Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

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1 Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide Dell Engineering July 2014 A Dell Deployment and Configuration Guide

2 Revisions Date Description Authors July 2014 Initial release Neal Beard, Dennis Dadey This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and technical inaccuracies. The content is provided as is, without express or implied warranties of any kind Dell Inc., All rights reserved. Except as stated below, no part of this document may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without express permission of Dell. You may distribute this document within your company or organization only, without alteration of its contents. THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED AS-IS, AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED. PRODUCT WARRANTIES APPLICABLE TO THE DELL PRODUCTS DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE FOUND AT: Performance of network reference architectures discussed in this document may vary with differing deployment conditions, network loads, and the like. Third party products may be included in reference architectures for the convenience of the reader. Inclusion of such third party products does not necessarily constitute Dell s recommendation of those products. Please consult your Dell representative for additional information. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi, Dell Precision,OptiPlex, Latitude, PowerEdge, PowerVault, PowerConnect, OpenManage, EqualLogic, Compellent, KACE, FlexAddress, Force10 and Vostro are trademarks of Dell Inc. Other Dell trademarks may be used in this document. Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, Cisco NX-0S, and other Cisco Catalyst are registered trademarks of Cisco System Inc. EMC VNX, and EMC Unisphere are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. Intel, Pentium, Xeon, Core and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. AMD is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom and AMD Sempron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server, Internet Explorer, MS-DOS, Windows Vista and Active Directory are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc. in the United States and other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Citrix, Xen, XenServer and XenMotion are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. VMware, Virtual SMP, vmotion, vcenter and vsphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States or other countries. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Broadcom and NetXtreme are registered trademarks of Broadcom Corporation. Qlogic is a registered trademark of QLogic Corporation. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and/or names or their products and are the property of their respective owners. Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. 2 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

3 Table of contents Revisions Executive summary Initial HW Topology Infrastructure Components VMware 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update VMware ESXi M CNA Drivers and Firmware M CNA Boot from SAN BIOS Configuration M CNA Configuration Conclusion A Support and Feedback Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

4 1 Executive summary The Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis is an efficient and powerful platform. Understanding how the blade servers will be utilized in an important part of any data center design. In many Enterprise environments redundancy, management, and control push the need for the server s storage to exist separate from the server hardware. This shared block-level storage generally comes in the form of iscsi, FC and FCoE. With this boot from SAN configuration, there is an opportunity to boot the server s ESXi 5.1 or 5.5 operating system (as well as any VMs) completely from the remote storage array. This deployment guide will cover booting VMware s ESXi 5.1 or 5.5 operating system from a fibre channel array with the Brocade 1741M Converged Network Adapter (CNA). The main focus will be the configuration of the Brocade 1741M CNA. 4 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

5 2 Initial HardWare Topology SAN Fabric A Storage Controller 1 Disk Arrays SAN Fabric B Storage Controller 2 8G FC 8G FC Brocade 6520 Brocade G FC 8G FC FC Flex I/ O M1000E FC Flex I/ O M420 CNA 1741 M420 CNA 1741 Figure 1 Validated Example Topology 5 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

6 2.1 Infrastructure Components Components Revision/Version Dell M1000e Blade Server Chassis Components Midplane 1.1 CMC 4.50 / A05 I/O Aggregator Blade Switch with FC FlexIO module Firmware 9-5(0-16) PowerEdge M420 server 2a System BIOS IDRAC CPLD LC OS ESXII 5.1 Brocade 1741 CNA Firmware , , ESXi Driver , , PowerEdge M420 server 2c System BIOS IDRAC CPLD LC OS ESXII 5.5 Brocade 1741 CNA Firmware , , ESXi Driver , , Brocade 6505 and 6520 FC Switch Firmware 7.1.0a Compellent CT-SC8000 Firmware FC I/O Qlogic QLE2564 8G Netapp FAS3220 Firmware Mode Table 1 Infrastructure Components 6 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

