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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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
NOTE: The NPAR minimum bandwidth parameter cannot be changed on the BCM575XX. BCM5741X devices are
permitted to change the NPAR minimum value.
Table 30: NPAR Parameters
Parameter Description Valid Options
BW Limit Maximum percentage of available bandwidth this partition is allowed. Value 0 to 100
BW Limit Valid Functions as an on/off switch for the BW Limit setting. True/False
RDMA Support Functions as an on/off switch for RDMA support on this partition.
NOTE: Only two partitions per physical port can support RDMA. For a dual-port
device, up to 4 NPAR partitions can support RDMA.
Enabled/Disabled