Re: [Xen-users] Emulex SAN card support

["M.A. Williamson" <maw48@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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