Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters User guide

Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

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Overview

System Requirements

Switch Configuration

Installation and Setup

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Setup

Detailed Instructions for Installing Microsoft* Windows* Server

Microsoft* Windows* Setup

Linux Setup

Linux Management Tools

Data Center Bridging (DCB)

Known Issues

Customer Support

Glossary

Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility

Dell Update Package for Intel Adapter Firmware

Software License

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Overview: Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

FCoE VN to VN Support

Installation Overview

FCoE Infrastructure - Installation and Configuration

Intel® FCoE (Fibre Channel Over Ethernet) is designed for 82599- and X540-based PCI-Express Server Adapters. This guide

covers hardware and software installation, setup procedures, and troubleshooting tips for installing and booting the system

using these adapters.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is defined as the encapsulation of standard Fibre Channel (FC) protocol frames as data

within standard Ethernet frames. This link level encapsulation, teamed with an FCoE-aware Ethernet-to-FC gateway, acts to

extend an FC fabric to include Ethernet based host connectivity. The FCoE specification focuses on encapsulation of FC frames

specific to storage class traffic, as defined by the Fibre Channel FC-4 FCP specification. FC is a market leading technology used

to create Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Data Center Bridging (DCB)

is a collection of standards-based extensions to classical Ethernet. It provides a lossless data

center transport layer that enables the convergence of LANs and SANs onto a single unified fabric. In addition to supporting

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI over DCB, it enhances the operation of other business-critical traffic.

FCoE VN to VN Support

The terms used in this section are defined below.

N_Port A device port that generates/terminates FC-4 channel traffic

ENode (FCoE Node)

A Fibre Channel node (FC-FS-3) that is able to transmit FCoE frames using one or more

ENode MACs

FCoE_LEP (FCoE Link End-

Point)

The data forwarding component of an FCoE Entity that handles FC frame

encapsulation/decapsulation and transmission/reception of encapsulated frames through a

single Virtual Link

Lossless Ethernet network

An Ethernet network composed only of full-duplex links, Lossless Ethernet MACs, and

Lossless Ethernet bridging elements

Virtual Link The logical link connecting two FCoE_LEPs

VN_Port (Virtual N_Port)

An instance of the FC-2V sublevel of Fibre Channel that operates as an N_Port (see FC-FS-3)

and is dynamically instantiated on successful completion of a FIP FLOGI or FIP NPIV FDISC

Exchange

VN_Port MAC address The MAC address used by an ENode for a particular VN_Port

What is VN to VN?

FCoE VN to VN (VN2VN) support is a new proposal standard by T11 for connecting two end-nodes (ENodes) directly using

FCoE. An ENode can create a VN2VN virtual link with another remote ENode without connecting to FC or FCoE switches (FCFs)

in between, so neither port zoning nor advance fibre channel services are required. Storage software controls the access and

security of LUNs using LUN masking. The VN2VN fabric may have a lossless Ethernet switch between the ENodes. This allows

multiple ENodes to participate in creating more than one VN2VN virtual link in the VN2VN fabric. VN2VN has two operational

modes: Point to Point (PT2PT) and Multipoint.

NOTE: The mode of operation is used only during initialization.

Point to Point (PT2PT) Mode

In Point to Point mode, there are only two ENodes. They are connected either directly or thru a lossless Ethernet switch:

MultiPoint Mode

If more than two ENodes are detected in the VN2VN fabric, then all nodes should operate in Multipoint mode:

Installation Overview

For information on System Requirements see System Requirements.

1. Install FCoE-capable adapters in the system. For a list of supported adapters, see Supported Intel® Network Adapters

.

2. After following the above step if you are having problems, refer to Known Issues

.

FCoE Infrastructure - Installation and Configuration

The following is a typical FCoE setup flow:

1. Typical FCoE-enabled Fabric Switch Configuration

.

2. If you want to boot from an FCoE LUN:

See Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Configuration

Configure Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Options from Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager

3. Install operating system:

Linux Installation and Configuration

Microsoft* Windows* Server Installation and Configuration

4. Configure Intel Ethernet FCoE/DCBx:

Configure DCBx

Configure FCoE

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System Requirements: Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

Before installing Intel® Server Adapters and Intel® Ethernet FCoE Protocol Driver, check your system for the following

minimum configuration requirements.

