Cavium QL41112HFCU-DE User manual

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User’s Guide
Converged Network Adapters
QLogic 41xxx Series

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User’s Guide—Converged Network Adapters
QLogic 41xxx Series
Document Revision History
Revision A, April 28, 2017
Changes Sections Affected
Initial release of new guide for Dell.

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Table of Contents
Preface
Supported Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
What Is in This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Documentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
License Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Legal Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Laser Safety—FDA Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Agency Certification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
EMI and EMC Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
KCC: Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Product Safety Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
1 Product Overview
Functional Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Adapter Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Physical Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Standards Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Hardware Installation
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Preinstallation Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3 Driver Installation
Installing Linux Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the Linux Drivers Without RoCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Removing the Linux Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing Linux Drivers Using the src RPM Package . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing Linux Drivers Using the kmp/kmod RPM Package . . . 13
Installing Linux Drivers Using the TAR File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Installing the Linux Drivers with RoCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Linux Driver Optional Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Linux Driver Parameter Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Linux Driver Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing Windows Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing the Windows Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Running the DUP in the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
DUP Installation Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DUP Installation Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Removing the Windows Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managing Adapter Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setting Power Management Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing VMware Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
VMware Drivers and Driver Packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing the VMware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
VMware Driver Optional Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
VMware Driver Parameter Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Removing the VMware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
FCoE Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
iSCSI Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4 Upgrading the Firmware
Running the DUP by Double-Clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Running the DUP from a Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Running the DUP Using the .bin File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5 Adapter Preboot Configuration
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Displaying Firmware Image Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring Device-level Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring Port-level Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring FCoE Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring iSCSI Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring Partitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6 RoCE Configuration
Supported Operating Systems and OFED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Planning for FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Preparing the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Preparing the Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring the Cisco Nexus 6000 Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring the Dell Z9100 Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring RoCE on the Adapter for Windows Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring RoCE on the Adapter for Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
RoCE v2 Configuring for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Identifying RoCE v2 GID Index or Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Verifying RoCE v1 or v2 GID Index and Address from
sys and class Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Verifying RoCE v1 or v2 Functionality Through perftest
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
RoCE Configuration for RHEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
RoCE Configuration for SLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Verifying the RoCE Configuration on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
VLAN Interfaces and GID Index Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7 iSCSI Configuration
iSCSI Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
iSCSI Boot Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Selecting the Preferred iSCSI Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Configuring the iSCSI Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Configuring iSCSI Boot Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Adapter UEFI Boot Mode Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring iSCSI Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Static iSCSI Boot Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Dynamic iSCSI Boot Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Enabling CHAP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Configuring the DHCP Server to Support iSCSI Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
DHCP iSCSI Boot Configurations for IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
DHCP Option 17, Root Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
DHCP Option 43, Vendor-specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Configuring the DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring DHCP iSCSI Boot for IPv6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
DHCPv6 Option 16, Vendor Class Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
DHCPv6 Option 17, Vendor-Specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring VLANs for iSCSI Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
iSCSI Offload in Windows Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Installing QLogic Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Configuring Microsoft Initiator to Use QLogic’s iSCSI Offload. . . . . . . 94

