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Need to know HBA qdepth , SANSURFER not installed
We have windows 2008 and 2003 machines.
We have not installed SANSURFER for qlogic and now what is the way to know the HBA qdepth and how can I change them?
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October 11th, 2010 13:00
You still could install SanSurfer, but if you really don't want to do that, you will need to reboot the host and during the POST hit CTRL-Q to enter the HBA's BIOS. Once you're in the QLogic BIOS setup , you will be able to see the current execution throttle (queue depth) and change it if you like. You can do this for each HBA, without having to reboot your host and press CTRL-Q each time.
If you had SanSurfer, you could view the values online, but nevertheless you'd still have to reboot your host whenever you changed any numbers in the execution throttle.
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October 11th, 2010 18:00
Okay, thanks for reply.
So, there is no way without rebooting the server , to know what is the current Qdepth?
I just want to know the current Qdepth.
And, does I need to reboot the server after installing sansurfer?
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October 11th, 2010 19:00
Sansurfer does not require reboot, if you make any changes in Sansurfer ..reboot will be required for the changes to take effect.
sauravrohilla
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October 11th, 2010 19:00
HI Chintan,
If you just want to know the qdepth without installing any software. The quickest and the easiest way is to extract an scli utility from emcreports. If you have ever run EMCreports on this server then go to this location:
C:\windows\Emcreports\bin
and execute scli:
On the cmd prompt, select HBA parameters -> select HBA port -> HBA parameter.
**This command line utility is also on the qlogic website**
Thanks,
Saurabh
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October 12th, 2010 03:00
For viewing settings indeed no reboot req'd, adjustments: reboot req'd.
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October 12th, 2010 03:00
Nice tool ! Didn't know that, but it's indeed obvious, since EMCGRAB uses a set of standalone tools for it's task.