System Hardware Compatibility for Network Adapters

Supported Intel® Network Adapters

Supported 32-bit Operating Systems

Supported Intel® 64 Architecture Operating Systems

System Hardware Compatibility for Network Adapters

An FCoE-capable Intel® 82599- or X540-based Network Adapter. A list of supported Intel Server Adapters can be found

below in Supported Intel® Network Adapters.

One of the following slot types, depending on your adapter:

A PCI Express slot (v1.0a or newer), x4, x8 or x16

The latest BIOS for your computer.

FCoE requires at least 4GB of RAM for optimum performance.

10Gb network connection

Supported Intel® Network Adapters

Intel® FCoE is supported on the following Intel® 82599- and X540-based Network Adapters:

Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2

Intel® Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4-KR Mezz

Intel® Ethernet 2P X520 Adapter

Intel® Gigabit 4P X520/I350 rNDC

Intel® Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t Adapter

Intel® Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350 rNDC (I350 ports only)

Intel® Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC

NOTE: When using FCoE Boot with an Intel networking adapter, a Brocade Host Bus Adapter (HBA) must not be

installed in the system.

Intel® FCoE is not supported on the following adapters:

Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter

Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter

Intel® Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4 Mezz

Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2

Intel® Gigabit 4P X520/I350 rNDC

Intel® Gigabit 4P X540/I350 rNDC

Intel® Gigabit 4P I350-t Mezz

Intel® Gigabit 2P I350-t Adapter

Intel® Gigabit 4P I350-t Adapter

Intel® Gigabit 4P I350-t rNDC

Intel® Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC

Intel® Gigabit 2P I350 LOM

Supported 32-bit Operating Systems

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Protocol Driver and Intel FCoE Remote Boot are supported on the following IA-32 operating systems:

Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 (with latest service pack and Hyper-V role) - Standard, DataCenter, or Enterprise

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Core

Supported Intel® 64 Architecture (Intel® 64) Operating Systems

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Protocol Driver and Intel FCoE Remote Boot are supported on the following Intel® 64operating systems:

Microsoft* Windows Server* 2012

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (with latest service pack and Hyper-V role) - Standard, DataCenter, or Enterprise

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1(with latest service pack and Hyper-V role) - Standard, DataCenter, or Enterprise

Novell SUSE* Linux Enterprise 11, SP3

Jumbo Frames

The base driver supports FCoE mini-Jumbo Frames (2.5k bytes) independent of the LAN Jumbo Frames setting.

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Switch Configuration for Intel® Ethernet FCoE Protocol Driver:

Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

Nexus/Cisco Switch Platform

Brocade Switch Platform

NOTES:

In the following examples, the assumption is made that the VLAN and VSAN configurations have already been

performed.

For more installation details check with your switch vendor's documentation:

Cisco Nexus*

Brocade*

Cisco Nexus* 5000 Series Switch Platform

For the Nexus/Cisco switch platform, a virtual interface is needed to bind the Ethernet port to the FC forwarder or FCF. Assume

port 1/3 in the following example.

Commands to enable trunk mode for an Ether port:

configure

interface ethernet 1/3

switchport mode trunk

spanning-tree port type edge trunk

exit

Commands to create a VFC:

configure

interface vfc 3

bind interface ethernet 1/3

no shutdown

exit

Brocade* 8000 Series FCoE Switch

For the Brocade 8000 series FCoE switch, assuming port 1/3, vlan 101 for FCoE, use:

configure terminal

interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/3

switchport

switchport mode converged

vlan classifier activate group 1 vlan 101

no shutdown

cee default

exit

NOTES: The "cmsh" command must be issued before the "configure terminal" command will function properly.

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Installation and Setup: Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

This section provides information for installing and setting up Intel® FCoE components. Follow the detailed instructions in

Microsoft* Windows Setup

or Linux Setup.

Installing Firmware

In order to enable FCoE Boot, the firmware should be loaded as Option ROM while booting the BIOS in the system. "Intel(R)

Ethernet FCoE Remote Boot" followed by the firmware version number is displayed, if the firmware is installed correctly.

