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3 PVRDMA Deployment and Configuration of QLogic CNA devices in VMware ESXi | Technical White
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience and Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Remote Direct Memory Access .......................................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Paravirtual RDMA ............................................................................................................................................... 6
1.4 Hardware and software requirements ................................................................................................................ 7
1.5 Supported configuration ..................................................................................................................................... 7
2 Configuring PVRDMA on VMware vSphere ................................................................................................................. 8
2.1 VMware ESXi host configuration ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.1.1 Checking host configuration ............................................................................................................................... 8
2.1.2 Deploying PVRDMA on VMware vSphere ......................................................................................................... 8
2.1.3 Updating vSphere settings ................................................................................................................................. 9
2.2 Configuring PVRDMA on a guest operating system ........................................................................................ 13
2.2.1 Configuring a server virtual machine (VM1) ..................................................................................................... 13
2.2.2 Configuring a client virtual machine (VM2) ....................................................................................................... 15
3 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 16
4 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 17