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Cavium QL45611HLCU-SP User Manual (342 pages)
Converged Network Adapters and Intelligent Ethernet Adapters
Brand:
Cavium
| Category:
Adapter
| Size: 9 MB
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
6
Preface
18
Supported Products
18
Intended Audience
19
What Is in this Guide
19
Related Materials
20
Documentation Conventions
21
Technical Support
23
Downloading Updates and Documentation
23
Knowledgebase
24
Legal Notices
24
Laser Safety-FDA Notice
24
Agency Certification
25
EMI and EMC Requirements
25
KCC: Class a
26
VCCI: Class a
26
Product Safety Compliance
26
Product Overview
28
Functional Description
28
Features
28
Adapter Management
30
Qlogic Control Suite CLI
31
Qlogic Qconvergeconsole GUI
31
Qlogic Qconvergeconsole Vcenter Plug-In
31
Qconvergeconsole Powerkit
32
Fastlinq ESXCLI Vmware Plug-In
32
Adapter Specifications
32
Physical Characteristics
32
Standards Specifications
32
Hardware Installation
34
System Requirements
34
Safety Precautions
35
Preinstallation Checklist
36
Installing the Adapter
36
Driver Installation
38
Installing Linux Driver Software
38
Installing the Linux Drivers Without RDMA
40
Removing the Linux Drivers
41
Installing Linux Drivers Using the Src RPM Package
42
Installing Linux Drivers Using the Kmp/Kmod RPM Package
43
Installing Linux Drivers Using the TAR File
43
Installing Ubuntu Linux Drivers
43
Installing the Linux Drivers with RDMA
44
Linux Driver Optional Parameters
45
Linux Driver Operation Defaults
45
Linux Driver Messages
46
Statistics
46
Importing a Public Key for Secure Boot
46
Installing Windows Driver Software
47
Installing the Windows Drivers
48
Removing the Windows Drivers
48
Managing Adapter Properties
49
Setting Power Management Options
50
Installing Vmware Driver Software
50
Vmware Drivers and Driver Packages
51
Installing Vmware Drivers
52
Vmware NIC Driver Optional Parameters
53
Vmware Driver Parameter Defaults
55
Removing the Vmware Driver
56
Fcoe Support
56
Iscsi Support
56
Firmware Upgrade Utility
57
Image Verification
58
Upgrading Adapter Firmware on Linux
58
Upgrading Adapter Firmware on Windows
58
Converting a 100G Adapter to Four-Port 25G Adapter
59
Adapter Preboot Configuration
60
Getting Started
61
Displaying Firmware Information
65
Configuring Device-Level Parameters
65
Configuring Port-Level Parameters
68
Configuring Fcoe Boot
70
Configuring Iscsi Boot
72
Configuring Partitions
74
Changing the Adapter Port Mode
80
Converting a 100G Adapter to Four-Port 25G Adapter
80
Converting a 25G Adapter to Single-Port 100G Adapter
81
Converting a 40G Adapter to a Four-Port 10G Adapter
82
Converting a 10G Adapter to a Four-Port 40G Adapter
83
Boot from SAN Configuration
85
Iscsi Boot from SAN
85
Iscsi Out-Of-Box and Inbox Support
86
Iscsi Preboot Configuration
87
Supported Operating Systems for Iscsi Boot
87
Configuring Adapter UEFI Boot Mode
88
Configuring the Iscsi Target
91
Selecting the Iscsi UEFI Boot Protocol
91
Configuring Adapter UEFI Boot Mode
92
Configuring Iscsi Boot Parameters
92
Configuring Iscsi Boot Options
94
Configuring the DHCP Server to Support Iscsi Boot
104
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN on Windows
108
Before You Begin
108
Configuring Iscsi General Parameters
109
Configuring the Iscsi Initiator
109
Selecting the Preferred Iscsi Boot Mode
109
Configuring the Iscsi Targets
110
Detecting the Iscsi LUN and Injecting the Qlogic Drivers
