Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
 - Preface
 - 1 Functionality and Features
 - 2 Configuring Teaming in Windows Server
 - 3 Virtual LANs in Windows
 - 4 Installing the Hardware
 - 5 Manageability
 - 6 Boot Agent Driver Software
 - 7 Linux Driver Software
- Introduction
 - Limitations
 - Packaging
 - Installing Linux Driver Software
 - Load and Run Necessary iSCSI Software Components
 - Unloading or Removing the Linux Driver
 - Patching PCI Files (Optional)
 - Network Installations
 - Setting Values for Optional Properties
 - Driver Defaults
 - Driver Messages
- bnx2x Driver Messages
 - bnx2i Driver Messages
- BNX2I Driver Sign-on
 - Network Port to iSCSI Transport Name Binding
 - Driver Completes Handshake with iSCSI Offload-enabled C-NIC Device
 - Driver Detects iSCSI Offload Is Not Enabled on the C-NIC Device
 - Exceeds Maximum Allowed iSCSI Connection Offload Limit
 - Network Route to Target Node and Transport Name Binding Are Two Different Devices
 - Target Cannot Be Reached on Any of the C-NIC Devices
 - Network Route Is Assigned to Network Interface, Which Is Down
 - SCSI-ML Initiated Host Reset (Session Recovery)
 - C-NIC Detects iSCSI Protocol Violation - Fatal Errors
 - C-NIC Detects iSCSI Protocol Violation—Non-FATAL, Warning
 - Driver Puts a Session Through Recovery
 - Reject iSCSI PDU Received from the Target
 - Open-iSCSI Daemon Handing Over Session to Driver
 
 - bnx2fc Driver Messages
- BNX2FC Driver Signon
 - Driver Completes Handshake with FCoE Offload Enabled C-NIC Device
 - Driver Fails Handshake with FCoE Offload Enabled C-NIC Device
 - No Valid License to Start FCoE
 - Session Failures Due to Exceeding Maximum Allowed FCoE Offload Connection Limit or Memory Limits
 - Session Offload Failures
 - Session Upload Failures
 - Unable to Issue ABTS
 - Unable to Recover the IO Using ABTS (Due to ABTS Timeout)
 - Unable to Issue I/O Request Due to Session Not Ready
 - Drop Incorrect L2 Receive Frames
 - Host Bus Adapter and lport Allocation Failures
 - NPIV Port Creation
 
 
 - Teaming with Channel Bonding
 - Statistics
 - Linux iSCSI Offload
 
 - 8 VMware Driver Software
- Introduction
 - Packaging
 - Download, Install, and Update Drivers
 - Driver Parameters
 - FCoE Support
 - iSCSI Support
 
 - 9 Windows Driver Software
- Supported Drivers
 - Installing the Driver Software
 - Modifying the Driver Software
 - Repairing or Reinstalling the Driver Software
 - Removing the Device Drivers
 - Viewing or Changing the Properties of the Adapter
 - Setting Power Management Options
 - Configuring the Communication Protocol to Use with QCC GUI, QCC PowerKit, and QCS CLI
 
 - 10 Citrix XenServer Driver Software
 - 11 iSCSI Protocol
- iSCSI Boot
- Supported Operating Systems for iSCSI Boot
 - iSCSI Boot Setup
- Configuring the iSCSI Target
 - Configuring iSCSI Boot Parameters
 - MBA Boot Protocol Configuration
 - iSCSI Boot Configuration
 - Enabling CHAP Authentication
 - Configuring the DHCP Server to Support iSCSI Boot
 - DHCP iSCSI Boot Configuration for IPv4
 - DHCP iSCSI Boot Configuration for IPv6
 - Configuring the DHCP Server
 - Preparing the iSCSI Boot Image
 - Booting
 
 - Other iSCSI Boot Considerations
 - Troubleshooting iSCSI Boot
 
 - iSCSI Crash Dump
 - iSCSI Offload in Windows Server
 
 - iSCSI Boot
 - 12 Marvell Teaming Services
- Executive Summary
 - Teaming Mechanisms
 - Teaming and Other Advanced Networking Properties
 - General Network Considerations
 - Application Considerations
 - Troubleshooting Teaming Problems
 - Frequently Asked Questions
 - Event Log Messages
 
 - 13 NIC Partitioning and Bandwidth Management
 - 14 Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
- Overview
 - FCoE Boot from SAN
- Preparing System BIOS for FCoE Build and Boot
 - Preparing Marvell Multiple Boot Agent for FCoE Boot (CCM)
 - Preparing Marvell Multiple Boot Agent for FCoE Boot (UEFI)
 - Provisioning Storage Access in the SAN
 - One-Time Disabled
 - Windows Server 2016/2019/Azure Stack HCI FCoE Boot Installation
 - Linux FCoE Boot Installation
 - VMware ESXi FCoE Boot Installation
 
 - Booting from SAN After Installation
 - Configuring FCoE
 - N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
 
 - 15 Data Center Bridging
 - 16 SR-IOV
 - 17 Specifications
 - 18 Regulatory Information
 - 19 Troubleshooting
- Hardware Diagnostics
 - Checking Port LEDs
 - Troubleshooting Checklist
 - Checking if Current Drivers Are Loaded
 - Running a Cable Length Test
 - Testing Network Connectivity
 - Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V
 - Removing the Marvell 57xx and 57xxx Device Drivers
 - Upgrading Windows Operating Systems
 - Marvell Boot Agent
 - Linux
 - NPAR
 - Kernel Debugging Over Ethernet
 - Miscellaneous
 
 - A Revision History
 
User’s Guide—Ethernet iSCSI Adapters and Ethernet FCoE Adapters 
Marvell 5740/57810/57800 Adapters and other 57xx and 57xxx Adapters
   Doc No. BC0054508-00 Rev. R 
January 21, 2021 Page xi Copyright © 2021 Marvell
DHCP iSCSI Boot Configuration for IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Configuring the DHCP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Preparing the iSCSI Boot Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Booting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Other iSCSI Boot Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Changing the Speed and Duplex Settings in Windows 
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Locally Administered Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Virtual LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
“DD” Method of Creating an iSCSI Boot Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Troubleshooting iSCSI Boot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
iSCSI Crash Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
iSCSI Offload in Windows Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Configuring iSCSI Offload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Installing Marvell Drivers and Management Applications . . . . . . 129
Installing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring Marvell iSCSI Using QCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring Microsoft Initiator to Use the Marvell 
iSCSI Offload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
iSCSI Offload FAQs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Event Log Messages for Offload iSCSI (OIS) Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
12 Marvell Teaming Services
 Executive Summary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Glossary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Teaming Concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Network Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Teaming and Network Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Description of Teaming Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Software Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Repeater Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Switching Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Router. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Teaming Support by Processor   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Configuring Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Supported Features by Team Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Selecting a Team Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Teaming Mechanisms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159










