User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Mellanox WinOF VPI User Manual
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Document Revision History
- About this Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Firmware Upgrade
- 3 Driver Features
- 3.1 Hyper-V with VMQ
- 3.2 Header Data Split
- 3.3 Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- 3.4 Port Configuration
- 3.5 Load Balancing, Fail-Over (LBFO) and VLAN
- 3.6 Ports TX Arbitration
- 3.7 RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- 3.8 Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
- 3.9 Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
- 4 Deploying Windows Server 2012 and Above with SMB Direct
- 5 Driver Configuration
- 6 Performance Tuning
- 7 OpenSM - Subnet Manager
- 8 InfiniBand Fabric
- 8.1 Network Direct Interface
- 8.2 part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Creation Utility
- 8.3 InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities
- 8.3.1 Utilities Usage
- 8.3.2 ibdiagnet
- 8.3.3 ibportstate
- 8.3.4 ibroute
- 8.3.5 ibdump
- 8.3.6 smpquery
- 8.3.7 perfquery
- 8.3.8 ibping
- 8.3.9 ibnetdiscover
- 8.3.10 ibtracert
- 8.3.11 sminfo
- 8.3.12 ibclearerrors
- 8.3.13 ibstat
- 8.3.14 vstat
- 8.3.15 osmtest
- 8.3.16 ibaddr
- 8.3.17 ibcacheedit
- 8.3.18 iblinkinfo
- 8.3.19 ibqueryerrors
- 8.3.20 ibsysstat
- 8.3.21 saquery
- 8.3.22 smpdump
- 8.4 InfiniBand Fabric Performance Utilities
- 8.4.1 ib_read_bw
- 8.4.2 ib_read_lat
- 8.4.3 ib_send_bw
- 8.4.4 ib_send_lat
- 8.4.5 ib_write_bw
- 8.4.6 ib_write_lat
- 8.4.7 ibv_read_bw
- 8.4.8 ibv_read_lat
- 8.4.9 ibv_send_bw
- 8.4.10 ibv_send_lat
- 8.4.11 ibv_write_bw
- 8.4.12 ibv_write_lat
- 8.4.13 nd_write_bw
- 8.4.14 nd_write_lat
- 8.4.15 nd_read_bw
- 8.4.16 nd_read_lat
- 8.4.17 nd_send_bw
- 8.4.18 nd_send_lat
- 8.4.19 NTttcp
- 9 Software Development Kit
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 11 Documentation
- Appendix A: Windows MPI (MS-MPI)
- Appendix B: NVGRE Configuration Scrips Examples
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5. Adaptive Load Balancing
The same functionality as Load Balancing (Send & Receive). In case of traffic load in one of
the adapters, the load balancing channels the traffic between the other team adapter.
6. Dynamic Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Provides dynamic link aggregation allowing creation of one or more channel groups using
same speed or mixed-speed server adapters.
7. Static Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Provides increased transmission and reception throughput in a team comprised of two to eight
adapter ports through static configuration.
If the switch connected to the HCA supports 802.3ad the recommended setting is teaming mode 6.
3.5.2 Creating a Load Balancing and Fail-Over (LBFO) Bundle
LBFO is used to balance the workload of packet transfers by distributing the workload over a
bundle of network instances and to set a secondary network instance to take over packet indica-
tions and information requests if the primary network instance fails.
The following steps describe the process of creating an LBFO bundle.
Step 1. Display the Device Manager.