Thanks Kenneth ! We have FCoE initiator up, on Fedora 16 / 3.1 Kernel. My
impression was that FCoE was native there.
What is the relationship between TCM and FCST targets ? Which one is better
maintained recently ?
I'll use RHEL 6.2 for the target. Do we really need to upgrade target machine
to 3.1 Kernel ? Wouldn't 2.6.34 closer to your instructions ?
Thanks for your help.
From: kenneth.zh...@intel.com
To: igvk2...@hotmail.com; devel@open-fcoe.org
Subject: RE: [Open-FCoE] Specific distro for fcst / scst
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:08:13 +0000
Not sure where you failed the build the target and what message you got.
The problem with Fedora is that FCoE is not native so you must install FCoE and
user space utilities correctly. I am not sure whether you have got FCoE
initiator up and running first. Since FCoE is native to RHEL 6.1 and newer (or
SLES 11 SP1 and newer), you will have much less of issue when using RHEL6.1 or
6.2.
For a fresh installation of RHEL62 (both initiator and target), do the
following to bring up DCB and FCoE interface (Examples below using interface
eth2)
- start lldpad and fcoe
service lldpad start
service fcoe start
- bring up dcb
dcbtool sc eth2 dcb on
dcbtool sc eth2 pfc e:1 a:1 w:1
dcbtool sc eth2 app:0 e:1
- copy cfg-ethx file
cp /etc/fcoe/cfg-ethx /etc/fcoe/cfg-eth2
- restart fcoe
service fcoe start
Now, on target host,
- build new kernel (3.1 kernel should work but you may try more recent
kernel 3.2 or 3.3); note that some modules listed in the instructions may not
be there in newer kernel
- build user mode tool lio-utils
Build target
- start target service
- create a target (see example in the quick guide); make sure correct
WWPN are used for your initiator and target
If you are using a FCoE switch (FCF), you need to configure proper zoning
before the initiator can see LUNs from the target.
If you do not use FCF, VN-to-VN interface can connect initiator to the target.
Now, start vn2vn on both target and initiator, start target first.
From: Igor [mailto:igvk2...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 11:33 AM
To: Zhang, Kenneth; devel@open-fcoe.org
Subject: RE: [Open-FCoE] Specific distro for fcst / scst
We were following these instructions on Fedora 16 with 3.1 Kernel, to no avail.
It may be partially related to the fact that we are using vn-to-vn connection
(so the sequence of instructions does not seem to be correct, as
echo <interface> > /sys/module/libfcoe/parameters/create_vn2vn
has to be done much earlier, and "create_vn2vn" is present in fcoe module, but
not in libfcoe.
Also some of the build steps fail. So we woyuld like to use exact distro, for
which instrutions are valid. Would it be RHEL61 ?
Your help will be highly appreciated.
> From: kenneth.zh...@intel.com
> To: igvk2...@hotmail.com; devel@open-fcoe.org
> Subject: RE: [Open-FCoE] Specific distro for fcst / scst
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:02:31 +0000
>
> Not sure which kernel you are using. For this target to work, you need to use
> 2.6.39 and higher kernel. It is preferable to use 3.x kernel. You can follow
> the instructions here
> http://www.open-fcoe.org/open-fcoe/wiki/tcm-fcoe-target-guide
>
> Note that the instructions were for base OS of RHEL6.1 and older kernel. So
> some steps may not necessarily apply, but the basic procedures are still
> valid.
>
> Can you try RHEL62 and 3.2 kernel?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-boun...@open-fcoe.org [mailto:devel-boun...@open-fcoe.org] On
> Behalf Of Igor
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:00 AM
> To: devel@open-fcoe.org
> Subject: [Open-FCoE] Specific distro for fcst / scst
>
>
> After several unsuccessful attempts to build FCoE target on Fedora 16, could
> somebody please suggest a more specific solution - I mean, what specific
> distro, and Kernel, should we use to be able to build an FCoE target based on
> fcst / scst (or any other publicly available project) ?
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