Q-Logic 3200, 8200 manual Configuring NPAR in the BIOS, Configuring NPAR in QCC GUI

2–Configuring NIC NIC Partition (NPAR)

NOTE:

The 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters have eSwitches. Because all of the interfaces are assigned to the hypervisor, eSwitch operation is transparent, and the system administrator is not required to perform any additional configuration.

Configuring NPAR in the BIOS

Refer to the Type section for information.

Configuring NPAR in QCC GUI

Refer to the QConvergeConsole Help System: Partitioning NIC Ports for information.

Configuring NPAR in QCC Interactive CLI

Refer to the QConvergeConsole CLI User’s Guide for information.

Configuring NPAR in QCC Non-Interactive CLI

Refer to the QConvergeConsole CLI User’s Guide, “NIC Noninteractive

Commands” section for information.

Configuring NPAR in the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in

The QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in provides the QLogic Adapter tab. Use this tab to manage the 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters in the VMware ESX/ESXi environment.

With the QLogic Adapter tab, you can:

Enable/Disable NPAR

Enable/Disable functions

Configure function personalities

Configure the relative bandwidth of NIC functions

Configure eSwitch

View the eSwitch Statistics

The default configuration of the 8200 Series Adapters is a NIC function, iSCSI function, and FCoE function. There is an additional NIC function that is defaulted as disabled, but is presented to the user to be optionally enabled.

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