Proxmox and Fibre Channel

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Jamie

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I have installed a dual slot 8gb/s fibre channel and I can see the device in an iommu group and can also see that its driver is loaded and I can see information about the device like link speed and status. However, I cannot see it as a network interface.

How do I configure each slot as a network interface?

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Thanks
 
fibre-channel is not a network interface where you configure an ip ?!
if you export a LUN to that interface it should show up as a blockdevice (`lsblk` output, `dmesg` output)

I hope that helps!
 
Stoiko Ivanov said:
just learned that ip over fc does exist
I'm not sure that this has much widespread/well tested use - from a quick search on the net it seems that it's not too well supported (and support might have been dropped - based on a quick grep through the kernel-sources).

see e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/6sjzia/ip_over_fc/
https://serverfault.com/questions/300699/how-do-i-set-up-ip-over-fc
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If thats the case, then how can I achieve 10gb/s from node to node? I am not sure how iscsi works.
 
Jamie said:
ConnectX-2 VPI
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from a quick search this has been EOL since 2016 - https://www.mellanox.com/support/eol
as far as i remember the drivers for the ConnectX-3 (a newer model) are due to be dropped from the linux-kernel at some point soon - so I'd probably not invest in this currently

You could try to get a Intel 10G nic (x520, x740) - if it's within your budget...
 
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