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Dell EMC PowerVault MD32XX/36XX Series Support Matrix

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Required timeout settings for Fibre Channel host bus adapters

This table lists required timeout settings for all Dell EMC-supported Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs, by manufacturer and OS. Ensure that any FC HBA connected to your MD36xxf storage array has these timeout values set as listed in Table 23.

Use one of these manufacturer utilities to set these values on your HBA:

  • Brocade command line utility (BCU)
  • Emulex HBAnyware or OneCommand Manager
  • QLogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager
Table 1. Fibre Channel HBA timeout values (by manufacturer). This table describes the fibre channel HBA timeout values (by manufacturer).
HBA manufacturer Timeout parameter Required value (in seconds)
  QLogic    
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 LinkDownTimeout 10  
PortDownRetryCount 10
Linux only qlport_down_retry 10  
  Emulex    
Windows only LinkTimeout 10  
NodeTimeout 10
Linux only lpfc_devloss_tmo 10
  Brocade  
Windows and Linux pathtov 10

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