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1. Bits 0 7 Interpretation 0x05 SET_VAR command failed 0x11 SET_VAR command failed reinitialization 0x21 Spurious mailbox command interrupt 0x31 Unrecognized mailbox command completion 0x32 Duplicate link attention event tag unchanged 0x33 Invalid link attention no link state indicated 0x34 Duplicate link attention link state unchanged 0x35 Error reading common service parameters for port 0x36 Error reading common service parameters for fabric 0x37 Error reading common service parameters for nport 0x3B Failed to create node object 0x3C PRLI initiation failure 0x42 Exhausted retries on FLOGI 0x45 ELS command rejected 0x49 Exhausted retries on PLOGI Ox4E World Wide Port Name mismatch on ADISC Ox4F World Wide Node Name mismatch on ADISC 0x50 ADISC response failure 0x55 LOGO response failure 0x57 PRLI to non existent node 0x5A PRLI response error 0x5F CT command error 0x62 Name server response error 0x66 State Change Notification registration failure Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 153 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Table A 2 Malfunction Errors Continued Bits 0 7 Interpretation 0x6A Unrecognized ELS command received 0x6F Received PRLI from un typed source 0x73 Failed to pend PRLI for authentication 0x77 Failed to allocate Node object 0x7A REG_VPI failed 0xA3 Command context allocati
2. cece eee re eee eee ete e ne teeta 138 NPIV Messages 1800 1899 cccccccece cee eee eset eeeeeeeeeeeeeeetesatesatesaeeenenenesaes 139 ELS Messages 1900 1999 cccecccecce eee eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaeesattseneseneees 140 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers s sssssssssnnnsnnsnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 142 Monitoring TCP OMmlo0ads serein rnern ea aaa 143 TCP Offload Falur x cochuenctteeceaert st eaens weds taueaaernabaee UER amanecoeeceeneteee 144 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver ssssssssnnsnnsnssnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 145 Troubleshooting the Cisco Nexus Switch Configuration eceeeeee eee eee es 145 iSCSI Driver TYOUDIESNOOEIN Gs 5shn cst lt 6 sev ennend teen aacivees boecadeet ieee kanes iehdedeavetias 145 Appendix A Error and Event Log Information ccccccssceeeessscereecseeeessseres L48 FC FCoE Error and Event LOgS ssssssssnsnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna 148 Viewing the FC FCoE Error LOG scsscsscastgvvccnansctsscceiensiaccsetactar teccieantsacacions 148 Severity SCHEME serres rennari eienenn hehe sw bee E aana riei 149 Related Driver Parameter LogErTOr sssssssssssssssssserererrnrrrerrrrrrerrrrrrrrrerrrerre 149 Format of an Error Log ENU y dest cess dacnet wederwneihl ot tni inn E eE A E A EE 149 Error Codes TableSiici irie inr eE EEE aE NEEE REEERE E ESANAREN 150 Viewing the FC FCoE Event Log iciceorccedwtseorwrenterede
3. Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 155 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Viewing the FC FCoE Event Log Event Log Interpretation e All events logged by Emulex Storport Miniport are in Event ID 11 with source elxfc elxcna e The Storport Miniport driver parameter LogErrors determines what type of events are logged by the driver the default setting is 3 which logs only events of a SEVERE nature the optional setting of 2 logs events of both SEVERE and MALFUNCTION type the optional setting of 1 logs events of SEVERE MALFUNCTION and COMMAND type Note For troubleshooting SAN connectivity or device discovery issues set the LogErrors to 1 e The Emulex event code is found in byte 0010 and supplementary data is in byte offsets 0011 through 0013 Additional Event Log Information The following tables are not comprehensive but do include those codes which through Emulex s experiences in our support and testing environments we feel are most likely to show up in SAN environments where issues occur ELS FCP Command Error Status Codes Internal firmware codes posted by the adapter firmware that explain why a particular ELS or FCP command failed at the FC level Table A 5 ELS FCP Command Error Status Codes Explanation Code Remote Stop Remote port sent an ABTS 0x2 Local Reject Local Reject error detail 0x3 LS RJT Received Remote port sent LS RJT 0x9 A_RJT Received
4. The occfg exe program also supports the interactive mode with a set of menus To start this utility in interactive mode run occfg exe from a command console and do the following 1 A list of adapters displays on which to operate Type either a number of the list or a substring from any part of the name for more information see Selecting an Adapter on page 70 2 The program prompts for an operation such as modifying or querying a parameter value Follow the prompt Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration ma 3 The program provides a list of available registry parameters to modify or query Type either the number of the corresponding option or a substring in the parameter name The substring must uniquely identify the parameter or occfg will display all potential options 4 To apply the parameters select the menu item to exit and reload the drivers Pressing control c at any point may leave modifications in the registry but the driver does not use the new parameters until is reloaded Parameter Help In interactive mode setting a parameter will display help text and information regarding the legal values for each parameter This information can be dumped for all parameters by specifying the h option The following is an example help text for the RSS parameter RSS Receive Side Scaling RSS scales receive processing over multiple CPU
5. Appendix A Error and Event Log Information gt lt 158 DE EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Additional Notes on Selected Error Codes These are error codes which may be seen more frequently than others or which indicate conditions that you might be able to solve by investigation and correction of issues in the SAN configuration Note The nomenclature of 0x is used as the prefix for the byte code fields because those byte codes are actually hex values Node Timeout Code 0xAA This event code indicates that a particular device has not been found if the message is logged during device discovery or that a particular device has been removed from the fabric If this message is seen determine if there is something wrong with the connection of that device to the SAN cables switches or switch ports status of the target device itself SCSI Command Error 0x9A and SCSI Check Condition code 0x9B Code 0x9A indicates that the SCSI command to a particular device was responded to with an error condition the target and LUN information along with the SCSI status are provided In the specific case of code 0x9B this code indicates that the device responded with the specific status of Check Condition the ASC ASCQ information provided in bytes 0x12 and 0x13 will allow you to find out what status is being reported by the target and determine if there is an action that can be performed to return the device to functional sta
6. MaxQueuePairCount 253 Figure 3 17 Resource Counts on a 2 Port 10Gb O0Ce14000 Series Adapter x PS C Users Administrator gt Get NetAdapterRdma ifdesc Emulex Format List Property MaxQuevePairCount MaxQuevePairCount 126 MaxQueuePairCount 26 MaxQueveParrCount MaxQueuePairCount Figure 3 18 Resource Counts on a 4 Port 10Gb O0Ce14000 Series Adapter SMB Direct does not take these adapter reported limits into consideration when creating SMB Direct connections because the driver may still get a request to create more QPs or memory regions than are supported Note OCe14000 series adapters will fail to create a memory region or QP if it exceeds the limits of what is supported The per port maximum active connections and the maximum passive connections cannot exceed the MaxQueuePairCount See Table 3 5 SMB Direct Active Connections Client Mode Per Port for OCe14000 Series Adapters on page 95 for more information Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration Q6 gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration For Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 all existing RDMA connections between the particular client server pair on which the failure occurred are torn down and recreated After a certain number of unsuccessful retries SMB traffic falls back to TCP IP The following event warning message is placed in the Windows System Log under the source be2net indicating the adapte
7. Note The RmaDepth driver parameter pertains to the functionality of the OneCommand Manager application Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued 3 Configuration 41 FC FCoE Driver Configuration Parameter ScanDown n Definitions If set to 0 lowest AL_PA lowest physical disk ascending AL_PA order If set to 1 highest AL_PA lowest physical disk ascending SEL_ID order Value 0 1 Default 1 Note This option applies to private loop only in DID mode Activation Requirement Reboot Adapter Protocol FC Only SLIMode n If set to 0 autoselect firmware use the latest firmware installed If set to 2 implies running the adapter firmware in SLI 2 mode If set to 3 implies running the adapter firmware in SLI 3 mode Value 0 2 and 3 Default 0 Reboot LightPulse Only SrbTimeout SrbTimeout limits the SRB timeout value to 60 seconds when set to 1 or enabled Thisisa non displayed parameter where it has to be set manually into the registry This option alters the I O timeout behavior where an 1 0 will be returned in a max timeout of 60 seconds on some long I O timeout If set to 1 enabled If set to 0 disabled Values 0 1 Default 0 Topology Topology values can be 0 to 3 If set to 0 0x0 FC AL If set to 1 0x1 PT PT fabric If set to 2 0x2 FC AL first
8. Registry Driver Registry Class of Service 802 1p 1 Auto Priority Pause Class of Service 802 1p 1 Auto Priority Pause Encapsulated Task Offload 1 Enabled Encapsulated Task Offload 1 Enabled Enhanced Transmission Selection 0 Disabled Enhanced Transmission Selection 0 Disabled Flow Control 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled Flow Control 0 Disabled IPv4 Checksum Offload 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled IPv4 Checksum Offload 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled Interrupt Moderation 4 Adaptive default Interrupt Moderation 4 Adaptive default Large Send Offload V1 IPv4 1 Enabled Large Send Offload V1 IPv4 1 Enabled Large Send Offload V2 IPv4 1 Enabled Large Send Offload V2 IPv4 Enabled Large Send Offload V2 IPv6 Enabled Large Send Offload V2 IPv6 Enabled Maximum Number of RSS Processors lt not set gt Maximum Number of RSS Processors lt not set gt Maximum Number of RSS Queues Maximum Maximum Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Number of RSS Queues RSS Processor Number lt not set gt P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Driver Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Regist
9. Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster operations See also Message 0703 Ipfc_mes0749 Abort task set complete Did x x SCSIId x x Description Severity Log Action Remark A task management has completed Warning LOG _FCP verbose Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster operations See also Message 0701 Link Log Messages 1302 1306 Ipfc_mes1302 Invalid speed for this board d forced link speed to auto Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The driver is re initializing the link speed to auto detect Warning LOG _ LINK EVENT verbose None required P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 138 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes1303 Link Up event tag x x link speed dG topology 0 Pt2Pt 1 AL d Description Severity Log Action Remarks A link up event was received It is also possible for multiple link events to be received together Error LOG _LINK EVENT verbose If numerous link events are occurring check physical connections to the FC network Ipfc_mes1304 is recorded if Map Entries gt 0 and the corresponding mode and SEVERITY level is set Ipfc_mes1305 Link down even tag x x Description Severity Log Action A link down event was received Error LOG _LINK EVENT verbose If numerous link events are occurring check physical connections to th
10. e Use the Port tab to view the available ports on the adapter e Configure a protocol to run on each partition on the ports e Configure the minimum and maximum bandwidth for each partition on the ports Open Device Manager by using one of the following options e Click Start gt Control Panel gt System and click the Device Manager hyperlink e Click Start gt Run then type lt devmgmt msc gt and click OK The Windows Device Manager is displayed see Figure 3 1 Select one of the Emulex NIC adapters right click on it and select Properties The NIC adapter driver Properties dialog box opens Click on the Multichannel tab Driver Details Events Resources Power Management __ General Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics Multichannel Mode Disabled id Factory Default PORT 0 PORT 1 PF Name P 0 Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 UX D 2 port PCle 10GbE CNA Figure 3 19 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Disabled Multichannel Property Page Field Definitions e Mode lists all possible multichannel technologies available on the selected adapter Use it to control multichannel mode selection for the entire adapter If Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 102 you select Disabled only the first PCI functions on each port are powered on and present None of the PCI function parameters can be chan
11. FCoE None Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SXG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 103 Multichannel Property Page with NPar Enabled Driver Details Events Resources Power Management General Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics Multichannel Mode NPar v Factory Defaut PORT 1 PORT2 Enabled PF Protocol bw BW Name ae o ic gt 00 _ Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 2 NIC 4 25 100 Emulex OneConnect 0Ce14102 NIC z 25 100 Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 E Ta 25 100 Emulex OneConnect OCe 14102 lt I NParEP Figure 3 20 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Enabled and NParEP Disabled When NPar is enabled on the Multichannel property page all PCI functions present on a port are listed on each Port tab Each row corresponds to a single PCI function and contains all PCI function parameters The following PCI function parameters are available e The Enabled column contains check boxes for each PCI function Select a check box to enable a PCI function The PCI function will appear in the Device Manager list when you reboot your system If a check box is cleared the PCI function is disabled and will be removed from the Device Manager list on system reboot e The PF column displays the PCI function number starting with 0 e The Protocol column specifies the current role of the PCI function You can
12. ProviderAddress 192 x x x MACAddress 060600000005 Rule TranslationMethodEncap New NetVirtualizationLookupRecord VirtualSubnetID 5001 CustomerAddress 10 0 0 7 ProviderAddress 192 x x x MACAddress 060600000007 Rule TranslationMethodEncap Add the customer route records for Blue subnet Get NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute where VirtualSubnetID eq 5001 Remove NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute New NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute RoutingDomainID 11111111 2222 3333 4444 000000005001 VirtualSubnetID 5001 DestinationPrefix 10 0 0 0 24 NextHop 0 0 0 0 Metric 255 EFE HEHEHE HEHEHE HEHEHE FE HH E HE FE HE HHH HE HE HE E HHH HE HE TE HE FE HE HE HE HE FE HE HE TE HE FE HE HE HE HE FE HE HE TE HE FE HE HE RH HE HE H R E HE E RRR A H EHHA ER HHH HEEE EHEHEH E HEE H HH EHH HHHH HH Red Virtual Network Information Rout ingDomainID 11111111 2222 3333 4444 000000006001 VirtualSubnetID 6001 Both RDID and VSID are defined by administrators MUST be unique in the datacenter Customer Addresses VM Name Host VSID CA PA MAC DefaultGw H te es tee pe creer Redl HOSEL 6001 10 0 0 5 192 x x x 08 08 00 00 00 05 10 0 0 1 Red2 Host2 6001 10 0 0 7 192 x x x 08 08 00 00 00 07 10 0 0 1 Customer Routes DestPrefix NextHopGW Note ee E E E E E E E N EEEE EEEE EEE EEEE E EEE 10 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 Onlink route for Red subnet Add the locator records for Red subnet Get NetVirtual
13. 3 Click Properties then click the Statistics tab Figure 3 3 on page 65 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 65 gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 4 From the list of properties select the property parameter you want to view Transmit Throughput Receive Throughput Transmit Bytes Receive Bytes Transmit Packet Rate Receive Packet Rate Transmit Packets Receive Packets RSS Receive Packets Receive How Control Pause Requests TCP Offloads Currently Established TCP Offloads TCP Offload Retransmits TCP Offload Receive Drops TCP Offload Transmit Rate TCP Offload Receive Rate VMQs Allocated Interrupt Rate Receive Drops No Memory DMA limited Receive aaments ICP I limite C Drones Na Franamen Figure 3 3 NIC Statistics Properties in Windows Server 2008 Table 3 4 NIC Driver Properties Statistics Statistic Name Description Transmit Throughput The data rate for this adapter on the network including all packet headers It is expressed in terms of bits sec where 1 byte 8 bits This is computed as the average over approximately 3 seconds Receive Throughput The receive rate for this adapter Transmit Bytes The total number of bytes transmitted by this adapter since the last statistics reset or the last driver reload Receive Bytes The total number of bytes received by this adapter Transmit Packet Rate
14. By default this creates two RDMA connections per SMB Direct enabled network interface on a particular server Each SMB Direct connection maps to an RDMA queue pair Both the client and server must negotiate support for SMB Direct If available each TCP connection is offloaded to an RDMA queue pair CAS C Users fdninistrator gt netstat xan Active NetworkDirect Connections Listeners SharedEndpoints Mode IfIndex Type Local Address Foreign Address Kernel 26 Connection 26 7116 749281 26 2 1681 445 Kernel 26 Connection 20 20 71661 445 Kernel 26 Listener fded e692 8d6a 9cHe 261 445 NA Kernel 26 Listener 26 2 118 26 1 445 NA Kernel 26 Listener 20 2 0 110 445 NA Kernel 25 Listener fe80 74 2 aa4d2 5734 b2dax251 445 NA Kernel 25 Listener 26 1 116 25 1 445 NA Kernel 25 Listener 20 1 0 110 445 NA Figure 3 12 SMB Share Two RDMA Connections Per RDMA Enabled Network Interface The PowerShell command Get NetAdapterStatistics shows the RDMA Statistics which indicate the number of failed connection attempts Windows PowerShell opyright C 2013 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved PS F Users Administrator gt Get NetAdapterStatistics Name ReceivedBy Ethernet 14 77 Ethernet 15 569005 Figure 3 13 Get NetAdapterStatistics SMB Multichannel For each SMB session SMB multichannel establishes two SMB Direct connections to a particular server by default It also makes use of multiple RDMA cap
15. DHCP Recommendations seeesseeeeseeees 177 Vendor Specific Option 43 ccc cc cccccce cece eee e eee eee ee eee een eee Ee eat EEE EE EES 177 Format of Vendor Specific Option 43 ccccccccee este esses eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaneennaes 177 Description of Mandatory and Optional Parameters sssssssssrrrrrerrrrerrrrrrrrrere 178 Appendix C Port Speed Specifications ssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 180 Negotiating Speed on a Mezzanine Card sssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 180 Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File ParameterS ssssssssssssunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnn 181 AParg Driver Kit Parameter and Appending to the APinstall exe File ssssssssssssss 181 AutoPilot Installer SyntaX icriri sssrinin aaa 182 Path SpecifierS sssssssssrnuusesssrrrrrrrrtt ttan r rnrn rtrt arrr r rrr E rnt Errar rr rrr Er rnnt 182 Configuration File Location is ciesbicisctiawicieisbeamoctivspaebcadsseereriarseerercetehs 183 Software Configuration Parameter S cccccecceceseeseeeeeeeeeesaeensaneesantesanes 183 DiagEnable Running Diagnostics cccecceee cece cece eee eeeeeeueeseteseeeeeeeneeanenas 183 ForceDriverTypeChange Forcing a Driver Type Change ecceeeeee eee re 183 ForceDriverUpdate Forcing a Driver Version Update ccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeees 183 ForceRegUpdate Forcing an Update of an Existing Driver Parameter Value 184
