How to config FCoe to Work with esx4.1 and CISCO?

[shatztal]

Hello,

i have installed an esx 4.1 server for testing purpose and we want to configure it to work with FCoe.

The Esx has an Qlogic 10G Card for this , we have a problem on the side of our NetWork Team.

The cards are regognized as vmnics and my SC is on on of them, but we want now to do the binding on the

Cisco side so i could also see the Storage.

Is there a Manual to config this thing on Both Sides ? Also VMware and CISCO ?

is there somthing special i need to config on my side?

[shatztal]

anyone? please!

[Virtualinfra]

There is nothing to be configured from VMware for FcoE and Network team has to enable it or Datacenter support can reseat the Qlogic cards and see what happens.

Enable tech support and login as root.

run thebelow command and see the link status of qlogic cards.

esxcfg-scsidevs -a

[donJ201110141 · Accepted solution]

I haven't done FCoE with Cisco, but I have done many FCoE setups with Brocade/VMware & Qlogic. It works like a charm. In this case all I do is:

1) Plug the Qlogic adapter in to the server & get the vmnic up & running with qlogic drivers (I think you are done with this step, except you haven't mentioned about installing qla & qlge drivers on the ESX box. You need BOTH qlge & qla drivers for the Qlogic fcoe adapter)

2) After step 1 you should be ready for the FCoE, you don't have to do any thing once the ESX box came up.

3) Final step is to Zone both the FCoE adapter (QLogic) with your FCoE target in your Cisco Box. With Brocade switches, all I need to do is:

i) provision the connected port as a "fcoeport", get the port logged in

ii)create a zone with the 2 WWNs & add that zone to the cfg, & enable that cfg. That's it.

I get the feeling that you havent' installed the qlogic drivers (both qlge & qla in ESX yet), just incase if you haven't , here are the driver names you need (doesn't have to be exact, just watch out for the "qlge" & "qla" portion):

vmware-esx-drivers-net-qlge_400.1.0.0.39-1.0.4.00000.265875.iso*

vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-qla2xxx_400.832.k1.27.1-1vmw.2.17.00000.291979.iso*

[Virtualinfra]

Donj is correct.. the base ESXI hypervisor doesnt have the qlogic driver installed i belive thats way its not detecting for.. just see that HCL where the qlogic you have used is supported or not.. Else use the inject drive option to modify the ESXi ISO files and install and try that should work possibly..

[shatztal]

Thanks alot guys , everything you said i did alredy before but still it didn;t work and i just wanted to know if i miss somthing ,

luckly the NetworkTeam found the problem on there side after 2 days that i tried to prove them that it is there fault.

thanks for the replys