recommendation for 8Gb FC HBA to run in FC target mode?

[lam]

Hi,

we consider to evaluate Open-E DSS V6 - and I just discovered that V6 supports to run in FC target mode.

Any recommendation for a Fibre Channel HBA which is supported by Open-E to run in FC target mode?

Thanks
lam

[r3vo]

I would recommend Qlogic FC HBA's. We made very good expierences regarding to performance, stability etc.
We used QLE2562.

[lam]

r3vo thanks.

Open-E Team, would you please confirm the support for the following FC HBAs to run in target mode?

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QLogic QLE2500 series (200,000 IOPS per port)
- QLE2560, 4Gbps single-port Fibre Channel-to-x8 PCI Express adapter
- QLE2562, 4Gbps dual-port Fibre Channel-to-x8 PCI Express adapter
- QLE2664, 4Gbps quad-port Fibre Channel-to-x8 PCI Express adapter

IBM OEM QLE2500 series
- QLogic QLE2560 (42D0501)
- QLogic QLE2562 (42D0510)

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QLogic 2400 Series (150,000 IOPS per port)
- QLE2460, 4Gbps single-port Fibre Channel-to-x4 PCI Express adapter
- QLE2462, 4Gbps dual-port Fibre Channel-to-x4 PCI Express adapter
- QLE2464, 4Gbps quad-port Fibre Channel-to-x8 PCI Express adapter
- QLA2460, 4Gbps single-port Fibre Channel-to-PCI-X 2.0 266 MHz adapter
- QLA2462, 4Gbps dual-port Fibre Channel-to-PCI-X 2.0 266 MHz adapter


IBM OEM QLE2400 series
- QLogic QLA2460 (39M5894)
- QLogic QLA2462 (39M5895)
- QLogic QLE2460 (39R6525)
- QLogic QLE2462 (39R6527)

[Sl-N]

All of mentioned hardware should be supported in DSS V6 in Initiator and Target mode, they are all based on chipsets that have proper drivers implemented in DSS v6, although we did not performed any tests with IBM OEM FC HBAs.

In case of any problems with IBM OEMs hardwares, we can fix them with remote support session.

[To-M]

Qlogic 4GB and 8GB FC HBA's are supported in Initiator and Target modes and you can assign each port for the same card for both Initiator and Target modes.

[lam]

Bartender & To-M - thanks ! Will post findings.

lam