Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 425)

OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface Version 10.2 User Manual P010067-01A Rev. A
5. CLI Client Command Descriptions
Profile Management Commands
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Multichannel Configurations
Note: ARI must be available to support sixteen functions on an adapter.
OCe14000-series adapters automatically support ARI. However, the system’s
motherboard must support ARI, it must be enabled in the system BIOS, and the
operating system must support ARI. If these conditions are not met, although
you may configure all sixteen functions, only eight functions will be present and
discovered by the OneCommand Manager application after a reboot.
Enabling and Disabling Multichannel
Use the "mctype" parameter in the SetAdapterPortConfig command to enable or
disable multichannel on an adapter. This parameter is required to enable multichannel.
For a list of supported mctypes, use the “CMGetParams” command on page 342 and
review the “Available Modes” field.
Disable multichannel on an adapter by setting the “mctype” to “None.” When enabling
multichannel, the additional function protocols must be specified for the extra channels
that are not available when multichannel is disabled.
Note: The CMMode command used to enable or disable multichannel for OCe10100
and OCe11100-series adapters cannot be used on OCe14000-series adapters.
Using this command on OCe14000-series adapters generates an error message.
Examples
Enable Multichannel for UMC
>hbacmd SetAdapterPortConfig 00-00-c9-12-34-56 p0=nic,iscsi,nic,nic
p1=nic,fcoe,nic,nic p2=nic,fcoe,nic,nic p3=nic,iscsi,nic,nic
mctype=umc
Disable Multichannel
>hbacmd SetAdapterPortConfig 00-00-c9-12-34-56 p0=nic,iscsi p1=
nic,fcoe p2=nic,fcoe p3=nic,iscsi mctype=none
Showing Multichannel Configuration
The CMGetParams command shows the current multichannel configuration for an
adapter's physical port. See “CMGetParams” on page 342 for more information.
Setting Channel Protocols using SetAdapterPortConfig
Use the SetAdapterPortConfig command to configure the protocols running on the
channels or functions.
The following rules apply when using SetAdapterPortConfig with non-NPar
multichannel enabled:

The first function must always be “NIC”; other functions can be “None.”

If NIC+RoCE is specified on any port, all other ports must be either NIC or
NIC+RoCE only.

Storage functions cannot be specified on adapters running NIC+RoCE.