Adding FC Functionality

[ehowton]

Howdy! Trying to add FC HBA to my server, but honestly have no idea what I'm doing.  Am successfully running a quad-port FC HBA in my R610 ESXi, a dual-port FC HBA in my R730 FreeNAS, and an identical single-port FC in my R710 Centos backup server.  The last remaining piece is the UNRAID server. It shows up in the OS but I can't find any configuration options for it in the web GUI. I've scoured this forum and tried all manner of the listed suggestions (and watching the oft-posted How to setup 10GB Ethernet easily and cheaply on uNRAID), but am at a loss.

 

It would appear the card requires the qla2xxx kernel module, and that the UNRAID-included qla3xxx does not support it, but I honestly have no idea. I've been a unix admin for 20+ years but fairly new to storage solutions so any assistance is appreciated, thank you!

 

02:00.0 Fibre Channel [0c04]: QLogic Corp. ISP8324-based 16Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express Adapter

unraid-diagnostics-20210730-1048.zip

[ehowton]

I replaced the Qlogic with the dual-port Intel card, and while progress is made with the ixgbe module loading, I'm still unable to utilize the device.
 

root@unraid:/var/log# lspci -v -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82598EB 10-Gigabit AF Dual Port Network Connection (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation 10-Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 1
	Memory at b12a0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at b1240000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
	I/O ports at 4020 [size=32]
	Memory at b12c4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [60] MSI-X: Enable- Count=18 Masked-
	Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1b-21-ff-ff-70-8f-66
	Kernel modules: ixgbe

root@unraid:/var/log# lspci -v -s 01:00.1
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82598EB 10-Gigabit AF Dual Port Network Connection (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation 10-Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17, IOMMU group 1
	Memory at b1280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at b1200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
	I/O ports at 4000 [size=32]
	Memory at b12c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [60] MSI-X: Enable- Count=18 Masked-
	Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1b-21-ff-ff-70-8f-66
	Kernel modules: ixgbe

 

unraid-diagnostics-20210730-2001.zip

[Ruben Marien]

@ehowton did you manage to get this working? Am looking into the same myself