000:0c:00.0 hdma+ host#=1 fw=4.00.26 (2).
>>>>
>>>> Sep  9 08:01:27 localhost kernel: ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A
>>>> -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>>>>
>>>> I have googled the firmware error and it says some cards need a
>>>> firmware flash and some don't.  These are pretty standard HBAs so I
>>>> would think they would be supported out of the box, but maybe not.
>>>> Looking at trying to add the firmware looked kind of complex - if I
>>>> need to do this, does anyone know of a nice and easy howto guide on
>>>> this.  I'm just getting started with ovirt and appreciate any help
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> *Bill Dossett*
>>>>
>>>> *Virtualisation Architect*
>>>>
>>>> *Pitney Bowes - Tech Central***
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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