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Re: [Xen-users] Emulex SAN card support
As a rule, we want to support all reasonably modern hardware: the card
you're interested in ought to work. Server class hardware is generally the
least awkward to run on; laptops and cheap desktops tend to cause more
compatibility issues.
Occasionally device hardware won't work due to bugs in the device drivers:
these bugs are often API violations and tend not to manifiest on normal x86
but can occur on platforms such as Xen and some other architectures. When
this *does* happen, the driver authors ought (in principle) to fix the bug.
We've only had this happen once or twice.
We really ought to have a hardware "whitelist" and "blacklist" on the Wiki
so that people can make more informed purchase decisions. Someone mentioned
it but I'm not sure if it's there yet...
Cheers,
Mark
On Nov 17 2005, Mark C. Ballew wrote:
Xen users,
I am in the process of buying a Xen machine to do testing and see if Xen is
a good choice for our site. I will be deploying version 3, but it won't be
in production for some months.
My question is, has anyone used the Emulex dual channel fc cards in Xen?
Where there any special tricks involved in getting it to work? I've read
some of the other posts on the mailing lists, and some people say to use
Qlogic cards with CLVM, which I haven't used yet.
Hardware specs:
Sun Fire x4200 with:
2 x 254 Opterons
73 x 2 SAS disk
Quad channel ethernet
Emulex PCI-2 2G Dual Channel FC Host card
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