[olug] Fibre Channel on Linux

[Nick Walter]

I've done Emulex and Qlogic SCSI controllers for fibre channel SAN
access and had no problems.  Both controllers had stable drivers and so
forth.  

The real issues I ran into all involved the supplemental software that
comes with managing a SAN.  All the big manufacturers seem to write
array management utilities for dos/windows which is a pain for a linux
deployment.  Ditto for multipath or load balancing I/O applications. 
The linux ports I've run into have been hasty things and poorly tested. 
If there was any truth in naming, HP would rename their linux port of
their securepath to SecurePathExceptForWhenItLocksUpYourServer

Nick Walter

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:15, Andrew Embury wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is anyone here doing Fibre Channel on Linux?  I'm looking at interfacing a
> Compaq Proliant server to an EMC SAN and am wondering what kind of results
> I am going to get.  Items that would be helpful:
> 
> 1.  HBA you have experience with that work well.
> 2.  Distribution support (Red Hat Enterprise 3 ES was my leaning)
> 3.  General stability.
> 4.  Tools used to manage, expand, etc.
> 
> I know very little about fibre channel, so I'm not even sure if I'm asking
> the right questions.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Drew
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