By Roy Hughes, Emulex
A basic of what’s required to get the Universal Multi-Channel (UMC) feature running with Emulex OCe11102 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters.
The Emulex Universal Multi-Channel feature provides administrators the ability to partition an Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 Ethernet adapter into 8 logical ports at varied bandwidths for storage (iSCSI or Fibre Channel over Ethernet [FCoE]) and Ethernet traffic types. Each logical port has a unique MAC, VLAN and bandwidth attributes and is mapped to 8 PCIe functions (PF0 – PF7). Basically, operating systems and hypervisors see eight independent physical adapters. UMC does not require SR-IOV, meaning you can deploy UMC on most operating systems and hypervisors in use today. For hypervisors such as VMware, a UMC port can be provisioned for various connection types such as virtual machine (VM), vSphere vMotion, iSCSI, NFS and host management traffic types.
To get Universal Multi-Channel working:
UMC only works on Emulex OCe11102 Ethernet adapters. Download and load all drivers and firmware from the Emulex site here. Prerequisites:
- Install Emulex OCe11102 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapter in a PCIe x8 slot.
- Load latest driver, firmware and OneCommand Manager software.
- Confirm software drivers loaded correctly.
- Reboot server to access Emulex PXESelect Utility
On server restart invoke the Emulex PXESelect ™ Utility by pressing . Image may be NSFW.
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Enable Multi-Channel Support then press , then Save configuration. Image may be NSFW.
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From Port Selection Menu, select Controller and Port number Image may be NSFW.
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Enable Administrative Logical Link, configure Bandwidth and assign logical port VLAN ID (LPVID).
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Windows Device Manager shows eight Emulex OneConnect OCe11102-F 10GbE adapters.
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For a complete guide on how to deploy Emulex Universal Multi-Channel feature, check out our complete guide here.
