Fibre Channel Adapter Policy

A Fibre Channel Adapter Policy configures the hardware-level FC adapter settings for vHBAs, including error recovery timers, login retry counts, I/O queue depths, and interrupt mode. It is the FC equivalent of the Ethernet Adapter Policy.

Location in Intersight GUI: Policies » Fibre Channel Adapter

Diagram

Classes

policies (compute.intersight.organizations)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
fibre_channel_adapter	List	[fibre_channel_adapter]	No

fibre_channel_adapter (compute.intersight.organizations.policies)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
name	String	Regex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]{1,64}$	Yes
description	String		No
managed	Boolean	true, false	No	true
tags	List	[tags]	No
error_detection_timeout	Integer	min: 1000, max: 100000	No	2000
io_throttle_count	Integer	min: 1, max: 1024	No	512
lun_count	Integer	min: 1, max: 4096	No	1024
lun_queue_depth	Integer	min: 1, max: 254	No	20
resource_allocation_timeout	Integer	min: 5000, max: 100000	No	10000
interrupt_mode	Choice	MSIx, MSI, INTx	No
flogi_retries	Integer	min: 0	No
flogi_timeout	Integer	min: 1000	No
plogi_retries	Integer	min: 0	No
plogi_timeout	Integer	min: 1000	No
rx_queue_ring_size	Integer	min: 64, max: 2048	No
scsi_queue_ring_size	Integer	min: 64, max: 512	No
tx_queue_ring_size	Integer	min: 64, max: 128	No
error_recovery_settings	Class	[error_recovery_settings]	No

tags (compute.intersight.organizations.policies.fibre_channel_adapter)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
key	String		Yes
value	String		Yes

error_recovery_settings (compute.intersight.organizations.policies.fibre_channel_adapter)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
enabled	Boolean	true, false	No
io_retry_count	Integer	min: 1, max: 255	No
io_retry_timeout	Integer	min: 1, max: 59	No
link_down_timeout	Integer	min: 0	No
port_down_timeout	Integer	min: 0	No

Examples

Example-1: The example below demonstrates an FC adapter policy using default settings suitable for most FC initiator deployments.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        policies:
          fibre_channel_adapter:
            - name: fc-adapter-default
              description: Standard FC adapter policy
              tags:
                - key: env
                  value: prod

Example-2: The example below demonstrates an FC adapter policy tuned for ESXi environments with specific port-down and link-down timeout values.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        policies:
          fibre_channel_adapter:
            - name: fc-adapter-esxi
              description: FC adapter policy for VMware ESXi
              error_recovery_settings:
                enabled: true
                io_retry_count: 8
                io_retry_timeout: 5
                link_down_timeout: 30000
                port_down_timeout: 10000
              flogi_settings:
                retries: 8
                timeout: 4000
              plogi_settings:
                retries: 8
                timeout: 20000