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
8–VMware Driver Software
Packaging
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Packaging
The driver package offline bundle Depot Zip file is inside the downloaded zip file.
Consequently, you need to unzip the downloaded file (from VMware) to get to the
applicable offline bundle Depot Zip file package before copying it to your VMware
server.
bnx2x VMware legacy driver for the 57xxx 1/10Gb network adapters. This driver directly
controls the hardware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet pack-
ets on behalf of the VMware host networking stack. The driver also receives and
processes device interrupts, both on behalf of itself (for Layer 2 networking) and on
behalf of the C-NIC driver (for FCoE offload and iSCSI offload).
cnic VMware C-NIC legacy driver. This driver provides the interface between Marvells
upper-layer protocol (for example, storage) legacy drivers and Marvell’s 57xx and
57xxx 1/10Gb network adapters. The C-NIC module works with the bnx2 and bnx2x
legacy network drives in the downstream and the bnx2fc (FCoE) and bnx2i (iSCSI)
legacy drivers in the upstream.
bnx2i VMware iSCSI offload HBA legacy driver. This driver enables iSCSI offload on the
57xx and 57xxx 1Gb/10Gb network adapters.
bnx2fc VMware FCoE offload HBA legacy driver. This driver enables FCoE offload on the
57712/578xx 10Gb converged network adapters.
qflge VMware native driver for the 57xx 1Gb network adapters. This driver directly con-
trols the hardware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet packets on
behalf of the VMware host networking stack.
qfle3 VMware native driver for the 57xxx 1Gb/10Gb network adapters. This driver directly
controls the hardware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet pack-
ets on behalf of the VMware host networking stack.
qfle3i VMware iSCSI offload HBA native driver. This driver enables iSCSI offload on the
57xx and 57xxx 1/10Gb network adapters.
qfle3f VMware FCoE offload HBA native driver. This driver enables FCoE offload on the
57712/578xx 10Gb adapters. This driver automatically starts the FCoE initialization
process; you do not need to perform any manual steps.
Table 8-1. Marvell 57xx and 57xxx VMware Drivers (Continued)
VMware Driver Description