111
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN on Linux
113
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN for RHEL 7.4
113
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN for RHEL 7.5 and Later
117
And Later
118
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN for SLES 12 SP3
118
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN for Other Linux Distributions
119
Configuring Iscsi Boot from SAN on Vmware
134
Fcoe Boot from SAN
134
Fcoe Out-Of-Box and Inbox Support
134
Fcoe Preboot Configuration
135
Specifying the BIOS Boot Protocol
135
Configuring Adapter UEFI Boot Mode
136
Configuring Fcoe Boot from SAN on Windows
141
Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 Fcoe Boot Installation
141
Configuring Fcoe on Windows
142
Fcoe Crash Dump on Windows
142
Image Files
143
Configuring Fcoe Boot from SAN on Linux
144
Prerequisites for Linux Fcoe Boot from SAN
144
Configuring Linux Fcoe Boot from SAN
145
Configuring Fcoe Boot from SAN on Vmware
150
Image Files
150
Injecting (Slipstreaming) Esxi Adapter Drivers into
150
Installing the Customized Esxi ISO
151
Roce Configuration
154
Supported Operating Systems and OFED
154
Planning for Roce
155
Preparing the Adapter
156
Preparing the Ethernet Switch
156
Configuring the Cisco Nexus 6000 Ethernet Switch
156
Configuring the Dell Z9100 Ethernet Switch
158
Configuring the Arista 7060X Ethernet Switch
160
Configuring Roce on the Adapter for Windows Server
162
Viewing RDMA Counters
165
Configuring Roce on the Adapter for Linux
170
Roce Configuration for RHEL
171
Roce Configuration for SLES
171
Roce Configuration for Ubuntu
172
Verifying the Roce Configuration on Linux
174
Vlan Interfaces and GID Index Values
177
Roce V2 Configuration for Linux
177
Identifying the Roce V2 GID Index or Address
178
Verifying the Roce V1 or Roce V2 GID Index and Address from Sys and Class Parameters
178
Perftest Applications
179
Verifying the Roce V1 or Roce V2 Function through
179
Configuring Roce on the Adapter for Vmware ESX
183
Configuring RDMA Interfaces
183
Configuring MTU
185
Roce Mode and Statistics
185
Configuring a Paravirtual RDMA Device (PVRDMA)
186
Configuring DCQCN
189
DCQCN Terminology
190
DCQCN Overview
190
DCB-Related Parameters
191
Global Settings on RDMA Traffic
191
Setting Vlan Priority on RDMA Traffic
191
Setting DSCP on RDMA Traffic
192
Setting ECN on RDMA Traffic
192
Configuring DSCP-PFC
192
Enabling DCQCN
192
Configuring CNP
192
DCQCN Algorithm Parameters
193
MAC Statistics
193
Script Example
194
Limitations
194
Iwarp Configuration
195
Preparing the Adapter for Iwarp
195
Configuring Iwarp on Windows
196
Configuring Iwarp on Linux
199
Installing the Driver
199
Configuring Iwarp and Roce
199
Detecting the Device
200
Supported Iwarp Applications
201
Running Perftest for Iwarp
201
Configuring NFS-RDMA
202
Iwarp RDMA-Core Support on SLES 12 SP3 and RHEL 7.4
204
Iser Configuration
206
Before You Begin
206
Configuring Iser for RHEL
207
Configuring Iser for SLES 12
210
Configuring Iser for Ubuntu
211
Configuring LIO as a Target
211
Configuring the Initiator
217
Optimizing Linux Performance
218
Configuring Cpus to Maximum Performance Mode
218
Configuring Kernel Sysctl Settings
218
Configuring IRQ Affinity Settings
219
Configuring Block Device Staging
219
Configuring Iser on Esxi 6.7
219
Before You Begin
219
Configuring Iser for Esxi 6.7
220
Iscsi Configuration
223
Iscsi Boot
223
