Deployment Guide

6 Network Partition (NPAR) Technology and VMware Virtual Switch comparison using QLogic BCM57800 | version 1.0
The QLogic BCM57840 network adapter provisioning in Figure 1 provides for no minimum traffic shaping
restrictions and full availability of the transmitted (TX) bandwidth. Administrators can tune these minimum and
maximum bandwidth allocation percentages after they know the I/O profile of the application using these NIC
partitions.
QLogic BCM57840 bandwidth allocation menu