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Configuring Drivers and Services
OpenFabrics Drivers and Services Configuration and Startup
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5. You can look for the newly created devices in the /proc/partitions file.
The file will look similar to this example (the partition names may vary):
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 64 142325760 sde
8 65 142319834 sde1
8 80 71162880 sdf
8 81 71159917 sdf1
8 96 20480 sdg
8 97 20479 sdg1
6. Create a mount point (as root) where you will mount the SRP device. For
example:
# mkdir /mnt/targetname
# mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/targetname
Configuring and Administering the VNIC Interface
The VirtualNIC (VNIC) Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) works in conjunction with
firmware running on Virtual Input/Output (VIO) hardware such as the SilverStorm
Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (EVIC™) or the InfiniBand/Ethernet Bridge Module
for IBM
®
BladeCenter
®
, providing virtual Ethernet connectivity.
The VNIC driver along with the QLogic EVIC’s two 10 Gigabit ethernet ports,
enables Infiniband clusters to connect to Ethernet networks. This driver also
works with the earlier version of the I/O Controller, the VEx.
The QLogic VNIC driver creates virtual Ethernet interfaces and tunnels the
Ethernet data to/from the EVIC over InfiniBand using an InfiniBand reliable
connection.
The virtual Ethernet interface supports any Ethernet protocol. It operates normally
like any other interface--ping, ssh, scp, netperf etc.
The VNIC interface must be configured before it can be used. To do so, perform
the following steps:
1. Discover the EVIC/VEx Input/Output Controllers (IOCs) present on the fabric
using ib_qlgc_vnic_query. For writing the configuration file, you will
need information about the EVIC/VEx IOCs present on the fabric, such as
NOTE:
Use sde1 rather than sde. See the mount(8) man page for more
information on creating mount points.