Users Guide

12–NIC Partitioning and Bandwidth Management
Configuring for NIC Partitioning
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Supported Operating Systems for NIC Partitioning
The Marvell BCM57xx and BCM57xxx 10-gigabit Ethernet adapters support NIC
partitioning on the following operating systems:
 Windows
 2012 Server and later family
 2016 Server
 2019 Server
 Linux
 RHEL 8.x and later family
 RHEL 7.x and later family
 SLES 12.x and later family
 SLES 15.x and later family
 VMware
 ESX 6.x and later family
Configuring for NIC Partitioning
When NIC partitioning is enabled on an adapter, by default, no offloads are
enabled on any physical function (PF) or virtual NIC (VNIC). The user must
explicitly configure storage offloads on a PF to use FCoE and/or iSCSI offload
functionality on an adapter.
NIC partitioning can be configured using the UEFI HII menu. You can access the
UEFI HII menu by pressing the Dell F2 key during the system boot (UEFI should
be supported by most Dell server BIOSs). For more information on using the UEFI
HII menu, refer to the Dell server documentation.
NOTE
32-bit Linux operating systems have a limited amount of memory space
available for Kernel data structures. Therefore, Marvell recommends that
you use only 64-bit Linux to configure NPAR.
Some older OS versions may require an earlier driver release.