Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series, User Manual

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1–Product Overview
Adapter Management
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 Advanced network features:
 Jumbo frames (up to 9,600 bytes). The OS and the link partner must
support jumbo frames.
 Virtual LANs (vLANs)
 Flow control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
 Virtualization (SR-IOV Hypervisor)
 VMware NetQueue
 Windows Hyper-V
®
Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
 Linux Multiqueue
 Windows, Linux, and VMware switch-independent NPAR
 Windows Hyper-V
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, Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and
VMware ESXi
™
SR-IOV
 Logical link control (IEEE Std 802.2)
 High-speed on-chip reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor
 Integrated 96KB frame buffer memory (not applicable to all models)
 1,024 classification filters (not applicable to all models)
 Support for multicast addresses through 128-bit hashing hardware function
 Serial flash NVRAM memory
 PCI Power Management Interface (v1.1)
 64-bit base address register (BAR) support
 EM64T processor support
 iSCSI and FCoE boot support
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Adapter Management
The following applications are available to manage 45000 Series Adapters:
 QLogic Control Suite CLI

QLogic QConvergeConsole GUI
 QLogic QConvergeConsole vCenter Plug-in

QConvergeConsole PowerKit
 FastLinQ ESXCLI VMware Plug-in
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The QL456 x 1 (1×100G) adapter does not currently support SR-IOV on Windows Hyper-V.
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Hardware support limit of SR-IOV VFs varies. The limit may be lower in some OS environments;
refer to the appropriate section for your OS.