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2–Configuring NIC
NIC Partition (NPAR)
SN0054671-00 A 2-43
See Figure 2-23 for an illustration.
Figure 2-23. QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in with QoS Interface, Function eSwitch
Configuration, and eSwitch Statistics
eSwitch
The 8200 and 3200 Series adapters connect the physical ports to the physical
functions on the PCIe bus through eSwitches. An eSwitch is a VLAN aware MAC
lookup virtual switch implemented in the 8200 and 3200 Series Adapters. Each
port provides the uplink for an eSwitch with the enabled associated Physical PCI
Functions connected through switch ports to the eSwitch. Functions 0, 2, 4, and 6
are connected through the port 0 eSwitch; and functions 1, 3, 5, and 7 are
connected through the port 1 eSwitch. The eSwitch associated with a port will only
conduct traffic between PCIe Ethernet functions if the physical port is linked.
Control of the eSwitch is through the QLogic vCenter Plug-in. The eSwitch
management controls support VLAN configuration, promiscuous mode enable,
locally administered MAC addresses, IPv4 checksum offload enable, IPv4 and
IPv6 segmentation offloads, and MAC anti-spoof checking.