HP maintains the SPOCK website as the primary source of detailed information about HP storage product configurations, including operating system, software, and firmware version support. For the latest information about storage array support, see the HP SPOCK website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
Some HBA/CNA download kits include a
readme.txt file that may contain additional information about installing firmware and drivers, plus enhancements and fixes in the current release. Information in the readme.txt file supersedes this and other HP Emulex documents.
This section lists the HBAs and CNAs that are supported on ProLiant and Integrity servers. Although CNAs have FCoE, NIC, and iSCSI functionality, this document addresses FCoE functionality only.
Table 1, “Supported CNAs and server LOMs” describes the CNAs and server LOMs (LAN on motherboard) supported on servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and Citrix operating systems.
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Table 1 Supported CNAs and server LOMs
Table 2, “Supported HBAs and mezzanine cards” describes the HBAs and mezzanine cards supported on servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and Citrix operating systems.
Table 2 Supported HBAs and mezzanine cards
Table 3, “Supported legacy HBAs and mezzanine cards” describes the Legacy HBAs and mezzanine cards supported on servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and Citrix operating systems.
Table 3 Supported legacy HBAs and mezzanine cards
Emulex CNAs, HBAs, and LOMs are supported on HP servers that:
For information about the supported servers for the CNAs, see the CNA QuickSpecs.
Before you perform CNA or HBA updates, you must do the following:
For information on installing CNAs, see HP Emulex Converged Network Adapter Installation Guide. For information on installing HBAs, see HP Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter and Driver Installation Guide. To download either of these guides:
This section describes how you can obtain the latest information about supported operating systems and software.
For the latest information about supported HBAs, CNAs, LOMs, and mezzanine cards listed by operating systems, see the HP SPOCK website at:
You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access. From the web page, click HBA Software Support Matrix, and then select your operating system.
This section contains information about CNA and HBA support for Linux.
For HBA Linux support information, see http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure/hba.html.
For CNA Linux support information, see the HP Converged Network Adapters website at http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12169-304608-4109633-4109633-4109633-4118472.html?dnr=1.
For more information, see the
readme.txt file packaged with the kit.
You can use OneCommand Manager or HBAnyware to view a list of CNA/HBA driver and firmware information.
This section describes CNA/HBA support for Windows.
CNAs/HBAs/LOMs are supported on ProLiant servers with Enterprise, Standard, Storage Server, and Datacenter versions of the following:
HP supports the use of Windows and Linux as a guest operating system on VMware ESX versions 4.x and 5.x. For information on VMware driver support, see the HP Server Virtualization website at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?category=SVIRTUAL. Windows and Linux Fibre Channel HBA drivers are not used on the virtual operating system.
To ensure that your HBA/CNA is supported by HP and VMware, see VMware Compatibility Guide at:
HP supports the Citrix Hypervisor. For more information, see the HP Virtualization with Citrix website:
This section describes restrictions, notes, and issue workarounds for Emulex CNA/HBA adapters.
The notes in this section apply to all operating systems.
This blocked condition results in a loss of access to storage by the paths provided through the channel adapter (CHA) to all connected hosts. This issue can occur with HP Emulex CNA firmware earlier than 4.1.450.14. To prevent this issue, you must ensure that the HP Emulex CNA firmware version is 4.1.450.14 or later. HP recommends that you install HP Emulex CNA firmware 4.1.450.16 or later.
When updating firmware on an Emulex adapter, all Emulex adapters installed in the server must be enabled. One or more disabled adapters or adapter ports will cause the firmware update to fail.
The HP LPe1205A BIOS does not auto-negotiate to the highest possible speed when the adapter installed in a BL465 Gen8 server. When searching for targets, the Boot BIOS negotiates to the next-highest speed (4 Gb for 8 Gb connections or 2 Gb for 4 Gb connections). When the operating system driver comes online, the link re-negotiates to the expected speed.
The SN1000E 16 Gb HBA does not support 2 Mb transfer sizes.
You can use the server ROM-Based Setup Utility (RSBU) to view or change the CNA personality (iSCSI or FCoE).
When a CNA is configured for FCoE, you must enable the network boot on all NIC ports in order to detect LUNs. Use the server RBSU Embedded NICs menu to enable the network boot. In a blade environment, if you configure FCoE with Vitual Connect, VC enables network boot in the RBSU automatically.
