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
RoCE – Configuration and Use Case ExamplesNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
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Configuring the VM on Linux Guest OS
1. Install the PVRDMA userpace library using yum install libibverbs rdma-core rdma-core-devel.
2. Load IB modules using
modprobe rdma_ucm.
3. If vmw-pvrdma is installed ,
modinfo vmw_pvrdma shows the path of the module. Load the module using
modinfo vmw_pvrdma.
4. Assign an IP address to the PVRDMA interface.
5. Verify whether the IB device is created by running the
ibv_devinfo -v command.
Note: The user must install the appropriate development tools including git before proceeding with the
configuration steps below.