OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual
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1. ACTION None A Virtual Teamed adapter sets the RSS capabilities to be similar for all the teaming members using OIDs The RSS capabilities of the first adapter in a team is used as a base and the RSS capabilities of the subsequent adapters will be compared to it If different adapters advertise different capabilities only common capabilities are supported by the Team driver OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 16 gt G EMULEX 5 Offload features DESCRIPTION Adapters cannot be teamed because they support different offloading features SEVERITY Information ACTION None The minimum matching capabilities among the adapters becomes the offload capabilities SEE ALSO Table 1 on page 17 Table 1 Offload Configuration Offload Capabilities Available Configuration Accepted Accepted Configuration 1 Checksum Offload lpv4 ipv6 TX RX Based on common ae of TCP UDP IP TCP UDP IP TCPOPTION IPOPTI checksum ON 2 Large Send Offload lpv4 ipv6 Based on common factors and minimum of Maxoffloadsize mxoffloadsize and min segment count of all Minsegmentcount the teamed adapters 3 TCP Connection offload Ip4 ipv6 Based on common factors of ipv4 ipv6 SupportSack support sack and minimum of TcpConnectionOffloadCapacity TcpConnectionOffloadCapacity 4 RSS Base CPU After querying the team adapters pass the Hash Information common information to the stack and the pass Indirection Table Size data from the2. OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Version 1 0 for Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 User Manual One Network One Company P004430 02A Rev A Connect with Emulex t gt G EMULEX EMULEX CONFIDENTIAL Copyright 2003 2009 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide Unpublished work No part of this document may be reproduced by any means or translated to any electronic medium without a the prior written consent of Emulex and b the preservation of this notice on all copies and partial copies Copying access use or distribution requires an applicable written agreement approved by Emulex Information furnished by Emulex is believed to be accurate and reliable However no responsibility is assumed by Emulex for its use or for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent copyright trade secret or related rights of Emulex Emulex the Emulex logo AutoPilot Installer AutoPilot Manager BlockGuard Connectivity Continuum Convergenomics Emulex Connect Emulex Secure EZPilot FibreSpy HBAnyware InSpeed LightPulse MultiPulse OneCommand OneConnect One Network One Company SBOD SLI and VEngine are trademarks of Emulex All other brand or product names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations Emulex provides
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4. Teaming and VLAN Manager Remove leam Figure 8 VLAN tree view OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 11 gt G EMULEX Team Adapter Configuration Display Figure 9 shows the Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration display This is a display only screen showing the current configuration of the adapter BE OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration Figure 9 The Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration screen Figure 10 shows the Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration display with the Primary adapter Active OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 12 gt lt EMULEX Be OX NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration Figure 10 Team Member Active Figure 11 shows the Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration display with the Secondary Team member Passive OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 13 OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Configuration MAC Address 00 00 C9 58 78 24 mkd fia C Connection Status Connected Secondary Passive TCP Offload Interrupt Moderation LSO TOE Team Properties Send Packets fo Receive Packets 219 Figure 11 Team Member Passive Team Member States Each team member can be in one of the following states as shown in the Connection Status box e Added e Connecting e Connected e Disconnected e Active e Standby e Deleting e Deleted 1 Added When a Team member is successfully bound to th
5. Two or more Ethernet connections are combined to share the load thus increasing bandwidth e Load balancing Link aggregation enables distribution of processing and communication across multiple links e Higher link availability Prevents a single link failure from disturbing traffic flow Teaming Types There are different types of teaming e Switch independent e Failover If configured for fault tolerance the system provides only failover e Smart load balancing If configured for load balancing failover is included e Switch dependent e Generic trunking Link aggregation static mode e Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP Failover FO Failover is a basic feature of teaming Though a team may have multiple members only one member is active at a time When the active team member disconnects due to link down disabled or any other reason the failover mechanism selects another team member which is in linkup state and traffic continues All the team members use the same MAC address the MAC address of the primary team member When the primary team member reports linkup state traffic fails over to the primary adapter if the team is configured for auto failback Smart Load Balancing SLB Load balancing works with any Ethernet switch It requires no trunking configuration of the switch itself The team of NICs advertise multiple MAC addresses and one or more IP addresses The team MAC address is selected by the Virtual Team A
