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Preface 

This  user  guide describes the specifications,  supported  features, and configuration methods  for 
ETH681i Mezz network adapters. 

This preface includes the following topics about the documentation:

 

 

Audience

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Conventions

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Documentation feedback

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Audience 

This documentation is intended for: 

 

Network planners. 

 

Field technical support and servicing engineers. 

 

Network administrators. 

Conventions 

The following information describes the conventions used in the documentation. 

Command conventions 

Convention 

Description 

Boldface 

Bold

 text represents commands and keywords that you enter literally as shown. 

Italic

 

Italic

 text represents arguments that you replace with actual values. 

[ ] 

Square brackets enclose syntax choices (keywords or arguments) that 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 vertical bars, 
from which you select one or none. 

{ x | y | ... } *

 

Asterisk marked braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical 
bars, from which you select a minimum of one. 

[ x | y | ... ] *

 

Asterisk marked square brackets enclose optional syntax choices separated by vertical 
bars, from which you select one choice, multiple choices, or none. 

&<1-n> 

The argument or keyword and argument combination before the ampersand (&) sign 
can be entered 1 to n times. 

A line that starts with a pound (#) sign is comments. 

 

GUI conventions 

Convention 

Description 

Boldface

 

Window names, button names, field names, and menu items are in Boldface. For 
example, the 

New User

 window opens; click 

OK

Multi-level menus are separated by angle brackets. For example, 

File

 > 

Create

 > 

Folder

 

Содержание ETH681i

Страница 1: ...ETH681i Mezz Network Adapter User Guide New H3C Technologies Co Ltd https www h3c com en Document version 6W100 20230213...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

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

Страница 6: ...8 Configuring iSCSI 9 Configuring iSCSI boot 9 Configuring iSCSI SAN 14 Configuring NPAR 21 Configuring SR IOV 23 Configuring advanced features 26 Configuring VLAN 802 1Q VLAN 26 Configuring bonding...

Страница 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...

Страница 8: ...em It uses CentOS 7 5 and Windows Server 2016 as examples Linux operation systems 1 Execute the lspci grep QL41000 command to view PCI device information for the ETH681i network adapter The system can...

Страница 9: ...ices after executing the lspci grep QL41000 command Figure 3 Information about a network adapter enabled with NPAR Windows operating systems 1 Open Network Connections and verify that the Qlogic FastL...

Страница 10: ...ling a network adapter driver in the operating system If no Ethernet controllers exist verify that the network adapter is installed securely Figure 5 Viewing network adapters Installing and uninstalli...

Страница 11: ...8 38 2 0 1 rhel7u5 x86_64 rpm to the operating system b Execute the rpm ivh file_name rpm command to install the driver Figure 7 Installing the driver c After the installation finishes restart the op...

Страница 12: ...re 9 Compiling the file and installing the driver d After the installation finishes restart the operating system or execute the rmmod qede and modprobe qede commands to have the driver take effect Uni...

Страница 13: ...nager 3 Right click the port on the network adapter and then select Properties Driver Figure 11 Device Manager Installing the driver 1 Obtain the driver from the H3C official website 2 Double click th...

Страница 14: ...ect 4 Verify that the driver version has been updated Figure 13 Verifying the driver version Uninstalling the driver 1 Click the Start icon to enter the menu page 2 Select Control Panel Hardware Devic...

Страница 15: ...During startup of the server press Delete or ESC as prompted to enter the BIOS Setup utility 2 To enable PXE in UEFI mode a Click the Advanced tab select Network Stack Configuration and then press Ent...

Страница 16: ...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 This docum...

Страница 17: ...MAC address NOTE Select the correct mezzanine network adapter slot and port number For more information see Feature compatibility Figure 19 Mezzanine network adapter configuration 3 Set iSCSI Mode to...

Страница 18: ...ave Exit screen select Save Changes and Reset Figure 21 Saving the configuration and restarting the server 5 Install the operating system for example RHEL 7 5 Specify the system disk as the network di...

Страница 19: ...12 Figure 22 Pressing e to edit the setup parameters b Enter the ip ibft string after quiet and then press Ctrl x Figure 23 Adding the ip ibft string c Click INSTALLATION DESTINATION...

Страница 20: ...page that opens click Add a disk to add a network disk Figure 25 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...

Страница 21: ...ork interface on the network adapter that connects to the iSCSI network storage device Make sure the host and iSCSI storage device can reach each other Figure 27 Configuring the local IP address 2 Ena...

Страница 22: ...y tab and click Discover Portals to add the address information about the peer device network storage device Figure 30 Adding the address information about the peer device d Click the Targets tab Clic...

