Users Guide

92 Use Case Scenarios
Changing the Personality and Bandwidth of a
Partition for a CNA
Partition a port and assign the personality and bandwidth on a Converged
Network Adapter card with a 10Gb ethernet link with multiple personality
support.
Personality and Bandwidth Setup
Prerequisites
To successfully perform remote operations on the server, make sure that the
following prerequisites are met:
• Common Prerequisites
Workflow
Changing the Personality
1 Enumerate the DCIM_NICEnumeration class and identify the current
value of the instances of the class with AttributeName=
NicMode/FCoEOffloadMode/iScsiOffloadMode and their FQDD
properties.
2 For the identified partition, use the FQDD property and invoke the
SetAttribute() method to enable the specific personality and disable the
others.
Table 5-5. Personality and Bandwidth
Number of Personalities 3
Personality for each partition Bandwidth
Network Interface Controller (NIC) 20
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) 30
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) 25
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) 25