Users Guide

Changing the Personality and Bandwidth of a Partition for a CNA
To successfully perform remote operations on the server, make sure that the prerequisites provided in the Common
Prerequisites Before Using Remote Services are met.
Partition a port and assign the personality and bandwidth on a Converged Network Adapter card with a 10Gb ethernet
link with multiple personality support.
The following personality and bandwidth must be set up:
Table 12. Personality and Bandwidth
Number of Personalities
2
Personality for each partition
Bandwidth
iSCSI 50
FCoE 50
To change the personality and set the bandwidth for a partition in a CNA:
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.
NOTE: On a partition, as multiple personalities are supported, you can either enable or disable multiple
personalities at the same time. For limitations on the setting the personalities on different CNA cards, see the
iDRAC7 version 1.00.00 Readme or the Simple NIC Profile document at delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.
3. Go to step 6 to complete the remaining steps.
4. Enumerate the DCIM_NICInteger class and identify the current value of the instances of the class with
AttributeName=MaxBandwidth or MinBandwidth and their FQDD properties. The maximum and minimum
bandwidth values.
– 20 - 30
– 30 - 40
– 25 - 35
For limitations on the setting the bandwidth on different CNA cards, see the iDRAC7 version 1.00.00 Readme or the
Simple NIC Profile document at delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.
5. For the identified partition, use the FQDD and invoke the SetAttribute() method to change the bandwidth.
6. Check the updated value in the pending field of the attribute.
7. Before invoking the CreateTargetedConfigJob() method, construct the input parameters (Target,
RebootJobType, ScheduledStartTime, UntilTime, and so on).
If more than one partition on a port has a configuration change, do not specify RebootJobType and
ScheduledStartTime. Schedule the job using the job control profile methods. Go to step 9 to create the jobs.
See the Simple NIC Profile document at
delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library to see the list of all the supported
input parameters.
8. Invoke the CreateTargetedConfigJob() method to apply the pending values. If this method is successful, the system
must return a job ID for the configuration task you created.
NOTE: The system must reboot to execute the task of setting the attribute or attributes.
9. Create a reboot job with CreateRebootJob() and schedule all the partition jobs and the reboot job using
SetupJobQueue(). Pending changes on the partitions are lost if they are not scheduled to run together.
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