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iSCSI Offload in Windows Server (continued)
iSCSI Offload FAQs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016 iSCSI Boot Installation . . 102
iSCSI Crash Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Differences from bnx2i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Configuring qedi.ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Verifying iSCSI Devices in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Open-iSCSI and Boot from SAN Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
8 FCoE Configuration
FCoE Boot from SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Preparing System BIOS for FCoE Build and Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Specifying the BIOS Boot Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring Adapter UEFI Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Windows FCoE Boot from SAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016 FCoE Boot
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Configuring FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
FCoE Crash Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Injecting (Slipstreaming) Adapter Drivers into Windows Image Files. . . . . . 118
Configuring Linux FCoE Offload. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Differences Between qedf and bnx2fc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Configuring qedf.ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Verifying FCoE Devices in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Boot from SAN Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
9 iWARP Configuration
Configuring iWARP on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Configuring iWARP on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Installing the Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Detecting the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Supported iWARP Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Running Perftest for iWARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using iSER with iWARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Configuring NFS-RDMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
10 SR-IOV Configuration
Configuring SR-IOV on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring SR-IOV on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Configuring SR-IOV on VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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11 iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Configuring iSER for RHEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Configuring iSER for SLES 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Optimizing Linux Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Configuring CPUs to Maximum Performance Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Configuring Kernel sysctl Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Configuring IRQ Affinity Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Configuring Block Device Staging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
12 Windows Server 2016
Configuring RoCE Interfaces with Hyper-V (NDKPI Mode-2) . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with an RDMA Virtual NIC. . . . . . . 158
Adding a VLAN ID to Host Virtual NIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Verifying If RoCE is Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Adding Host Virtual NICs (Virtual Ports) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Mapping the SMB Drive and Running RoCE Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
RoCE over Switch Embedded Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with SET and RDMA Virtual NICs . 163
Enabling RDMA on SET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Assigning a VLAN ID on SET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Running RDMA Traffic on SET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Configuring QoS for RoCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Configuring QoS by Disabling DCBX on the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Configuring QoS by Enabling DCBX on the Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Configuring VMMQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Enabling VMMQ on the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Setting the VMMQ Max QPs Default and Non-Default VPort . . . . . . . 173
Creating a Virtual Machine Switch with or Without SRIOV . . . . . . . . . 174
Enabling VMMQ on the Virtual Machine Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Getting the Virtual Machine Switch Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Creating a Virtual Machine and Enabling VMMQ on
VMNetworkadapters in the Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Default and Maximum VMMQ Virtual NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Enabling and Disabling VMMQ on a Management NIC . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Monitoring Traffic Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Configuring VXLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Enabling VXLAN Offload on the Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Deploying a Software Defined Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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Configuring Storage Spaces Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Configuring the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Deploying a Hyper-Converged System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Deploying the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Configuring the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Configuring Storage Spaces Direct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Deploying and Managing a Nano Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Roles and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Deploying a Nano Server on a Physical Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Deploying a Nano Server in a Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Managing a Nano Server Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Managing a Nano Server with Windows PowerShell Remoting . 192
Adding the Nano Server to a List of Trusted Hosts . . . . . . . . . . 192
Starting the Remote Windows PowerShell Session . . . . . . . . . . 193
Managing QLogic Adapters on a Windows Nano Server . . . . . . . . . . 193
RoCE Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
13 Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Verifying that Current Drivers Are Loaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Testing Network Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Testing Network Connectivity for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Testing Network Connectivity for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Linux-specific Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Miscellaneous Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
A Adapter LEDS
B Cables and Optical Modules
Supported Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Tested Cables and Optical Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
C Dell Z9100 Switch Configuration
D Feature Constraints
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List of Figures
Figure Page
3-1 Dell Update Package Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3-2 QLogic InstallShield Wizard: Welcome Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3-3 QLogic InstallShield Wizard: License Agreement Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3-4 InstallShield Wizard: Setup Type Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3-5 InstallShield Wizard: Custom Setup Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3-6 InstallShield Wizard: Ready to Install the Program Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3-7 InstallShield Wizard: Completed Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3-8 Dell Update Package Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3-9 Setting Advanced Adapter Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3-10 Power Management Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4-1 Dell Update Package: Splash Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4-2 Dell Update Package: Loading New Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4-3 Dell Update Package: Installation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4-4 Dell Update Package: Finish Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4-5 DUP Command Line Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5-1 System Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5-2 Dell System Setup: Device Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5-3 Dell System Setup: Main Configuration Page, Default Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5-4 Dell System Setup: Main Configuration Page, NPAR Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5-5 Firmware Information Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5-6 Dell System Setup: NIC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5-7 Dell System Setup: NIC Configuration, Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5-8 Dell System Setup: FCoE General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5-9 Dell System Setup: FCoE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5-10 Dell System Setup: iSCSI General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5-11 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Initiator Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5-12 Dell System Setup: iSCSI First Target Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5-13 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Second Target Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5-14 Partitions Configuration Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5-15 Global Bandwidth Allocation Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5-16 Partition 1 Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6-1 Configuring RoCE Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6-2 Switch Settings, Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6-3 Switch Settings, Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6-4 Configuring RDMA_CM Applications: Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6-5 Configuring RDMA_CM Applications: Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7-1 Dell System Setup: NIC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7-2 Dell System Setup: Boot Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7-3 Dell System Setup: Device Settings Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
7-4 Selecting NIC Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7-5 Dell System Setup: NIC Configuration, Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7-6 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7-7 Dell System Setup: Selecting General Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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7-8 Dell System Setup: iSCSI General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7-9 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Initiator Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7-10 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Initiator Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7-11 Dell System Setup: Selecting iSCSI First Target Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7-12 Dell System Setup: iSCSI First Target Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
7-13 Dell System Setup: iSCSI Second Target Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
7-14 Dell System Setup: Saving iSCSI Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
7-15 Dell System Setup: iSCSI General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7-16 Dell System Setup: iSCSI General Parameters, VLAN ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7-17 iSCSI Initiator Properties, Configuration Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7-18 iSCSI Initiator Node Name Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
7-19 iSCSI Initiator—Discover Target Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
7-20 Target Portal IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
7-21 Selecting the Initiator IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
7-22 Connecting to the iSCSI Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
7-23 Connect To Target Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
8-1 Dell System Setup: Selecting Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
8-2 Dell System Setup: Device Settings, Port Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
8-3 Dell System Setup: NIC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
8-4 Dell System Setup: FCoE Mode Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
8-5 Dell System Setup: FCoE General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
8-6 Dell System Setup: FCoE General Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
9-1 Dell System Setup for iWARP: NIC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
9-2 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapterRdma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
9-3 PowerShell Command: Get-NetOffloadGlobalSetting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
9-4 Perfmon: Add Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
9-5 Perfmon: Verifying iWARP Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
9-6 LIO Target Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
10-1 Dell System Setup for SR-IOV: Integrated Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
10-2 Dell System Setup for SR-IOV: Device Level Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
10-3 Adapter Properties, Advanced: Enabling SR-IOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
10-4 Virtual Switch Manager: Enabling SR-IOV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
10-5 Settings for VM: Enabling SR-IOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
10-6 Device Manager: VM with QLogic Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10-7 PowerShell Command: Get-NetadapterSriovVf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10-8 Dell System Setup: Processor Settings for SR-IOV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
10-9 Dell System Setup for SR-IOV: Integrated Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
10-10 Editing the grub.conf File for SR-IOV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
10-11 Command Output for sriov_numvfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
10-12 Command Output for ip link show Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
10-13 RHEL68 Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
10-14 Add New Virtual Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
10-15 VMware Host Edit Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
11-1 RDMA Ping Successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
11-2 iSER Portal Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

