Managing Network Adapters

Modifying vHBA Properties

Name

Description

Link Down Timeout field

The number of milliseconds the uplink port should be offline before it

 

informs the system that the uplink port is down and fabric connectivity

 

has been lost.

 

Enter an integer between 0 and 240,000.

Port Down I/O Retries field

The number of times an I/O request to a port is returned because the

 

port is busy before the system decides the port is unavailable.

 

Enter an integer between 0 and 255.

Port Down Timeout field

The number of milliseconds a remote Fibre Channel port should be

 

offline before informing the SCSI upper layer that the port is unavailable.

 

Enter an integer between 0 and 240,000.

Step 10 In the Fibre Channel Interrupt area, update the following fields:

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, update 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, update the following fields:

 

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