16. Ethernet and TOE o Configuring NIC driver options o SR IOV o Configuring NVGRE o Configuring RoCE supporting SMB Direct o Configuring Multichannel o Configuring NIC partitioning NPAR for Dell only o Tuning network driver performance iSCSI o Configuring iSCSI driver options o Creating non bootable targets o Configuring Multipath I O A NIC teaming package driver and manager are also available as a separate download The user manual OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual is available for download as well See the Emulex website for more information Compatibility For a list of adapters that are compatible with this driver see the driver s Downloads page on the Emulex website For compatible firmware versions see the Downloads page for the specific adapter Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt lt EMULEX 1 Introduction 13 Abbreviations Operating System Requirements One of Notes the following operating systems must be installed on an x64 server Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 versions Enterprise and Server Core installation Note The Microsoft patch KB2846340 must be installed on your system in order for the NIC installation to be successful If the patch is not installed on your system the installation stops and asks you to install it This patch from Microsoft s Knowledge Base kb is available f
17. Param2 value answer n DriverParameter Paraml value Param2 value Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX AutoPilot Configuration File nee Example of STORPORT CONFIGURATION section STORPORT CONFIGURATION The first section contains the driver parameters common to all configurations no matter what answers are given DriverParameter EmulexOption 0 QUESTIONS question What is your link speed Note select Auto detect if you are unsure about the answer 4GB 2GB 1GB Auto detect ANSWER 0 DriverParameter LinkSpeed 4 4 GB ANSWER 1 DriverParameter LinkSpeed 2 2 GB ANSWER 2 DriverParameter LinkSpeed 1 1 GB ANSWER 3 DriverParameter LinkSpeed 0 Auto detect question Describe the topology of your storage network Note Select Arbitrated Loop when directly connected to the array no fibre switch Select Point to Point when connected to a SAN fibre switch Arbitrated Loop Point to Point ANSWER 0 DriverParameter Topology 2 ANSWER 1 DriverParameter Topology 3 ENDQUESTIONS END STORPORT CONFIGURATION QFE Checks STORPORT QFES This section specifies an additional QFE check also known as KB Knowledge Base updates during installation To add a Windows QFE check to the configuration file edit the
18. PowerShell uses these registry values to report capabilities with the result that the registry values may not always reflect what is supported in the current configuration The default settings can be modified through the Driver Properties page standard PowerShell commands and utilities like occfg for more information on occfg see Using OCCFG for Windows NIC Driver Options on page 68 Standard PowerShell Get NetAdapter commands behave in the following manner e Ifthe feature is currently enabled the driver reports its current capabilities PowerShell reports all of the feature capabilities based on what the driver indicates These are guaranteed to be what the NIC supports in the current configuration e If the feature is not enabled the driver does not report any current capabilities At that point PowerShell searches the registry for keys related to the feature and reports their values These are either the default values INF or the last configured user values if overwritten by the user Default values are only intended as maximum upper bounds they are not guaranteed resources supported in every configuration Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 45 gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration As a result the driver can only report a feature s current capabilities accurate for the present configuration if the feature is currently enabled However standard PowerShell commands
19. Remote port sent BA_RJT OxA CT Command Response Codes Codes that indicate the response to a FC Common Transport protocol command Table A 6 CT Command Response Codes Explanation Code FC Common Transport Reject 0x8001 FC Common Transport Accept 0x8002 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX FC CT Reject Reason Codes Appendix A Error and Event Log Information FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Codes that indicate the reason a CT command was rejected Table A 7 FC CT Reject Reason Codes Explanation Code Invalid command code 0x01 Invalid version level 0x02 Logical busy 0x05 Protocol error 0x07 ELS Command Codes FC protocol codes that describe what particular Extended Link Services command was sent Table A 8 ELS Command Codes Explanation Code Link Service Reject LS_RJT 0x01 Accept ACC 0x02 N_Port Login PLOGI 0x03 Fabric Login FLOGI 0x04 N_Port Logout LOGO 0x05 Process Login PRLI 0x20 Process Logout PRLO 0x21 Discover F_Port Service Params FDISC 0x51 Discover Address ADISC 0x52 Register State Change Notify RSCN 0x61 SCSI Status Codes The SCSI status returned from a SCSI device which receives a SCSI command Table A 9 SCSI Status Codes Explanation Code GOOD 0x00 CHECK CONDITION 0x02 BUSY 0x08 RESERVATION CONFLICT 0x18 QUEUE FULL 0x28 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P01
20. The acceptable value is Win2008 For example STORPORT QFES qfe QFE 83896 system32 drivers storport sys 5 2 1390 176 Win2008 Setting Up FC Driver Parameters STORPORT PARAMS This section specifies driver parameters Parameters are read exactly as they are entered and are written to the registry To change driver parameters modify this section of the AutoPilot configuration file Locate the STORPORT PARAMS section in the AutoPilot configuration file This section follows Optional Configuration File Changes Under the STORPORT PARAMS heading list the driver parameters and new values for the driver to use For example Driver Parameter LinkTimeout 45 See Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters on page 35 for a listing of driver parameters defaults and valid values Setting Up System Parameters SYSTEM PARAMS To change the system parameters create a SYSTEM PARAMS section in the APInstall cfg file Create this section under the Optional Configuration File Changes heading in the AUTOPILOT CONFIG section For example you can adjust the operating system s global disk timeout The timeout is stored in the registry under the key HKML CurrentControlSet Services disk and is specified with the following string TimeOutValue 0x3C where the number is the timeout value in seconds Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix D AutoPilot Inst
21. and only receives packets with the matching VLAN tag Notes e This property should not be used when the Emulex Teaming Driver is enabled In that case VLAN configuration should be performed in the Teaming Driver application e This property should not be used with Hyper V In that case the Microsoft Hyper V Manager should be used to configure VLANs on each virtual machine Wake on LAN Enabled default Disabled Notes For Windows Server 2012 inbox drivers Wake on LAN is disabled by default and not overwritten on driver updates Wake on LAN is disabled by default on 0Ce10102 series adapters Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Note For 0Ce11102 only Enabling Wake on LAN allows the network device to wake up the computer when a magic packet is received during standby In Blade server configurations Wake On Lan is only supported on two primary adapters per device Additional PCI functions appear disabled Configuring Windows Server NIC Driver Parameters The Windows Server NIC drivers support driver options through the Advanced Property page in Windows Device Manager Modifying Advanced Properties Modify the advanced properties for the driver for Windows with the Windows Device Manager For more information on advanced properties see Network Driver Performance Tuning on page 107 To modify the
22. compound TCP direct attached storage Data Center Bridging Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol deferred procedure call Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol destination ID dual in line memory module discover discovery node count direct memory access domain name server device specific module extended link service extended time out enhanced transmission selection file area network Fibre Channel Fibre Channel arbitrated loop Fibre Channel over Ethernet Fibre Channel Protocol Discover F_Port Service Params Fabric Device Management Interface fabric login firmware Generation 2 PCle get port identifiers General Service Interface graphical user interface host bus adapter hexadecimal Internet Control Message Protocol Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers iSCSI Enterprise Target interrupts Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual 1 Introduction Abbreviations P010077 01A Rev A 14 gt EMULEX I O IOCTL iocb IOMMU IP IPL IP NAT IPSec IPv4 IPv6 iSCSI iSNS IQN KB LACP LAN LBFO LDTO LOGO LRO LSO LS_RJT LUN MAC MMC MPIO MSI MSS MTU N A NAS NAT NDIS NIC NPar NPIV NTFS 1 Introduction 15 Abbreviations Input Output Input Output control input output control block input output memory management unit internet protocol initial program load IP network address translation IP Security protocol Internet Protocol version 4 Internet Protocol
23. only one can be installed on a system To perform a software first installation 1 Run AutoPilot Installer using one of the two options listed in Running a Software Installation Interactively on page 21 The warning in Figure 2 1 appears AutoPilot Installer Warning f AutoPilot Installer cannot find any Emulex adapters in this system AutoPilot Installer can perform a driver pre installation allowing you to install your adapters later Click OK to pre install drivers or click Cancel to stop the installation i Cancel Figure 2 1 AutoPilot Installer Warning Software First Installation 2 Click OK A Welcome page appears 3 Click Next The installation automatically progresses Once the installation is completed successfully the Finish dialog box appears 4 View or print a report if desired e View Installation Report The installation report is a text file with current Emulex adapter inventory configuration information and task results e Print Installation Report The Windows print dialog box is displayed to select options for printing the installation report 5 Click Finish to exit the AutoPilot Installer Text Only Driver Installation Text based installation mode is used automatically when the driver kit installer runs on a server with the Server Core installation option of Windows Server During text based installations AutoPilot Installer uses a command prompt window The driver kit installer no
24. the number of seconds to wait after link up before starting port discovery Value 0 2 seconds decimal Default 0 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Dynamic P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued 3 Configuration 37 FC FCoE Driver Configuration Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol DriverTraceMask The DriverTraceMask parameter is only available Dynamic on operating systems that support extended system event logging If set to 0 the parameter is disabled If set to 1 error events logging is enabled If set to 4 warning events logging is enabled If set to 8 informational events logging is enabled The values can be masked to generate multi levels of events logging Values 0 1 4 and 8 Default 0 EnableAckO n Set to 1 to force sequence rather than frame level Reset FC only acknowledgement for class 2 traffic over an exchange This applies to FCP data exchanges on IREAD and IWRITE commands Value 0 1 decimal Default 1 EnableAUTH EnableAUTH enables fabric authentication This Reboot FC only up to and parameter requires the authentication to be including 8 Gb supported by the fabric Authentication is enabled when this value is set to 1 Value 0 1 Default 0 EnableFDMI n If set to 1 enables management server login on Reset fabric discovery This allows FDMI to operate on switches that have FDMI
25. 11 entry in the system event log The following is an example of the iSCSI driver error code 0x11800003 viewed with the Event Viewer application The window shows the driver generated error code in the fifth DWORD offset 0x10 of the word dump Note To improve the visibility of the error code in the Data field of the Event Properties window select the Words option Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log lE Computer Management Eee AE J Ble Adon yew Window tep lejxi e Ope OB e2 By Computer Management Loca on tec ergs E ih System Toots CD Error RO MIAA bedes tone 1 nA SERVEREN n SHE Event Viewer Bere ILIRO 11 923 bedrot Neen WA SERVEREN SH Aopaication Girrens 1 13 2000 11 39 23 bedret tenn 1 KA SERVEREN Seouky Bwoerieg MLIO 1197 23 bedrot Neon es KA SERVEREN U System Deri ALIRO 11I bedene fone KA SERVEREN Gy Shared Foksers Ca pte ee i i WA SERVEREN SQ iaduascdcos Tn td faye SERVEREN E Gi Performance Logs and Alert 4 A SENER A Device Manager Evert wa VEREN 5 fig Roope 3 WA SERVEREM HGP Removable Storage d Dye Source be csi t N NA SERVEREN Cisk Oefragnerker I Tine IIRHAH Category None 7035 SYSTEM SERVEREN Deck Mangement d tye Ena Evert D 11 _ K NA SERVEREN Ea Services and Appkcations S Uee NA Ra GS SYSTEM SERVEREN lt Comp
26. 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x34 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to a bad opcode firmware If this message is unexpected please in the PDU header check the iSCSI configuration 0x35 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to a received _ firmware If this message is unexpected please ITT TTT that did not belong to check the iSCSI configuration this connection 0x36 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received firmware If this message is unexpected please ITT TTT value was greater check the iSCSI configuration than the maximum supported ITTs TTTs 0x37 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to an incoming firmware If this message is unexpected please TCP RST check the iSCSI configuration 0x38 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to TCP protocol firmware If this message is unexpected please warning SYN received check the iSCSI configuration maximum retransmits exceeded urgent received etc 0x39 Warning Connection was invali
27. 3 Configuration 79 gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 3 Open the Network Adapters item find the Emulex device and right click Select Properties from the context menu The Properties dialog box opens showing the Driver page The Driver page contains the driver version number General Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics Driver Details Events Resources Power Management Aii Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 1 NIC TOE lt 2 a Driver Provider Emulex Driver Date 2 15 2012 Driver Version 0 0 9999 3417 Digital Signer Emulex To view details about the driver files Update Driver To update the driver software for this device Roll Back Driver I the device fails after updating the driver roll eee back to the previously installed driver Disables the selected device Uninstall To uninstall the driver Advanced Figure 3 5 Emulex NIC Driver Properties Page 4 Click Driver Details A window opens displaying the driver name Enabling SR IOV in the Emulex Device To enable SR IOV in the Emulex device 1 Select Server Manager gt Dashboard gt Tools gt Computer Management 2 Click Device Manager The Device Manager opens See Figure 3 4 on page 78 3 Open the Network Adapters item find the Emulex device and right click Select Properties from the context menu The Properties dialog box opens See Figure 3 5 4 Click the Advanced tab The Advanced Property Configuration pa
28. AE EE AE E EATE AAE AAE AEEA 120 Logging into Targets for Multipath Support sssssssssssssssssseererrererrrererrrerrerrere 121 Maximum Transmission Unit MTU for iSCSI Connections i 122 iSCSI Error Handl igri a cacelss cca ecdenuemeank ennne co oceearesenacdunseseeucdearesauten 122 Configuring LDTO and ETO on the Windows Servelr cceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeatens 123 Error Handling Under MultiPath MPIO and Cluster Configurations 008 123 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Table of Contents gt EMULEX 4 TTOUBIESHOOUNG hisiiserectisin ior Lee General Troubleshooting ssssssssunnnnnnnnnsnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 124 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver sssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 124 Troubleshooting the Cisco Nexus Switch Configuration ceeeee eee eee eee 124 Event Trace MeSSagES rrisnin oyo en ao E AS E S a 125 ELS Log Messages 0100 0130 ssssssssssssssrssrrresrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrerrr 125 Discovery Log Messages 0202 0262 seeseserrrrrrrrrrerrn rreren ereenn 128 Mailbox Log Messages 0310 0326 ccccccceceeee eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeateaeteseteeeeenneeaes 131 INIT Log Messages 0400 0463 eerren 132 FCP Log Messages 0701 0749 0 cece cece cece ete erent eee nes 134 Link Log Messages 1302 1306 0 cece cece eee nett e tees 137 Tag Messages 1400 1401
29. DWORD Value lt n gt Force SMB multichannel constraints can be used to limit an SMB connection to specific network interfaces For example if you have a 1Gb interface meant for a management path and one or more 10Gb interfaces meant for the RDMA traffic you can restrict the RDMA traffic to the faster 10Gb interfaces by setting SMB multichannel constraints You may specify SMB multichannel constraints on the SMB client by doing the following e Use only certain RDMA network interface s to access a particular server e Ensure that only ConnectionCountPerRdmaNetworkInterface connections are created per RDMA network interface to a given server The following figure Figure 3 15 shows that a multichannel constraint has been added to specify that only InterfaceIndex 25 should be used to connect to the server bench29client1 Two SMB Direct connections are established on the ROMA Network Interface with IfIndex 25 None are established on the other OCe14000 series adapter ports for example the RDMA Network Interface with IfIndex 26 20 2 0 110 Note On Windows Server 2012 depending on the path used to open the previous SMB sessions to the SMB server you may notice multiple instances of ConnectionCountPerRdmaNetworkInterface connections being created while establishing a single SMB session to the server Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration Q4 gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configurat
30. Driver Options on page 44 for the TCP Offload Optimization settings The default option is Optimize Throughput which produces the best throughput characteristics for certain types of traffic flows This configuration setting has produced the best results on benchmarks such as Chariot ntttcp and iperf The other available option Optimize Latency improves the latency characteristics for the class of traffic flows not ideally suited for offloading by sacrificing throughput These are applications that typically do not pre post receive buffers at a rate fast enough to keep up with the traffic flow causing the received data to be buffered until the application has pre posted a receive buffer Some applications intentionally are written this way to peek at incoming data to determine how large of a receive buffer to post The timings of such a usage semantic in some cases depending on factors such as CPU Memory performance line rates the sizes of the receive buffers and system loading at the time will result in no observable performance improvement It is recommend that you leave this parameter set to the default of Optimize Throughput Windows Networking and TOE If certain Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 networking features are enabled TOE does not operate as expected and connections are not offloaded Installing or activating firewall applications causes no connections to be offloaded by the Windows Server 2008
31. Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A sc Appendix E RoCE Switch Support 195 gt C EMULEX DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode match any Type queuing class maps class map type queuing class fcoe match qos group 1 class map type queuing class roce match qos group 5 class map type queuing class default match qos group 0 Type network qos class maps class map type network qos class fcoe match qos group 1 class map type network qos class roce match qos group 5 class map type network qos class default match qos group 0 Sample Policy maps for RoCE on a Cisco Switch Note Not all switch settings are shown Type qos policy maps policy map type qos class roce class type qos class roce set qos group 5 class type qos class fcoe set qos group 1 class type qos class default set qos group 0 policy map type qos class rocenofcoe class type qos class roce set qos group 5 class type qos class default set qos group 0 Type queuing policy map policy map type queuing class roce90 class type queuing class roce Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A sc Appendix E RoCE Switch Support 196 gt C EMULEX DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode bandwidth percent 90 class type queuing class default bandwidth percent 10 Type network qos policy maps policy map type network qos class rocenofcoe class type network qos class roce pause no drop mtu 420
32. Error Log Entries on Windows Server 2008 c ccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeee eens 165 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Fc ictvcrnaswacgatuatciceceatenceiedeatecactacuedeveseeitevest 168 Data String Parameters for Option 43 ccccccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeenes 178 Negotiated Speed Specification per Adapter Port Connection 00cce0e 180 Unattended Installation Error CodesS cccccccesseceeeeeseesesetessneesannenas 190 11 XC EMULEX 1 Introduction 12 Driver Information 1 Introduction Driver Information This product supports the Emulex OneConnect family of universal converged network adapters UCNAs and the Emulex LightPulse family of host bus adapters HBAs and converged fabric adapters CFAs The Windows drivers support the following protocols Note Fibre Channel FC FC over Ethernet FCoE Ethernet NIC which includes the TCP Offload Engine TOE Internet Small Computer System Interface iSCSI RDMA over Converged Internet RoCE for the OCe14000 series adapters TOE is not supported on OCe14000 series and LPe16202 adapters This document explains how to install the Windows drivers on your system and configure the drivers capabilities based on the supported networking protocols FC and FCoE o Configuring the FC FCoE driver parameters o Improving server performance with FC FCoE drivers
33. STORPORT QFES section in the AutoPilot configuration file You may place this section anywhere within the file as long as it is not contained within another section This section contains a single line for each QFE that is to be checked Up to 10 lines are checked more than that may exist but they are ignored All parameters in each line must be specified These lines have the format qfe qfe name path and file name file version applicable OS n qfe name The name of the item being checked For example QFE 2846340 The name should facilitate searching Microsoft s website for any required code updates Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX AutoPilot Configuration File 189 path and file This string identifies the file to be checked and its location relative name to the Windows home folder In most cases the file to check is the Microsoft Storport driver for example system32 drivers storport sys This string is also used in dialogs and log file messages file version This is the minimum version that the file to be checked must have for the QFE to be considered installed It is specified as a text string using the same format as is used when displaying the files property sheet For example 5 2 1390 176 applicable OS This is used to determine if the QFE applies to the operating system platform present
34. The rate of transmit packets for the adapter Receive Packet Rate The rate of receive packets for the adapter Transmit Packets The total number of packets transmitted by the adapter since the last statistics reset or the driver was reloaded Receive Packets The total number of packets received This includes both RSS and non RSS packets Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 66 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 4 NIC Driver Properties Statistics Continued Statistic Name RSS Receive Packets Description The number of receive packets that were suitable for RSS Transmit Flow Control Pause Requests The number of times the network adapter sent a PAUSE frame to request that the peer stop sending data temporarily This indicates a potential bottleneck in the system Typically this bottleneck is the result of the DMA of packets from the adapter to host memory Receive Flow Control Pause Requests The number of times the network adapter received a PAUSE frame from the peer This indicates a potential bottleneck in the attached switch or network peer device This statistic only increments when the switch is correctly configured for flow control TCP Offloads Current Established The current number of TCP connections offloaded to the adapter s TOE TCP Offloads The total number of TCP connections that have been offloaded since the last statisti
35. V Manager by e Creating the virtual switch e Creating each virtual NIC See Microsoft documentation for more information Note Make sure SR IOV is enabled on the server and on the Emulex adapter prior to configuring the Hyper V virtual switch The Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Servers treat SR IOV as an offload an active active team with virtual function and an emulated adapter That means each Emulex SR IOV adapter is accompanied by a fully functional emulated NIC The emulated NIC is named Microsoft Virtual Network Adapter and the TCP IP stack is only bound to this device Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration s Once the Emulex driver is loaded the Emulex SR IOV virtual function is used for all unicast receive and transmit traffic The emulated NIC handles multicast and broadcast traffic If SR IOV is disabled the Emulex adapter is removed from the virtual machine and all traffic automatically uses the emulated NIC This technology allows Live Migration of Virtual Machines when using SR IOV Note If multiple adapters are added to the virtual machine Emulex recommends using MAC addresses to map the Emulex Network adapter to the corresponding Microsoft Virtual Network adapters Verifying SR IOV When SR IOV is working it can be verified by opening the Device Manager within the virtual machine and examining the information about th
36. appears Select the drivers and application that you want to install and click Next A progress screen appears while the Onelnstall installer loads the selected drivers and applications When the drivers and application software are loaded an Installation completed screen appears Click Finish Driver Kit Installer Each driver kit contains and loads all the Windows drivers for a specific protocol and includes ElxPlus e FC driver package elxdrvr fc lt version gt exe e FCoE driver package elxdrvr fcoe lt version gt exe e iSCSI driver package elxdrvr iscsi lt version gt exe e NIC RoCE driver package elxdrvr nic lt version gt exe Note Updating the NIC protocol driver may temporarily disrupt operation of any NIC teams configured on the system Loading the Driver Kit The driver kit copies the selected Emulex drivers and applications onto your computer Note This procedure does not install drivers and no driver changes are made until you run the AutoPilot Installer To load the driver kit 1 2 3 4 Download the driver kit from the Emulex website to your system Double click to run the driver kit The Emulex Kit Welcome page opens Click Next The Installation Options page opens Select one or both of the following options Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation gt G EMULEX AutoPilot Installer 20 e Perform Installation of Software copies the driver
37. be retried again It may also indicate a firmware error Following this error log entry the next entry will indicate the session handle and the firmware error code 0x12990013 The iscsi driver did not receive an e Verify that the iSCSI target is certified by iSCSI command window update within Microsoft Check for errors reported at the 25 seconds during I O operations target The Emulex iSCSI UCNA is only Following this error log entry the next supported with certified targets entry will indicate the session handle e Check for software updates at the target where this error occurred The iSCSI vendor s website If applicable update the driver will trigger a session recovery software on the session and continue Check for software updates at the Emulex website If applicable update the software 0x127b0012 The iSCSI driver received an invalid e Verify that the iSCSI target is certified by iSCSI Command Sequence Number Microsoft Check for errors reported at the update from the target Following this target The Emulex iSCSI UCNA is only error log entry the next three entries supported with certified targets will indicate the session handle and e Check for software updates at the target the iSCSI parameters MaxCmdSN and vendor s website If applicable update the ExpCmdSN respectively software e Check for software updates at the Emulex website If applicable update the software 0x12790006 Aconnection to the target was lost for Check t
38. d Description Severity Log Action Remark See Also The FCP command failed with a response error Warning LOG _FCP verbose Check the state of the target in question lpfc_mes0716 lpfc_mes0734 lpfc_mes0736 or lpfc_mes0737 is also recorded for more details if the corresponding SEVERITY level is set Ipfc_mes0729 Ipfc_mes0734 Read Check fcp_parm x x Residual x Description Severity Log Action See Also The issued FCP command returned a Read Check Error Warning LOG _FCP verbose Check the state of the target in question Ipfc_mes0730 Ipfc_mes0737 SCSI check condition SenseKey x x ASC x x ASCQ x x SrbStatus x x Description Severity Log Action See Also Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The issued FCP command resulted in a Check Condition Warning LOG FCP verbose Review SCSI error code values Ipfc_mes0730 P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 137 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0747 Target reset complete PathId x x Targetld x x Did x x Description Severity Log Action Remark A target reset operation has completed Warning LOG _FCP verbose Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster operations See also Message 0713 Ipfc_mes0748 Lun reset complete Pathlid x Targetld x x Lun x x Description Severity Log Action Remark A LUN reset operation has completed Warning LOG _FCP verbose
39. data Optional digest is disabled lt AuthenticationType gt D authentication is disabled E one way CHAP is Optional Examples enabled the user name and secret must be specified by non DHCP means or M mutual CHAP is enabled the user name and passwords must be specified by non DHCP means D is the default setting The following is an example of default initiator name and data digest settings iscsi 192 168 0 2 3261 000000000000000E ign 2009 4 com 12345 67890 E e Target IP address 192 168 0 2 e Target TCP port 3261 e Target boot LUN 0x0E e Target iqn name iqn 2009 04 com 1234567890 e Initiator name Not specified Use the initiator name that is already configured or use the default name if no initiator name is already configured e Header digest Enabled e Data digest Not specified assume disabled e Authentication type One way CHAP Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix B Configuring iSCSI through DHCP 179 gt lt EMULEX Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Recommendations The following is an example of default TCP port and mutual CHAP settings iscsi 192 168 0 2 000000000000000E ign 2009 4 com 1234567890 E D M e Target IP address 192 168 0 2 e Target TCP port Use default from RFC 3720 3260 e Target boot LUN 0x0E e Target iqn name iqn 2009 04 com 1234567890 e Initiator name Not specified Use the initiator name t
40. drivers on my computer and click Next 8 Select the network adapter that matches your hardware and click Have Disk 9 Direct the Device Wizard to the location of be2nd6x inf If you have installed the driver installer kit in the default folder the path is C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer NIC Drivers NDIS x64 Win2008 10 Click OK The Windows Security dialog box opens 11 Click Install Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX 2 Installation 30 Removing Emulex Driver Kits and Drivers 12 When the device driver finishes installing click Close The driver installation is completed The driver should start automatically Windows Server 2012 1 Select Server Manager gt Dashboard gt Tools gt Computer Management gt Device Manager Note Server Manager is set to open by default when booting Windows Server 2012 If it does not open automatically you can open it with the Server Manager icon at the bottom left of the screen Open the Network Adapters item Double click the desired Emulex adapter Select the Driver tab Click Update Driver The Update Driver wizard starts Click Browse my computer for driver software Ano PF wn Note The driver affects only the selected adapter If there are other adapters in the system you must repeat this process for each adapter All dual channel adapter models are displayed in the Device Manager as two adapters therefore you must update each a
41. e Use send and receive buffers that are larger than 128 Kb with an efficient application such as ntttcp e Disable RSS and use an interrupt filter driver Experiment with all relative CPU affinities to find the best combination e Disable timestamps and SACK because the test should run without dropping any packets Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 117 gt EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration e Unbind unused network protocols in the Network Connections property page e Disable any firewall services IPSEC or NAT iSCSI Driver Configuration Table 3 12 lists the user configurable iSCSI driver options available on Windows Server It includes a description of the parameters their default values and their configuration limits Note Ifthe value given for a parameter is outside the supported range the driver logs an error in the Event Log and continues to load by using the parameter s default value Configuring iSCSI Driver Options The OneConnect Windows iSCSI driver parameters can be configured using the Advanced tab of the Device Manager Property Page To modify a configuration parameter 1 Select the Emulex OneConnect iSCSI CNA in the Windows Device Manager under Storage Controllers 2 Right click and select Properties The Device Manager Property page opens 3 Select the Advanced tab and make appropriate changes to the parameter as required 4 Reboot the system for the cha
42. en veseverstreceeresesrecasi ue eadins 34 Server Performance with FC Drivers sscescucevieceseaneslaxeesanteradersanedesadveasee sects 42 I O Coalescing iciteecuss ranae ra bes wed oonne eer a AK bie Hed Ea PEERKE EA 42 Performance Testing cccccc eee eee eee e eee e eee eee ttt ttt ttt eee eee EEE SEES SEE SDE E SEES EEE EEE EES 43 NIC Driver CONTI QUIALION sic ciccndcncecapretadeti cca ieumetariaieseieieebemeeeeaeeeeeadeiees 44 Configuring NIC Driver Options cccccccsececee eee eee ee eee eee ee eaeeesaeeeeneteeaeneennns 44 Advisory PowerShell Behavior cccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeateeatecateeeeegnesanenas 44 Considerations for Using UMC and NIC c ccc ece eee e eee rieren rererere 45 Configuring Windows Server NIC Driver Parametels cccccesee esse esse eeeeeeennees 62 Modifying Advanced Properties cece cece en nen nent eee ened 62 Statistics Property Page scciiceccvidevage calcul niini er nako i ea bbewed yh de thee ahi ae ee 64 Using OCCFG for Windows NIC Driver Options ccccccceeeceeeeeeeee seen essen ee ene ees 68 Displaying OCCFG Help 00 ented 68 Selecting an Adapter vas iscciiescduaase dered caskets aes eh eee ihande ye paw heed yh oe the ea apie ae eo 70 Configuring Device ParaMeters cccccecc cee eee tesa eeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeesetseeeeeneeeneeges 70 Viewing Device Parameters cece cet eer trees 71 Resetting All Parameters vinccntedieatid aveadatuteati
43. for the OCe14000 series Adapters Network virtualization using NVGRE is a network virtualization method that uses encapsulation and tunneling to create large numbers of VLANs for subnets that can extend across dispersed data centers and layer 2 the data link layer and layer 3 the network layer The purpose is to enable multi tenant and load balanced networks that can be shared across on premises and cloud environments NVGRE was designed to solve issues caused by the limited number of VLANs that the IEEE 802 1Q specification enables which are inadequate for complex virtualized environments and make it difficult to stretch network segments over the long distances required for dispersed data centers Setup Prerequisites Hardware Resources e Two host servers e Virtual Machines two per Hyper V host recommended e One 10GbE or 40GbE Ethernet Switch e Two OCe14000 series adapters 1 per host server Software Resources e Windows Server 2012 with Hyper V e Windows Server 2012 on the Virtual Machines e Add and Remove PowerShell Policy Scripts for each host server 1 On the Hyper V hosts and peer change the execution policy to allow PowerShell scripts to run e Set Execution Policy unrestricted Force e Run HostRegedit run this once on the Hyper V host only This sets the registry key to use VMQs and allows remote PowerShell scripts to be run on the host 2 Set up non blank administrator passwords on the peer to run remote PowerShell
44. gt G EMULEX Emulex Drivers Version 10 2 for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Emulex Connects Servers Storage and People gt EMULEX Copyright 2003 2014 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide No part of this document may be reproduced by any means or translated to any electronic medium without the prior written consent of 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 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 this manual 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 E
45. hardware By default the driver implements an interrupt moderation scheme that is based on the I O load and the interrupt rate The default setting for im_policy tries to vary the interrupt rate between 3500 to 10000 interrupts per second In addition the iSCSI driver allows other configuration settings as shown in Table 3 13 Table 3 13 im_policy Settings Parameter Value Setting Description im_policy 0 Disabled The Interrupt rate algorithm is turned off in the driver im_policy 1 Aggressive The highest interrupt rate im_policy 2 Moderate The default value im_policy 3 Conservative A lower interrupt rate than moderate im_policy 4 Very conservative The lowest interrupt rate While the default setting may work for most configurations there are instances when the setting may need to be altered The im_policy parameter setting should be based on the UCNA system configuration the number of iSCSI targets to be connected the I O load and the throughput and latency offered by these iSCSI targets On systems that are capable of sustaining a higher interrupt rate and on which the number of connected targets is low eight or fewer setting the im_policy to 1 results in lower latency and higher values of I O operations per second IOPs But this aggressive interrupt rate can also result in system stalls and freezes especially if queue depth values are high and I O requests are small In a configuration that involves a
46. iSCSI Connections Because the Emulex OneConnect UCNA is a multi function adapter the MTU settings for iSCSI functions are different than the ones for NIC functions For iSCSI there is no explicit way to configure MTU from the OneCommand Manager application Instead this value is auto negotiated by the firmware Before establishing a TCP connection for an iSCSI Login the iSCSI firmware issues an ICMP Echo with a large payload to the iSCSI target If Jumbo Frames has been enabled on all the switches leading to the target as well as on the target interface and if there is a successful ICMP Echo reply the iSCSI firmware uses Jumbo Frames for that connection The MTU used in this case is 8342 bytes If the large ping request is unsuccessful the firmware defaults to non jumbo mode and uses an MTU size of 1514 bytes The Max MTU value is displayed in the OneCommand Manager application for the iSCSI controller under the Port Information Tab on the Max MTU field The TCP MSS used for an active iSCSI connection is displayed in the OneCommand Manager application in the TargetSessions screen on the TCPMSS field iSCSI Error Handling The goal of iSCSI error handling is to be tolerant of link level and target level failures up to configured timeout values so that I O errors are not seen by the application or operating system The error handling is triggered under the following conditions e Loss of immediate link to the UCNA such as a cabl
