Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1281)

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Version 10.2 User Manual P010089-01A Rev. A
6. Managing Adapters and Ports
OCe14100–Series Adapters
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Figure 6-63 MultiChannel vNIC View (Mixed Mode Storage)
The Channel Configuration table shows the channel properties for vNIC.
There are drop-downs for each port's channels second and third channels. vNIC
protocol assignments are subject to the following rules:

The first channel can only be assigned a NIC protocol. The first channel cannot
be assigned None.
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The second and third channels can be assigned the following:

NIC

None (channel disabled)

Storage protocol (On the third channel only when concurrent mode storage
is available)
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The fourth and higher channels (if available) can only be assigned NIC or None
(channel is disabled).
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LPVIDs (range 2-4094) must be assigned to all NIC channels and must be
unique across all NIC channels on a port. However, any or all of the LPVIDs on
one port can be repeated on another port.
MultiChannel SIMode Configuration
When MultiChannel SIMode is selected, the Adapter Configuration tab looks like the
following: