Preface; Overview; Intended Audience; What Is In This Guide - Qlogic QL45212 User Manual

Preface

Overview

This user's guide describes installation, configuration, and management of the
QLogic

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for system administrators and other technical staff
members responsible for configuring and managing adapters installed on Dell
PowerEdge

What Is in This Guide

This preface specifies the intended audience, explains the typographic
conventions used in this guide, lists related documents, and provides technical
support and contact information. The remainder of this guide is organized into the
following chapters and appendices:
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QL45212 25Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter.
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servers in Windows
Chapter 1, Product Overview
of features, a list of supported operating systems, and the adapter
specifications.
Chapter 2, Installing the Hardware
including the list of system requirements and a preinstallation checklist.
Chapter 3, Installing Drivers
Chapter 4, Upgrading Firmware
update package to upgrade adapter firmware.
Chapter 5, Preboot Adapter Configuration
configuration tasks using the Human Infrastructure Interface (HII)
application.
Chapter 6, Configuring RoCE
adapter, the Ethernet switch, and the host to use RDMA over converged
Ethernet (RoCE).
Chapter 7, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
Extensions for RDMA (iSER) for RHEL and SLES.
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, Linux , or VMware
provides a product functional description, a list
describes how to install the adapter
describes the installation of the adapter drivers.
describes the use of the Dell firmware
describes the preboot adapter
describes how to configure the QL45212
describes how to configure iSCSI
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