47. improves packet steering performance by PCI prefetching adjacent header buffer into a cache when examining a packet Header buffers are continuous in physical memory since they belong to one pool For 0Ce11102 Lookahead split requires Advanced Mode Support and is enabled in the BIOS controller configuration Note Lookahead split is not supported for jumbo frames Virtual Machine Queues Transmit Enabled default Disabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Note For 0Ce11102 LPe16202 and 0Ce14000 series adapters only Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 If this option is enabled with VMQs separate transmit queues are created for each VM network interface Send and receive interrupts for a VM network interface are processed on the same CPUs Separate transmit queues increase system overall CPU utilization but offer greater system scalability P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 62 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name VLAN Identifier 802 1q Acceptable Values Not Present default 1 to 4094 Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition If selected the adapter adds a VLAN tag to all transmitted packets
48. installed the driver installer kit in the default folder the path is c Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer FC or FCoE Drivers Storport x64 HBA Click OK Select Emulex LightPulse LPX000 PCI Slot X Storport Miniport Driver your adapter model is displayed here Click Next Click Finish The driver installation has completed The driver should start automatically If the adapter is connected to a SAN or data storage device a blinking yellow light on the back of the adapter indicates a link up condition Installing or Updating the iSCSI Driver To update or install the iSCSI driver from the desktop OOo Oy OF ae Ne Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt System Select the Hardware tab Click Device Manager Open the SCSI and RAID Controllers item Double click the desired Emulex adapter Select the Driver tab Click Update Driver The Update Driver wizard starts Select No not this time Click Next on the Welcome to the Hardware Update Wizard window Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 29 gt lt EMULEX Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol Drivers Note The driver affects only the selected adapter If there are other adapters in the system you must repeat this process for each adapter All dual channel adapter models are displayed in Device Manager as two adapters therefore you must update each adapter 9 Select Install from a list or spec
49. is displayed c Select the Discover Multi Paths tab d Select Add support for iSCSI Devices and click Add 8 Reboot the system when prompted to do so After rebooting the Microsoft isCSI DSM claims all iSCSI discovered disks The MPIO GUI shows device id MSFT2005iSCSIBusType_0x9 under the MPIO Devices tab The Disk Manager does not show duplicate disks You can configure load balancing policies on the LUN from the Device Manager after you click the disk and select the MPIO tab Logging into Targets for Multipath Support After you have successfully installed and enabled MPIO support on a Windows Server you must log in to the target This section describes the steps to log into iSCSI targets through the WMI GUI For information on using the iSCSISelect utility to log into an iSCSI target see the Emulex Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual To log in to a target using WMI 1 Select the Enable multi path in the Log On to Target window This must be selected for every target to be logged in for MPIO Use the Advanced tab to select the specific adapter port to use for login 2 After the target login is complete select the target and click the Details or Properties button depending on the Windows operating system to see the multiple sessions connected Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 122 gt EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration Maximum Transmission Unit MTU for
50. kit for your operating system to your computer e Unpack All Drivers extracts all drivers to the current user s documents folder Select this option to perform boot from SAN installations The Operation in progress page shows the kit file loading progress When the kit files are loaded the Installation completed page opens 5 If you wish to continue with the installation ensure that Start AutoPilot Installer is checked Click Next AutoPilot Installer AutoPilot Installer runs after the driver kit is loaded and the OneCommand Manager application is installed AutoPilot Installer can install drivers e Immediately after the driver kit has been loaded e Ata later time using an interactive installation e Through an unattended installation AutoPilot Installer provides e Command line functionality Initiates an installation from a command prompt or script Configuration settings can be specified in the command line e Compatibility verification Verifies that the driver to be installed is compatible with the operating system and platform e Driver installation and update Installs and updates drivers e Multiple adapter installation capability Installs drivers on multiple adapters alleviating the need to manually install the same driver on all adapters in the system e Driver diagnostics Determines whether the driver is operating properly e Silent installation mode Suppresses all screen output necessary for unattend
51. line Displaying OCCFG Help To display help use the option by typing occfg on the command line The following text will be displayed OneConnect Network Config 0 0 9999 0 Copyright 2011 Emulex Usage occfg exe options Running with no arguments will display a menu to select the adapter and parameters to modify Using the command line arguments allow scripting this process Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Options a str str s name v name v g name name sE T filename L filename M module trace 3 Configuration 69 NIC Driver Configuration Selects all adapters with any of the given strings in the connection or device name If omitted occfg prompts for an adapter from a list Sets the parameter s value and reloads the devices Gets parameter value Skips reloading the driver when setting a parameter Force reloading the driver Force disabling the driver Force enabling the driver List available adapters and exit Saves tinylog to a binary file Loads a binary file and replays tinylog Reset all parameters to the default values Show all registry parameter values Show all driver parameter values Show help text for all parameters Show this help Continously downloads ARM log into a file level module trace Arguments set a specific trace level on listed level modules Default argument is all error Refer to ARM fir
52. on page 27 for this procedure Updating the Emulex PLUS ElxPlus Driver Note Only one instance of the ElxPlus driver should be installed even if you have multiple adapter ports installed in your system To update an existing ElxPlus driver from the desktop 1 10 11 12 Run the driver kit installer but do not run AutoPilot Installer See Running a Software Installation Interactively on page 21 for instructions on how to do this Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management Click Device Manager left pane Click the plus sign next to the Emulex PLUS class right pane to show the ElxPlus driver entry Right click the ElxPlus driver entry and select Update Driver from the menu Select No not this time Click Next on the Welcome to the Hardware Update Wizard window Click Next Select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next Select Don t Search I will choose the driver to install Click Have Disk and direct the Device Wizard to the location of the driver s distribution kit If you have installed the driver installer kit in the default folder the path is C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer Drivers Storport x64 Click OK Select Emulex PLUS Click Next to install the driver Click Finish The ElxPlus driver update is finished Continue with manual installation of the Storport Miniport Driver Installing or Updati
53. parameter The following are batch mode examples occfg a emulex g Interrupt Moderation occfg a Local Area Connection g interrupt rss Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 I NIC TOE Local Area Connection Registry Interrupt Moderation 4 Adaptive Default Driver Interrupt Moderation 4 Adaptive Default Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 I NIC TOE Local Area Connection Registry RSS 0 Disable Driver RSS 0 Disable Resetting All Parameters Resetting all parameters will restore the default values for each adapter This is accomplished by using the command occfg a emulex x Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Displaying All Parameters 3 Configuration 72 NIC Driver Configuration To display the current value of all parameters use either p or q command line options This shows the registry value or driver value of the parameter or both when using pq together For example occfg exe a SLOT 5 Port 1 pq OneConnect Network Config Copyright 2011 Emulex 10 2 164 0 Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 UX D 2 port PCIe 10GbE CNA SLOT 5 Port 1 Display all properties Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver
54. select NIC iSCSI or FCoE Depending on the protocols supported by the adapter one of the following selections appears o NIC the NIC personality implies that all the enabled functions provide NIC functionality o iSCSI FCoE the iSCSI and FCoE personalities are enabled on one function per adapter port and include NIC functionality on the other enabled functions There can be only one storage protocol on each port o None the None selection allows you to disable that particular function e The bw column lists the minimum bandwidth that a PCI function can use as a percentage of the total port bandwidth Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 104 e The BW column lists the maximum bandwidth that a PCI function can use as a percentage of the total port bandwidth e The Name column provides a friendly device name if possible Otherwise it is a device name or a generic operating system device class name e NParEP enables NParEP See Using NParEP on page 104 for more information Criteria for Making PCI Function Modifications e The first PCI function on each port cannot be disabled e The sum of the minimum bandwidth values of every enabled PCI function must be 100 e A minimum bandwidth of 0 is acceptable which means that the partition does not have a guaranteed bandwidth assigned e The minimum bandwidth cannot be greater than the
55. sending subsequent packets as the driver waits for more data from the application to append to the packet An application can disable Nagling using the TCP_NO_DELAY parameter TCP offload does not improve the performance for connections that Nagle because the performance is intentionally limited by the Nagling algorithm Telnet and SSH consoles are examples of connections that typically use Nagling Windows Server has not optimized the connection offload path Some applications that use numerous short lived TCP connections do not show a performance improvement using TCP offload Windows Server provides control over the applications and TCP ports that are eligible for TCP offload using the netsh tool Refer to the Microsoft documentation for these netsh commands Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration an netsh interface tcp add chimneyapplication state disabled application lt path gt netsh interface tcp add chimneyport state disabled remoteport 23 localport Note The netsh commands require the Windows firewall to be running If the firewall is disabled all applications and ports added with the netsh commands may fail to connect TCP Offload Optimization Settings The adapter supports an option for optimizing TCP connection offload characteristics for throughput or latency This option is available through the Advanced Property Page See Configuring NIC
56. shows recommendations based upon the number of I Os per adapter Table 3 2 Recommended Settings for I O Coalescing I Os per Second Suggested CoalesceMsCnt Suggested CoalesceRspCnt I Os lt 10000 0 8 10000 lt I Os lt 18000 1 8 18000 lt 1 Os lt 26000 1 16 1 Os gt 26000 1 24 CoalesceMsCnt The CoalesceMsCnt parameter controls the maximum elapsed time in milliseconds that the adapter waits before it generates a CPU interrupt The value range is 0 63 decimal or 0x0 0x3F hex The default is 0 and disables 1 O Coalescing CoalesceRspCnt The CoalesceRspCnt parameter controls the maximum number of responses to batch before an interrupt generates If CoalesceRspCnt expires an interrupt generates for all responses collected up to that point With CoalesceRspCnt set to less than 2 response coalescing is disabled and an interrupt triggers for each response The value range for CoalesceRspCnt is 1 255 decimal or 0x1 0xFF hex The default value is 8 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 43 DG EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration Note A system restart is required to make changes to CoalesceMsCnt and CoalesceRspCnt Performance Testing There are three driver parameters that need to be considered and perhaps changed from the default for better performance testing QueueDepth CoalesceMsCnt and CoalesceRspCnt QueueDepth If the number of outstanding I Os per dev
57. subnets or VLANs NPar Partition Support e Flexible Bandwidth allocation with no changes required for operating system or BIOS e The switch is independent with no changes to the external switch required e NIC teaming is supported Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 100 gt G EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration The following items are supported on a per partition basis Statistics LSO LRO RSS TSO and MTU Support for NetQueues NPar Considerations Note NPar can use virtual adapters using VLAN tagging per partition NPar can use RSS queuing support per partition DCBX is supported while in NPar mode If iSCSI or FCoE functions are not enabled they are available as NIC functions Only one iSCSI function is allowed per physical port Only one FCoE function is allowed per physical port Each function has at least one unique MAC address The second to fourth functions on a particular port are available for storage protocols if desired allowing you to configure up to two storage functions When NParEP is disabled a total of 8 functions are available evenly distributed across the ports on the adapter For example a 2 port adapter can have 4 functions port and 4 port adapter can have 2 functions port When NParEP is enabled a total of 16 functions are available evenly distributed across the ports on the adapter For example a 2 port adapter can have 8 functions port and 4 p
58. that of the other path settings Example APInstall silent SkipDriverInstall True configFileLocation MyConfiguration cfg Software Configuration Parameters DiagEnable Running Diagnostics Note The DiagEnable parameter cannot be specified on the command line it must be specified within the configuration file Default True By default AutoPilot Installer runs its diagnostics after all driver installation tasks have been completed To disable this function set this parameter to false ForceDriverTypeChange Forcing a Driver Type Change Default False When installing a driver set this parameter to true to cause silent mode installations to update or install the Storport Miniport driver on each adapter in the system without regard for the currently installed driver type replacing any installation of the SCSIport Miniport or FC Port driver ForceDriverUpdate Forcing a Driver Version Update Default False By default if the same version of the driver is already installed an unattended installation proceeds with installing only the utilities To force a driver update even if the same version of the driver is installed set this parameter to true Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX AutoPilot Installer Syntax oe Note ForceDriverUpdate applies to unattended installations only in interactive installations th
59. then attempt PT PT If set to 3 0x3 PT PT fabric first then attempt FC AL Topology fail over requires v3 20 firmware or higher If firmware does not support topology fail over options 0 2 and 1 3 are analogous Value 0 3 Default 2 0x2 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Reset FC Only P010077 01A Rev A S lt 3 Configuration 42 EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol TraceBufSiz n TraceBufSiz sets the size in bytes for the internal Reboot driver trace buffer The internal driver trace buffer acts as an internal log of the driver s activity Value 250 000 2 000 000 or 0x3D090 0x1E8480 hex Default 250 000 0x3D090 Server Performance with FC Drivers I O Coalescing I O Coalescing is enabled and controlled by two driver parameters CoalesceMsCnt and CoalesceRspCnt The effect of I O Coalescing depends on the CPU resources available on the server With I O Coalescing turned on interrupts are batched reducing the number of interrupts and maximizing the number of commands processed with each interrupt For heavily loaded systems this provides better throughput With I O Coalescing turned off the default each I O processes immediately one CPU interrupt per I O For systems not heavily loaded the default provides better throughput The following table
60. used unless otherwise specified in the AutoPilot configuration file These settings are pre selected but can be changed Set or change settings then click Next e If you are initially installing a vendor specific version of the Emulex driver installation program a Driver Configuration page may be displayed This page includes one or more windows with questions that you must answer before continuing the installation process In this case answer each question and click Next on each window to continue Click Next The installation is completed automatically A dialog box is displayed if Windows requires a reboot Once the installation is successful the Finish dialog box appears View or print a report if desired e View Installation Report The installation report is a text file with current Emulex adapter inventory configuration information and task results e Print Installation Report The Windows print dialog box is displayed to select options for printing the installation report Click Finish to exit AutoPilot Installer If the system must be rebooted you are prompted to do so as indicated in step 4 you must reboot before using the drivers or utilities Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 24 DG EMULEX Text Only Driver Installation Software First Installation The driver kit must be downloaded from the Emulex website and loaded Either the full or core driver package may be installed
61. version on all the hosts in a SAN e Unattended installation You can run the driver kit and AutoPilot Installer with no user interaction from a command line or script Unattended installation works for both hardware first and software first installations and all driver kits An unattended installation operates in silent mode also referred to as quiet mode and creates an extensive report file with installation status Note Complete driver and utilities documentation may be downloaded from the Emulex website www emulex com Click Downloads at the top of the web page and navigate by clicking the appropriate links Starting Installers from a Command Prompt or Script When a driver kit or AutoPilot Installer is run from a command prompt or command script batch file the Windows command processor does not wait for the installer to run to completion As a result you cannot check the exit code of the installer before the next command is executed Emulex recommends that for command line invocation always use the start command with the wait option This causes the command processor to wait for the installer to finish before it continues For more information on command line installation and configuration parameters see appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters on page 181 Running a Software Installation Interactively There are two options when performing an installation interactiv
