Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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12.3 Configuration
NPAR can be configured using BIOS configuration HII menus or by using the Broadcom CCM utility on legacy boot systems.
Some vendors also expose the configuration via additional proprietary interfaces.
To enable NPAR:
1. Select the target NIC from the BIOS HII Menu or CCM interface and set the Multi-Function Mode or Virtualization Mode
option. The choice of options affects the whole NIC instead of the individual port.
NOTE: For some ARI capable OEM systems, the NParEP button is available to explicitly allow the NetXtreme-E to support
up to 16 partitions. Switching from single function mode to multifunction mode, the device needs to be re-
enumerated, therefore changes do not take effect until a system reboot occurs.