NOTE: If you are updating firmware from version 13.x, you must first update to version 14.0.12 before updating to

firmware version 14.5.x or later.

See instructions on installing firmware.

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Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot: Intel® FCoE/DCB User Guide

Upgrading an FCoE-Booted System

Preparing the Adapter for FCoE Boot

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Option Rom Setup

Microsoft* Windows* Setup for Intel® FCoE Boot

Installing Windows Server from a Remote Disk (Diskless Install)

Installing Windows Server with Local Disk

Crash Dump Support

Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot allows the user to install FCoE to boot an operating system from a remote target. The following

information refers specifically to Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot. To configure the OS, go to: Windows

or Linux.

NOTE: If you are using FCoE boot, the FCoE must be installed and enabled. For information on how to install and enable

the FCoE boot, see the BootUtil

guide.

Booting from Targets Larger than 2TB

You can connect and boot from a target LUN that is larger than 2 Terabytes with the following restrictions:

The block size on the target must be 512 bytes.

The following operating systems are supported:

VMware* ESX 5.0, or later

SUSE* Enterprise Linux 11SP2, or later

Microsoft* Windows Server* 2012, or later

You may be able to access data only within the first 2 TB.

NOTE: The Crash Dump driver does not support target LUNs larger than 2TB.

Upgrading an Intel® Ethernet FCoE-Booted System

Upgrading an FCoE-booted system can only be done via the Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager installer. A reboot is

required to complete the upgrade. You cannot upgrade a port's Windows driver and software package if the port is in the path

to the virtual memory paging file and is also part of a Microsoft Server 2012 NIC Team (LBFO Team). To complete the

upgrade, remove the port from the LBFO team and restart the upgrade.

Warning: Do not update the base driver via the Windows Update method

Doing so may render the system inoperable, generating a blue screen. The FCoE Stack and base driver need to be

matched. The FCoE stack may get out of sync with the base driver if the base driver is updated via Windows Update.

Preparing the Adapter for FCoE Boot

Flash the adapter with FCoE Option ROM.

NOTE: If you are updating firmware from version 13.x, you must first update to version 14.0.12 before updating to

firmware version 14.5.x or later.

For the following adapters, FCoE is enabled through the uEFI environment.

Intel® Ethernet 10G 2P X520 Adapter

Intel® Ethernet 10G 2P X520-k bNDC

Intel® Ethernet 10G 4P X520/I350 rNDC

Intel® Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t Adapter

Intel® Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350 rNDC

To do this:

i. Go to System Setup.

ii. Choose a port and go to configuration.

iii. Specify the boot protocol: PXE, FCoE, iSCSI Primary, or iSCSI Secondary.

For other adapters, go to the Intel Ethernet drivers CD: \Bootutil\Bootutil /?.

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Option Rom Setup

To configure Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot, power-on or reset the system and press the Ctrl-D key when the message "Press

<Ctrl-D> to run setup..." is displayed. After pressing the Ctrl-D key, you will be taken to the Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot

Port Selection Setup Menu.

FCoE Port Selection Menu

The first screen of the Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot Setup Menu displays a list of Intel® FCoE Boot-capable adapters. For each

adapter port, the associated SAN MAC address, PCI device ID, PCI bus/device/function location, and a field indicating FCoE

Boot status is displayed. Up to 10 FCoE Boot-capable ports can be displayed within the Port Selection Menu. If there are more

Intel® FCoE Boot-capable adapters, these are not listed in the setup menu. Highlight the desired port and press Enter.

FCoE Boot Targets Configuration Menu

FCoE Boot Targets Configuration: Discover Targets is highlighted by default. If the Discover VLAN value is not what you

want, enter the correct value. Highlight Discover Targets and then press Enter to show targets associated with the

Discover VLAN value. Under Target WWPN, if you know the desired WWPN you can manually enter it or press Enter to

display a list of previously discovered targets.

FCoE Target Selection Menu

From the FCoE Target Selection menu, highlight the desired Target from the list and press Enter.

From the FCoE Boot Targets Configuration menu, manually fill in the LUN and Boot Order values. Hit Save.

VLAN Value is 0 by default. Discover Targets may be performed, which will display a VLAN. If the VLAN

displayed is not the one desired, enter the VLAN manually and perform Discover Targets on that VLAN.