62. 0 class type network qos class default mtu 9216 multicast optimize Sample Port Configuration for RoCE on a Cisco Switch Note The Port flow control should be off and the Priority Flow Control should be on Auto PFC flow is not explicitly displayed on this switch interface Ethernet1 15 description RoCE configuration switchport mode trunk switchport trunk allowed vlan 102 spanning tree port type edge trunk service policy type qos input class rocenofcoe service policy type queuing input class roce90 service policy type queuing output class roce90 Sample Switch PFC Verification on a Cisco Switch Ensure that the Mode is set to Auto and Operational Oper is On Cisco5548UP2 config show int eth 1 11 priority flow control Port Mode Oper VL bmap RxPPP TXPPP Ethernet1 11 Auto On 28 873 694950 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A sc Appendix E RoCE Switch Support 197 gt C EMULEX DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode Verifying Switch Configuration in OneCommand Manager Note You do not need to configure the OCe14000 series adapter in the OneCommand Manager utility to enable RoCE with Priority Flow Control PFC You can use the OneCommand Manager GUI application or the OneCommand Manager CLI application to verify the switch configuration See the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual for more information on using the OneCommand Manager GUI appli
63. 0 05 10 0 0 1 Blue2 Host2 5001 10 0 0 7 192 x x x 06 06 00 00 00 07 10 0 0 1 Customer Routes DestPrefix NextHopGW Note ce i m i i a a a a le sh hs ae are eae a ees Ee es Same Racha kale fa pace See se 10 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 Onlink route for Blue subnet Remove the locator records for Blue subnet Get NetVirtualizationLookupRecord where VirtualSubnetID eq 5001 Remove NetVirtualizationLookupRecord Remove the customer route records for Blue subnet Get NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute where VirtualSubnetID eq 5001 Remove NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute HEHEHE ARTE HH ERE HHH HE PE HE HE HH FE HE HE TE HE FE HE ER HE FE HE HE FE FE HE HE TE HE FE HE HE E E H E HE E E H HR RH A E EHR HEHA HE RRR RR HEERE HEHEH EARTH HH EHHH HHHH HH Red Virtual Network Information RoutingDomainID 11111111 2222 3333 4444 000000006001 VirtualSubnetID 6001 Both RDID and VSID are defined by administrators MUST be unique in the datacenter Customer Addresses VM Name Host VSID CA PA MAC DefaultGW SR A A A A A A A A Redl Host1 6001 10 0 0 5 192 x x x 08 08 00 00 00 05 10 0 0 1 Red2 Host2 6001 10 0 0 7 192 x x x 08 08 00 00 00 07 10 0 0 1 Customer Routes DestPrefix NextHopGW Note P ca nN ee i a ee ee ae ie 10 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 Onlink route for Red subnet Remove the locator records for Red subnet Get NetVirtualizationLookupRecord where VirtualSubnetID eq 6001 Rem
64. 00 Series Adapter 006 95 Resource Counts on a 4 Port 10Gb OCe14000 Series Adapter 000 95 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Disabled cccceeeeeeeeeeeeees 101 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Enabled and NParEP DisAQled 4icaradapetirgcdaciadts nieiVeadhseccateedeeasieadasarseasidencsaanaiaas 103 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Enabled and NP GREP Eagle Ucecrsseveteceenestumcccecvesretec ineisecasctacismeescate dt ueasctassereos 105 Event PrODGIl SricervecaverccevicaredscrvtsaeracidosStnewiaaeeanoembaeianes 148 POU ON ETI crc A E EE EE E A E ER E 165 P010077 01A Rev A List of Figures Q gt G EMULEX List of Tables Table 3 1 Table 3 2 Table 3 3 Table 3 4 Table 3 5 Table 3 6 Table 3 7 Table 3 8 Table 3 9 Table 3 10 Table 3 11 Table 3 12 Table 3 13 Table 3 14 Table 4 1 Table 4 2 Table 4 3 Table 4 4 Table 4 5 Table 4 6 Table A 1 Table A 2 Table A 3 Table A 4 Table A 5 Table A 6 Table A 7 Table A 8 Table A 9 Table A 10 Table A 11 Table A 12 Table A 13 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual List of Tables Storport Miniport Driver Parameters 0 0cccscccissceesnecseeceiaeceeatessaecseneens 35 Recommended Settings for I O CoaleScing cece eeee eee e eee eee teeta 42 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver OptiOns cscacerccetednwrrereiaatetcrieiansvncdietiaesrcnseamsn
65. 0077 01A Rev A 156 sc Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 157 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Local Reject Status Codes Codes supplied by the Emulex adapter firmware which indicate why a command was failed by the adapter Table A 10 Local Reject Status Codes Explanation Code SEQUENCE TIMEOUT Possible bad cable link noise 0x02 INVALID RPI Occurs when link goes down 0x04 NO XRI Possible host or SAN problem 0x05 TX_DMA FAILED Possible host system issue 0x0D RX_DMA FAILED Possible host system issue 0x0E ILLEGAL FRAME Possible bad cable link noise 0x0F NO RESOURCES Port out of exchanges or logins 0x11 LOOP OPEN FAILURE FC_AL port not responding 0x18 LINK DOWN Queued cmds returned at link down 0x51A OUT OF ORDER DATA Possible bad cable or noise 0x1D SRB Status Codes SCSI Request Block status provided by the driver to the operating system based upon response from SCSI device in the SAN Table A 11 SRB Status Codes Explanation Code ERROR 0x04 BUSY 0x05 TIMEOUT 0x09 SELECTION TIMEOUT 0x0A COMMAND TIMEOUT 0x0B BUS RESET 0x0E DATA OVERUN 0x12 ASC ASCQ Additional Sense Code Additional Sense Code Qualifier information can be found in any SCSI specification document these codes contain detailed information about the status condition of the SCSI device in question Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A
66. 008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Supported Operating Option Name Acceptable Values Systems Definition NetworkDirect 0 Disabled Windows Server 2012 R2 The Network Direct feature 1 Enabled default enables an offloaded RDMA interface for SMB 3 0 network attached storage traffic using Microsoft s SMB Direct protocol For best performance priority flow control PFC should be configured on the network switch Emulex defaults to priority PFC 5 for ROCE traffic although it will still work without PFC enabled Network Direct MTU 256 Windows Server 2012 R2 The maximum transmission unit 512 MTU or frame size for ROCE traffic may be configured with this 1024 default parameter 2048 4096 NVGRE Task Offload Disabled Windows Server 2012 NVGRE Task Offload enables the also known as Enabled default Windows Server 2012 R2 Offloading of network Encapsulated Task virtualization using GRE tunneling Offload Note For on the NIC adapter NVGRE offload OCe14000 series works in conjunction with VMQ adapters only Packet Size 1514 default Windows Server 2008 Configures packet size for 9014 Windows Server 2008 R2 OneConnect NIC only 8222 Windows Server 2012 This parameter determines the 4088 Windows Server 2012 R2 maximum packet size transmitted and received on the interface A 1514 byte frame size is standard while larger packets a
67. 10 or code 39 with a yellow or red exclamation point on the device The firmware image does not match the installed device drivers or the firmware is corrupt Using the OneCommand Manager application or one of the Windows PE offline or online utilities install a version of firmware that is compatible with the driver The firmware is corrupt or non responsive Using the OneCommand Manager application or one of the Windows PE offline or online utilities install a version of firmware that is compatible with the driver The Emulex iSCSI BIOS banner is not displayed during system POST Configure the motherboard BIOS to enable the Option ROM for the PCle slot in which the UCNA is installed Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Troubleshooting the Cisco Nexus Switch Configuration Note The LACP cannot be used on an FCoE port Table 4 2 Cisco Nexus Switch Situations Issue 1 Windows creates the NTFS partition ok but then reports that The hard disk containing the partition or free space you chose has a LUN greater than 0 Setup cannot continue Dell 1850 server Windows reboots successfully but then gets stuck during the GUI portion of the installation right from the beginning HP N DL385G2 server Solution Set up the FCoE switch ports as follows no priority flow control mode on untagged cos 0 e flowcontrol receive on flowcontrol send on spanning tree port type edge The sy
68. 10077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 161 Table A 13 NIC Event Log Entries Continued NIC Error and Event Logs Message ID Hexadecimal Decimal Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x00031 49 Warning RSS is limited to 4 queues Enable Enable Advanced Mode in the PXE Advanced Mode in the PXE BIOS to Select BIOS utility during boot to use use up to 16 queues This may up to 16 queues This may require a require a firmware update firmware update See the Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware 0x00030 48 Warning SR IOV is not enabled Update the Update the firmware enable SR IOV firmware enable SR IOV in the in the server BIOS and enable server BIOS and enable SR IOV and SR IOV and Advanced Mode in the Advanced Mode in the PXE BIOS PXE Select BIOS utility See the Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware 0x0002f 47 Warning VMQ offload is disabled Disable Disable SR IOV support in PXE BIOS SR IOV support in PXE BIOS to use to use VMQ VMQ 0x0002e 46 Error Device is not supported on Windows 7 Operating System 0x0002d 45 Error Error recovery failed The device is See the Downloads section of the no longer operational Update all Emulex website for compatible drivers and firmware firmware and drivers 0x0002c 44 Warning Error recovery is disabled on the This message is informational system The d
69. 2 Emulex OneConnect OCe 14102 1 Emulex OneConnect OCe 14102 12 00 Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 12 100 12 100 3 Configuration NIC Driver Configuration Figure 3 21 The Multichannel Property Page with NPar Enabled and NParEP Enabled Multichannel Property Page with NPar and NParEP Enabled To enable NParEP select the NParEP checkbox When NParEP is enabled the PCI functions in Table 3 8 or Table 3 9 become visible PCI Function Presentation Using NParEP Note When using host tools that allow you to configure partitions you can select an option of None for a PCI function When this option is applied the selected PCI function does not appear on the PCI scan Table 3 8 PCI Function Representation for a 2 Port 16 Function Adapter NParEP Enabled Port Partition Function Personality 1 1 0 NIC 2 2 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 4 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 6 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 5 8 NIC None 6 10 NIC None 7 12 NIC None 8 14 NIC None Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manua P010077 01A Rev A 105 3 Configuration 106 DC EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 8 PCI Function Representation for a 2 Port 16 Function Adapter NParEP Enabled Continued Port Partition Function Personality 2 1 1 NIC 2 3 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 5 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 7 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 5 9 NIC None 6 11 NIC None 7 1
70. 3 NIC None 8 15 NIC None Table 3 9 PCI Function Representation for a 4 Port 16 Function Adapter NParEP Enabled Port Partition Function Personality 1 1 0 NIC 2 4 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 8 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 12 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 2 1 1 NIC 2 5 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 9 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 13 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 1 2 NIC 2 6 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 10 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 14 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 1 3 NIC 2 7 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 11 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 15 NIC iSCSI FCoE None Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX 3 Configuration 107 NIC Driver Configuration Network Driver Performance Tuning Optimizing Server Hardware and BIOS Configuration Adapter performance can be improved by selecting a more efficient PCIe packet payload size If the system BIOS allows selection of a larger PCIe packet size selecting at least a 512 byte PCIe packet payload size provides the best efficiency for PCIe data transfers This may be an option in the server s system BIOS The current value is displayed in Device Manager on the Status property page for the adapter Most computers offer multiple distinct memory channels which should be configured for channel interleaving for optimal performance Optimal interleaving is achieved by using the exact same DIMM configuration for e
71. 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name UDP Checksum Offload IPv6 Acceptable Values Disabled RX and TX Enabled default RX Enabled TX Enabled Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition User Datagram Protocol UDP offload checksum settings offload the transmit and or receive IPv6 UDP checksum computation Offloading checksums increases system efficiency Virtual Machine Queues Enabled default Disabled Note For 0Ce11102 LPe16202 and 0Ce14000 only VMQs require Windows Server 2008 R2 or later with Hyper V VMQs are dedicated hardware receive queues for virtual machines that filter receive packets based on the destination MAC address and or VLAN Receive buffers can be allocated for each queue from VM memory This improves network throughput by distributing processing of network traffic for multiple VMs among multiple processors It reduces CPU utilization by offloading receive packet filtering to NIC hardware VMQs prove beneficial when 4 or more VMs are in use Virtual Machine Queues Lookahead Split Enabled default Disabled Note For 0Ce11102 UCNAs only Not applicable for LPe16202 and 0Ce14000 series adapters Windows Server 2008 R2 VMQ enables direct DMA to VM memory Lookahead
72. 31 0xD2 NPIV Virtual Port FDISC failed Virtual Port index in bits 8 31 0xD4 Exceeded max Virtual Port supported Virtual Port index in bits 8 31 0xD5 NPIV Virtual Port removal Virtual Port Did in bits 8 31 OxEO Authenticated successfully remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE1 Failed to authenticate remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE2 Authentication not support remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE3 Authentication ELS command timeout remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE4 Authentication transaction timeout remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE5 LS RJT other than Logical Busy received for Authentication transaction remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE6 LS RJT Logical Busy received for Authentication Transaction remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE7 Received Authentication Reject other than Restart remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE8 Received Authentication Reject Restart remote Did in bits 8 31 OxE9 Received Authentication Negotiate remote Did in bits 8 31 OxEA Authentication spurious traffic remote Did in bits 8 31 OxEB Authentication policy has been changed remote Did in bits 8 31 OxED Same passed were set for both local and remote entities remote Did in bits 8 31 OxF1 Port shutdown event OneConnect OxF2 Port in off line state OneConnect OxF3 Port in on line state OneConnect Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A
73. C reports the PCle link parameters and the maximum supported parameters For example installing a 8x device in a 4x PCle slot cuts the available PCle bandwidth in half The PCle MTU and Read Request size are also reported and these may be configurable in the system BIOS for the computer The performance of the main memory is the other major concern for networking throughput The ideal situation is using high speed memory with all memory channels populated per CPU typically 3 or 4 DIMMs per CPU socket For the ideal performance the same DIMM size should be used in each memory channel to allow perfect memory channel interleaving Features such as memory sparing or memory mirroring dramatically decrease the memory bandwidth of the system and cause drops TCP connection offload may lead to increased drops as a result of no memory If TCP connection offload is used enabling flow control may reduce the drops Alternatively disabling TCP connection offload may improve performance P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 68 NIC Driver Configuration gt EMULEX Table 3 4 NIC Driver Properties Statistics Continued Statistic Name Description CRC Errors The number of packets dropped as the result of CRC errors on the layer 2 Ethernet packet In products that expose multiple PCle functions per Ethernet port this statistic is only incremented for the lowest PCI function per port since the packet cannot be further classified becaus
74. FIG_RING 3 failed reinitialization 0x17 Unresponsive adapter port SLI2 3 mode Ox1C Firmware trap infol SLI2 3 mode 0x1D Firmware trap info2 SLI2 3 mode Ox1E Over temperature error condition LightPulse Ox1F Firmware initiated adapter port reset LightPulse 0x20 Adapter port error attention LightPulse 0x22 Over temperature warning LightPulse 0x23 Returned to safe temperature LightPulse 0x24 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Invalid response tag SLI2 3 mode 150 Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 151 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Table A 1 Severe Errors Continued Bits 0 7 Interpretation 0x25 Invalid response tag SLI2 3 mode 0x26 Invalid response tag SLI2 3 mode 0x27 Invalid response sequence SLI2 3 mode 0x28 Failure on REG_LOGIN mailbox command 0x29 Unable to initiate fabric binding operation Ox2A Attempted ADISC to non existent node 0x2B Failure on iocb context allocation 0x2C Unable to initiate nport unbinding operation 0x2D Unable to initiate nport binding operation 0x30 Failure on mailbox context allocation 0x7C Menlo initialization error 0x7D Menlo initialization error Ox7E Menlo initialization error OxA0 Failed to initialize adapter port OneConnect OxA1 Failed to initial
75. ISC into the remote NPort Severity Information Log LOG ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0105 LOGO completes to NPortld x x Description The adapter performed a LOGO into a remote NPort Severity Information Log LOG ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0112 ELS command x x received from NPortld x x Description Received the specific ELS command from a remote NPort Severity Information Log LOG_ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Remarks Ipfc_mes0114 and Ipfc_mes0115 are also recorded for more details if the corresponding severity level is set You can use the XRI to match the messages Ipfc_mes0114 PLOGI chkparm OK Description Received a PLOGI from a remote NPORT and its FC service parameters match this adapter Request can be accepted Severity Information Log LOG_ELS verbose Action No action needed informational See Also Ipfc_mes0112 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 127 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0115 Unknown ELS command x x received from NPortld x x n Description Severity Log Action See Also Received an unsupported ELS command from a remote NPORT Error LOG_ELS verbose Check remote NPORT for potential issue Ipfc_mes0112 Ipfc_mes0128 Accepted ELS command OpCode x x Description Severity Log Action Accepted an ELS comma
