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Once you have the QCC installer downloaded and extracted, there are a few things we need to do before firing up the installer.įirst, lets check to make sure TCP ports 8080, 8443, and 111 are not in use. As a result, you can’t just fire up the QCC installer and expect it co-exist and run 7/24 right out of the box along side SSMC and VBR. QCC has been around a long time – longer that both SSMC and VBR, and as such has a few port conflicts that the guys at HPE and Veeam never took into consideration. This post is all about getting QCC to co-exist (temporarily anyways) on a server that already has HPE’s 3Par SSMC and / or Veeam Backup & Recovery installed on it.
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I never did find a way to disable the FCoE function via QCC – I only spent 3 minutes looking at it, so there may well be a way if I actually RTFM (that isn’t my style though), but this post isn’t about that. Since I didn’t want to waste any more time playing around with the host before I brought it back online, I decided that I would load QCC on my management server at the site and see if I could disable FCoE mode remotely. But today was a little different – I had a VMware host that suffered a Purple Screen of Death overnight, and while I was in the ILO power cycling it and looking for a reason for PSOD, I noticed that ILO was complaining that the 534FLR-SFP+ adapter was degraded because it was in FCoE mode and not connected (we don’t use FCoE).
HPE SSMC INSTALL
Given that QLogic devices are generally so bullet proof, and that the HPE Support Pack for Proliant takes care of my firmware updates, I rarely have a need to install and use QCC.
HPE SSMC UPGRADE
QCC allows you to modify and configure your adapters (Ethernet, iSCSI, FCoE, and FC), upgrade the flash on them, perform FC ping and traceroute, and to view reports, statistics, and diagnostics of all the QLogic devices in your equipment – either locally or remote. During the presentation the talk turned to QLogic’s comprehensive adapter management tools, including the Web-based QCC (QConvergedConsole), which is supported on Windows, Linux, and Solaris.
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While I was attending a storage conference last week, I sat in on a presentation Jim and Todd were hosting. One of the interesting things about QLogic is their branded applications generally work hand in hand with the OEM products they offer to various system manufacturers such as HPE, Dell, and Lenovo. You just can’t beat the price or performance of the offerings, and the support that QLogic’s HPE OEM team gives you – they are second to none (a huge shout out to & Jim Burton – if you guys are reading this, thanks for all the amazing support over the years!). Ok – I’ll admit it – I’m something of a vendor snob… And my vendor of choice when it comes to Ethernet and fibre channel host connectivity is QLogic and HPE’s OEM products made by QLogic.