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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BW Reservation – This setting configures the percentage of total available bandwidth that should be reserved for this
partition. The total Bandwidth Reservation assigned for all active partitions cannot exceed 100. A value of 0 on all
partitions indicates equal division of bandwidth between all partitions. This setting is available only on adapters that
support the Bandwidth Reservation feature. This is a numeric setting. The value must be specified in the range 0 to
100.
BW Limit – This setting configures the maximum percentage of available bandwidth this partition is allowed. This is a
numeric setting. The value must be specified in the range 0 to 100.
BW Reservation Valid – This setting configures whether BW Reservation is applicable on the current partition. When
this setting is disabled, the BW Reservation value for the current partition will be ignored. This setting is available only
on adapters that support the Bandwidth Reservation feature.
– Enabled – Turn on BW Reservation
– Disabled – Turn off BW Reservation
BW Limit Valid – This setting configures whether BW Limit is applicable on the current partition. When this setting is
disabled, the BW Limit value for the current partition will be ignored.
– Enabled – Turn on BW Limit
– Disabled – Turn off BW Limit
NIC + RDMA Mode – This setting configures the RoCE support for the current partition. This setting is available only
when RDMA is supported on the current partition. 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
– Disabled – Turn off RDMA
MAC Address – This field displays the Permanent MAC address assigned during manufacturing for the current
partition. This is a read-only field.
Virtual MAC Address – This field displays the Virtual MAC address assigned to the current partition. This is a read-
only field from the HII menu. The value for this parameter can be configured using remote utilities.
9.2 BIOS Comprehensive Configuration Management
For systems with legacy BIOS, preboot configuration can be configured using the Comprehensive Configuration
Management (CCM) menu option. During the system BIOS POST, the Broadcom banner message is displayed with an
option to change the parameters through the Control-S menu. When Control-S is pressed, a device list is populated with all
the Broadcom network adapters found in the system. Select the desired NIC for configuration.
NOTE: Some adapters may not have CCM firmware in the NVRAM image and must use the HII menu to configure legacy
parameters.