Boot

Order

Valid values are 0 through 4, where a value of 0 means no boot order or ignore the target. A 0 value

also indicates that this port should not be used to connect to the target. Boot order values of 1 through

4 can only be assigned once to targets across all FCoE boot enabled ports.

To configure another target, select the desired target from the list or the same target with a different LUN. This process can be

repeated until all desired targets have been configured.

NOTE: After the Discover Targets function is executed, the Option ROM will attempt to remain logged into the fabric

until the FCoE Boot Targets Configuration Menu is exited.

NOTE: For more detailed instructions and description of a typical installation and setup click here.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Up/Down, TAB and SHIFT-TAB Move between the controls.

Left/Right/Home/End/Del/Backspace Move in the edit boxes.

Esc key Leave the screen.

Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager

Many of the functions of the Intel® FCoE Boot Port Selection Setup Menu can also be configured or revised using Intel®

PROSet for Windows Device Manager. For details on installing and using Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager, see the

Intel® Network Adapters User Guide.

Intel® Ethernet FCoE boot version is displayed on the Boot Options tab if the combo image supports FCoE boot.

Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot is an Active Image option if FCoE boot is supported by the combo image.

The Active Image setting enables/disables FCoE boot in the EEPROM.

Intel® Ethernet FCoE boot settings are displayed if FCoE Boot is the active image.

Microsoft* Windows* Setup for Intel® FCoE Boot

Requirements

1. Follow installation steps to install the Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot-capable adapters with Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot

firmware support.

2. Create a disk target (LUN) on an available Fibre Channel target. Configure this LUN to be accessible to the WWPN

address of the initiator of the host being booted.

3. Make sure the Intel® FCoE initiator of the host system starts the Intel® Ethernet FCoE Boot firmware. The firmware

should be configured properly, be able to connect to Fibre Channel target, and detect the boot disk.

4. To set up a system boot directly to an FCoE disk ("diskless install"), follow the steps in Installing Windows Server from a

Remote Disk.

5. To set up Windows Server* boot system when a local disk is available, follow the steps in Installing Windows Server

with Local Disk.

Installing Windows Server from a Remote Disk (Diskless Install)

NOTE: This section only applies to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and later.

After the Option Rom is installed, if you wish to install Windows Server 2008 R2 directly to the FCoE disk, do the following:

1. Locate the FCoE drivers in \FCOEBOOT\Winx64\Setup. You may copy all the files in the Setup directory to a floppy,

CD/DVD or USB media.

2. Boot the install media.

3. Perform a Custom install and proceed to the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen.

4. Use Load Driver to load the FCoE drivers. Go to the location where you copied the file from the Setup directory to

(Step 1) and load the following two drivers in the specified order:

a. Intel® Ethernet Setup Driver for FCoE.

NOTE: Duplicate entries may be displayed if there are multiple FCoE–capable ports present. Select any one

entry to continue.

b. Intel® Ethernet Virtual Storage Miniport Driver for FCoE.

NOTE: The FCoE drivers will block any other network traffic from the FCoE-supported ports until after you

have performed step 7. Do not attempt to install an NDIS miniport for any FCoE-supported ports prior to

step 7 of this process.

5. You should now see the FCoE disk or disks appear in the list of available install targets. All disks accessible by this

initiator through the boot port should appear.

6. Select the FCoE disk configured for boot in the Option ROM and continue the install until Windows is installed and you

are at the desktop.

7. Follow the instructions for installing Windows Server and the FCoE stack

. This will install the network drivers and

configure the FCoE drivers to work with them.

NOTE: You cannot deselect the FCoE feature. You will be prompted to reboot at the end of the installation

process.

8. Windows may prompt you to reboot once again after it returns to the desktop.

Installing Windows Server with Local Disk

After the Option Rom is installed, if you wish to install Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 with local disk, do the

following:

1. Follow the instructions for installing Windows Server and the FCoE stack

.

2. Verify that the FCoE boot disk is available in the Fabric View tab of Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager and

verify that the FCoE Target LUN has been recognized as a disk by Windows Disk Management and is online.