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11-3 Iface Transport Confirmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
11-4 Checking for New iSCSI Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
12-1 Enabling RDMA in Host Virtual NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
12-2 Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
12-3 PowerShell Command: Get-VMNetworkAdapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
12-4 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapterRdma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
12-5 Add Counters Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12-6 Performance Monitor Shows RoCE Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
12-7 PowerShell Command: New-VMSwitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
12-8 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
12-9 Advanced Properties: Enable QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
12-10 Advanced Properties: Setting VLAN ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
12-11 Advanced Properties: Enabling QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
12-12 Advanced Properties: Setting VLAN ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
12-13 Advanced Properties: Enabling Virtual Switch RSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
12-14 Advanced Properties: Setting VMMQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
12-15 Virtual Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
12-16 PowerShell Command: Get-VMSwitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
12-17 Advanced Properties: Enabling VXLAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
12-18 Example Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
12-19 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
12-20 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapterRdma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
12-21 PowerShell Command: New-Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
12-22 PowerShell Command: New-SMBShare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
12-23 PowerShell Command: Get-NetAdapterStatistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

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Table Page
2-1 Host Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2-2 Minimum Host Operating System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3-1 QLogic 41xxx Series Adapters Linux Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3-2 qede Driver Optional Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3-3 Linux Driver Parameter Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3-4 VMware Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3-5 ESXi Driver Packages by Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3-6 VMware Driver Optional Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3-7 VMware Driver Parameter Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3-8 QLogic 41xxx Series Adapter VMware FCoE Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3-9 QLogic 41xxx Series Adapter iSCSI Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5-1 Adapter Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5-2 Device-level Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6-1 Operating System Support for RoCE and OFED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6-2 Advanced Properties for RoCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7-1 Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7-2 DHCP Option 17 Parameter Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
7-3 DHCP Option 43 Sub-option Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7-4 DHCP Option 17 Sub-option Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
9-1 iWARP-supported OFEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
12-1 Roles and Features of Nano Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
A-1 Adapter Port Link and Activity LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
B-1 Tested Cables and Optical Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

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Preface
This preface lists the supported products, specifies the intended audience,
explains the typographic conventions used in this guide, and describes legal
notices.
Supported Products
This user’s guide describes the following QLogic products:
10/25Gb Converged Network Adapter, full-height bracket:
QL41112HFCU-DE
10/25Gb Converged Network Adapter, low-profile bracket:
QL41112HLCU-DE
10Gb Converged Network Adapter, full-height bracket: QL41162HFRJ-DE
10Gb Converged Network Adapter, low-profile bracket: QL41162HLRJ-DE
10/25Gb Converged Network Adapter, full-height bracket:
QL41262HFCU-DE
10/25Gb Converged Network Adapter, low-profile bracket:
QL41262HLCU-DE
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for system administrators and other technical staff
members responsible for configuring and managing adapters installed on Dell®
PowerEdge®servers in Windows®, Linux®, or VMware®environments.
What Is in This Guide
Following this preface, the remainder of this guide is organized into the following
chapters and appendices:
Chapter 1 Product Overview provides a product functional description, a list
of features, and the adapter specifications.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation describes how to install the adapter,
including the list of system requirements and a preinstallation checklist.