Страница 23: ...ted on the network storage device a Open Control Panel and then select Hardware Device Manager Storage controllers Right click the iSCSI adapter and then select Scan for hardware changes Figure 32 Sca...

Страница 24: ...17 Figure 33 Disk Management c Right click the disk name and then select Online Figure 34 Bringing the disk online d Right click the disk name and then select Initialize Disk...

Страница 25: ...18 Figure 35 Initializing the disk e Right click the Unallocated area to assign a volume to the disk as prompted Figure 36 Assigning a volume to the disk...

Страница 26: ...lume Red 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...

Страница 27: ...e 41 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...

Страница 28: ...6 Execute the mkfs command to format the newly added disks Figure 44 Formatting a newly added disk 7 Execute the mount command to mount the disk Figure 45 Mounting the disk Configuring NPAR 1 Enter th...

Страница 29: ...22 Figure 46 NPAR configuration screen 3 Access Partitions Configuration Figure 47 Mezzanine network adapter configuration screen 4 Configure PF parameters...

Страница 30: ...Configuring SR IOV 1 Enter the BIOS Setup utility 2 Select Advanced PCI Subsystem Settings and then press Enter Figure 49 Advanced screen 3 Select SR IOV Support and set it to Enabled Press ESC until...

Страница 31: ...r Directed I O VT d screen 6 Click the Advanced tab and select the first port of the network adapter Select Device Level Configuration and set SR IOV to Enabled Save the configuration and restart the...

Страница 32: ...e sriov_numvfs command to assign a specified number of VFs to a PF port The NUM argument represents the number of VFs to be assigned The ethX argument represents the PF port name Execute the lspc grep...

Страница 33: ...g ethVF hw ether xx xx xx xx xx xx command to configure an MAC address for the vNIC The ethVF argument represents the virtual NIC name The xx xx xx xx xx xx argument represents the MAC address Configu...

Страница 34: ...esents the broadcast address The ethX id argument represents the VLAN ID To delete a VLAN interface execute the ip link set dev ethX id down and ip link delete ethX id commands Figure 60 Assigning an...

Страница 35: ...terfaces to be added to bond0 repeat this step Figure 62 Editing the configuration file for a slave interface 3 Execute the service network restart command to restart the network service and have bond...

Страница 36: ...Figure 65 Viewing information about the network adapter 1 Figure 66 Viewing information about the network adapter 2 Configuring teaming Windows 1 Open Server Manager and then select Local Server NIC T...

Страница 37: ...Team to create a team Figure 68 Creating a team 3 Configure the team name and select the network adapters to be added to the team Select Additional properties configure the properties and then click...

Страница 38: ...rk Connections page Figure 70 Viewing the new network adapter Configuring TCP offloading TCP offloading is a TCP acceleration technology On a high speed Ethernet for example 10 GE Ethernet processing...

Страница 39: ...Generic segmentation offload GSO and generic receive offload GRO Detects features supported by the NIC automatically If the NIC supports fragmentation the system sends TCP fragments to the NIC direct...

Страница 40: ...NIC and iSCSI applications Figures in this section are for illustration only Network adapter view The ETH681i mezzanine network adapter can be applied to 2 processor half width 2 processor full width...

Страница 41: ...ment 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...

Страница 42: ...rces for multiple servers NPAR NPAR divides network adapter ports into multiple partitions based on the number of PFs Each port on the ETH681i network adapter can be divided into eight partitions and...

Страница 43: ...ng balance tlb Does not require specific switches This mode allocates outgoing traffic to slave devices according to the device loads If a slave device that is receiving traffic fails another slave de...

Страница 44: ...loading is a TCP acceleration technology It unloads TCP IP stack workloads to network interface controllers and uses hardware to process the workloads On a high speed Ethernet for example 10 GE Ethern...

Страница 45: ...er B5700 G3 2 processor half width 3 Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 See Figure 74 H3C UniServer B5800 G3 2 processor full width 3 Mezz1 Mezz2 Mezz3 See Figure 75 H3C UniServer B7800 G3 4 processor full width 6 Mez...

Страница 46: ...ositions on a 2 processor full width blade server Figure 76 Network adapter installation positions on a 2 processor full width blade server Compatible ICMs Network adapters and ICM compatibility The n...

Страница 47: ...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 77 Network adapter and ICM ma...

Страница 48: ...gure 78 Network adapter and ICM mapping relations 4 processor full width blade server Figure 79 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 Embed...

Страница 49: ...nnected to the ICMs Each internal port of the ICMs support 25GE service applications and the external ports are connected to the Internet to provide Internet access for the blade server on which the n...

Страница 50: ...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 over Converg...

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