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
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Supported Combinations
The following sections describe the supported feature combinations for this device.
NPAR, SR-IOV, and RoCE
Tabl e 1 8 provides the supported feature combinations of NPAR, SR-IOV, and RoCE.
NPAR, SR-IOV, and DPDK
Tabl e 1 9 provides the supported feature combinations of NPAR, SR-IOV, and DPDK.
Unsupported Combinations
The combination of NPAR, SR-IOV, RoCE, and DPDK is not supported.
Table 18: NPAR, SR-IOV, and RoCE
SW Feature Notes
NPAR Up to 8 PFs or 16 PFs
SR-IOV Up to 128 VFs (total per chip)
RoCE on PFs Up to 4 PFs
RoCE on VFs Valid for VFs attached to RoCE-enabled PFs
Host OS Linux, Windows, ESXi (no vRDMA support)
Guest OS Linux and Windows
DCB Up to two COS per port with non-shared reserved memory
Table 19: NPAR, SR-IOV, and DPDK
SW Feature Notes
NPAR Up to 8 PFs or 16 PFs
SR-IOV Up to 128 VFs (total per chip)
DPDK Supported only as a VF
Host OS Linux
Guest OS DPDK (Linux)