3. Open a command prompt, run the fcoeprep.bat batch file. The batch file is located in \Program

Files\Intel\Umb\Win32\FCOEBOOT or \Program Files\Intel\Umb\Winx64\FCOEBOOT.

4. Shut Windows down and capture the OS image to a local disk partition.

The image file must be on a separate local disk other than the operating system boot disk. The OS may have an

additional system reserved partition that needs to be included in the image file. Thus, it is advisable to image the OS

disk rather than just the OS partition. For more information, see Detailed Instructions for Installing Windows Server

with Local Disk.

5. Copy the image from the local hard drive to the FCoE target, making sure that the FCoE target LUN is larger than the

image size. This may be done from within the local Windows installation after the image files was created.

6. For Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or later: Run bcdboot.exe from the local Windows installation to make the FCoE disk

bootable.

If a System Reserved partition exists on the FCoE disk, type: bcdboot F:\Windows /s E:

where E: is the FCoE System Reserved partition and F: is the FCoE partition with the Windows directory.

If a System Reserved partition does not exist, type: bcdboot E:\Windows /s E:

where E: is the FCoE partition with the Windows directory.

7. Shut down and remove the local disk.

8. Configure the system BIOS to boot from the FCoE disk and boot.

Crash Dump Support

Crash dump file generation is supported in this release.

NOTE: Crash dumps will work with up to 8 GB of system memory.

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Microsoft* Windows* Installation and Configuration: Intel®

FCoE/DCB User Guide

System Requirements

Supported Adapters

Upgrading Windows Drivers on an Intel FCoE-Booted System

Validation and Storage Certification

Windows* Server Installation

Configuration Using Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager

Upgrading Windows Drivers on an Intel® FCoE-Booted System

Upgrading an FCoE-booted system can only be done via the Intel® Network Connections Installer. A reboot is required to

complete the upgrade. You cannot upgrade a port's Windows driver and software package if the port is in the path to the

virtual memory paging file and is also part of a Microsoft Server 2012 NIC Team (LBFO Team). To complete the upgrade,

remove the port from the LBFO team and restart the upgrade.

WARNING: Do not update the base driver via the Windows Update method.

Doing so may render the system inoperable, generating a blue screen. The FCoE Stack and base driver need to be

matched. The FCoE stack may get out of sync with the base driver, if the base driver is updated via Windows Update.

Validation and Storage Certification

The software components for Intel® Ethernet FCoE are comprised of two major components: the Ethernet base driver and the

FCoE Driver. They are developed and validated as an ordered pair. Users are strongly encouraged to avoid scenarios, either

through upgrades or Windows update, where the Ethernet driver version is not the version released with the corresponding

Intel® Ethernet FCoE driver. For more information, visit the download center at http://downloadcenter.intel.com.

NOTES:

Individually upgrading/downgrading the Intel® Ethernet FCoE driver will not work and may cause a blue screen;

the entire FCoE package must

be the same version. Upgrade the entire FCoE package using Intel® Network

Connections only.

If you uninstalled the Intel® Ethernet Virtual Storage Miniport Driver for FCoE component, just find the same

version that you uninstalled and re-install it; or uninstall and then re-install the entire FCoE package.

Intel and the storage vendors spend considerable effort ensuring that their respective products operate with each other as

expected for every version that we release. However, given the sheer number of releases and each respective organization's

differing schedules, users are strongly encouraged to use their storage vendor's support matrix to ensure that the versions

that they are deploying for the Intel® Ethernet Protocol Driver, the switch and storage vendor have been tested as an

integrated set.

Windows* Server Installation

From the setup.exe install menu: Click the FCoE over Data Center Bridging checkbox to install Intel® Ethernet FCoE Protocol

Driver and DCB. The MSI Installer installs all FCoE and DCB components including the Base Driver.

NOTES:

FCoE is supported on 82599- and X540-based Intel® Network Connections.

It is recommended to install using the latest storage qualified image.

For current drivers and documentation, visit the Customer Support site.

