Hitachi CB 520H B2 User Manual

Table 10-8 Emulex 10Gb NIC firmware combinations (Emulex XE104)
Emulex 10Gb NIC
firmware version
LP firmware version
02-01 or later 02-45 or later
10.2.370.16 or later Y Y
10.6.144.2704 or later - Y
Legend:
Y: Supported
-: Not supported
Restrictions of the numbers of NIC ports assignment for Windows
• When using Windows, there are restrictions in the maximum number of
the ports which can be assigned to one LPAR. When exceeding the
limitation, the following phenomena may occur.
– OS installation may fail or take so much time.
– Temporary link-down may occur during OS operation.
[Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2]
• Up to eight ports can be assigned per core.
• However, in case of Emulex 10Gb mezzanine LAN card, 4 times as many
CPU resources are consumed per single port, as compared with other
cards. When assigning ports of "Emulex 10Gb mezzanine LAN card",
count one port as four ports.
• The relation between the number of processors and the maximum
number of card ports which can be assigned is shown below.
Table 10-9 Relation between the number of CPUs and the number of card
ports (in case of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Number of processors
per LPAR
Maximum number
of ports
Number of ports which can
be assigned
Hyper-
Threading is
Disable
(Number of
cores)
Hyper-
Threading is
Enable
(Number of
threads)
Dedicated
NIC
(Emulex
10Gb)
1
Shared NIC
Virtual NIC
VF NIC
1 1 to 2 8 - 8
2 -
2 3 to 4 16 - 16
2 8
4 -
10-16
Notes
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Hitachi CB 520H B2 Specifications

General

Brand	Hitachi
Model	CB 520H B2
Category	Server
Language	English