Q-Logic 3200, 8200 manual Configuration, and eSwitch Statistics

2–Configuring NIC NIC Partition (NPAR)

See Figure 2-23for an illustration.

Figure 2-23. QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in with QoS Interface, Function eSwitch

Configuration, and eSwitch Statistics

eSwitch

The 8200 and 3200 Series adapters connect the physical ports to the physical functions on the PCIe bus through eSwitches. An eSwitch is a VLAN aware MAC lookup virtual switch implemented in the 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters. Each port provides the uplink for an eSwitch with the enabled associated Physical PCI Functions connected through switch ports to the eSwitch. Functions 0, 2, 4, and 6 are connected through the port 0 eSwitch; and functions 1, 3, 5, and 7 are connected through the port 1 eSwitch. The eSwitch associated with a port will only conduct traffic between PCIe Ethernet functions if the physical port is linked.

Control of the eSwitch is through the QLogic vCenter Plug-in. The eSwitch management controls support VLAN configuration, promiscuous mode enable, locally administered MAC addresses, IPv4 checksum offload enable, IPv4 and IPv6 segmentation offloads, and MAC anti-spoof checking.

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