I have HP BL460c Gen9 blades with BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet via a HP Virtual connection. In my ovirt 4.1 environment I have fibre channel working great.

However in the new environment that I want to bring the data domain over too ultimately, I am having issues with ovirt interfering with the hosts ability to see the Fiber Channel storage. If i build a clean CentOS 7 installation and get my FCoE module installed and Fiber channel set up on my appropriate interfaces, it works and sees the fiber channel interface every time I type fcoeadm -i, I can reboot a million times, does not go away. However once I turn it into a oVirt 4.2 node and add it to my environment and reboot the blade it is hit or miss if fcoeadm -i is going to return interface information.

If I then type "systemctl restart network" my fiber channel comes online, but I should not need to do this. I can see in my dmesg logs that the fiber channel is initializing on boot.

[   39.465578] cnic: QLogic cnicDriver v2.5.22 (July 20, 2015)
[   39.465594] bnx2x 0000:06:00.2 eno51: Added CNIC device
[   39.475618] bnx2x 0000:06:00.3 eno52: Added CNIC device
[   39.495575] bnx2fc: QLogic FCoE Driver bnx2fc v2.11.8 (October 15, 2015)
[   39.505971] bnx2fc: bnx2fc: FCoE initialized for eno52.
[   39.506299] bnx2fc: [06]: FCOE_INIT passed
[   39.516308] bnx2fc: bnx2fc: FCoE initialized for eno51.
[   39.516654] bnx2fc: [06]: FCOE_INIT passed

Reminder I have not added a FC storage domain yet, because I need to turn off and detach the domain from the old 4.1 environment first. However that should not keep the fiber channel interfaces from coming up...

And I need to know its working before I do that.

Below is what an fcoeadm -i should return when it seems to be working.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

fcoeadm -i
    Description:      BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet
    Revision:         11
    Manufacturer:     Broadcom Limited
    Serial Number:    5CB901C7EE00

    Driver:           bnx2x 1.712.30-0
    Number of Ports:  1

        Symbolic Name:     bnx2fc (QLogic BCM57840) v2.11.8 over eno51
        OS Device Name:    host10
        Node Name:         0x50060b0000c27a05
        Port Name:         0x50060b0000c27a04
        Fabric Name:        0x1000c4f57c218ff4
        Speed:             unknown
        Supported Speed:   1 Gbit, 10 Gbit
        MaxFrameSize:      2048 bytes
        FC-ID (Port ID):   0x0a025c
        State:             Online
    Description:      BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet
    Revision:         11
    Manufacturer:     Broadcom Limited
    Serial Number:    5CB901C7EE00

    Driver:           bnx2x 1.712.30-0
    Number of Ports:  1

        Symbolic Name:     bnx2fc (QLogic BCM57840) v2.11.8 over eno52
        OS Device Name:    host11
        Node Name:         0x50060b0000c27a07
        Port Name:         0x50060b0000c27a06
        Fabric Name:        0x1000c4f57c21979d
        Speed:             unknown
        Supported Speed:   1 Gbit, 10 Gbit
        MaxFrameSize:      2048 bytes
        FC-ID (Port ID):   0x14037b
        State:             Online

____________________________________________________________________________________________________


However if I reboot the node from the ovirt console and wait a few minutes after it has rebooted then type fcoeadm -i I get the following.

fcoeadm -i
fcoeadm: No action was taken
Try 'fcoeadm --help' for more information.

it is not until I perform a systemctl restart network, that I get the correct output from above.




Any help or insight into fiber channel with ovirt 4.2 would be greatly appreciated.




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