Managing Network Adapters

Viewing vHBA Properties

Name

Description

Interrupt Mode drop-down list

The preferred driver interrupt mode. This can be one of the following:

MSIx—Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) with the optional extension. This is the recommended option.

MSI—MSI only.

INTx—PCI INTx interrupts.

Step 11 In the Fibre Channel Port area, review the information in the following fields:

Name

Description

I/O Throttle Count field

The number of I/O operations that can be pending in the vHBA at one

 

time.

Enter an integer between 1 and 1,024.

LUNs per Target field

The maximum number of LUNs that the driver will export. This is

 

usually an operating system platform limitation.

 

Enter an integer between 1 and 1,024. The recommended value is 1024.

Step 12 In the Fibre Channel Port FLOGI area, review the information in the following fields:

Name

Description

FLOGI Retries field

The number of times that the system tries to log in to the fabric after

 

the first failure.

 

To specify an unlimited number of retries, select the INFINITE radio

 

button. Otherwise select the second radio button and enter an integer

 

into the corresponding field.

FLOGI Timeout field

The number of milliseconds that the system waits before it tries to log

 

in again.

 

Enter an integer between 1,000 and 255,000.

Step 13 In the Fibre Channel Port PLOGI area, review the information in the following fields:

Name

Description

PLOGI Retries field

The number of times that the system tries to log in to a port after the

 

first failure.

Enter an integer between 0 and 255.

 

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Cisco Systems UCSCPCIECSC02 manual Interrupt Mode drop-down list, Throttle Count field, LUNs per Target field