Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Revision History
- Table of Contents
- Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- Functional Description
- Network Link and Activity Indication
- Features
- Software and Hardware Features
- Virtualization Features
- VXLAN
- NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- Stateless Offloads
- UDP Fragmentation Offload
- Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload
- Multiqueue Support for OS
- SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix
- SR-IOV
- Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- Supported Combinations
- Installing the Hardware
- Software Packages and Installation
- Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log Messages
- Teaming
- System-level Configuration
- ISCSI Boot
- VXLAN: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- SR-IOV: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- DCBX – Data Center Bridging
FeaturesNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
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Virtualization Features
Tabl e 1 7 lists the virtualization features of the NetXtreme-E.
Jumbo Frames Supported.
iSCSI boot Supported.
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Supports up to eight Physical Functions (PFs) per
port, or up to 16 PFs per silicon. This option is
configurable in NVRAM.
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) The BCM5741X supports RoCE v1/v2 for Windows,
Linux, and VMware.
Data Center Bridging (DCB) The BCM5741X supports DCBX (IEEE and CEE
specification), PFC, and AVB.
NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) Supported.
Wake on LAN (WOL) Supported on rNDC with 10GBase-T, SFP+, and
SFP28 interfaces.
PXE boot Supported.
UEFI boot Supported.
Flow Control (Pause) Supported.
Auto negotiation Supported.
802.1q VLAN Supported.
Interrupt Moderation Supported.
MAC/VLAN filters Supported.
Table 17: Virtualization Features
Feature Details
Linux KVM Multiqueue Supported.
VMware NetQueue Supported.
NDIS Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Supported.
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) – Aware stateless
offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads
Supported.
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) – Aware
stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP checksum offloads
Supported.
Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
Encapsulation (NVGRE) – Aware stateless offloads
Supported.
IP-in-IP aware stateless offloads (IP/UDP/TCP
checksum offloads
Supported
SR-IOV v1.0 128 Virtual Functions (VFs) for Guest Operating
Systems (GOS) per device. MSI-X vector per VF is set
to 16.
MSI-X vector port 74 per port default value (two port configuration). 16
per VF and is configurable in HII and CCM.
Table 16: Host Interface Features (Cont.)
Feature Details