76. LocalDriverLocation Specifying Location to Search for Drivers scceseeeeeeeeeees 184 NoSoftwareFirstInstalls Prohibiting Software First Installations cecer 184 ReportLocation Setting Up an Installation Report Title and Location 0085 185 SilentInstallEnable Enabling Unattended Installation cccee cece eee eee eee ee 185 SilentRebootEnable Enabling Silent Reboot ccccccceeceeeee sete saeeeeeeeeeeenenas 185 InstallWithoutQFE Enabling Installation if a QFE Check Fails ccccceeseeeeeeees 185 AutoPilot Configuration File sssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 186 Using the Windows Environment Variable WProgramFiles 9 ccc 186 Configuration Identification AUTOPILOT ID ccccceceeeeeee sete seen essen rrn 186 Software Configuration AUTOPILOT CONFIG ccccccecesee sees eeaeeeeneeeenaes 187 Configuration Prompts Vendor Specific Questions STORPORT CONFIGURATION 187 QFE Checks STORPORT QFES ccccsveeccesecivetasverenvotasybead tear vemenbias deen 188 Setting Up FC Driver Parameters STORPORT PARAMS ccccseeeeseeeeeeaneeaes 189 Setting Up System Parameters SYSTEM PARAMS ccccccceeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeeeaes 189 AutoPilot Installer Exit CodeS sssssssssssnnnnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 190 AutoPilot Installer Installation Reports ssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 191 Command Scrip
77. Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition Support for multiple RSS queues if enabled RSS scales receive processing over multiple CPUs in parallel This scaling typically improves application performance however it tends to increase CPU usage on low end machines For the OCe11102 adapter RSS is only supported on two primary adapters per device For additional PCI functions RSS does not appear in the Properties List Recv Segment Coalescing IPv4 Disabled default on Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enabled default on Windows Server 2012 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 RSC merges multiple TCP segments and identifies them as a single coalesced unit to the operating system s TCP IP stack This reduces the per packet receive processing overhead and CPU usage when standard 1514 byte sized frames are in use Notes e If checksum offloads are disabled RSC should also be disabled RSC depends on checksum offloads for better performance Both RSC IPV4 and RSC IPV6 are coerced to zero if TCP Connection Offload IPV4 is enabled P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration NIC Driver Configuration 55 Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Opt
78. Software Initiator If you install the Software Initiator you must select the UCNA initiator when logging into the target To do this 1 From the Targets tab select the target and click LogOn 2 Click Advanced Under the General Tab everything appears as default 3 Select the UCNA initiator as the local adapter select your source IP and click OK Windows Multipath I O Support This section describes the installation and login processes for multipath I O support on Windows Server operating systems Multipath Support MPIO must be installed from the Server Manager After installing the MPIO feature you must launch and configure the MPIO GUI to enable multipath support for iSCSI devices The following steps describe the installation process for setting up Microsoft iSCSI DSM and enabling multipath I O for all iSCSI devices irrespective of their vendor and device IDs You can use the MPIO GUI to configure DSMs other than Microsoft iSCSI DSM Also you can use the GUI to enable multipath support for a specific vendor ID and device ID For details on these topics refer to the Microsoft TechNet Library on the Microsoft website In a multipath configuration the driver parameters LDTO and ETO can be configured to control the amount of time it takes for the failover operation to complete The default value of LDTO is 20 seconds and the default value of ETO is 90 seconds For information on modifying the timeout parameters in a failover conf
79. V verbose Check to ensure system has sufficient kernel memory Ipfc_mes1802 Exceeded the MAX NPIV port x x Description Severity Log Action Exceeded the number of Virtual Port allows on the adapter Error LOG _NPIV verbose Reduce the number of Virtual Ports Ipfc_mes1803 Virtual Port x x VPI x x successfully created Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Virtual Port ID is successfully created Information LOG _NPIV verbose No action needed informational P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 140 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes1804 Removing Virtual Port x x VPI x x Description Severity Log Action Removing Virtual Port ID Information LOG _NPIV verbose No action needed informational ELS Messages 1900 1999 Ipfc_mes1900 x x sends ELS AUTH_CMD x with TID x x Description Severity Log Action An ELS _AUTH_CMD is sent Information LOG _FCSP verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes1901 x x sends ELS AUTH_RE J ECT x x x x to x x Description Severity Log Action An ELS_AUTH_REJECT is sent Information LOG _FCSP verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes1902 Receives x from x x in state x x Description Severity Log Action Receives an ELS_AUTH_CMD Information LOG _FCSP verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes1903 Receives ELS AUTH_RJ T x amp x x x Descri
80. Windows Automated Installation Kit Window Management Instrumentation world wide name world wide node name world wide port name exchange resource indicator P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX 2 Installation Driver Installation Options 2 Installation Driver Installation Options There are two ways that you can install the Windows drivers Notes Onelnstall Installer contains all the Emulex Windows drivers Emulex Storport Miniport and NDIS Miniport drivers and the OneCommand Manager application in a single download package Driver kits and AutoPilot Installer provide installation options ranging from simple installations with a few mouse clicks to unattended installations that use predefined script files and text only installations If you are installing the NIC driver kit as an update to the Windows Server 2012 driver some parameter defaults are different from the inbox driver Emulex recommends that after you install the Emulex out of box driver you select reset to default on the Advanced tab of Device Manager property page This returns all adapter and driver settings to the default values listed in this manual Low performance can result when the Emulex NIC driver is installed on a system meeting the following conditions before installing Microsoft KB2846837 o A Windows 8 Windows 8 1 or Windows Server 2012 computer with multi core processors is in use o Three or more Ethernet ports are installed on the comput
81. Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX _ Statistic Management e peat Beets d Ta Statistics i EMULEX Device Statistics Transmit Throughput Thi RSS Receive Packets Transmit Flow Control Pause Requests Receive Flow Control Pause Requests TCP Offloads Currently Established TCP Offload Receive Rate VMQs Allocated Interrupt Rate Receive Drops No Memory DMA limited packets sec packets sec packets packets packets packets packets connections connections packets packets bits sec bits sec queues int sec Figure 3 7 Emulex NIC Statistics Properties page Verifying SR IOV from the Host Hyper V Server 3 Configuration 2 NIC Driver Configuration 1 From the Device Manager open the Network Adapters item click the Microsoft Hyper V Network adapter and right click Select Properties from the context menu The Hyper V Network adapter Properties dialog box opens showing the Driver page 2 Select the Statistics tab 3 From the Statistics tab locate the Virtual Functions Allocated item Virtual Functions Allocated shows the count of currently enabled virtual functions Note The Microsoft Powershell command Get NetAdapterSriovVf lists each SR IOV virtual function See Microsoft documentation for more information Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration g3 Configuring NVGRE
82. able NIC interfaces if available Opening a file share from a 2 port OCe14000 series adapter both ports are RDMA enabled connected back to back to another 2 port OCe14000 series adapter both ports are also RDMA enabled creates two SMB Direct connections per interface Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A XG EMULEX 3 Configuration 93 NIC Driver Configuration Fie Home Share View d I Network bench29clienti c v Administrator C Windows system32 cmd exe Users fAdnministrator gt netstat xan ctive NetworkDirect Connections Listeners SharedEndpoints Mode IfIndex Type Local Address Foreign Address Kernel 26 Connection 26 2 6 1186 49369 20 2 0 100 445 Kernel Connection 20 2 6 116 49376 20 2 0 100 445 Kernel Connection 26 1 1161 49367 26 1 18661 445 Kernel Connection 26 1 1161 49368 WAS ES ee 05 BP oh Kernel Listener 26 2 6 116 445 NA Kernel Listener 26 1 110 251 445 NA Kernel 3 Listener fe8G 74F2 aad2 5734 2b2dax251 445 NA Kernel Listener 206 1 6 116 445 NA Users fdnministrator gt Figure 3 14 Two SMB Direct Connections Per Interface The number of connections initiated per RDMA capable NIC interface to a particular server can be configured using a registry key and the following PowerShell command Set ItemProperty Path HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services LanmanWorkstation Paramete rs ConnectionCountPerRdmaNetworkInterface Type
83. ach memory channel Check the manufacturer s documentation and BIOS parameters for details about optimizing memory bandwidth Typically all the DIMM slots must be populated to make use of all the memory channels As a general rule more DIMMs provide better performance by allowing a higher degree of memory access interleaving to occur However some servers decrease the memory speed if using more than 2 DIMMs per memory channel so it is important to understand the trade off for a particular server platform Some servers may allow memory mirroring or memory sparing where the total memory is divided in half and each location is stored twice This allows fault recovery if one memory location detects an error but it greatly reduces the perceived memory bandwidth of the system Nearly any desktop or low end server has enough memory bandwidth for the adapter to support DMA at 20 Gb s of data 10 Gb s read 10 Gb s write However most of the memory demands come from the processor accessing the data for either packet copies in the non offloaded networking stack or application Increasing the clock speed of the memory interface to the processor can be critical for achieving the best networking performance This interface may be the front side bus FSB Intel s QPI or AMD s HyperTransport Windows Server Network Driver Table 3 10 describes ways to use various NIC driver properties and Microsoft Windows properties to performance tune a system Tab
84. advanced properties 1 Enter the Windows Device Manager using one of the following options e Click Start gt Control Panel gt System and click the Device Manager hyperlink e Click Start gt Run and type devmgmt msc Click OK Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A NIC Driver Configuration SXG EMULEX 3 Configuration 63 The Windows Device Manager is displayed E Server Manager Fie Acton View Hep Aer SS e Cg IDE ATA ATAPI controllers B Keyboards O Mice and other pointing devices E A Monitors E A Network adapters Emulex OneConnect OCe 11102 I NIC TOE 10 EF Emulex OneConmect OCe11102 I NIC TOE 9 ba ec re amp Processors E lt Storage controllers lt gt Dell SAS 6 R Integrated Controller Emulex OneConnect OCe 11102 1 iSCSI Initiator g Emulex OneConnect OCe 11102 1 iSCSI Initiator lt gt Microsoft iSCSI Initiator lt gt Microsoft Mult Path Bus Oriver 6 4 System devices Universal Serial Bus controlers Figure 3 1 Partial View of Windows Device Manager Right click the network adapter for which you wish to modify advanced properties Click Properties and click the Advanced tab Figure 3 2 on page 64 From the list of properties click the property parameter you want to modify then select the new value of the property by selecting from the Value list Click OK Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SXG EMULEX 3 Config
85. alareldtatvwlentdvaatadanetenandaltadeeawndiy 71 Displaying All Parameters cccecce cece cee c eee settee sees sees eee esate sae eeaeeeeneeneennees 72 Using Interactive ModE iicimrsusssccsnanst aia airi AE AEREA E AA A EAEE 74 Parameter Help atcictescanesiates cides arnir ene EEO E EAEE E E 75 Using SR IOV with Emulex Devices cccccesees Sie See cans e kh yeexepeenl eeerswtedaswennecesieues 75 AQVISOLY Sis entrants devthen tend eebdancoad eamendews aagaeeels PEN gzdanad EEN ENEN GEE entanaes 75 Server BIOS Configuration tiie deneteaeieetaeinsdes dev ies salaries EA EE E A 76 Emulex PXESelect Configuration for SR IOV cece eect tne 76 SR IOV Server Validation saciecciccievscactiscesteheetan anr A a enevea nds wedes eed se bieedan den 77 Verifying the Driver Version cccccccccceceeeee seats cess eee eeeeeeeesaeesateseeeeeneentesanenas 78 Enabling SR IOV in the Emulex Device cece eee eee enter need 79 HY DGleV cicituert E inet tanita E dans dadue E 80 Verifying SR OV sacissacadnaacacwra cds senalt gua nnana a e A ENE AD EEA 81 Configuring NVGRE for the OCe14000 series Adapters cccccccseeeeeeeeeeeeneeeenas 83 SClU Piatesdsiariitat ocdalgrenediadtned E E 83 Connora tiO Miserere R E E EET OSEE E EE EE EEG 83 Configuring RoCE for the OCe14000 Series AdapterS sssssisrreererrrerrrrrrrrereren 89 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 4 DE EMULEX Table of Contents 5 Enabling
86. aller Command Line and Configuration File Parameters 19Q AutoPilot Installer Exit Codes AutoPilot Installer Exit Codes AutoPilot Installer sets an exit code to indicate whether an installation was successful or an error occurred These exit codes allow AutoPilot Installer to be used in scripts with error handling In unattended installations AutoPilot Installer sets the following exit codes Table D 1 Unattended Installation Error Codes Error Code Hex Description 0 0x00000000 No errors 2399141889 0x8F000001 Unsupported operating system detected 2399141890 Ox8F 000002 The AutoPilot Configuration file is not found 2399141891 0x8F000003 Disabled adapters detected in the system 2399141892 Ox8F 000004 The selected driver is 64 bit and this system is 32 bit 2399141893 0x8F000005 The selected driver is 32 bit and this system is 64 bit 2399141894 0x8F 000006 Installation activity is pending AutoPilot Installer cannot run until it is resolved 2399141895 0x8F000007 GUI Mode only You cancelled execution because you did not wish to perform a software first install 2399141896 0x8F000008 No drivers found 2399141897 0x8F000009 One or more adapters failed diagnostics 2399141904 0x8F000010 GUI Mode only You chose to install drivers even though a recommended QFE or Service Pack was not installed 2399141920 0x8F000020 GUI Mode only You chose to stop install
87. allowing more balance among hardware devices and applications If system responsiveness is poor this mode may improve the overall system behavior e Dynamically Balanced Dynamic balancing adjusts the network adapter s performance based on system metrics such as CPU usage This mode can aggressively limit performance for the most stressful networking applications to ensure that all network adapters can share limited computer resources yet it can maintain maximum performance when the system has resources available P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 53 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name Preferred NUMA Node Acceptable Values Not present or a value from 0 65535 Optional No default setting is set Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition Most modern multi socket servers have separate memory controllers for each CPU socket These systems have non uniform memory access NUMA latencies for a given CPU core to access the local versus remote memory node By setting this property the driver attempts to use both memory and CPU cores from the given NUMA node If the Preferred NUMA node is not set the driver uses the preferred NUMA node as specified by the computer
88. anager 2 Double click the adapter from which you want to remove the Storport Miniport driver A device specific console window is displayed Select the Driver tab 3 Click Uninstall and click OK to uninstall ElxPlus Driver Note Uninstall the ElxPlus driver only if all adapters and installations of Emulex miniport drivers are uninstalled To uninstall the ElxPlus driver 1 Run the Device Manager step 1 above 2 Click the plus sign next to the Emulex PLUS driver class 3 Right click the Emulex driver and click Uninstall 4 Click OK in the Confirm Device Removal window Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 34 DG EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration 3 Configuration Note For information on configuring profile management see the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual or the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface User Manual FC FCoE Driver Configuration The Emulex Storport Miniport driver has many options that you can modify to provide different behavior You can set Storport Miniport driver parameters using the OneCommand Manager application Refer to the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual for information on using this utility to configure the driver Configuring FC Driver Parameters Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters provides information such as the allowable range of values and factory defaults Parameters can be entered in decimal or hexade
89. and Windows Server 2008 R2 network stack By default Windows Firewall Services are enabled at operating system installation time and they must be explicitly disabled in order to use TOE Firewall services can be disabled through the Service Control panel or the following commands at the command line prompt To set firewall services to load on demand sc config MpsSve start demand To stop firewall services Net stop MpsSvc To temporarily disable firewall services netsh advfirewall set all state off Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 115 Enabling certain Windows networking features such as network bridging VPN and routing may cause the operating system to enable IP NAT services and the IPSEC policy agent These services if enabled disallow connections from being offloaded to the adapter To disable these functions use the Services Control panel or the following commands at the command line prompt net stop accesspolicy net stop sharedaccess net stop ipnat Windows TCP Parameters Emulex does not recommend modifying the TCP registry parameters such as TcpAckFrequency provided by Microsoft The default parameters are suitable for a wide variety of situations with or without using TCP offloading Receive Window Auto Tuning and Compound TCP Windows Server adds several features to the host TCP stack such as receive window auto tuning and CTCP T
90. are and ensure that the RoCE 2 profile is selected in the the RoCE 2 profile is OneCommand Manager application the selected OneCommand Manager CLI or the PXE Boot utility Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX NIC Event Log Appendix A Error and Event Log Information NIC Error and Event Logs 160 Windows Device Manager generates error log codes if any errors occur during the installation of the NIC driver Each log contains a Message Id Severity and Symbolic Link The Message Id is unique and tracks the error message if not displayed Table A 13 shows the list of error codes the severity of the error the message displayed the meaning of the error and recommended resolutions When reporting an issue with the adapter to Emulex check the event log and report any of these entries that may be present Table A 13 NIC Event Log Entries Message ID Hexadecimal Decimal Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x80000039 Warning Firmware does not support GRE Issue configuring NVRE hardware encapsulation Encapsulation offloads Update firmware on the disabled 0Ce14000 adapter 0x4000003AL Informational N A N A 0x0000038L 56 Warning The device firmware does not Revert to default mode for ETS support ETS functionality in SR IOV support or multichannel mode 0x00037 55 Warning This adapter may have an issue This adapter exposes a vulnerability recovering
