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List:       opensolaris-storage-discuss
Subject:    Re: [storage-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 01/06 qlc vs Qlogic QLA v 5.0
From:       John Martinez <rolnif () mac ! com>
Date:       2007-02-26 17:37:59
Message-ID: 5E445B79-F672-442A-8CC0-A4B3E95ED4E9 () mac ! com
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On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:31 AM, John Martinez wrote:

>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Dale Ghent wrote:
>
>> On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:51 AM, shay wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I buy HBA type QLA2342 from HDS, in order to connect my solaris8 
>>> \10 servers to HDS storage type AMS500.
>>>
>>> The QLA2342 came with driver qla(NOT qlc) because the firmware in  
>>> the QLA2342 card is from HDS (not from SUN).
>>> As I understand the qla driver NOT working with the Traffic  
>>> manager because the driver is not a SUN driver(qlc).
>>
>> Shay, you can use as non-Sun QLA2342 card with the qlc driver.  
>> Having Sun firmware on the card is not a requirement. Also, yes,  
>> you must use the qlc driver to get traffic manager capabilities.
>>
>> I run about 20 non-Sun QLA2342 and QLE2462 cards here with the  
>> Solaris 10 qlc driver and mpxio just fine, and have been for over  
>> two years now.
>
> Shay mentions he runs these in an HDS environment. I would caution  
> to make sure that the proposed environment is certified by HDS.  
> Just because it works, doesn't mean that it's certified and he'd  
> get support from HDS. In our environment, we have Sun branded  
> QLE2460's certified with an HDS AMS1000 with the Leadville drivers  
> on Solaris 10 Update 1. I believe Update 2 just barely got  
> certified, so we may be upgrading soon, but I haven't made that  
> decision yet. We run these on our X4600 servers.
>
> Just throwing it out as a cautionary statement, having worked with  
> HDS equipment for many years now...

Forgot to mention we also use Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 (VM and  
FS) for Solaris x64 along with DMP for our multipathing.

-john
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