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ETH682i Mezz Network Adapter

User Guide

New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
https://www.h3c.com/en/

Document version: 6W100-20230218

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Page 1: ...ETH682i Mezz Network Adapter User Guide New H3C Technologies Co Ltd https www h3c com en Document version 6W100 20230218...

Page 2: ...espective owners Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice All contents in this document including statements information and recommendations are believed to be accur...

Page 3: ...hat are optional x y Braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical bars from which you select one x y Square brackets enclose a set of optional syntax choices separated by vert...

Page 4: ...s a Layer 2 or Layer 3 switch or a router that supports Layer 2 forwarding and other Layer 2 features Represents an access controller a unified wired WLAN module or the access controller engine on a u...

Page 5: ...Documentation feedback You can e mail your comments about product documentation to info h3c com We appreciate your comments...

Page 6: ...I boot 9 Configuring iSCSI SAN 16 Configuring FCoE 23 Configuring FCoE boot 23 Configuring FCoE SAN 28 Configuring NPAR 37 Configuring SR IOV 40 Configuring advanced features 43 Configuring VLAN 802 1...

Page 7: ...ESD prevention Electrostatic charges that build up on people and other conductors might damage or shorten the lifespan of the network adapter Preventing electrostatic discharge To prevent electrostat...

Page 8: ...the lspci grep QL41000 command to view PCI device information for the ETH682i network adapter The system can recognize a minimum of two PCI devices for each network adapter If FCoE offload and iSCSI o...

Page 9: ...by the operating system naming rule If no ports are recognized install the most recent driver and try again For more information see Installing and removing a network adapter driver in the operating...

Page 10: ...alling and removing a network adapter driver in the operating system If no Ethernet controllers exist verify that the network adapter is installed securely Figure 6 Viewing network adapters Installing...

Page 11: ...fect d Execute the modinfo qede or ethtool i ethX command to verify that the driver version is correct The ethX argument represents the port on the network adapter You can also verify the driver versi...

Page 12: ...r take effect 4 To remove the rpm file execute the rpm e kmod qlgc fastlinq command Restart the operating system or execute the rmmod qede and modprobe qede commands to load the old driver Windows ope...

Page 13: ...driver from the H3C official website b Double click the driver and then click Next Figure 13 Installing the driver c After the installation finishes restart the operating system to have the driver ta...

Page 14: ...s and Features window If no drivers are displayed in the window remove the driver as follows a Click the Start icon to enter the menu page b Select Control Panel Hardware Device Manager c Right click...

Page 15: ...artup of the server press Delete or ESC as prompted to enter the BIOS Setup utility 2 Enable PXE a Click the Advanced tab select Network Stack Configuration and then press Enter Figure 16 The Advanced...

Page 16: ...SI feature must cooperate with a remote network storage device The configuration methods for network storage devices vary by device For more information see the related document for the storage device...

Page 17: ...the network adapter port to be configured 2 Select Port Level Configuration Figure 21 Selecting Port Level Configuration 3 Set Boot Mode to iSCSI SW and iSCSI Offload to Enabled Save the configuration...

Page 18: ...gure the name of the iSCSI initiator Select Add an Attempt and then select the MAC address of the network adapter port For how to identify the network adapter port see Viewing network adapter port inf...

Page 19: ...12 Figure 24 Selecting Add an Attempt Figure 25 Selecting the MAC address of the network adapter port 6 Set iSCSI Mode to Enabled Configure iSCSI parameters and then select save...

Page 20: ...I 7 Select Save Changes and Reset Figure 27 Saving the configuration and restarting the server 8 Install the operating system for example RHEL 7 5 Specify the network disk as the system disk a Press e...

Page 21: ...14 Figure 28 Pressing e to edit the setup parameters b Enter the ip ibft string after quiet and then press Ctrl x Figure 29 Adding the ip ibft string c Click INSTALLATION DESTINATION...

Page 22: ...page that opens click Add a disk to add a network disk Figure 31 Adding a network disk e Select the target network disk and click Done at the upper left corner The network disk is now specified as the...

Page 23: ...IP address to the network interface on the network adapter that connects to the iSCSI network storage device Make sure the blade server and iSCSI storage device can reach each other Figure 33 Configu...

Page 24: ...the Discovery tab and click Discover Portals to add the address information about the peer device network storage device Figure 36 Adding the address information about the peer device d Click the Tar...