91. argets are assigned Reboot SCSI IDs Discovered targets are assigned persistent SCSI IDs according to the selected binding method Persistent bindings do not take effect with the driver in stand alone mode 0 automap is disabled The OneCommand Manager application persistently sets the SCSI address of a discovered FCP capable FC node target 1 automap by WWNN 2 automap by WWPN 3 automap by DID Value 0 3 Default 2 Class n Class selects the class of service on FCP Dynamic FC Only commands If set to 2 class 2 If set to 3 class 3 Value 2 3 Default 3 CoalesceMsCnt n CoalesceMsCn specifies wait time in milliseconds Reset LightPulse Only to generate an interrupt response if CoalesceRspCnt has not been satisfied Zero specifies an immediate interrupt response notification A non zero value enables response coalescing at the specified interval in milliseconds Value 0 63 decimal or 0x0 0x3F hex Default 0 0x0 CoalesceRspCnt n CoalesceRspCn specifies the number of response Reset LightPulse Only entries that trigger an Interrupt response Value 0 255 decimal or 0x1 OxFF hex Default 8 0x8 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued 3 Configuration 36 FC FCoE Driver Configuration Parameter ConfigScale Definitions ConfigScale sets the memory footprint profile in accord with the anticipated use case
92. at send large buffers During segmentation the hardware computes the TCP checksums for each individual packet IPv6 support requires LSO Version 2 included in Windows Server 2008 and later Min 0 Max The number CPU cores installed on your system Maximum Number of RSS Processors Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 This property sets the maximum number of processors that can be used for RSS P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name Maximum Number of RSS Queues Acceptable Values Windows Server 2008 for 0Ce10102 OCe11102 legacy 0Ce11102 advanced mode LPe16000 OCe14000 e Min 1 Max 4 default 4 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 e 0Cel10102 Min 1 Max 4 Default 4 e 0Ce11102 legacy Min 1 Max 4 Default 4 0Cel11102 advanced mode Min 1 Max 8 Default 8 e LPe16000 Min 1 Max 16 default 8 e 0Cel14000 Min 1 Max 16 default 8 Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition When RSS is enabled this parameter controls the number of receive queues Typically this is left at
93. ation because a recommended QFE or Service Pack was not installed 2399141899 0x8F00000B Unattended installation did not find any drivers of the type specified in the config file 2399141900 Ox8F00000C A silent reboot was attempted but according to the operating system a reboot is not possible 2399141901 0x8F00000D GUI Mode only A driver package download was cancelled 2399141902 0x8F00000E Non Enterprise No adapters were found in the system 2399141903 0x8F00000F A required QFE or Service Pack was not detected on the system 2399141836 0x8F000030 AutoPilot Installer was not invoked from an account with Administrator level privileges 2391419952 0x8F000040 AutoPilot Installer has detected unsupported adapters on the system 2399141968 0x8F000050 Unattended software first installations are disallowed 2399141984 0x8F000060 You cancelled APInstall before any driver utility installation occurred 2399142000 0x8F000070 You cancelled APinstall after driver utility installation occurred Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SC EMULEX PP g 191 AutoPilot Installer Installation Reports Table D 1 Unattended Installation Error Codes Continued Error Code Hex Description 2399142032 0x8F000090 APInstaller encountered an error while parsing the command line Report file contains details AutoPilot Installer Ins
94. be either 10 Gb s or 1 Gb s depending on the switch connected To change the speed on a mezzanine card 1 Remove the switch from both the ports 2 Insert the switch on one port and wait for the link to come up 3 After the link is up insert the switch on the other port The mezzanine card retains the speed of the first link until both links are down Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A o Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters 181 gt EMULEX AParg Driver Kit Parameter and Appending to the APInstall exe File Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters The AutoPilot Installer can initiate an installation from a command prompt or script AutoPilot Installer can be run manually from the command line or a script or it can be run automatically by the driver kit When run manually from the command line or script the command line parameters may be passed If you specify the q switch with the driver kit installer command the driver kit installer runs in unattended mode and automatically invokes the APInstall exe with its silent switch See Unattended Driver Installation on page 24 for more information AParg Driver Kit Parameter and Appending to the APinstall exe File If you specify a value for the APargs driver kit parameter this value is appended to the APInstall exe command line For example if you exec
95. by the ARM firmware The event log entry includes the request code in error An operation attempted from the Microsoft WMI application resulted in an error Check the operation being attempted for errors P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 172 iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID 0x1b Severity Warning Message A configuration parameter is out of range Recommended Resolution The iSCSI driver failed to load a configuration value specified in the registry because the value was out of range The driver uses the default value for this configuration parameter The range specified for a configuration parameter is either too large or too small and it must be corrected Check the registry configuration for new driver parameter entries See Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options on page 117 for the correct range of values Ox1d Warning A configuration parameter is invalid The iSCSI driver ignored a configuration entry because the entry was invalid Check the registry configuration for new driver parameter entries The invalid entry must be removed or corrected See Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options on page 117 for the correct range of values Oxle Error Failed to map Base Address Register failing driver l
96. capable firmware If set to 2 FDMI operates and uses the host name feature of FDMI Value 0 2 decimal Default 0 EnableNPIV n If set to 1 enables NPIV Requires NPIV supported Reboot firmware for the adapter Value 0 1 Default 0 disabled Notes e Torun the driver using NPIV or SLI 3 optimization the firmware must be version 2 72a0 or later If an earlier version is used the driver runs in SLI 2 mode and does not support NPIV NPIV is not available on 1 Gb s and 2 Gb s adapters Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued 3 Configuration 38 FC FCoE Driver Configuration Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol ExtTransferSize ExtTransferSize is an initialization time LightPulse adapters parameter that affects the maximum SGL that the only including driver can handle which determines the LPe15000 and maximum I O size that a port will support LPe16000 HBAs If set to 0 the maximum default transfer size is 512KB for all controller models If set to 1 the maximum transfer size is 1MB If set to 2 the maximum transfer size is 2MB If set to 3 the maximum transfer size is 4MB Value 0 3 Default 0 disabled FrameSizeMSB n FrameSizeMSB controls the upper byte of receive Reset FrameSize if issued in PLOGI This allows the FrameSize to be constrained on 256 byte increments fr
97. cation to verify the switch configuration See the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface Manual for more information on using the OneCommand Manager CLI application to verify the switch configuration Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A
98. ch it is in generic pause mode e Inabsence of priority 5 on the switch side the OCe14000 series adapter continues to be configured for RoCE and PFC priority 5 This can result in packet losses unrecoverable errors or infinite retries for RoCE traffic Switch Configuration for PFC Priority 5 Using the documentation provided by your switch vendor configure your switch for the following e Priority pause frames using Priority 5 e MTU size of 4200 or higher e No drop policy Below are the switch configuration steps 1 Create PG 1 as Priority 5 with a no drop policy for RoCE traffic 2 Assign the appropriate bandwidth to PG 1 for example 90 3 Create PG 2 or something different from above which is priority group 1 and assign NIC traffic to it Assign remaining bandwidth to PG 2 5 Enable priority flow control on all ports participating in the cluster and at a global level in the switch Note Some switches have global and port level settings for flow control and bandwidth allocation Make sure the PFC flow control setting is performed on all the ports which participate in the cluster Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A sc Appendix E RoCE Switch Support 194 gt lt EMULEX DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode 6 Configure a valid VLAN with an ID other than 0 or 1 7 Ensure that Jumbo Frames is enabled or at minimum set the MTU gt 4200 8 Specify each switch port service policy rather than us
99. cieiendl 47 NIC Driver Properties Statistics ssssssrsrrrrrerereerrsrrrerrererrrrrrrrrrrere 65 SMB Direct Active Connections Client Mode Per Port for OCe14000 Series Adapters civisciescievtovawedsi st EEEE 95 PCI Function Representation for a Two Port Adapter ccceceeee eee es 102 PCI Function Representation for a Four Port Adapter eceeee eee es 102 PCI Function Representation for a 2 Port 16 Function Adapter NParEP ElaGlescc scaeivensesocdaveeeceselivecheaeatacaneeceitsaohsrseaiuaanedsenaiacs 105 PCI Function Representation for a 4 Port 16 Function Adapter NPar EP AOE ys ecccancudceaacusil pureden ced aeshececatensn teeciesecndaetadenneeasaciens 106 Windows Server Performance Tuning Situations ccceeeeeee ee ee eee ees 107 Statistics and Fine TUNING lt ccsceasprecevcecisetavienss eran wienieetawteonss coeeddiaawsi 108 ISCSI Driver 8 0 09 9 eee nr emcee mea Eee en eee ee ea ee eee ee 117 im_policy SCURNNGS cc 3 cresissescattecevidachest cred cacttadtee rcudeiittecincss ubsaneend 119 LDTO and ETO Information on the Windows Server ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeee eee 123 General TROUDIESHOOUING ic idvnetivesvadectetactsdaclviuclides tetubleiaceeiiebadendeht 124 Cisco Nexus Switch SIMMONS sccccsstaxsandsnatievonianaidevedsaescdeseseaseaiaredste 124 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers ssssssssrsrrresressrsrrrrrrrrrrrerrsrrrerrerere 142 Troubleshooting TCP Offload Failures vccisecicsecncabtas
100. cimal format A parameter has one of the following activation requirements e Dynamic The change takes effect while the system is running e Reset An adapter reset from the utility is required before the change takes effect e Reboot A reboot of the entire machine is required before the change takes effect In this case you are prompted to perform a reboot when you exit the utility Notes e If you are creating custom unattended installation scripts any driver parameter can be modified and included in the script e Ifthe Adapter Protocol column is blank the parameter is supported on both LightPulse and OneConnect adapters LightPulse only indicates that the parameters is supported only on LightPulse adapters FC only indicates that the parameters is supported on LightPulse and non LightPulse FC adapters e The Windows driver enumerates 1024 targets across all physical and virtual ports with 8G and 16G adapters However setting ConfigScale to 0 changes the support to 128 targets See ConfigScale in Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters on page 35 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A S lt 3 Configuration 35 EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration Most parameters default to a setting that optimizes adapter performance Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol AutoMap n AutoMap controls the way t
101. col DHCP Recommendations If you are using the DHCP server to obtain an IP address for the UCNA Emulex recommends that you set up a reservation A reservation assigns a specific IP address based on the MAC address of the UCNA If you do not reserve an IP Address through DHCP then you must set the lease length for the UCNA IP address to unlimited This prevents the IP address lease from expiring Vendor Specific Option 43 This section describes the format for the data returned in DHCP vendor specific option 43 The method and format for specifying the Vendor ID is outside the scope of this document and is not included here The UCNA offers this Vendor ID to the DHCP server to retrieve data in the format described in this section Format of Vendor Specific Option 43 The following describes the format of option 43 and includes guidelines for creating the data string iscsi lt TargetIP gt lt TargetTCPPort gt lt LUN gt lt TargetName gt lt InitiatorName gt lt HeaderDigest gt lt DataDigest gt lt AuthenticationType gt Strings shown in quotes are part of the syntax and is therefore mandatory Fields enclosed in angular brackets including the angular brackets should be replaced with their corresponding values Some of these fields are optional and may be skipped If an optional field is skipped a colon must be used as a placeholder to indicate the default value for that field When specified the value o
102. cs reset or the driver was reloaded TCP Offload Retransmits The number of packets retransmitted for TCP offloaded connections TCP Offload Receive Drops The number of packets dropped by in the offloaded TCP stack These drops may the result of TCP protocol errors or bottlenecks in the system for consuming receive data TCP Offload Transmit Rate The transmit data rate of the offloaded TCP connections This is the portion of the total Transmit Throughput contributed by offloaded TCP connections TCP Offload Receive Rate The receive data rate of the offloaded TCP connections VMQs Allocated The current number of Virtual Machine Queues allocated Interrupt Rate Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The number of interrupts per second generated by the adapter The interrupt rate may be tuned by modifying the Interrupt Moderation parameter P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 4 NIC Driver Properties Statistics Continued Statistic Name Receive Drops No Memory DMA Limited Description The number of packets dropped as a result of insufficient buffers posted by the driver This is generally the result of the CPU core used for any receive queue reaching 100 The system may lack sufficient CPU cycles to post receive buffers at the necessary rate A lot of small packets lead to this behavior on almost any CPU since the processing
103. d 19 Driver Kit Installer eceeet erst ctepeheten acces ee eaere rttr irnn unnn nunnan anaana anaana aanren 19 Loading the Driver Kit ssssssssrsrrrerrersrtsrrrrrrrrtt ttrt rrr rrrrrrtttrtrrrrrrrerrret 19 AutoPilot Installer siceccdasisdecsecasecdasenees rniii aaia ENN EEA 20 Starting Installers from a Command Prompt or Script ccccceceeee cents seer eeee ees 21 Running a Software Installation Interactively ccccccccee cece ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeees 21 Option 1 Automatically Run the AutoPilot Installer ccc cece eee eee ee ee 22 Option 2 Run the AutoPilot Installer Separately cece cece eee 22 Hardware First Installation or Driver Update cccccccecesee sees sense seneenennenes 23 Software First IMSEGNGUION janccsdcs ce scevedesn eed sbicneseaasieeaeseedsylenetedaneteansecdyeeuns 24 Text Only Driver Installation ssssssssnsnnnnnnnnsnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 24 Unattended Driver Installation ea 24 Option 1 Install the Driver Silently ccceecceece cece eee e eee eeeee sete saeeseeeeeeeanesanes 25 Option 2 Run the Driver Kit Installer Separately nccc 25 Installation Failure seryes cperrinor iin vetsedwesteenedeceasidesenesapees kieeeariieeetsecseel sees 26 Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol DriverS csccccceeecseeesceeesaee 26 Installing the Emulex PLUS ElxPlus Driver for the First TiM cccceeeeeenee eens 26 Updating the E
104. d in the iSCSI This failure may indicate a low memory driver during initialization condition 0x3164000D The driver failed to allocate its This message indicates a low memory complete memory requirement and condition will attempt to load with reduced capabilities Total number of targets available will be reduced 0x14831000 There was an Unrecoverable Error This may be due to hardware errors or due to detected by the iSCSI driver Following unhandled exceptions in the hardware or this error log entry the next 3 entries firmware indicate the error codes 0x138e0103 The iSCSI driver failed an IOCTL This error may indicate an incorrect request because the number of scatter gather elements required for the IOCTL buffer exceeded the firmware limit Following this error log entry the next entry will indicate the IOCTL opcode and the payload length requested Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual configuration option for the iSCSI driver It may also indicate a low memory condition P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 167 iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A 14 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows Server 2008 Continued Message ID Message Description Recommended Resolution 0x138d0101 The iSCSI driver detected an error This may indicate a target is in error or may offloading the iSCSI connection The point to transient network connectivity issues operation will
105. dapter 7 Click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer ge Select the network adapter that matches your hardware and click Have Disk 9 Direct the Device Wizard to the location of ocnd63 inf Select the desired oemsetup inf file and click Open If you have installed the driver installer kit in the default folder the path is C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer Drivers NDIS x64 NIC Win2012 10 Click Next 11 When the device driver finishes installing click Close The driver installation has completed The driver should start automatically Removing Emulex Driver Kits and Drivers Uninstalling Emulex Driver Kits Note When you uninstall the Emulex driver kit AutoPilot Installer is automatically uninstalled Windows Server 2008 To uninstall a driver kit on a Windows Server 2008 system 1 Open the Programs and Features control panel Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 31 gt G EMULEX Removing Emulex Driver Kits and Drivers 2 Select one of the following in the program list and click the Uninstall icon in the tool bar above the program list If you have User Access Control enabled click Continue when asked for permission e Emulex FC kit 2 xx xxx e Emulex FCoE kit 2 xx xxx e Emulex NIC 4 xx xxx e Emulex iSCSI kit 4 xx xxx 3 Click Yes when prompted to remove the kit After the kit is removed from the system click OK Server Core Syste
106. dated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to TCP RST sent firmware If this message is unexpected please by the transmit side check the iSCSI configuration 0x3a Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to an incoming firmware If this message is unexpected please TCP FIN check the iSCSI configuration 0x3b Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to a bad firmware If this message is unexpected please unsolicited PDU unsolicited check your iSCSI configuration PDUs are PDUs with ITT Oxffffffff 0x3c Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to a bad WRB firmware If this message is unexpected please index check your iSCSI configuration 0x3d Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received firmware If this message is unexpected please command had residual check your iSCSI configuration overrun bytes 0x3e Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received command had residual underrun bytes Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration P010077 01A Rev A 174 SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log Tab
107. der echo Unsupported operating system detected older2 if not errorlevel 2001 goto none2 echo The driver found is the same or older than the existing driver goto server2ok none2 if not errorlevel 1248 goto noreport2 echo No adapter found goto server2ok noreport if not errorlevel 110 goto nocfg2 echo Could not open installation report file goto server2ok nocfg2 if not errorlevel 87 goto badcfg2 echo Invalid configuration file parameters goto server2ok badcfg2 if not errorlevel 2 goto server2ok echo No appropriate driver found server2ok Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 192 Appendix E RoCE Switch Support 193 gt G EMULEX Overview Appendix E RoCE Switch Support Overview Some switches do not support DCBX and most DCBX enabled switches do not fully support RoCE as a protocol As of today none of the known switch vendors Arista Brocade Cisco and Juniper allow configuring priority for RoCE specific traffic Additionally most of the known switch vendors do not support APP TLV of 0x8915 for RoCE ETS bandwidth and PFC configuration DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode Manually enable priority 5 on the switch under a different priority group other than FCOE ISCSI NIC priority group Notes e When an OCe14000 series adapter is connected to a DCBX enabled switch the mode shifts from generic pause to PFC mode e When an OCe14000 series adapter is connected to a DCBX disabled swit
