Broadcom NetXreme-C, User Manual

Page: 21 / 77

Features NetXtreme-E User’s Manual
February 26, 2018 • NetXtreme-E-UG100 Page 21
Virtualization Features
Table 14 lists the virtualization features of the NetXtreme-E.
Jumbo Frames Supported.
iSCSI boot Supported.
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Supports up to eight Physical Functions (PFs) per
port, or up to 16 PFs per silicon. This option is
configurable in NVRAM.
RDMA over Converge Ethernet (RoCE) The BCM5741X supports RoCE v1/v2 for Windows,
Linux, and VMware.
Data Center Bridging (DCB) The BCM5741X supports DCBX (IEEE and CEE
specification), PFC, and AVB.
NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) Supported.
Wake on LAN (WOL) Supported on rNDC with 10GBase-T, SFP+, and
SFP28 interfaces.
PXE boot Supported.
UEFI boot Supported.
Flow Control (Pause) Supported.
Auto negotiation Supported.
802.1q VLAN Supported.
Interrupt Moderation Supported.
MAC/VLAN filters Supported.
Table 14: Virtualization Features
Feature Details
Linux KVM Multiqueue Supported.
VMware NetQueue Supported.
NDIS Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Supported.
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) – Aware stateless
offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads Supported.
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) – Aware
stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads Supported.
Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
Encapsulation (NVGRE) – Aware stateless offloads Supported.
IP-in-IP aware stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP
checksum offloads Supported
SR-IOV v1.0 128 Virtual Functions (VFs) for Guest Operating
Systems (GOS) per device. MSI-X vector per VF is set
to 16.
MSI-X vector port 74 per port default value (two port configuration). 16
per VF and is configurable in HII and CCM.
Table 13: Host Interface Features (Cont.)
Feature Details