Page 25: ...een completed on the network storage device a Open Control Panel and then select Hardware Device Manager Network adapters Right click the network adapter port and then select Scan for hardware changes...

Page 26: ...19 Figure 39 Disk Management c Right click the disk name and then select Online Figure 40 Bringing the disk online d Right click the disk name and then select Initialize Disk...

Page 27: ...20 Figure 41 Initializing the disk e Right click the Unallocated area to assign a volume to the disk as prompted Figure 42 Assigning a volume to the disk...

Page 28: ...Hat systems Before configuring iSCSI SAN make sure the iSCSI client software package has been installed on the server To configure iSCSI SAN in RHEL 7 5 1 Assign an IP address to the network interfac...

Page 29: ...e 47 Probing the IQN of the iSCSI target 4 Execute the iscsiadm m node T iqn name p target ip l command to connect the iSCSI target The iqn name argument represents the IQN of the iSCSI target The tar...

Page 30: ...ute the mount command to mount the disk Figure 51 Mounting the disk Configuring FCoE The FCoE feature must cooperate with the remote network storage device The configuration method for a network stora...

Page 31: ...24 Figure 52 Selecting the network adapter port to be configured 2 Select Port Level Configuration Figure 53 Selecting Port Level Configuration 3 Set Boot Mode to FCoE and FCoE Offload to Enabled...

Page 32: ...tart the server Enter the BIOS Setup utility and select the network adapter port 5 Select FCoE Configuration If the external FCoE link is normal you can view the scanned peer WWPN number on the screen...

Page 33: ...e server Enter the operation system setup page 7 Install the operating system for example RHEL 7 5 and specify the network disk as the system disk a Select Install Red Hat Enterprise linux 7 5 Figure...

Page 34: ...anned storage disks d If no storage disks are scanned click Add a disk to add a network disk On the page that opens select the target network disk and then click Done in the upper left corner Figure 6...

Page 35: ...ge device and ICMs and make sure the FCoE link is unblocked For how to configure FCoE on an ICM see the related command reference and configuration guide 2 Open Control Panel select Hardware Device Ma...

Page 36: ...k name and select Online Figure 63 Making the disk online 5 Right click the disk name and select Initialize Disk Figure 64 Initializing the disk 6 Right click the Unallocated area and assign a volume...

Page 37: ...30 Figure 65 Assigning a volume to the disk Volume assignment has finished Figure 66 Volume assignment completed 7 Verify that the new volume has been added...

Page 38: ...the service fcoe start and service lldpad start commands to enable the FCoE and LLDP services respectively Figure 68 Enabling the FCoE and LLDP services 3 Execute the service fcoe status and service...

Page 39: ...e to disabled Verify that the value of the adminStatus field of ethM in the var lib lldpad lldpad conf configuration file is 0 If the command execution fails add adminStatus 0 to ethM for lldp in the...

Page 40: ...ly added network disk 10 Format and mount the network disk CAS systems 1 Configure FCoE on the FCoE storage device and ICMs and make sure the FCoE link is unblocked For more information about configur...

Page 41: ...rvices respectively Figure 77 Enabling the FCoE and LLDP services 4 Execute the service fcoe status and service lldpad status commands to verify that the FCoE and LLDP services are enabled respectivel...

Page 42: ...to disabled Verify that the value for the adminStatus field of ethM in the var lib lldpad lldpad conf configuration file is 0 If the command execution fails add adminStatus 0 to ethM for lldp in the...

Page 43: ...k disk 11 Format and mount the network disk VMware systems 1 Access the VMware Web interface Click the Network tab and then select Virtual switch Add a standard virtual switch 2 On the pop up window a...

Page 44: ...Mware Web interface and find the connected storage devices Figure 86 Connected storage devices b Click Create a data storage device and configure the parameters as required You can view the newly crea...

Page 45: ...load in NPAR mode To enable the NPAR mode disable a minimum of one offload feature 3 Repeat the procedure to configure the other port on the network adapter Save the configuration and restart the serv...

Page 46: ...39 Figure 90 Network adapter configuration page 6 Configure PF parameters Figure 91 Configuring PF parameters 7 Save the configuration and restart the server...

Page 47: ...iguration Intel VT for Directed I O VT d and then press Enter Figure 94 Socket Configuration screen 5 Select Intel VT for Directed I O VT d and set it to Enable Press ESC until you return to the BIOS...