6. stack to all the team members Indirection Table Offset key key size Secret Key size Secret Key offset 6 Jumbo frames DESCRIPTION Team adapters do not support Jumbo frames because they support different offloading features SEVERITY Information ACTION Different adapters support different frame sizes Some support 1514 and 9032 only some support 2048 4096 and so forth The Virtual Team driver considers the minimum packet size reported by OID_GEN MAXIMUM FRAME_SIZE and uses it as its MTU Show Config shows whether the Team adapter supports LSO or not 7 1 VLANs DESCRIPTION The adapter supports VLANs different from the VLAN ID of the virtual team adapter SEVERITY Information ACTION If the adapter is configured for VLAN and if you create a VLAN on top of the adapter data transmission will not work properly 8 Multiple VLAN configuration DESCRIPTION Must configure multiple VLAN IDs for each virtual team adapter SEVERITY Information ACTION Configure an Intermediate Driver IM on the top of the virtual team adapter and create VLANs on the virtual team adapter OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 17 id gt G EMULEX 9 Promiscuous mode DESCRIPTION Teamed physical adapter is not in promiscuous mode SEVERITY Information ACTION None The teaming VLAN GUI tries to set the current MAC address for the team member The driver reads the current MAC address of the adapter If te
7. this documentation as is without any warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Emulex may make improvements and changes to the product described in this manual at any time and without any notice Emulex assumes no responsibility for its use nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties that may result Periodic changes are made to information contained herein although these changes will be incorporated into new editions of this documentation Emulex disclaims any undertaking to give notice of such changes US patent notice is given for one or more of the following 6226680 6247060 6334153 6389479 6393487 6427171 6427173 6434620 6591302 6658480 6697868 6751665 6757746 6941386 6965941 6687758 7042898 7133940 7124205 7089326 6938092 6996070 Emulex 3333 Susan Street Costa Mesa CA 92626 OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page ii Table of Contents gt E M LI L EX Faine Sh etre arcsec ate fe ree rt races 1 SETS TS AA NG E N N 1 WAY Teaming ressesie a e e e a r a eaS e EsTa 1 MS NIMS Eyn CS ee E AE EE E E E E A E A A 1 FANOVI F O Joser rrr EEEE EEEE 1 Smart Load Balancing SLB ccccccceecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeaeeeeeseeeaeees 1 Gense TUG ING priced tht ee cert rea tote ler eared ened ead 2 Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP
8. Configuring a VLAN for an Adapter To configure a VLAN for a physical or team adapter 1 Inthe team configuration screen see Figure 2 select the physical team adapter in Available Adapters to which you want to add a VLAN 2 Click VLAN The Add Remove VLAN dialog appears Figure 6 shows the Add Remove VLAN dialog box OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 8 P OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Add Remove VLAN Adapter Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE 6 oe B VLAN Name Manze Figure 6 Add Remove VLAN dialog box a VLAN ID Enter a VLAN tag value 1 4096 b VLAN Name Shows the VLAN Name in the format Vian_ lt VLAN ID gt c Add Click Add to add the VLAN to the adapter You can create multiple VLANs for an adapter The VLANs Configured list shows the list of all VLANs configured for the adapter d Remove To delete a VLAN configured for the adapter select the VLAN from the VLANs Configured list and click Remove Figure 7 shows the newly created VLAN with the list of currently configured VLANs for the adapter OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 9 gt G EMULEX Ee OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Add Remove VLAN Figure 7 Newly created VLAN screen 3 Click Ok The VLAN tree view is displayed Figure 8 shows the Teaming and VLAN Manager screen with VLAN tree view OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 10 gt lt EMULEX ees OC NIC
9. OCe 10100 C Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 6 gt G EMULEX Figure 4 shows the screen after the Team Members are added to the Team and the Primary member is selected Bal OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Create Team Team Name Emulex OneConnect TeamAdapter 0 Team Type Failover v Available Network Team Member iy Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 amp 3 Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 Emulex OneConnect OCe10100 C Emulex OneConnect OCe10100 Load Distributed By Default z Figure 4 Team Member Selected screen 6 Load Distributed by If Team Type is not Failover select the criteria for Load balancing a Default This is the default option b Destination Mac Address c Destination IP Address 8 Click OK to create a new team The Team Configuration screen with the newly added team information is displayed Figure 5 shows the newly added Team adapter with members displayed as a tree OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 7 gt G EMULEX Be OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Ces Emulex OneConnect TeamAdapter 0 AF Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC T a Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC T lJ Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE lly Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE AF Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE N lf Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE N f Figure 5 Newly added Team Adapter
