Dell Brocade Adapters User manual

53-1002145-01
5 August 2011
®
Brocade Adapters
Troubleshooting Guide
Supporting CNA models 1741, 1020, 1010, 1007
Supporting HBA models 825, 815, 804, 425, 415
Supporting Fabric Adapter model 1860

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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 53-1001253-01 New document June 2009
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 53-1001253-02 New document September 2009
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 53-1001253-03 Updates for Release 2.2 May 2010
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 53-1001582-01 Updates to support the
Brocade 804 adapter
June 2010
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 53-1001253-04 Updates to support the
Brocade 1007 Adapter
September 2010
Brocade Adapters Installation and
Reference Manual
53-1001925-01 Updates to support Release
2.3
October 2010
Brocade Adapters Installation and
Reference Manual
53-1001925-02 Updates to support Brocade
1741 adapter
December 2010
Brocade Adapters Installation and
Reference Manual
53-1002145-01 Updates to support Release
3.0 and Brocade 1860
Adapter
August 2011

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Table of Contents
About this Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Supported adapter hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
CNAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Fabric OS and switch support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Host operating system support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Host operating system support for adapter drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Fibre Channel support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
FCoE support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Ethernet support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Hypervisor support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Host operating system support for HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Providing details for support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Chapter 1 Introduction to Troubleshooting
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to use this manual for troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Gathering problem information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 Isolating Problems
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
How to use this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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General adapter problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Adapter not reported under server’s PCI subsystem. . . . . . . . . . 9
No adapters reported though BCU adapter --list command . . . 10
Port link is not active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Device drivers not loading for all adapter instances . . . . . . . . .11
Installer program does not autorun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Host system freezes or crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Operating system errors (blue screen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Driver event messages appearing in host system log files . . . . 13
BCU version mismatch warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Errors or problems when entering BCU commands . . . . . . . . . 14
bcu pcifn --list and vhba --query commands return errors . . . . 14
I/O data traffic issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Support Save file is too large (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Host system running Microsoft Windows fails to hibernate . . . 16
Driver incompatible with CNA drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Brocade BCU desktop shortcut missing (Windows only). . . . . . 16
Driver installation fails and system cannot be booted . . . . . . . 17
Cannot remove Linux driver with uninstaller application or
scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing Ethernet (network) drivers causes error . . . . . . . . . . 17
Files needed for bfad.sys message appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Cannot roll back driver on all adapter instances using Device
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Device drivers not loading due to lack of MSI-X interrupt
vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Driver installation fails on ESX systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Errors when using GUI-based software installer . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Errors when installing brocade_driver_linux_<versions>.tar.gz
package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
UEFI boot problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
BIOS boot problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fabric Adapter problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
VLANs and teams persist after changing port to HBA mode . . 27
HCM not discovering all Ethernet ports for vNICs . . . . . . . . . . .28
HBA problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
No adapters found on local host” message in HCM . . . . . . . . .28
Quality of Service performance issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Quality of Service not functioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Trunking problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Unable to create more than 126 Virtual (NPIV) ports for
adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
CNA problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cannot manage CNAs after attempting upgrade to 3.0
drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
VMQs not created for virtual network adapter instances . . . . . 31

