Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1524)

Boot Version 10.2 for NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, and RoCE Protocols User Manual P010097-01B Rev. A
2. Configuring PXE Boot for NIC on LPe16202, OCe10100, and OCe11100-series Adapters
Using the PXESelect Utility
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Note: Advanced Mode is not supported on OCe10100-series controllers.
To configure Advanced Mode support:
1. From the Controller Configuration menu, use the key to select Advanced
Mode Support and a pop-up menu appears.
Figure 2-7 Controller Configuration Menu – Advanced Mode Support Selection
2. Select Enabled or Disabled and press .
3. Select Save and press .
Table 2-1 Advanced Mode Capabilities (by Operating System)
Operating System Advanced Mode Enabled
Advanced Mode Disabled
(Legacy Mode)
Windows 16 RSS queues
Note: Only supported on Windows
Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012
R2. Remains four queues for
earlier Windows versions.
4 RSS Queues
VMQ lookahead split
Note: VMQs are only supported on
Windows Server 2008 R2 and
later versions.
Lookahead split is silently ignored.
There may be a small performance
penalty for VMQs.
Linux and Citrix 16 RSS Queues 4 RSS Queues
VFs/PFs can be increased up to 30
VMware ESXi For both 1500 and 9000 MTU:
16 NetQueues/PFs in non-VFA
4 NetQueues/PFs in VFA 1500 MTU – 8 NetQueues/PFs in
non-VFA and 4 NetQueues/PFs in VFA.
9000 MTU – 4 NetQueues/PFs in both
VFA and non-VFA