7 3 VMware 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 The VMware ESXi 5.1 update 2 image (.iso) can be downloaded from Dell s support site using the following URL: &oscode=xi51&productcode=poweredge-m420&languagecode=en&categoryid=ec Note: The VMware ESXi 5.1 update 2 image contains the version of the 1741M CNA drivers. The firmware on the CNA will need to be updated so that it matches the driver version contained in the VMware.iso image. Please refer to section 3.3 below for the location of the firmware. 3.2 VMware ESXi 5.5 Dell s VMware ESXi 5.5 update one.iso image does not have embedded driver support for the Broadcom 1741M CNA drivers. A VMware ESXi 5.5 customized image will need to be created with the 1741M drivers added. The firmware on the CNA may need to be updated to match the driver. Instructions for creating a VMware ESXi 5.5 customized image with the drivers can be found in the following White Paper Configuring stateless boot using Dell customized VMware ESXi Brocade 1741M CNA Drivers and Firmware The drivers and firmware can be found at the following URLS: Drivers =322&Product=1214&Os=167 Select the VMware ESXi 5.5 FC-FCoE Driver Offline Bundle (.zip format) Firmware =322&Product=1214&Os=194#53 Select the Multi-Boot Firmware Image for a.zip formatted version of the firmware that will need to be run from a Windows system. Select the Multi-Boot Firmware LiveCD for an.iso image of a LiveCD that can be used to update the firmware on diskless server or servers without an OS installed. The.iso image will need to be placed on a bootable DVD. 7 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

8 4 Brocade 1741M CNA Boot from SAN BIOS Configuration This section provides the necessary steps to configure the 1741M CNA for a Boot from SAN environment. The configuration of the 1741M CNA will include: Adapter BIOS settings Configuration of the boot LUN PWWN and LUN ID Note: This configuration example utilized the second port of the Brocade 1741M CNA. Either port of the CNA would suffice in a production environment in order to achieve a successful Boot from SAN environment. Perform the following steps to configure the second adapter port on the 1741M CNA. 1. While the M420 blade server is powering on, press the Ctrl+B or ALT+B key combination when the 1741M BIOS becomes available (Figure 2). Figure 2 Ctrl+B or Alt+B to Enter the BIOS Configuration Menu 8 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

9 2. Select the second adapter port on the 1741M and press the <Enter> key. In Figure 3 the second adapter port is highlighted. The Port World Wide Name (PWWN) of the second adapter port on the 1741M is 10:00:00:05:33:48:A8:45. Figure 3 Brocade 1741M Adapter Port Selection 3. In the Brocade BIOS Config Menu, select Adapter Settings and press the <Enter> key (Figure 4). Figure 4 Select Adapter Settings 9 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

10 4. Make the following changes to the Adapter Settings (Figure5): BIOS Enabled Boot LUN Flash Values - The Flash Values setting tells the 1741M CNA to obtain boot LUN information from flash memory. Bootup Delay 1min - Setting Bootup Delay to 1min allows the CNA to delay discovery of the boot LUN on the target storage array. Figure 5 Adapter Settings Configuration 5. Press the <Esc> key to return to the main menu. 10 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

11 6. Select Boot Device Settings and press the <Enter> key (Figure 6). Figure 6 Boot Device Settings 7. In the Boot Device Settings (Figure 7), highlight ID 0 and press the <M> key. Enter the target device PWWN and boot LUN ID. Note: The target device PWWN can be obtained from the Name Server database of the Fibre Channel switch. The target device LUN ID can be obtained from the storage array. Figure 7 Boot Device Settings 11 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

12 8. Once the information has been entered press the <M> key to exit edit mode and then the ALT+S key combination to save and exit. 9. Highlight Exit Brocade Config Menu (Figure 8) and press the <Enter> key. Figure 8 Brocade Exit Menu 10. Figure 9 shows the 1741M CNA successfully discovering the remote boot LUN, which was configured in the previous steps. Figure 9 Brocade 1741M CNA remote boot LUN discovery 12 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

13 5 Brocade 1741M CNA Configuration Conclusion In conclusion, the 1741M CNA supports an ESXi 5.1 or 5.5 boot from SAN network configuration. This enterprise level CNA has an easily navigable interface that allows a network engineer to setup a highly available server and storage environment. 13 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide

14 A Support and Feedback Contacting Technical Support Support Contact Information Web: Telephone: USA: Feedback for this document We encourage readers of this test report to provide feedback on the quality and usefulness by sending an to 14 Dell Deployment Guide Dell 1741M Converged Network Adapter FCoE Boot from SAN Guide