Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide SF 103837 CD 20 S
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- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Virtual NIC Interface
- 1.2 Product Specifications
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ Network Adapters
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ SFN8722 Dual-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.1 OCP Server Adapter
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ SFN8542 Dual-Port 40GbE QSFP+ PCIe 3.1 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ SFN8522M Dual-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.1 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ SFN8522 Dual-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.1 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ SFN8042 Dual-Port 40GbE QSFP+ PCIe 3.1 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Network Adapters
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7322F Dual-Port 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7142Q Dual-Port 40GbE QSFP+ PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7124F Quad-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7122F Dual-Port 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ SFN7042Q Dual-Port 40GbE QSFP+ PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7024F Quad-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ Ultra SFN7022F Dual-Port 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ SFN7004F Quad-Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon™ SFN7002F Dual-Port 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Server I/O Adapter
- Solarflare Onload Network Adapters
- Solarflare Performant Network Adapters
- Solarflare Mezzanine Adapters
- Solarflare XtremeScale™ Network Adapters
- 1.3 Software Driver Support
- 1.4 Solarflare AppFlex™ Technology Licensing.
- 1.5 Open Source Licenses
- 1.6 Support and Download
- 1.7 Regulatory Information
- 1.8 Regulatory Approval
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN8722, SFN8542, SFN8522M and SFN8042 adapters
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN8522 adapter.
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN7322F, SFN7142Q, SFN7122F, SFN7042Q, SFN7022F, SFN7002F, SFN6322F, SFN6122F and SFN5122F adapters
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN7124F, SFN7024F and SFN7004F adapters
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFA6902F adapter
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN6832F, SFN6822F, SFN5814H and SFN5812H adapters
- Additional Regulatory Information for SFN5162F, SFN5161T and SFN5121T adapters
- 2 Installation
- 2.1 Solarflare Network Adapter Products
- 2.2 Fitting a Full Height Bracket (optional)
- 2.3 Inserting the Adapter in a PCI Express (PCIe) Slot
- 2.4 Attaching a Cable (RJ-45)
- 2.5 Attaching a Cable (SFP+)
- 2.6 Supported SFP+ Cables
- 2.7 Supported SFP+ 10G SR Optical Transceivers
- 2.8 Supported SFP+ 10G LR Optical Transceivers
- 2.9 QSFP+ Transceivers and Cables
- 2.10 Supported SFP 1000BASE-T Transceivers
- 2.11 Supported 1G Optical Transceivers
- 2.12 Supported Speed and Mode
- 2.13 LED States
- 2.14 Configure QSFP+ Adapter
- 2.15 Single Optical Fiber - RX Configuration
- 2.16 Solarflare Mezzanine Adapter: SFN8722 OCP
- 2.17 Solarflare Mezzanine Adapter: SFN581xH
- 2.18 Solarflare Mezzanine Adapter SFN6832F-C61
- 2.19 Solarflare Mezzanine Adapter SFN6832F-C62
- 2.20 Solarflare Precision Time Synchronization Adapters
- 2.21 Solarflare ApplicationOnload™ Engine
- 3 Solarflare Adapters on Linux
- 3.1 System Requirements
- 3.2 Linux Platform Feature Set
- 3.3 Solarflare RPMs
- 3.4 Installing Solarflare Drivers and Utilities on Linux
- 3.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Distributions
- 3.6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distributions
- 3.7 Installing DKMS Driver and Utilities on Ubuntu/Debian Servers
- 3.8 Unattended Installations
