Virtualization Features - Broadcom NetXreme-C User Manual

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Feature
Jumbo Frames
iSCSI boot
NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
RDMA over Converge Ethernet (RoCE)
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface)
Wake on LAN (WOL)
PXE boot
UEFI boot
Flow Control (Pause)
Auto negotiation
802.1q VLAN
Interrupt Moderation
MAC/VLAN filters

Virtualization Features

Table 14 lists the virtualization features of the NetXtreme-E.
Feature
Linux KVM Multiqueue
VMware NetQueue
NDIS Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) – Aware stateless
offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) – Aware
stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads
Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
Encapsulation (NVGRE) – Aware stateless offloads
IP-in-IP aware stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP
checksum offloads
SR-IOV v1.0
MSI-X vector port
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Table 13: Host Interface Features (Cont.)
Table 14: Virtualization Features
Details
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported
128 Virtual Functions (VFs) for Guest Operating
Systems (GOS) per device. MSI-X vector per VF is set
to 16.
74 per port default value (two port configuration). 16
per VF and is configurable in HII and CCM.
Details
Supported.
Supported.
Supports up to eight Physical Functions (PFs) per
port, or up to 16 PFs per silicon. This option is
configurable in NVRAM.
The BCM5741X supports RoCE v1/v2 for Windows,
Linux, and VMware.
The BCM5741X supports DCBX (IEEE and CEE
specification), PFC, and AVB.
Supported.
Supported on rNDC with 10GBase-T, SFP+, and
SFP28 interfaces.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
Supported.
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