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Switch Independent Partitioning Configuration
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Figure 4-2
shows the possible configurations.
Figure 4-2. Switch Independent Partitioning Configuration Options (Personalities)
Personality Changes
Based on your operating environment, you can use your preferred management
tool to change or disable PCI functions on either physical port. Using this feature
lets you divide each physical port into up to four partitions, configured to support
one of the following PCI function types: NIC, FCoE, or iSCSI.
Table 4-4
shows the port identifications and the possible Switch Independent
Partitioning configurations.
NOTE
This document uses the terms
personality
and
function type
interchangeably.
Table 4-4. Configuration Options
Function
Number
Function Type
Physical Port Number
User Label
a
System Number
b
0
NIC
1
0
1
NIC
2
1