Emulex Drivers Version 10.3 for Linux User Manual P010081-02A Rev. A
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Ethernet Driver Configuration.................................................................... 34
Ethernet Driver Configuration Parameters...................................................34
VLAN Support on UMC ...........................................................................34
Support for Ethtool set/get-channels.........................................................35
Transmit/Receive Queue Counts ..............................................................35
SR-IOV Configuration ............................................................................36
Introduction........................................................................................... 36
Setting Up SR-IOV .................................................................................... 37
Edge Virtual Bridging ................................................................................ 41
Link State Reporting with SR-IOV.................................................................. 41
Configuring VFs....................................................................................... 41
Link State Configuration ............................................................................ 43
Viewing VF Properties............................................................................... 43
ARI Considerations for OCe14000-Series Adapters..........................................44
NIC Partitioning (NPar) Configuration (Dell Only) ..........................................45
Adapter Configuration .............................................................................. 45
Adapter Requirements .............................................................................. 45
Using NParEP ......................................................................................... 46
iSCSI Driver Configuration ......................................................................... 47
Open-iSCSI Support ..............................................................................47
Discovering and Adding iSCSI Targets.........................................................47
RHEL 6.x and SLES 11 SPx .......................................................................... 47
Discovering and Adding iSCSI Targets............................................................. 47
Adding iSCSI Targets Directly (without Discovering) ........................................... 51
SLES 11 SP1, RHEL 5.8, and Later Versions ..................................................52
Discovering and Adding iSCSI Targets............................................................. 52
iscsiadm Commands for Configuring the Target ............................................52
iSNS Discovery Using iscsiadm .................................................................53
Virtual Port (VPort) Configuration ............................................................... 55
VPort Configuration Prerequisites.............................................................55
Creating, Deleting, and Displaying VPorts ...................................................55
Creating VPorts Using the mkvport.sh Script .................................................... 55
Deleting VPorts Using the rmvport.sh Script .................................................... 56
Displaying VPorts Using the lsvport.sh Script.................................................... 56
VPort sysfs ........................................................................................56
VPort sysfs Tree ...................................................................................... 56
VPort sysfs Entries ................................................................................... 58
Monitoring VPorts with fc_vport (FC and FCoE Drivers) ...................................60
For the FC RHEL5.x Driver .......................................................................... 60
For FC RHEL6.x/SLES11-SPx Drivers............................................................... 60