FreeNAS / DELL blade m610 / Emulex & QLogic FC HBA

[The violonist]

Hello,

I am working on our current (32 Tb) NAS replacement, and am considering building the new one on top of FreeNAS.

FreeNAS would be installed on one of our "old" servers : a DELL Blade, m610 (8 CPU, 96 Gb), and access our SAN storage through the Fiber Channel fabric. Currently, this server has a Emulex LPE-1205m daughter card. It seems that it is not and will never be supported.

Another model is available : QLogic QME2572 daughter card. But I was not able to confirm it will work correctly. If anyone has a clue...

Thank you !

 

[RegularJoe]

I have a QLE2564 with two ports active and sharing a ZVol via fiber channel to a cluster of VMware hosts. I just added 100 more gig of disk space, refreshed the storage in VMware and it did show the LUN went from 600gig to 700gig, I added the 100gig and the disk is larger. Not real happy as it looks like only 1 of my 4 ports are being used by FC...