Microsoft Hotfixes

The following Microsoft hotfixes have been found to be needed for specific use cases:

All Windows Server 2008 (R1 and R2)

KB983554 - High-performance storage devices fix

Windows Server 2008 R2

KB2708811 - Data corruption occurs under random write stress

Multipath I/O (MPIO)

Windows Server 2008 R1 SP2

KB970525 - MPIO

KB972797 - MS DSM

KB974646 - NTFS

KB976748 - MPIO - reboot fix

KB979743 - MPIO - write errors

KB981379 - MS DSM - target issues

Windows Server 2008 R2

KB979743 - MPIO - write errors

KB981379 - MS DSM - target issues

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

KB2406705

Configuring MPIO Timers: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619749(WS.10).aspx

> contains additional

information about these registry settings.

Set the PathRecoveryInterval value to 60.

iSCSI Over DCB - QOS Binding

Windows 2008 R1 SP2

KB2518021

Configuration Using Intel® PROSet for Windows* Device Manager

Storage Adapter Miniport Device Property Window Tabs

Network Adapter Miniport Device Property Window Tabs

Many FCoE functions can also be configured or revised using Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager, from the FCoE

Properties button within the Data Center tab. You can use the Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager to perform the

following tasks:

Configure FCoE initiator-specific settings

Go to the corresponding port driver

Review FCoE initiator information

Obtain general information

Review statistics

Obtain information about the initiator

Obtain information about attached devices

FIP discovered VLANs and status

In addition, FCoE RSS performance settings are available in the base driver Advanced tab. If FCoE is installed, FCoE RSS is

enabled and applies to FCoE receive processing that is shared across processor cores. If your adapter supports FCoE RSS, the

following configuration settings can be viewed and changed under the Performance Options of the Advanced tab of the

Network Adapter device properties:

Starting NUMA Node. This setting specifies the NUMA node on which the first FCoE queue is allocated.

NUMA Node Count. This setting specifies the total number of NUMA nodes to be used to assign FCoE queues.

Starting RSS Core Offset. This setting specifies the core number on the starting NUMA node on which the first FCoE

queue is allocated.

Instructions for installing and using Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager are described in the Intel® Network Adapters

User Guide.

NOTE: PROSetCL.EXE is used for DCB/FCoE configuration on Microsoft* Windows Server* 2008 Core, Microsoft Windows

Server 2008 R2 Core, and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 operating systems.

NOTE: From the Boot Options Tab, the user will see the Flash Information Button. Clicking on the Flash

Information Button will open the Flash Information Dialog. From the Flash Information Dialog, clicking on the

Update Flash button in the Boot Options tab allows Intel® iSCSI Boot, Intel® Boot Agent (IBA), Intel® FCoE Boot,

and CLP to be written. The update operation writes a new image to the adapter's Flash and modifies the EEPROM, which

may temporarily disable the operation of the Windows* network device driver. You might need to reboot the computer

following this operation.

You cannot update the flash image of a LOM; this button will be disabled.

Storage Adapter Miniport Device's Property Window Tabs

There are two ways to navigate to the FCoE properties:

Through the Intel Ethernet Virtual Storage Miniport Driver for FCoE Storage Controllers properties from the Windows

Device Manager.

Through the network adapter properties Data Center tab.

Fabric View Tab

The Fabric View tab displays FC fabrics, VN2VN fabrics, physical ports, targets, and LUNs:

If FC fabric is selected, the FCoE GUI displays the information in the “Fabric Information” group box (World Wide Node

Name, World Wide Port Name, FCID)

If VN2VN fabric is selected, the FCoE GUI displays the information in the “Fabric Information” group box (FC Map).

If a physical port is selected, the FCoE GUI displays the information in the “Physical Port” group box (World Wide Node

Name, World Wide Port Name, FCID).

If a target is selected, the FCoE GUI displays the information in the “Target Information” group box (World Wide Node

Name, World Wide Port Name).

If a LUN is selected, the FCoE GUI displays the information in the “LUN Information” group box (LUN ID, OS Device

Name, Capacity, Block Size).

For general information about VN2VN, see FCoE VN to VN Support

.

Advanced Tab

The Advanced Tab displays information about all the settings configurable from the host. These include Timeout Value,

DeviceQDepth and Linkdown Timeout.

Statistics Tab

The Statistics Tab displays information about FCoE statistics and errors since the initialization of the FCoE stack.

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