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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9.1.3 Device Configuration Menu
This menu presents adapter specific parameters for configuration. Depending on the adapter type, some settings may not
be available.
Figure 25: Device Configuration Menu
This page allows the user to configure the following items (see Figure 25):
Virtualization Mode – This setting configures the type of virtualization to be used by the controller on all ports. This is
available only when NPAR is supported on the adapter.
– Single Function Mode (SF) – In this mode, a single PCIe PF is assigned to each network port.
– Network Partitioning Mode (NPAR) –This mode allows a single physical network port to appear to the system as
multiple network device functions. Each PF or partition is assigned a separate PCIe function ID on initial power on,
and a menu is made visible in setup to configure each partition. The 16 configurable partitions are distributed equally
across the network ports.
– SR-IOV – This setting configures Single Root - I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) which allows different virtual machines
(VMs) in a virtual environment to share a single PCI Express hardware interface.
Enabled – Enable support for SR-IOV
Disabled – Disable support for SR-IOV
NOTE: This setting is available only on adapters which support SR-IOV.
PCI Virtual Functions Advertised – This setting allows the user to configure the number of PCI Virtual Functions
Advertised by the port in PCI config space when SR-IOV is enabled in non-NPAR mode. This setting is available for
configuration only in non-NPar mode. This is a numeric setting. The value must be specified in multiples of 8.