Users Guide

5–Adapter Preboot Configuration
Configuring Device-level Parameters
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Configuring Device-level Parameters
Device-level configuration includes the following parameters:
 Virtualization Mode
 NPAREP Mode
To configure device-level parameters:
1. On the Main Configuration Page, select Device Level Configuration (see
Figure 5-3 on page 46), and then press ENTER.
2. On the Device Level Configuration page, select values for the device-level
parameters, as shown in Figure 5-6.
Figure 5-6. Device Level Configuration
3. For Virtualization Mode, select one of the following modes to apply to all
adapter ports:
 None (default) specifies that no virtualization mode is enabled.
 NPAR sets the adapter to switch-independent NIC partitioning mode.
 SR-IOV sets the adapter to SR-IOV mode.
 NPar + SR-IOV sets the adapter to SR-IOV over NPAR mode.
NOTE
The iSCSI physical functions (PFs) are listed when the iSCSI Offload feature
is enabled in NPAR mode only. The FCoE PFs are listed when the FCoE
Offload feature is enabled in NPAR mode only. Not all adapter models
support iSCSI Offload and FCoE Offload. Only one offload can be enabled
per port, and only in NPAR mode.
NOTE
QL41264HMCU-DE (part number 5V6Y4) and QL41264HMRJ-DE
(part number 0D1WT) adapters show support for NPAR, SR-IOV and
NPAR-EP in the Device Level Configuration, though these features are
not supported on 1Gbps ports 3 and 4.