Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
9 System-Level Configuration
The following sections provide information on system-level NIC configuration.
9.1 UEFI HII Menu
The Broadcom NetXtreme-E series controllers can be configured using the HII (Human Interface Infrastructure) menu at
boot time. This menu system allows configuration of all persistent settings such as PXE, SR-IOV, NPAR, and so on. To enter
the HII configuration menu, follow boot-time prompts to BIOS, then device configuration.
9.1.1 Main Configuration Page
Figure 23: Main Configuration Page
This page displays the following information (see Figure 23):
Firmware Image Menu – This menu presents the various component versions present in the current firmware
package.
Device Configuration Menu – This menu presents adapter specific parameters for configuration.
NIC Configuration – This menu presents PXE boot related parameters for configuration.
NIC Partitioning Configuration Menu – This menu presents NIC partition related parameters for configuration.
NIC + RDMA Mode – This setting configures Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) support on the port. RDMA is a
technology that permits computers on a network to exchange data in main memory without the involvement of the
processor, cache or operating system of either computer. RDMA allows high throughput and low-latency networking.
This setting is available only when RDMA is supported on the adapter. This setting will be displayed on the Device
Configuration menu in SF mode and in the NIC Partition Configuration menu in NPar mode.
– Enabled – Turn on RDMA