Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 625)

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3. Configuration
NIC Driver Configuration
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Figure 3-6 Emulex NIC Advanced Properties Page
5. Select SR-IOV from the list and select Enabled from the Value list.
Note: You must configure Hyper-V to create an SR-IOV enabled virtual machine. See
Microsoft Hyper-V documentation for more information.
Hyper-V
The Hyper-V role must be added using the Server Manager. Once the Hyper-V role is
added, you can enable SR-IOV in the Hyper-V Manager by:

Creating the virtual switch

Creating each virtual NIC
See Microsoft documentation for more information.
Note: Make sure SR-IOV is enabled on the server and on the Emulex adapter prior to
configuring the Hyper-V virtual switch.
The Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Servers treat SR-IOV as an
offload - an active-active team with virtual function and an emulated adapter. That
means each Emulex SR-IOV adapter is accompanied by a fully functional, emulated
NIC. The emulated NIC is named “Microsoft Virtual Network Adapter,” and the
TCP/IP stack is only bound to this device.