Using Switch Independent Partitioning Under Esx; User Diagnostics For Vmware Nic Driver Management Applications; Ethtool - Dell QMD8262-k User Manual

3–Adapter Management Applications
VMware Management Applications

Using Switch Independent Partitioning Under ESX

All Switch Independent Partitioning Ethernet functions are enumerated by the
hypervisor, controlled by the driver running in the hypervisor, and configured
similar to other Ethernet interfaces. For more details, see
Partitioning" on page
You would typically create a virtual switch (vSwitch) for each Switch Independent
Partitioning interface. You can configure virtual machines (VMs) to use the standard
virtual network devices, such as VMXNET 3 adapters. On each interface, you can
configure features such as NetQueue. Although it is possible to configure all
standard aggregation and failover configurations supported by ESX using Switch
Independent Partitioning interfaces as uplinks, it is not useful to have multiple
uplinks with NIC partitions belonging to the same physical port.
The vSwitch switches the packets when VMs are assigned to share the same NIC
partition. The embedded switch (eSwitch) on the adapter switches packets when
packets are sent by a VM on a NIC partition destined to another VM that is
connected to a vSwitch on a different NIC partition belonging to the same physical
port. If the two NIC partitions are associated with different physical ports, the
external switch forwards packets between them.
Perform vSwitch configuration using either standard service console commands or
RCLI commands. For specific command options, refer to the VMware documentation.
NOTE
The adapter has eSwitches. Because all of the interfaces are assigned to
the hypervisor, eSwitch operation is transparent, and the system
administrator is not required to perform any additional configuration.
User Diagnostics for VMware NIC Driver Management
Applications
This section covers user diagnostics for VMware NIC driver management
applications.

Ethtool

Use the ethtool utility to view adapter statistics and configure interface options.
Supported options include the display of device information, protocol offload options,
driver information, adapter statistics, and more. For details, refer to the ethtool man page.
To view driver and firmware versions, issue the following command:
ethtool -i vmnic[n]
Example:
# ethtool -i vmnic7
driver: qlcnic
version: <version>
123.
112
"Switch Independent
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