Qlogic 8200 Series, User Manual

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2–Configuring NIC
NIC Partition (NPAR)
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Configuring NPAR in the BIOS
Refer to the Type section for information.
Configuring NPAR in QCC GUI
Refer to the QConvergeConsole Help System: Partitioning NIC Ports for
information.
Configuring NPAR in QCC Interactive CLI
Refer to the QConvergeConsole CLI User’s Guide for information.
Configuring NPAR in QCC Non-Interactive CLI
Refer to the QConvergeConsole CLI User’s Guide, “NIC Noninteractive
Commands” section for information.
Configuring NPAR in the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in
The QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in provides the QLogic Adapter tab. Use this
tab to manage the 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters in the VMware ESX/ESXi
environment.
With the QLogic Adapter tab, you can:
 Enable/Disable NPAR
 Enable/Disable functions
 Configure function personalities
 Configure the relative bandwidth of NIC functions
 Configure eSwitch
 View the eSwitch Statistics
The default configuration of the 8200 Series Adapters is a NIC function, iSCSI
function, and FCoE function. There is an additional NIC function that is defaulted
as disabled, but is presented to the user to be optionally enabled.
NOTE:
The 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters have eSwitches. Because all of the
interfaces are assigned to the hypervisor, eSwitch operation is transparent,
and the system administrator is not required to perform any additional
configuration.