10. am MAC address is different from the current MAC address of the adapter it sets filter type to be Promiscuous mode 10 IPv6 DESCRIPTION Network uses IPv6 driver incompatible SEVERITY Information ACTION None Windows operating systems rom VISTA onwards use only one network stack so when the driver is bound to the TCP IP stack it can receive IPV4 IPV6 packets and it can handle both the packets The driver supports IPV6 OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 18
11. dapter VTA from the list of load balancing members When OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 1 gt G EMULEX the server receives an ARP request the software networking stack sends an ARP reply with the team MAC address To begin the load balancing process the NIC Teaming driver modifies this ARP reply by changing the source MAC address to match the MAC address of one of the physical adapters You can balance both transmit and receive loads to maintain in order delivery of frames Generic Trunking Generic Trunking also called IEEE 802 3ad Link Aggregation static mode is a switch assisted teaming mode that requires configuring the ports at both ends of the link both the server and the switch ports In this mode the team advertises one MAC Address and one IP Address when the protocol stack responds to ARP requests In addition each physical adapter in the team uses the same team MAC address when transmitting frames This is possible since the switch at the other end of the link is aware of the teaming mode and will handle the use of a single MAC address by every port in the team The forwarding table in the switch will reflect the trunk as a single virtual port In this teaming mode the NIC Teaming driver controls load balancing and failover for outgoing traffic only while incoming traffic is controlled by the switch firmware and hardware Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP IEEE 802 3ad LACP is similar to
12. e virtual adapter it becomes a member of team 2 Connecting Once the Team member is Added the virtual adapter will query it for the state of the physical adapter At this point the team member is in the Connecting state 3 Connected When the virtual team adapter gets the status of the physical adapter depending on the status returned it enters either the Connected or the Disconnected state OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 14 gt lt EMULEX 4 Active If LACP is set for the team the LACP handshake starts and LACP adds the link to the team and the adapter s status changes to Active Otherwise it remains in Standby In non LACP mode after connecting if you have not set the adapter to Standby via the GUI the adapter becomes Active 5 Disconnected When the virtual team adapter gets the link down status indication either through LACP or because you disable or remove the link it is disconnected and it releases the IP address It is no longer a member of the team 6 Deleted If the adapter is Disconnected you can delete it If you delete a team member or the whole team the virtual team adapter enters this state It is no longer a member of the team OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 15 id gt G EMULEX Troubleshooting There are several circumstances in which your system may operate in an unexpected manner The Troubleshooting section provides information r
13. egarding unusual situations 1 NDIS DESCRIPTION The team members are incompatible The Virtual Team driver is NDIS 6 0 and team member underlying miniport driver is NDIS 5 0 NDIS 5 1 SEVERITY Information LOG LOG_ELS ACTION None NDIS takes care of compatibility issues 2 Header Data Split DESCRIPTION Incompatible adapters The team member underlying miniport driver supports the Header Data split feature SEVERITY Information ACTION None NDIS 6 1 onwards supports Header Data Split Windows 2008 drivers can handle Header Data Split If there are any old NDIS drivers in the network stack not supporting Header Data Split then NDIS dynamically turns it OFF 3 RSS DESCRIPTION RSS Receive Side Scaling adversely affects the Virtual Team Miniport Driver IM driver SEVERITY Information ACTION None In Non 802 3ad mode or 802 3ad static mode the driver is working as a pass through driver So RSS does not affect it It creates ARP requests and receives ARP replies but if the OOB fields in the packet are set to O for RSS hash there is no problem In 802 3ad LACP mode creates LACP packets driver can use the information from OIDs to assign connection on the same CPU that miniport and protocol driver are using The driver disables RSS by intercepting the OIDS and reports RSS not supported 4 Failover DESCRIPTION RSS Failover does not work SEVERITY Major LOG Teaming members use different hash values