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Network interface problems (CNA or NIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Ethernet loopback test problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Ethernet link ports or LOM not coming up on reboot in Linux .33
Loss of adapter hardware address in Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Loss of adapter IP address in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Network stack runs out of heap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
NIC numbering unexpected on VMware systems . . . . . . . . . . .34
Ping to remote host is failing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Receive-side scaling disables unexpectedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Applications using TDI driver stop responding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
RSS network throughput decreases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SNMP MIB browser not displaying information on VLAN
-related OIDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Teaming errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
VLAN creation and operation problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Teaming or VLAN operations through HCM fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Poor network performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Binding issues after Hyper-V enabled with teaming . . . . . . . . .39
FCoE and Fibre Channel problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Loss of sync and loss of signal errors in port statistics . . . . . . 41
Fabric authentication failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adapter is not showing in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Virtual devices not listed in name server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Adapter not registering with the name server or cannot
access storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FCoE link is down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
I/O problem on connected FCoE device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
I/Os are not failing over immediately on path failure in MPIO
setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Disk I/O requests cause low throughput and high latency on
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Disk I/O requests cause low throughput and high latency on
VMware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DCB network problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DCB is not enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
HCM and HCM Agent problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Failed to connect to agent on host... error when using HCM . .46
HCM Agent service cannot start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
HCM Agent not auto starting if 3.0 driver updated with 2.3
HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Unable to completely uninstall HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Time on HCM screens does not match system time. . . . . . . . . 50
Verifying Fibre Channel and DCB links (stand-up adapters) . . . . . . 50
Adapter driver installation verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Confirming driver package installation with HCM . . . . . . . . . . .52
Confirming driver package installation in Windows systems . .52
Confirming driver package installation in Linux systems . . . . . 53
Confirming driver package installation in Solaris systems . . . .54
Confirming driver package installation in VMware systems . . .54
Troubleshooting mezzanine card problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Additional references for isolating problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Chapter 3 Tools for Collecting Data
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
For detailed information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Data to provide technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Data collection using host system commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Data collection using BCU commands and HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Support Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using BCU commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Data collection using Fabric OS commands (Brocade switches
only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adapter event messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Host system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
HCM logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Logging levels adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Authentication statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
DCB statistics (CNA only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
DCB query (CNA only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
FCoE statistics (CNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Fabric statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Displaying FCP initiator mode statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
FCP initiator mode statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Firmware statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
I/O performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Logical port statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
PHY module statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Port Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Port statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Real-time and historical performance statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Remote port statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Quality of Service statistics (HBA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Trunking attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
vHBA statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
vNIC statistics (CNA or NIC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Virtual port statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
VLAN statistics for a team (CNA and NIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
VLAN statistics for a port (CNA and NIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

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Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Beaconing (stand-up adapters). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Internal and external loopback tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Ethernet port loopback test (CNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
PCI loopback test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Memory test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Pinging Fibre Channel end points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Adapter temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Queue test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
SCSI test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Trace route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Echo test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Collecting BIOS data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Displaying BIOS data through BCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Display BIOS data through HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Collecting LLDP data (CNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Collecting SFP data (stand-up adapters). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
SFP properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Predictive optical monitoring (POM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Collecting port data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Displaying port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Displaying DCB port properties (CNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Displaying Ethernet port properties (CNA or NIC) . . . . . . . . . .100
Displaying FCoE port properties (CNA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Displaying FC port properties (HBA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Displaying remote port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Displaying logical port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Displaying virtual port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Displaying the port log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Displaying the port list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Performing a port query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Displaying port speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
FCP-IM I/O profiling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Enabling FCP-IM profile through HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Collecting teaming information (CNA or NIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Displaying team data and statistics through HCM . . . . . . . . .104
Displaying configured team data through BCU . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Authentication settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Displaying authentication settings through HCM . . . . . . . . . .105
Displaying authentication settings through BCU . . . . . . . . . . .106
PHY module data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
QoS settings (HBA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Determining QoS settings through HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Target rate limiting settings (HBA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Determining target rate limiting settings through BCU . . . . . .107
Determining settings through HCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

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Persistent binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Displaying Persistent Binding settings through BCU . . . . . . . .109
Displaying Persistent Binding settings through HCM . . . . . . .109
Adapter properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
CNA Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
HBA Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Adapter queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Chapter 4 Performance Optimization
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Tuning storage drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Linux tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Solaris tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Windows tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
VMware tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Tuning network drivers (CNA or NIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Windows tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Linux tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
VMware tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Solaris tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Appendix A Adapter BIOS and Event Message Reference
Adapter BIOS messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Adapter driver event messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Appendix B HCM and Installer Message Reference
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