Emulex Drivers for Linux User Manual P009797-01A Rev. A
Table of Contents
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Ethernet Driver Configuration.................................................................... 33
Ethernet Driver Configuration Parameters...................................................33
VLAN Support on UMC ...........................................................................33
Support for Ethtool set/get-channels.........................................................34
Transmit/Receive Queue Counts ..............................................................34
SR-IOV Configuration ............................................................................35
Introduction........................................................................................... 35
Setting Up SR-IOV .................................................................................... 35
Configuring VFs....................................................................................... 40
Viewing VF Properties............................................................................... 41
iSCSI Driver Configuration ......................................................................... 43
iSCSI Driver Parameter Descriptions ..........................................................43
Configuring the iSCSI Driver Parameters .....................................................44
Configuring the ETO and LDTO Parameters...................................................... 44
Configuring the large_io Parameter .............................................................. 44
Configuring the im_policy Parameter............................................................. 45
iSCSI Error Handling .............................................................................46
Error Handling using ETO and LDTO Parameters ................................................ 46
Error Handling Under MultiPath I/O (MPIO) and Cluster Configurations..................... 46
Virtual Port (VPort) Configuration ............................................................... 47
VPort Configuration Prerequisites.............................................................47
Creating, Deleting, and Displaying VPorts ...................................................47
Creating VPorts Using the mkvport.sh Script .................................................... 47
Deleting VPorts Using the rmvport.sh Script .................................................... 48
Displaying VPorts Using the lsvport.sh Script.................................................... 48
VPort sysfs ........................................................................................48
VPort sysfs Tree ...................................................................................... 48
VPort sysfs Entries ................................................................................... 50
Monitoring VPorts with fc_vport (FC and FCoE Drivers) ...................................52
For FC RHEL5.x/SLES10-SPx Drivers............................................................... 52
For FC RHEL6.x/SLES11-SPx Drivers............................................................... 52
VPort Configuration Limits .....................................................................53
DHCHAP Authentication and Configuration .................................................... 54
Enabling Authentication ........................................................................54
fcauthd Daemon..................................................................................54
fcauthd Daemon Parameters ....................................................................... 54
lpfc_enable_auth Module Parameter .........................................................55
Authentication Configuration Parameters ...................................................55
Setting Remote and Local Passwords .........................................................55
LPFC Driver Performance Tuning ................................................................ 55