User Manual

Rev 4.70

Mellanox Technologies

• Firmware version: 2.31.5050

8.11.2 VEA Feature Limitations

• RoCE (RDMA) is supported only on the physical VEA

• MTU (*JumboFrame registry key), QoS and, Flow Control are only configured from

physical VEA

• No bandwidth allocation between the two interfaces

• Both interfaces share the same link speed

• SR-IOV and VEA are not supported simultaneously. Only one of the features can be

used at any given time.

8.11.3 Adding a New Virtual Adapter

 To add a new virtual adapter, run the following command:

8.11.4 Removing a Virtual Ethernet Adapter

 To remove a virtual ethernet adapter, run the following command:

8.11.5 Querying the Virtual Ethernet Database

Querying the virtual ethernet database reports all physical and virtual ethernet adapters on all

Mellanox cards in the system.

 To query the virtual ethernet database, run the following command:

8.11.6 Help Message

 To view the help message, run the following command:

vea_man -a <adapter name>

<adapter name> is the name of the existing physical adapter which will be,

essentially, cloned. The new adapter will be named by system default rules.

vea_man -r <adapter name>

vea_man -q

vea_man

vea_man -?

vea_man -h

If your adapter name has spaces in it, you need to surround it with quotes.

Examples:

vea_man -a "Ethernet 9" - Adds a new adapter as a virtual duplicate of Ethernet 9

vea_man -r "Ethernet 13" - Removes virtual ethernet adapter Ethernet 13