- 3.9 Unattended Installation - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 3.10 Unattended Installation - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- 3.11 Configuring the Solarflare Adapter
- 3.12 Setting Up VLANs
- 3.13 Setting Up Teams
- 3.14 NIC Partitioning
- 3.15 NIC Partitioning with SR-IOV
- 3.16 Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- 3.17 Receive Flow Steering (RFS)
- 3.18 Solarflare Accelerated RFS (SARFS)
- 3.19 Transmit Packet Steering (XPS)
- 3.20 Linux Utilities RPM
- 3.21 Configuring the Boot Manager with sfboot
- 3.22 Upgrading Adapter Firmware with sfupdate
- 3.23 License Install with sfkey
- 3.24 Performance Tuning on Linux
- 3.25 Web Server - Driver Optimization
- 3.26 Interrupt Affinity
- 3.27 Module Parameters
- 3.28 Linux ethtool Statistics
- 3.29 Driver Logging Levels
- 3.30 Running Adapter Diagnostics
- 3.31 Running Cable Diagnostics
- 4 Solarflare Adapters on Windows
- 4.1 System Requirements
- 4.2 Windows Feature Set
- 4.3 Installing the Solarflare Driver Package on Windows
- 4.4 Adapter Drivers Only Installation
- 4.5 Full Solarflare Package Installation
- 4.6 Install Drivers and Options From a Windows Command Prompt
- 4.7 Unattended Installation
- 4.8 Managing Adapters with SAM
- 4.9 Managing Adapters Remotely with SAM
- 4.10 Using SAM
- 4.11 Using SAM to Configure Adapter Features
- 4.12 Segmentation Offload
- 4.13 Using SAM to Configure Teams and VLANs
- 4.14 Using SAM to View Statistics and State Information
- 4.15 Using SAM to Run Adapter and Cable Diagnostics
- 4.16 Using SAM for Boot ROM Configuration
- 4.17 Managing Firmware with SAM
- 4.18 Configuring Network Adapter Properties in Windows
- 4.19 Windows Command Line Tools
- 4.20 Sfboot: Boot ROM Configuration Tool
- 4.21 Sfupdate: Firmware Update Tool
- 4.22 Sfteam: Adapter Teaming and VLAN Tool
- 4.23 Sfcable: Cable Diagnostics Tool
- 4.24 Sfkey: License Management Tool
- 4.25 Sfnet
- 4.26 Completion codes (%errorlevel%)
- 4.27 Teaming and VLANs
- 4.28 Performance Tuning on Windows
- 4.29 Windows Event Log Error Messages
- 5 Solarflare Adapters on VMware
- 5.1 System Requirements
- 5.2 VMware Feature Set
- 5.3 Installing Solarflare Drivers and Utilities on VMware
- 5.4 Configuring Teams
- 5.5 Configuring VLANs
- 5.6 Running Adapter Diagnostics
- 5.7 Solarflare Utilities Package
- 5.8 Configuring the Boot ROM with Sfboot
- 5.9 Upgrading Adapter Firmware with sfupdate
- 5.10 Performance Tuning on VMware
- Introduction
- Tuning Settings
- Install VMware Tools in the Guest Platform
- VMware ESX NetQueue
- Binding NetQueue queues and Virtual Machines to CPUs
- Adapter MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)
- Interrupt Moderation (Interrupt Coalescing)
- TCP/IP Checksum Offload
- TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
- TCP Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- TCP Protocol Tuning
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Other Considerations
- Server Motherboard, Server BIOS, Chipset Drivers
- 6 Solarflare Adapters on FreeBSD
- 6.1 System Requirements
- 6.2 FreeBSD Platform Feature Set
- 6.3 Installing Solarflare Drivers
- 6.4 Unattended Installation
- 6.5 Configuring the Solarflare Adapter
- 6.6 Setting Up VLANs
- 6.7 FreeBSD Utilities Package
- 6.8 Configuring the Boot ROM with sfboot
- 6.9 Upgrading Adapter Firmware with sfupdate
- 6.10 Performance Tuning on FreeBSD
- 6.11 Module Parameters
- 6.12 Kernel and Network Adapter Statistics
- 7 SR-IOV Virtualization Using KVM
- 8 SR-IOV Virtualization Using ESXi
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Configuration Procedure - SR-IOV
- 8.3 Configuration Procedure - DirectPath I/O
- 8.4 Install Solarflare Drivers in the Guest
- 8.5 Install the Solarflare Driver on the ESXi host
- 8.6 Install Solarflare Utilities on the ESXi host
- 8.7 Configure VFs on the Host/Adapter
- 8.8 Virtual Machine
- 8.9 List Adapters - Web Client
- 8.10 vSwitch and Port Group Configuration
- 8.11 VF Passthrough
- 8.12 DirectPath I/O
- 9 Solarflare Boot Manager
- Index