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Chapter 3 Driver Installation describes the installation of the adapter drivers
on Windows, Linux, and VMware.
Chapter 4 Upgrading the Firmware describes how to use the Dell Update
Package (DUP) to upgrade the adapter firmware,
Chapter 5 Adapter Preboot Configuration describes the preboot adapter
configuration tasks using the Human Infrastructure Interface (HII)
application.
Chapter 6 RoCE Configuration describes how to configure the adapter, the
Ethernet switch, and the host to use RDMA over converged Ethernet
(RoCE).
Chapter 7 iSCSI Configuration describes iSCSI boot, iSCSI crash dump,
and iSCSI offload for Windows and Linux.
Chapter 8 FCoE Configuration describes Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) boot from SAN and booting from SAN after installation.
Chapter 9 iWARP Configuration provides procedures for configuring Internet
wide area RDMA protocol (iWARP) on Windows and Linux systems.
Chapter 10 SR-IOV Configuration provides procedures for configuring single
root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) on Windows, Linux, and VMware
systems.
Chapter 11 iSCSI Extensions for RDMA describes how to configure iSCSI
Extensions for RDMA (iSER) for RHEL and SLES.
Chapter 12 Windows Server 2016 describes the Windows Server 2016
features.
Chapter 13 Troubleshooting describes a variety of troubleshooting methods
and resources.
Appendix A Adapter LEDS lists the adapter LEDs and their significance.
Appendix B Cables and Optical Modules lists the cables and optical
modules that the 41xxx Series Adapters support.
Appendix C Dell Z9100 Switch Configuration describes how to configure the
Dell Z9100 switch port for 25Gbps.
Appendix D Feature Constraints provides information about feature
constraints implemented in the current release.
At the end of this guide is a glossary of terms.

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Documentation Conventions
This guide uses the following documentation conventions:
provides additional information.
without an alert symbol indicates the presence of a hazard
that could cause damage to equipment or loss of data.
with an alert symbol indicates the presence of a hazard that
could cause minor or moderate injury.
indicates the presence of a hazard that could cause serious
injury or death.
Text in blue font indicates a hyperlink (jump) to a figure, table, or section in
this guide, and links to Web sites are shown in underlined blue. For
example:
Table 9-2 lists problems related to the user interface and remote agent.
See “Installation Checklist” on page 6.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.
Text in bold font indicates user interface elements such as a menu items,
buttons, check boxes, or column headings. For example:
Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and
then click Command Prompt.
Under Notification Options, select the Warning Alarms check box.
Text in Courier font indicates a file name, directory path, or command line
text. For example:
To return to the root directory from anywhere in the file structure:
Type cd /root and press ENTER.
Issue the following command: sh ./install.bin
Key names and key strokes are indicated with UPPERCASE:
Press CTRL+P.
Press the UP ARROW key.
Text in italics indicates terms, emphasis, variables, or document titles. For
example:
For a complete listing of license agreements, refer to the QLogic
Software End User License Agreement.
NOTE
CAUTION
CAUTION
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What are shortcut keys?
To enter the date, type mm/dd/yyyy (where mm is the month, dd is the
day, and yyyy is the year).
Topic titles between quotation marks identify related topics either within this
manual or in the online help, which is also referred to as the help system
throughout this document.
Command line interface (CLI) command syntax conventions include the
following:
Plain text indicates items that you must type as shown. For example:
qaucli -pr nic -ei
<>(angle brackets) indicate a variable whose value you must
specify. For example:
<serial_number>
[](square brackets) indicate an optional parameter. For example:
[<file_name>] means specify a file name, or omit it to select
the default file name.
| (vertical bar) indicates mutually exclusive options; select one option
only. For example:
on|off
1|2|3|4
... (ellipsis) indicates that the preceding item may be repeated. For
example:
x... means one or more instances of x.
[x...] means zero or more instances of x.
()(parentheses) and { } (braces) are used to avoid logical
ambiguity. For example:
a|b c is ambiguous
{(a|b) c} means a or b, followed by c
{a|(b c)} means either a, or b c
NOTE
For CLI commands only, variable names are always indicated
using angle brackets instead of italics.