Page 48: ...rep IOMMU command to verify that IOMMU is enabled Figure 98 Verifying that IOMMU is enabled 9 Execute the echo NUM sys class net ethX device sriov_numvfs command to assign a specified number of VFs to...

Page 49: ...F port 10 Execute the virt manager command to run the VM manager Select File New Virtual Machine to create a VM Figure 100 Creating a VM 11 On the New Virtual Machine page add a virtual NIC as instruc...

Page 50: ...in the operating system 1 Execute the modprobe 8021q command to load the 802 1Q module 2 Execute the ip link add link ethX name ethX id type vlan id id command to create a VLAN interface on a physical...

Page 51: ...figure bonding in mode 6 To configure bonding in mode 6 1 Execute the vi ifcfg bond0 command in the etc sysconfig network scripts directory to create a configuration file for bond0 and add the followi...

Page 52: ...to restart the network service and have bond0 take effect Figure 106 Restarting the network service 4 Execute the cat proc net bonding bond0 command to view information about bond0 and network adapte...

Page 53: ...ut the network adapter 2 Configuring teaming Windows 1 Open Server Manager and then select Local Server NIC Teaming Disabled to enter the NIC Teaming page Figure 110 Entering the NIC Teaming page 2 Se...

Page 54: ...to be added to the team Select Additional properties configure the properties and then click OK Team creation in Switch Independent mode takes a long time Figure 112 Configuring a new team 4 After tea...

Page 55: ...5 as an example To configure TCP offloading in RHEL 7 5 1 Execute the ethtool k ethx command to view the support and enabling state for the offload features The ethx argument represents the port name...

Page 56: ...enable or disable an offload feature The ethx argument represents the port name of the network adapter The feature argument represents the offload feature name The value for the argument includes tso...

Page 57: ...pports applications such as NIC iSCSI and FCoE to help realize network convergence Figures in this section are for illustration only Network adapter view The ETH682i Mezz network adapter can be applie...

Page 58: ...ent parameters Temperature Operating 5 C to 45 C 41 F to 113 F Storage 40 C to 70 C 40 F to 158 F Humidity Operating 8 RH to 90 RH noncondensing Storage 5 RH to 95 RH noncondensing Altitude Operating...

Page 59: ...remote boot iSCSI is a new storage technology which integrates SCSI interfaces and Ethernet Based on iSCSI the device can transmit commands and data through SCSI interfaces on the network so that cros...

Page 60: ...VLAN ID is in the range of 1 to 4094 and is assigned by the operating system VLAN refers to a group of logical devices and users working at Layer 2 and Layer 3 A VLAN is a broadcast domain Communicat...

Page 61: ...ess information MAC address IP address and port number This mode cannot control traffic direction If a large amount of traffic goes to the same destination address the traffic will be sent by the same...

Page 62: ...a remote direct memory access technology aiming to deal with the data processing delay on the server during network transmission It transmits data to the storage area of a computer through network dir...

Page 63: ...B5700 G3 2 processor half width 3 Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 See Figure 117 H3C UniServer B5800 G3 2 processor full width 3 Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 See Figure 118 H3C UniServer B7800 G3 4 processor full width 6 Mez...

Page 64: ...ositions on a 2 processor full width blade server Figure 119 Network adapter installation positions on a 2 processor full width blade server Compatible ICMs Network adapters and ICM compatibility The...

Page 65: ...er in Mezz1 is connected to ICMs in slots 1 and 4 Network adapter in Mezz2 is connected to ICMs in slots 2 and 5 Network adapter in Mezz3 is connected to ICMs in slots 3 and 6 Figure 120 Network adapt...

Page 66: ...ure 121 Network adapter and ICM mapping relations 4 processor full width blade server Figure 122 ICM slots Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 Mezz4 Mezz5 Mezz6 1 4 2 3 5 6 1 2 LOM P1 LOM P2 Blade ICM Mid plane OM Embe...

Page 67: ...Ms support 25GE service applications and the external ports are connected to the Internet to provide Internet access for the blade server on which the network adapter resides Figure 123 Mezzanine netw...

Page 68: ...Controller Sideband Interface NPAR NIC Partitioning P PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express PF Physical Function PXE Preboot Execute Environment R RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access RoCE RDMA o...

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