Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual page 1347

 Using Virtual NIC Functions
Virtual NIC/Shared NIC

Setting Shared mode

On PCI device assignment
mode to Shared mode. See
Assigning NIC

On Virtual NIC (VNIC) assignment
items. See Virtual NIC (VNIC) assignment
- VNIC Device Type
- Shared NIC such as 1a or Virtual NIC such as Va
- VLAN
Installing LAN driver

See Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 SOFTWARE GUIDE and Server installation
and monitoring tool OS Setup Guide for details.
Setting checksum offload

See Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 SOFTWARE GUIDE and Server installation
and monitoring tool OS Setup Guide for details.
VF NIC

Updating NIC firmware

If your NIC firmware does not support SR-IOV, update it to the one that
supports SR-IOV. Contact your reseller for details.
In LPAR manager mode, you cannot update NIC firmware.
Change to Basic mode before updating NIC firmware.
Setting SR-IOV

See Hitachi Compute Blade Emulex Adapter User's Guide for Hardware for
details.
Setting LPAR manager expansion mode

On System Configuration screen for LPAR manager, set the LPAR manager
operating mode to LPAR manager expansion mode. See
for details.
Setting Shared mode

On PCI device assignment
mode to Shared mode. See
Assigning NIC

On Virtual NIC (VNIC) assignment
items. See Virtual NIC (VNIC) assignment
- VF NIC such as 1av
- VLAN
- Transmission bandwidth limitation
Updating NIC driver

If your NIC driver does not support SR-IOV, update it to the one that supports
SR-IOV. See Hitachi Compute Blade Emulex Adapter User's Guide for Driver
for details.
screen for LPAR manager, set NIC scheduling
PCI device assignment for details.
screen for LPAR manager, set the following
for details.
screen for LPAR manager, set the NIC scheduling
PCI device assignment for details.
screen for LPAR manager, set the following
for details.
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