Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1256)

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Version 10.2 User Manual P010089-01A Rev. A
6. Managing Adapters and Ports
OCe10100–Series and OCe11100–Series Adapters
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Note: If the adapter does not support personalities, personality controls are not
displayed. If the adapter does not support a particular personality type that
control is disabled.
4. Reboot the host for the personality change to take effect.
Managing Port Channels Using Channel Management
Note: Channel management is not available for the LPe16202 CFA and
OCe10100-series adapters.
Channel management allows each supported OCe11100-series adapter’s physical port
to be partitioned into a maximum of four isolated channels providing a converged
conduit for network and storage traffic. Each channel has its own unique MAC address
and provides traffic management capabilities such as enabling or disabling send and
receive traffic, minimum and maximum transmit rates, and VLAN IDs for untagged
packets.
Ports are managed using the Channel Management tab. The Channel Management tab
is displayed when an adapter port is selected in the discovery-tree and Channel
Management is enabled on the Adapter Information tab. See “Enabling and Disabling
Channel Management” on page 113.
The Channel Management tab for UMC or vNIC2 shows the function number, type of
protocol, MAC address, and more for each channel. You can also configure and enable
or disable channels, and assign LPVIDs.
Refer to the Emulex Universal Multichannel Reference Guide for more information about
channel management.
Notes:
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Channel management and SR-IOV cannot be used together. If you set channel
management, then you must disable SR-IOV. If you set SR-IOV, then you must
disable UMC.
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Properties for all channels on a port can be viewed and modified at the time
channel management is enabled on the Adapter Information tab; before the
required reboot to activate channel management on the adapter.
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vNIC2 mode or UMC mode is required to dynamically control UCNA ports
using channel management.
Enabling and Disabling Channel Management
To enable channel management, select a management type from the Management Type
After Reboot list in the Channel Management area when in the Adapter Information
view. See Figure 6-42, OneConnect Adapter Information Tab, on page 108.
To disable channel management, select None from the Management Type After Reboot
list.