Users Guide

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User’s Guide—Ethernet iSCSI Adapters and Ethernet FCoE Adapters
QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx
Document Revision History
Revision A, February 18, 2015
Revision B, July 29, 2015
Revision C, March 24, 2016
Revision D, April 8, 2016
Revision E, February 2, 2017
Revision F, August 25, 2017
Revision G, December 19, 2017
Revision H, March 15, 2018
Revision J, April 13, 2018
Changes Sections Affected
Changed Step 1. “Downloading Documents” on page xxiii
Added support for NPIV (via Fibre Channel - Link
Services specification) on Linux and Windows.
“FCoE” on page 4
In the first paragraph, clarified the last sentence to
indicate that “Windows Server 2016 and later do
not support QLogic’s QLASP teaming driver.”
“Configuring Teaming in Windows Server” on
page 7
In the NOTE, clarified the last sentence to indicate
that “Windows Server 2016 does not support
QLogic’s QLASP teaming driver…”
“QLASP Overview” on page 7
In the NOTE, clarified the first and second sen-
tences: “The static and dynamic Link Aggregation
(switch dependent) team type is not supported on
ports with NIC partitioning (NPAR) mode enabled
or iSCSI-offload enabled. Some switches support
FCoE-offload in dynamic LACP teaming mode.”
“Link Aggregation (802.3ad)” on page 9
Added RHEL 6.9, 7.4, 7.5, SLES12 SP3 to the list
of supported OSs.
“Linux” on page 18
Added ESXi 6.0 U3, ESXi 6.5 U1, ESXi 6.5 U2,
ESXi 6.7 to the list of supported OSs.
“VMware ESXi” on page 19
In the NOTE, added ESXi 6.7, and indicated that it
uses native drivers for all protocols.
“VMware Driver Software” on page 60
In Table 8-1, added a compressed ZIP driver file
for ESXi 6.7.
“Packaging” on page 60
Added enable_live_grcdump parameter. “enable_live_grcdump” on page 63