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CONTENTS 67
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Scope .................................................................................................................................................... 7 68
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Normative References ........................................................................................................................... 7 69
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Terms and Definitions ........................................................................................................................... 8 70
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Symbols and Abbreviated Terms .......................................................................................................... 9 71
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Synopsis .............................................................................................................................................. 10 72
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Description .......................................................................................................................................... 10 73
6.1
Fully Qualified Device Descriptor (FQDD) ................................................................................ 11 74
6.2
CNA Representation ................................................................................................................. 12 75
6.3
Changing personalities on a partition ....................................................................................... 13 76
6.4
Enabling or disabling a partition ................................................................................................ 13 77
6.5
Changing bandwidth on a partition ........................................................................................... 13 78
6.6
Virtual Address attributes .......................................................................................................... 14 79
6.7
Behavior Differences between Broadcom and QLogic CNAs .................................................. 14 80
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Implementation Description ................................................................................................................. 17 81
7.1
NIC View – DCIM_NICView ...................................................................................................... 18 82
7.2
NIC Capabilities – DCIM_NICCapabilities ................................................................................ 21 83
7.3
NIC Statistics – DCIM_NICStatistics ........................................................................................ 23 84
7.4
DCIM_NICEnumeration ............................................................................................................ 25 85
7.5
DCIM_NICString ....................................................................................................................... 27 86
7.6
DCIM_NICInteger ..................................................................................................................... 29 87
7.7
NIC Attributes ............................................................................................................................ 31 88
7.8
DCIM_NICService ..................................................................................................................... 47 89
7.9
Simple NIC Profile Registration ................................................................................................ 48 90
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Methods ............................................................................................................................................... 49 91
8.1
DCIM_NICService.SetAttribute() .............................................................................................. 49 92
8.2
DCIM_NICService.SetAttributes() ............................................................................................ 51
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8.3
DCIM_NICService.CreateTargetedConfigJob() ....................................................................... 52 94
8.4
DCIM_NICService.DeletePendingConfiguration() ................................................................... 54 95
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Use Cases ........................................................................................................................................... 55 96
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CIM Elements ...................................................................................................................................... 55
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Privilege and License Requirement .................................................................................................... 55 98
ANNEX A (informative) Change Log ......................................................................................................... 57
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