Qlogic fibre setup help

[rh113113]

Hello everyone, this is my first post in this forum. I recently acquired a bunch of dell poweredge r710's from my university equipped with Qlogic QLE2462 fibre cards. I would like to make a storage server using one of the r710's and have a p2p link running to my desktop, which is running windows 10. Currently I have windows 10 installed on the server and have successfully loaded the drivers so windows can detect the cards. I can use the QConvergeConsole as well as the QCC GUI to view the cards. However, I cannot figure out how to get the cards to see each other, the link status is online for the ports that are connected, but when I scan for devices, nothing is found. I cannot find any way to configure the cards in the command line so any help would be greatly appreciated. I am completely new to fibre as this is my first attempt working with it. I'm also open to any suggestions on an OS to run on the servers, I have access to just about any software through my university. Thanks in advance for any help I receive!

 

-rh113113

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can't really use those card. There fiberchannel, not ethernet. You can do ip over FC on linux or get a fiberchannel san.

[rh113113]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can't really use those card. There fiberchannel, not ethernet. You can do ip over FC on linux or get a fiberchannel san.

Is there a card you would recommend that uses LC to LC cable? And I've read online that people have setup ip over fibre channel with windows using these cards, they just never posted how they configured it. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, rh113113 said:

Is there a card you would recommend that uses LC to LC cable? And I've read online that people have setup ip over fibre channel with windows using these cards, they just never posted how they configured it. 

Id get 2 of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/MNPA19-XTR-10GB-MELLANOX-CONNECTX-2-PCIe-X8-10Gbe-SFP-NETWORK-CARD-/131634470127?hash=item1ea6069cef:g:xNMAAOSwo4pYEi8n

 

Then get these 2 sfps http://www.fs.com/products/65334.html

or this one for single mode http://www.fs.com/products/65335.html

 

 

or just get a direct attach cable like this onehttp://www.fs.com/products/36863.html

[rh113113]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get 2 of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/MNPA19-XTR-10GB-MELLANOX-CONNECTX-2-PCIe-X8-10Gbe-SFP-NETWORK-CARD-/131634470127?hash=item1ea6069cef:g:xNMAAOSwo4pYEi8n

 

Then get these 2 sfps http://www.fs.com/products/65334.html

or this one for single mode http://www.fs.com/products/65335.html

 

 

or just get a direct attach cable like this onehttp://www.fs.com/products/36863.html

Thank you! I really appreciate the reply, I'll have to order those. Do you have any suggestion on what I could do with all of these cards? There were two per server and I have about 22 cards. I was looking into setting up an esxi server, which I believe is what was running on them originally. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, rh113113 said:

Thank you! I really appreciate the reply, I'll have to order those. Do you have any suggestion on what I could do with all of these cards? There were two per server and I have about 22 cards. I was looking into setting up an esxi server, which I believe is what was running on them originally. 

Really, they aren't worth anything. Ive seem them sold for 5 bucks in a surplus store.

 

For usage, you need a fiberchannel san to use them for storage, which is kinda dying due to iscsi and ethernet getting better.

[rh113113]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Really, they aren't worth anything. Ive seem them sold for 5 bucks in a surplus store.

 

For usage, you need a fiberchannel san to use them for storage, which is kinda dying due to iscsi and ethernet getting better.

Okay, thanks for your help! I'll order the other adapter.