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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9.2.3 Device Hardware Configuration Menu
This menu presents adapter specific parameters for configuration. Depending on the adapter type, some settings are not
available.
Figure 31: Device Hardware Configuration Menu
The device hardware configuration consists of the following items (see Figure 31):
Multi-Function 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.
Number of VFs per PF – 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. The maximum number of virtual functions supported by the adapter are shared across the number
of physical ports on the adapter. This value must be specified only in multiples of 8.
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. This setting is available only on adapters
which support SR-IOV.
– Enabled – Enable support for SR-IOV
– Disabled – Disable support for SR-IOV
Number of MSI-X Vectors per VF
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Device Hardware Configuration
Multi-Function Mode : SF
NParEP : Disabled
Number of VFs per PF : 8
SR-IOV : Disabled
Number of MSI-X Vectors per VF : 16
Maximum number of PF MSI-X Vecotrs : 74
Link FEC : DISABLED
Energy Efficient Ethernet : Disabled
Operational Link Speed : AutoNeg
RDMA Support : Disabled
DCBX Mode : Disabled
LLDP Nearest bridge : Enabled
LLDP Nerest non-TPMR bridge : Enabled
Auto-negotiation Protocol : IEEE 802.3by & Consortium
Media Auto Detect : Enabled
Link Training : Disabled
Default EVB Mode : VEB
Adapter Error Recovery : Disabled
Allow recovery of firmware from fatal errors w/o manual intervention. Linux only
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Current Adapter:Primary, Bus=33 Device=00 Func=00, MAC=BC:97:E1:D3:2B:40