View Of Shared Nic/Virtual Nic Using The Ethtool Command - Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual

View of Shared NIC/Virtual NIC using the
ethtool Command
The following table shows that Shared NIC and Virtual NIC are displayed using the Linux
ethtool command, which is for both the onboard mezzanine card and PCI card.
Item
Supported ports
Supported link modes
(*): Actually only 1000baseT/Full is available even though the view shows that
10baseT/100baseT are available.
Remote console
With remote console connection, SVGA emulation slows down the screen display
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and mouse behavior of the remote console.
When the OS of a server blade is in the LP mode, power operation through the

remote console is disabled. Therefore, power-on, power-off, reset, and MNI using
the remote console are not available.
If you operate the mouse on the EFI screen or text screen during the guest OS

installation, input from the keyboard might slow down. Do not use the mouse on
those screens.
In standard server blades with LPAR manager firmware version 58-1X or earlier,
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or high-performance server blades with LPAR manager firmware version 78-1X or
earlier: When using a USB CD/ DVD-ROM drive or USB FD drive to transfer a
large amount of data such as OS installation and LP model or version updating,
assign the shared USB device to the target LPAR. Connect directly to the USB
port on the front panel of the server blade. The remote DVD/remote FD functions
are not available.
Detecting shared NIC linkdown
External devices might detect temporary linkdown of a shared NIC at LPAR manager boot,
force recovery, or unexpected reboot.
View
NIC1
TP
10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full (*)
1408
NIC2
FIBRE
1000baseT/Full