14. ialog to create a team on OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Create Team Team Name Emulex OneConnect TeamAdapter 0 TeamType FailOver v AutoFailBack Enable Disable Available Network Team Member t Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 4 4 Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 Load Distributed By Default x Figure 3 Create Team dialog OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 5 gt 56 EMULEX To create and configure a new team Note If you add a team member you do not want to the team you must cancel and start building the team again Team Name Enter a new team name Team Type Select Failover gt Load balancing gt 802 3ad static gt LACP Default Failover AutoFailBack Select Enable Disable Default Enable Available Network List of adapters that are not members of any team Se YS Note Every team must include at least one Emulex adapter 5 Team Member Double click the adapter name It appears as a Team member You can select multiple adapters a Primary Secondary To make an adapter the primary adapter under Team Member select the check box for that adapter If both primary and secondary adapters are active select the primary for data transmission Note If you mouse over the adapter the adapter s status Primary or Secondary appears as a tool tip Unselected adapters are Secondary After you select an adapter it becomes Primary Team Member Emulex OneConnect
15. link aggregation static mode except that it uses the LACP to negotiate the ports that make up the team The LACP must be enabled at both the server and the switch for the team to operate The LACP automatically determines which member links can be aggregated and then aggregates them It provides for the controlled addition and removal of physical links for the link aggregation so that no frames are lost or duplicated The marker protocol that can be enabled for LACP provides removal of aggregate link members The link aggregation group advertises a single MAC address for all the ports in the team The MAC address of the team aggregator can be the MAC addresses of one of the NICs in the group The LACP and marker protocols use a multicast destination address The link aggregation control function determines which links may be aggregated It then binds the ports to an aggregator function in the system and monitors conditions to determine if a change in the aggregation group is required Link aggregation combines the individual capacity of multiple links to form a high performance virtual link The failure or replacement of a link in an LACP trunk does not cause loss of connectivity The traffic is simply failed over to the remaining links in the trunk OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 2 id J gt s EMULEX Installation The OneCommand NIC Teaming and Multiple VLAN Manager is installed automatically when
16. n screen Bie OC NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager Bara Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE lly Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE AY Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE 7 Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE N A4 Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE N Figure 2 The Team Configuration screen OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 4 gt G EMULEX if The Team Configuration screen offers several options 1 Available Adapters Displays all the physical adapters as well as Team adapters configured on the system as a tree view For example SEA Emulex OneConnect TeamAdapter 0 i a Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE Emulex OneConnect OCe 10100 NIC TOE AF Intel R PRO 1000 MT Network Connection i Intel R PRO 1000 PM Network Connection 2 Create Team To create a new team The team configuration dialog appears 3 Remove Team To delete a team configured earlier If no teams have been configured the button is unavailable Select the earlier configured team Click Remove Team 4 VLAN To configure VLAN for the selected physical or team adapter a Click the physical team adapter in Available Adapters b Click VLAN The VLAN configuration dialog appears 5 Show Config To view adapter configuration Select the adapter from the list of Available Adapters to view its configuration information Creating and Configuring a Team Figure 3 shows the d
17. the Windows driver is installed If the Windows driver installation process does not include rebooting the computer you must perform a manual reboot Updating the Application lf you want to update the NIC Teaming manager to preserve the existing configuration run elx_octeamupdate exe after you install the newer version Uninstalling the Application If you want to remove all team interfaces and VLAN interfaces run elx_octeamuninstall exe before you uninstall the package OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual Page 3 gt G EMULEX M Configuration A team of adapters functions as a single virtual network interface and appears the same as a non teamed adapter to other network devices A protocol address such as an IP address is usually assigned to the physical adapter However when the OneCommand NIC Teaming and Multiple VLAN Manager is installed the protocol address is assigned to the Team Adapter and not to the physical adapters that make up the team The IPCONFIG all command shows the IP and MAC addresses of the virtual adapter and not of the individual physical adapters Starting the Application Click the OC NIC Teaming Manager shortcut to start the application di Emulex AutoPilot Installer Documents OL NIC Teaming Manager Computer 36 OCManager WebLaunch Install Figure 1 The OC NIC Teaming Manager shortcut Emulex GUI for Configuring Team VLAN Figure 2 shows the Team Configuratio
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