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Qlogic 2562 dual port 8gb optical fibre channel configuration

Hi!

We have a physical Backup server, which we use tape bakcup. We put the server a Qlogic fibre channel card to access faster the virtual machines, but we cannot configure it on the server environment(windows server 2012 R2). From switch side everything is okay, and we installed the card driver,Qconverge Console and Multipath I/O features successfully to the server. But we don't know how can we configure it to use Qlogic card and not ethernet card. I tried to create an ISCSI virtual disk, but it not helped. Unfortunately we have no experience about this. Could you please help us how and what we should configure to work the fibre card?

Thank you in advance.

windows-server-2012
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Hi,

Can the tape drive be found in your Device Manager or Disk Management? It should be recognized automatically if you have set up your tape backup with FC.

To configure MPIO you may refer to the link below.
https://support.purestorage.com/Solutions/Microsoft_Platform_Guide/Multipath-IO_and_Storage_Settings/Configuring_Multipath-IO

To configure the optical fibre channel adapter you can contact QLogic for better help.

Best Regards,
Ian Xue
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