Iscsi Offload in Windows Server
223
Installing Cavium Qlogic Drivers
224
Installing the Microsoft Iscsi Initiator
224
Configuring Microsoft Initiator to Use Cavium's Iscsi Offload
224
Iscsi Offload Faqs
230
Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019 Iscsi Boot Installation
231
Iscsi Crash Dump
232
Iscsi Offload in Linux Environments
232
Differences from Bnx2I
233
Configuring Qedi.ko
233
Verifying Iscsi Interfaces in Linux
233
Fcoe Configuration
236
Configuring Linux Fcoe Offload
236
Differences between Qedf and Bnx2Fc
237
Configuring Qedf.ko
237
Verifying Fcoe Devices in Linux
238
SR-IOV Configuration
240
Configuring SR-IOV on Windows
240
Configuring SR-IOV on Linux
247
Configuring SR-IOV on Vmware
251
Nvme-Of Configuration with RDMA
256
Installing Device Drivers on both Servers
258
Configuring the Target Server
259
Configuring the Initiator Server
261
Preconditioning the Target Server
262
Testing the Nvme-Of Devices
263
Optimizing Performance
264
IRQ Affinity (Multi_Rss-Affin.sh)
265
CPU Frequency (Cpufreq.sh)
266
Configuring Roce Interfaces with Hyper-V
268
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with an RDMA NIC
269
Adding a Vlan ID to Host Virtual NIC
270
Verifying if Roce Is Enabled
271
Adding Host Virtual Nics (Virtual Ports)
272
Mapping the SMB Drive and Running Roce Traffic
272
Roce over Switch Embedded Teaming
274
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with SET and RDMA
274
Virtual Nics
274
Enabling RDMA on SET
274
Assigning a Vlan ID on SET
275
Running RDMA Traffic on SET
275
Configuring Qos for Roce
275
Configuring Qos by Disabling DCBX on the Adapter
276
Configuring Qos by Enabling DCBX on the Adapter
280
Configuring VMMQ
284
Enabling VMMQ on the Adapter
285
Creating a Virtual Machine Switch with or Without SR-IOV
285
Enabling VMMQ on the Virtual Machine Switch
286
Getting the Virtual Machine Switch Capability
287
Creating a VM and Enabling VMMQ on Vmnetworkadapters
287
In the VM
287
Default and Maximum VMMQ Virtual NIC
289
Enabling and Disabling VMMQ on a Management NIC
289
Monitoring Traffic Statistics
289
Configuring VXLAN
289
Enabling VXLAN Offload on the Adapter
290
Deploying a Software Defined Network
290
Configuring Storage Spaces Direct
291
Configuring the Hardware
291
Deploying a Hyper-Converged System
292
Configuring the Network
292
Deploying the Operating System
292
Configuring Storage Spaces Direct
294
Traffic Control Offload
298
Requirements
298
Current Support
298
Ingress Packet Redirection
299
Devices and SR-IOV Vfs
299
Ingress Packet Redirection for SR-IOV Vfs
299
Ingress Packet Redirection with MAC-Vlan Offloaded
299
TC Drop Action Support (Ingress Drop)
300
TC MQPRIO Offload
300
Troubleshooting
301
Troubleshooting Checklist
301
Verifying that Current Drivers Are Loaded
302
Verifying Drivers in Windows
302
Verifying Drivers in Linux
302
Verifying Drivers in Vmware
303
Testing Network Connectivity
303
Testing Network Connectivity for Windows
303
Testing Network Connectivity for Linux
304
Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V
304
Linux-Specific Issues
304
Miscellaneous Issues
304
Troubleshooting Windows Fcoe and Iscsi Boot from SAN
305
Collecting Debug Data
306
Adapter LEDS
307
Cables and Optical Modules
308
Supported Specifications
308
Tested Cables and Optical Modules
309
Tested Switches
314
Feature Constraints
315
Glossary
317
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