The HP Fibre Channel Enablement Kit and OneCommand Manager both install API libraries and can be used individually. For those configurations using both kits, HP recommends that you install the Enablement Kit before you install OneCommand Manager. When uninstalling, HP recommends that you remove OneCommand Manager before you remove the Enablement Kit.
The CN1000E maximum supported Ethernet Jumbo Packet frame size is 8192 bytes.
The CN1000E maximum supported optical cable length is 40 meters.
When using a C-series Converged Network Switch (HP Nexus 5000) with the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10-Gb/24-port module, NPIV must be enabled on the C-series switch.
DL16x and DL18x Servers require extra time to boot from SAN.
When the CN1000E is used as the boot device in a DL16x or DL18x server, the server can pause for approximately 90 seconds when it is expected to start booting from the hard disk. After this delay, the boot process resumes as expected.
Before installing an HP CN1000E into a DL/SL100-series server, you must upgrade the server BIOS to 2010.02.04 or later. The BIOS is available for download from the HP Download Drivers and Software website:
HP recommends that you implement zoning by CNAs/HBAs, as described in the HP SAN Design Reference Guide, available at:
HP ProLiant DL380 (G4) servers must have System ROMPaq firmware 4.05 P51-08/16/2005 or later to be compatible with the FC2142SR and FC2242SR. Failure to use this ROMPaq version can cause the HBAs to hang during the power-on self-test (POST). For more information, see the HP website:
This section provides information about Linux and CNAs/HBAs.
You must use
ethtools to perform an online CNA firmware update while running RHEL6.4 Inbox. To do this:
There is no management support for CNAs using the OneCommand Management Utility for RHEL6.4 Inbox at this time.
Fibre Channel HBAs do support OneCommand for RHEL6.4 Inbox.
In a BFS configuration, a bindings file becomes out-of-sync between the copy in
/var/lib/multipath and a copy in the initrd image the server uses during boot.
A workaround is documented in the Native Linux Device-Mapper Multipath for HP Storage Disk Arrays reference guide, available at http://spock.corp.hp.com/utility/document.aspx?docurl=Shared%20Documents/an/solutions_linux/Device_Mapper_Multipath_RG_2012_02_21.pdf
An SLES 11 SP1 x64 system with an lpfc driver 8.5.3.44 can incorrectly report SCSI resets status in /var/log/messages similar to the following:
Aug 9 12:01:12 xyz kernel: [ 6783.419080] lpfc 0000:a1:00.0: 4:(0):0714 SCSI layer issued Bus Reset Data: x0
You can ignore this message.
Firmware download in SLES 10 SP3 can cause the system to hang.
When downloading firmware to the CNA in SLES 10 SP3 using OneCommand Manager or
hbacmd , the download may complete but cause the system to become unresponsive or hang. Though the firmware download is successful, a hard reboot of the server may be required to enable the new firmware.
ReiserFS file systems can exhibit unexpected behavior under heavy loads. HP recommends that you use either the
xfs or ext3 file system. For up-to-date recommendations, see the Novell website:
HP recommends that you use the
ext3 file system in high availability (HA) environments. For information on how to use other Linux file systems in an HA environment, see SLES 11 Administration Guide, available at the Novell website http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles11 and the Red Hat Deployment Guide, available at the Red Hat website http://www.redhat.com.
For information on the differences between
ext2 and ext3 , see the operating system documentation.
For the MSA2000 family of disk arrays:
Because the order in which a switch reports Fibre Channel ports to a name server can vary, the order in which LUNs are discovered can vary between system boots.
HP recommends that you use the
udev utility to ensure that the name of a device does not change between system boots. For more information, see the udev website:
XP LUNs presented to Linux hosts must start with LUN 0.
A maximum of 10 targets are supported in a BFS zone.
On an sx2000 system with the default logging level, a call trace may appear in the
/var/log/messages file during failover events.
When running the
scsi_info command on older XP arrays, such as XP1024/128, you may see output similar to that shown in the following example. Ignore the error, and note that the WWN is not all zeros.
The XP array returns inquiry data that differs slightly from that returned by EVA or MSA arrays.