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License Agreements
Refer to the QLogic Software End User License Agreement for a complete listing
of all license agreements affecting this product.
Legal Notices
Legal notices covered in this section include warranty, laser safety (FDA notice),
agency certification, and product safety compliance.
Warranty
For warranty details, please check the QLogic Web site:
www.qlogic.com/Support/Pages/Warranty.aspx
Laser Safety—FDA Notice
This product complies with DHHS Rules 21CFR Chapter I, Subchapter J. This
product has been designed and manufactured according to IEC60825-1 on the
safety label of laser product.
Agency Certification
The following sections summarize the EMC and EMI test specifications performed
on the 41xxx Series Adapters to comply with emission, immunity, and product
safety standards.
EMI and EMC Requirements
FCC Part 15 compliance: Class A
FCC compliance information statement: This device complies with Part 15 of
the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device
may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any
interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Class 1
Laser Product
Caution—Class 1 laser radiation when open
Do not view directly with optical instruments
Appareil laser
de classe 1
Attention—Radiation laser de classe 1
Ne pas regarder directement avec des instruments optiques
Produkt der
Laser Klasse 1
Vorsicht—Laserstrahlung der Klasse 1 bei geöffneter Abdeckung
Direktes Ansehen mit optischen Instrumenten vermeiden
Luokan 1 Laserlaite Varoitus—Luokan 1 lasersäteilyä, kun laite on auki
Älä katso suoraan laitteeseen käyttämällä optisia instrumenttej
CLASS I LASER

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ICES-003 Compliance: Class A
This Class A digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil
numériqué de la classe A est conformé à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
CE Mark 2004/108/EC EMC Directive Compliance:
EN55022:2010 Class A1:2007/CISPR22:2006: Class A
EN55024:2010
EN61000-3-2: Harmonic Current Emission
EN61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuation and Flicker
Immunity Standards
EN61000-4-2: ESD
EN61000-4-3: RF Electro Magnetic Field
EN61000-4-4: Fast Transient/Burst
EN61000-4-5: Fast Surge Common/ Differential
EN61000-4-6: RF Conducted Susceptibility
EN61000-4-8: Power Frequency Magnetic Field
EN61000-4-11: Voltage Dips and Interrupt
VCCI: 2010-04 Class A
AS/NZS CISPR22: Class A
KCC: Class A
Korea RRA Class A Certified
Korean Language Format—Class A
Product Name/Model: Converged Network Adapters and
Intelligent Ethernet Adapters
Certification holder: QLogic Corporation
Manufactured date: Refer to date code listed on product
Manufacturer/Country of origin: QLogic Corporation/USA
A class equipment
(Business purpose
info/telecommunications
equipment)
As this equipment has undergone EMC registration for busi-
ness purpose, the seller and/or the buyer is asked to beware
of this point and in case a wrongful sale or purchase has
been made, it is asked that a change to household use be
made.

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Product Safety Compliance
UL, cUL product safety:
UL60950-1 (2nd Edition), 2007-03-3-27
UL CSA C22.2 60950-1-07 (2nd Edition)
Use only with listed ITE or equivalent.
Complies with 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11.
2006/95/EC low voltage directive:
TUV EN60950-1:2006+A11+A1+A12
IEC60950-1 2nd Edition (2005) CB
CB Certified to IEC 60950-1 2nd Edition

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1Product Overview
This chapter provides the following information for the 41xxx Series Adapters:
Functional Description
Features
Adapter Specifications
Functional Description
The QLogic FastLinQ 41000 Series Adapters include 10 and 25Gb Converged
Network Adapters and Intelligent Ethernet Adapters that are designed to perform
accelerated data networking for server systems. The 41000 Series Adapter
includes a 10/25Gb Ethernet MAC with full-duplex capability.
Using the operating system’s teaming feature, you can split your network into
virtual LANs (VLANs), as well as group multiple network adapters together into
teams to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance. For more information
about teaming, see your operating system documentation.
Features
The 41xxx Series Adapters provide the following features. Some features may not
be available on all adapters:
NIC partitioning (NPAR)
Single-chip solution:
10/25Gb MAC
SerDes interface for direct attach copper (DAC) transceiver connection
PCI Express 3.0 x8
Zero copy capable hardware
Performance features:
TCP, IP, UDP checksum offloads
TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
Large segment offload (LSO)