Re: HBA recommended as FC target

Hello Laurence,

* Laurence Oberman [off-list ref] [2017-08-18 15:26]:

Any of the Qlogic qla24xx or qla25xx and higher that allow you to
disable initiator mode will work.  I use qla25xx 8Gbit in all my
Target arrays.

thank you for your recommendations I ordered a Qlogic QLE2462-HP
-PX2510401 - 4GB 2-Port Fibre on ebay.

* Laurence Oberman [off-list ref] [2017-08-18 15:31]:

There is no way to do this using adapters and generic F/C with Linux
as the O/S. The ability to enable debugging in the F/C drivers will
expose some of the internals but there is no way to sniff directly as
far as I am aware.

I enabled debugging in the Linux target once and I could see quiet
detailed information. Probably this will be enough for me. At the time I
was debugging SCSI reservations.

Many switches allow port level tracing facilities but inline sniffing
using Linux and generic hosts is not possible.

Are you aware of facilities in entry level brocade switches that I can
use. I just have to trace one port.

Cheers,
        Thomas