Emulex Lightpulse Hba Driver Windows 2003[root@coco /]# scsi_info /dev/sdal SCSI_ID='4,0,8,0':
E':FW_REV='5005':WWN='0000000000000000':LUN='5235303020303030-3130353930203030'
[root@coco /]# scsi_info /dev/sdam
SCSI_ID='4,0,8,1':VENDOR='HP':MODEL='OPEN-
E':FW_REV='5005':WWN='0000000000000000':LUN='5235303020303030-3130353930203030'
[root@coco /]# scsi_info /dev/sdan
SCSI_ID='4,0,9,0':VENDOR='HP':MODEL='OPEN- 3':FW_REV='2114':WWN='03000000002018e9':LUN='5234353120303030-3330313033203030'
[root@coco /]# scsi_info /dev/sdao SCSI_ID='4,0,9,1':VENDOR='HP':MODEL='OPEN-
3':FW_REV='2114':WWN='0b00000000600000':LUN='5234353120303030-3330313033203030'
Installing PSP 7.91/92 causes
fibreutils to downgrade. Reinstall fibreutils rpm from the downloaded kit.
Example:
#rpm –fvh fibreutils.< version >.linux.< arch >.rpm
When an EVA4400 with embedded switch is configured in a heterogeneous SAN, HP recommends that you use a text editor to edit the HBA configuration file
etc/modprobe.conf .
Emulex Lightpulse Hba Driver Windows 2012options lpfcmpl mpl_hbeat_tmo_busy=0
Save the file, and then run the
make_initrd script.
# /opt/hp/hp-lpfc/make_initrd
Reboot your server with the correct
initrd .
Dynamic LUN addition and removal are supported. However, the ability to dynamically add a new LUN (or a LUN that has been previously removed) using the LUN number of a previously removed LUN is not supported. Dynamic target addition, which is defined as adding a new Fibre Channel target (such as adding a new storage array) to a SAN, is also not supported. The ability to present the new target to a Fibre Channel HBA, and then prompt the operating system to do an online scan (such as using the
hp_rescan utility that comes with fibreutils ) is not supported with the Emulex failover driver (MultiPulse). If you add a new Fibre Channel target to a host server, you must reboot that server.
This section describes information about using Windows and CNAs/HBAs.
When configuring Virtual Fibre Channel in Windows 2012 Hyper-V, all ports on the Converged Network Adapter must have NPIV enabled.
The 64 Bit DMA addressing feature is not supported in Emulex Windows FC/FCoE drivers at this time.
If the Windows operating system crashes on a Gen8 server, a
memory.dmp file might not get written to disk due to a Windows driver issue.
Before you build a Windows 2003 SP2 operating system in a boot from SAN environment, you must install one of the following drivers:
After the operating system is built, install the Microsoft STORport storage driver available at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=932755, and then update to the latest driver supported by HP.
Systems running Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 require KB hotfix 976748 to be installed before installing Microsoft Device Specific Module (MS DSM) as a multipath solution. For more information, see the Microsoft Support website:
HP EVA MPIO DSM 4.00.00 prevents BFS on systems running Windows 2003 if there are three or more paths enabled.
Windows driver fails to log back into the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch after switch reboot.
On Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, the link is not re-established when a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch is rebooted. The workaround is to use the Nexus
Shutdown and No Shutdown CLI commands to bring the port back online.
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If you are upgrading to the STORport miniport driver, consider the following:
Integrity servers running WS2003 support Windows STORport driver 2.10x1 or earlier.
Emulex 2-Gb HBAs and mezzanine cards are not supported with WS2008 R2.
The following Smart Component issues may be observed during driver installation:
This section describes information about using VMware and CNAs/HBAs.
The OCM GUI on ESX COS servers does not display all SAN storage arrays due to an issue with the communication path between the OCM GUI and ESX COS server.
If this occurs, delete the affected server from the host inventory, and then add the server with CIM credentials (as a CIM server).
There is an issue when loading and running the
elxcomcore rpm on ESX COS servers. If you attempt to add the ESX host using the CIM interface via the Windows OCM GUI, the Windows OCM is unable to connect to SFCB server.
To avoid this issue, install the Emulex VMware COM provider on the ESX COS (4.1) server, and then use the Windows OCM GUI CIM interface to add the server.
Use the following links to download CIM Provider.
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