108. does not affect TCP offload but third party firewalls may prevent TCP offloads Uninstall third party firewall software to allow TCP offloads In the network properties some intermediate drivers prevent offloading Go to Network Connections gt Properties and clear check boxes for unused drivers In particular Network Load Balancing and some third party drivers prevent offloads IPSec is enabled Disable IPSec IP NAT is enabled Disable IP NAT The driver supports an Advanced Property to disable TCP offloading Make sure TCP offloading is enabled The TCP connection uses using IPv6 The driver supports offloading TCP connections only with IPv4 Note Packet sniffing applications such as Ethereal or Microsoft Network Monitor do not see TCP offloaded packets Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 145 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Troubleshooting the Cisco Nexus Switch Configuration Note The LACP cannot be used on the an iSCSI port Table 4 5 Cisco Nexus Switch Situations for iSCSI Issue Solution The system is showing an excessive number of Ensure that the LACP is not used on the I O timeouts as a result of the switch routing frames to the incorrect port iSCSI port iSCSI Driver Troubleshooting The following table provides troubleshooting information for the iSCSI driv
109. does not boot press lt F8 gt and select Previous Known Good or use the system restore function while booting from an operating system install disc or recovery disc 10 If the system boots but does not work properly restore from a previous restore point or import the saved reg file and reboot Verifying the Driver Version To verify the Emulex device driver meets the minimum requirements 1 Select Server Manager gt Dashboard gt Tools gt Computer Management 2 Click Device Manager The Device Manager opens File Action Media Clipboard View Help Eile Action View Help ie l e 4a WIN QOSPOD81H8G pE Computer D a Disk drives p 3 Display adapters b 3 DVD CD ROM drives a b Floppy disk drives ITLS b ea Floppy drive controllers p U5 Human Interface Devices 7 p Cg IDE ATA ATAPI controllers yest 0 lt 0 loss pb lt 2 Keyboards rage Bms p A Mice and other pointing devices p WE Monitors 4 42 Network adapters iP Emulex OneConnect OCet1102 1 NIC 6P Microsoft Hyper V Network Adapter Fo Microsoft Hyper V Network Adapter 3 Ep Microsoft Hyper V Network Adapter 4 a Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter b P Ports COM amp LPT b amp Print queues b Bd Processors gt lt gt Storage controllers pW System devices ERVER GROUPS groups 1 Servers total 1 Figure 3 4 Device Manager for Windows Server 2012 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A
110. e FC network Ipfc_mes1306 Link Down timeout Description Severity Log Action The link was down for greater than the configuration parameter HLinkTimeOut seconds All I O associated with the devices on this link will be failed Warning LOG _LINK_EVENT verbose Check adapter cable connection to SAN Tag Messages 1400 1401 Ipfc_mes1400 Tag out of range Contextindex x x MaxIndex x x ulpCommand x x Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Firmware has generated an invalid response Error LOG_LINK_EVENT verbose Review hardware configuration Contact Emulex Technical Support P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 139 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes1401 Invalid tag Contextindex x x ulpCommand x x Description Severity Log Action Firmware has generated an invalid response Error LOG _ LINK EVENT verbose Review hardware configuration Contact Emulex Technical Support NPIV Messages 1800 1899 Ipfc_mes1800 NPIV FDISC failure VPI x x Error x x Reason x x Description Severity Log Action Virtual Port fails on a FDISC to the switch with the error and reason listed Error LOG _NPIV verbose Check to ensure the switch supports NPIV Ipfc_mes1801 Memory allocation failure for NPIV port x x Description Severity Log Action Fails to allocated the block of memory for the Virtual Port Error LOG _NPI
111. e disconnect or port failure The UCNA firmware detects the loss of link and notifies the driver When this happens the driver queues the I O requests internally up to a configured timeout period so that the operating system does not see I O errors This timeout period is known as LDTO e Loss of connection to the target because of target or network disconnection at the target If the driver has I O requests pending with the target and the target becomes unavailable because the target is down has failed over or network issues are detected at the target the driver queues the I O request internally up to aconfigured timeout period This timeout period is known as ETO If the configured threshold for LDTO and ETO is reached and the UCNA is still unable to connect to the target the driver fails all I O requests I O errors are seen by the application and operating system Note Following a link up switch ports can take a long time to initialize and go toa forwarding state Because of this add additional time to the ETO and LDTO settings to eliminate I O disruption or target unavailability If the switch port is connected to a single host then PortFast mode can be enabled on the switch port to eliminate delays in transitioning to a forwarding state Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 123 gt EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration Configuring LDTO and ETO on the Windows Server LDTO and ETO valu
112. e if the setting differs among PCI functions because this is a shared property of the 10 Gb s port Examples Flow control greatly improves the following situations e The adapter is installed in 4x PCIe slot or an underpowered server system If the PCle bus does not provide 10 Gb s of throughput due to chipset limitations or the bus width the adapter cannot maintain 10 Gb s of incoming receive data It starts dropping packets quickly In this situation it may be beneficial to enable receive flow control in the adapter and enable flow control in the attached switch for all devices This helps to slow down the transmitters e The adapter transmits to 1 Gb devices especially non TCP protocol If the adapter transmits to a 10 Gb s switch with attached 1 Gb clients the adapter may overwhelm the switch The switch is then forced to start dropping packets because although it may receive a 10 Gb s stream the client can only sink a 1 Gb stream In this situation it may be beneficial to enable transmit flow control in the adapter and enable flow control for the 10 Gb s switch port Note If multiple PCI functions are exposed for a single 10 Gb s Ethernet port such as in a blade configuration the flow control parameter must be set the same on all adapters for the port The results are unpredictable if the setting differs among PCI functions because this is a shared property of the 10 Gb s port For information on modifying the Flow Control pa
113. e level of interrupt coalescing can alleviate these issues Increasing interrupt coalescing may improve total bandwidth for applications that transfer large data buffers Additionally servers running numerous parallel TCP connections may benefit from higher interrupt coalescing Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Some applications run slower with interrupt coalescing enabled such as applications that depend on the completion of the current network transfer before they post additional work If an application sends and receives one network message before posting the next message it is considered latency bound For latency bound applications an interrupt is required to proceed to the next work item so reducing the number of interrupts directly reduces the network throughput The Microsoft iSCSI Initiator is generally considered a latency bound application unless the I O sizes are very large When tuning the system you must balance the extra CPU usage caused by interrupts with the potential decrease in total throughput for latency bound applications CPU Binding Considerations Windows applications may set a processor affinity which binds a program to a particular CPU in a multiple processor computer However with the recent additions to the Windows networking stack manually configuring CPU affinity is not recommended The advantage of application affinity f
114. e of the error Receive IP Checksum Errors The number of receive packets with an incorrect IPv4 checksum These packets are provided to the TCP IP stack for disposal in the operating system Receive UDP Checksum Errors The number of receive packets with an incorrect UDP checksum These packets are provided to the TCP IP stack for disposal in the operating system Receive TCP Errors The number of receive packets with an incorrect TCP checksum These packets are provided to the TCP IP stack for disposal in the operating system Tunnels allocated Number of interfaces converted to tunnel interfaces Used with NVGRE offload enabled and on Tenants allocated Number of interfaces converted into tenant interfaces Used with NVGRE offload enabled and on and VMQ Virtual Functions allocated Number of PCle virtual functions created by the SR IOV supporting adapter Using OCCFG for Windows NIC Driver Options The occfg exe program supports configuring parameters for the network functions on Emulex Ethernet adapters either through interactive mode with a set of menus or command line mode that is scriptable If you performed a standard driver installation the occfg exe is located in the following directory Directory of C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer NIC Drivers NDIS lt platform gt lt OS gt The following section describes how to use the occfg exe program to configure the Windows device driver from the command
115. e transmit and receive packets that are using the SR IOV virtual function This is the final verification that SR IOV is working correctly SR IOV can also be verified from the host Hyper V server Note Because current versions of Windows Server 2012 require that SR IOV be enabled in different locations prior to creating the virtual switch if SR IOV is not working delete the virtual switch and create it again The SR IOV option is always available during switch creation Verifying SR IOV from the Virtual Machine To verify the SR IOV from within the virtual machine 1 From within the virtual machine select Server Manager gt Dashboard gt Tools gt Computer Management 2 Click Device Manager The Device Driver opens See Figure 3 4 on page 78 3 Open the Network Adapters item click the Emulex device and right click Select Properties from the context menu The Properties dialog box opens showing the Driver page See Figure 3 5 on page 79 Note The Emulex adapter may initially appear as a Network Adapter before the driver is loaded 4 Select the Statistics tab Information about the transmit and receive packets that are using the SR IOV virtual function are displayed specifically the number of Transmit Bytes and Receive Bytes that are transmitted directly to hardware from the virtual function If this number is greater than zero the device is successfully using the SR IOV direct hardware access Emulex Drivers for
116. ect for Wake on LAN to work the system as expected Check the system documentation to determine whether Wake on LAN must be enabled in the system BIOS Wake on LAN may not be supported by the chipset as reported by the firmware The driver reports the value that is reported by the firmware The system may not go to a lower power state because another software component device or driver is preventing it from doing SO Microsoft provides several useful references for troubleshooting Wake on LAN configuration issues in the Microsoft TechNet Library on the Microsoft website Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 143 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers Table 4 3 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers Continued Issue When running Windows Server 2008 the computer restarts and shows various Stop error codes when performing one of the following operations e Enabling or disabling TCP Chimney Offload e Changing the network adapter settings Upgrading the NIC drivers Answer Solution Apply the 979614 hotfix as described on the Microsoft website When an NDIS driver is being installed manually on a Windows Server 2008 system the installer installs the first driver it finds even if it is not the latest version of the driver Windows Server 2008 picks up the first available driver it finds when an NDIS driver is being installed manually Thus an NDIS5 drive
117. ectivity issues It may also indicate a UCNA firmware error 0x11 Warning The IOCTL opcode A requires more scatter gather elements than allowed Transfer length is B The iSCSI driver failed an IOCTL request because the number of scatter gather elements required for the IOCTL buffer exceeded the UCNA firmware limit The IOCTL opcode and the payload length requested are included in the event log entry This error may indicate an incorrect configuration option for the iSCSI driver It may also indicate a low memory condition Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 171 iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x12 Error Unrecoverable error detected An unrecoverable error was detected by the UE Low A iSCSI driver UE High B This may be caused by hardware errors or by FW Line C unhandled exceptions in the hardware or firmware 0x13 Error Hardware initialization failed The iSCSI driver detected a failure in the failing driver load hardware during initialization This failure indicates that the hardware has not been initialized or is malfunctioning This may also indicate that the firmware is not running correctl
118. ed This parameter appears disabled if the firmware installed on your device does not support TCP connection offload Upgrading the firmware may resolve this issue View the Statistics property page to ensure that TCP connection offload is working Note Both RSC IPV4 and RSC IPV6 are coerced to zero if TCP Connection Offload IPV4 is enabled P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 60 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name TCP Offload Optimization Acceptable Values Optimize Latency Optimize Throughput default Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition This parameter only applies to TCP connection offload which must be enabled in the Protocol Offloads section Most applications perform better with TCP Offload Optimization set to Optimize Throughput which handles large data transfers with minimal CPU impact Setting this parameter to Optimize Latency causes receive data to be delivered to the application without waiting for a TCP PSH This causes additional receive indications that typically decrease total throughput Transmit Buffers 64 256 inclusive The default setting is 256 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows S
119. ed the Finish dialog box is displayed The Start AutoPilot Installer box is automatically selected 4 Click Finish AutoPilot Installer runs automatically and completes one of the following installations e Hardware First Installation or Driver and Utility Update page 23 e Software First Installation page 24 Option 2 Run the AutoPilot Installer Separately To access these options run AutoPilot Installer after the driver kit loading has been completed This allows you to change the configuration options supplied to the AutoPilot Installer see below 1 Perform steps 1 through 3 for Option 1 Automatically Run the AutoPilot Installer 2 Clear the Run AutoPilot Installer check box on the Finish dialog box 3 Click Finish The driver kit installer exits After the driver kit loading is complete change the configuration in one of two ways e Change the configuration file See Software Configuration Parameters on page 183 for details e Supply parameters on the command line See appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters on page 181 for details Once you have finished this step you can run AutoPilot Installer at a later time using either of the following methods Note If you are supplying options using the command line you must run AutoPilot Installer from the command line e Select Programs gt Emulex gt AutoPilot Installer in the Start menu e Run AutoPilot Installer from
120. ed in Port is down traffic is disallowed on this function the PXESelect application If you disabled it intentionally you can ignore this message Viewing the iSCSI Error Log on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Window Server 2012 R2 The iSCSI driver on the Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems support the new event logging mechanism introduced by Storport Custom event messages are logged for a variety of events with different severity such as informational warning or error The source of the events indicates the service name and every event includes a unique ID and a symbolic name Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Message ID Severity 0x02 Info Message Driver loaded successfully Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Recommended Resolution N A P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 169 iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID 0x04 Severity Error Message Firmware version does not match with driver version Recommended Resolution The dri
121. ed installation Note AutoPilot Installer does not allow you to install the driver if the minimum Windows service pack or Microsoft Storport driver update is not installed You can install a driver by any of the following methods Note These methods are not mutually exclusive e Hardware first installation At least one Emulex adapter must be installed before you can install the Emulex drivers and utilities e Software first installation You can install drivers and utilities using AutoPilot Installer prior to the installation of any adapters You do not need to specify the adapter models to be installed later The appropriate drivers and utilities automatically load when you install the adapters e Utility only installation If the drivers in the driver kit share the same version with those already installed on the system you can reinstall or update the previously installed utility without reinstalling the drivers Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX 2 Installation 21 AutoPilot Installer e Text only installation Text based installation mode is used automatically when AutoPilot Installer is run on a Server Core system e Network installation You can place the driver kit installers on a shared network drive and install them across your LAN Network based installation is often used in conjunction with unattended installation and scripting This allows you to configure and install the same driver
122. eeeeeeeatees 107 Windows Server Network Driver ssssssssssssrisistntt iriran ttrt need 107 NUMA Considerations for Windows Server 2012 R2 ccce cece eee eee eee 110 Checksum Offloading and Large Send Offloading LSO cccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 111 Receive Side Scaling RSS for Non Offloaded IP TCP Network Traffic 0000s 111 TCP Off loading TOB c sssacs sana ner neran nina aa a i aeda Adeatens 112 Receive Window Auto Tuning and Compound TCP ccceeee cette eee eee errer 115 Interrupt COSLESCING kiecscnetievaiancieeseeebssemebedetaaed EEEE EERE EENE AE 115 CPU Binding Considerations cccccccecceee eect esate cess eee eeeeeeeeeatesaeeeeeeeeneeategs 116 Single TCP Connection Performance Settings ccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenesatees 116 iSCSI Driver CONTGUPATION nascsecrscnenascercatwnaseensctennesebansendaseesdcuemabbobacmemarcende 117 Configuring iSCSI Driver OPtiGNns cociecsseiveiwveddearnctarsienmdasesbearoniarsearereuents 117 Interrupt Moderation Policy Settings ssssssssssrrrrrersrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerree 119 Creating Non Bootable argetS ccce 119 Using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service sssssssssresrerrrerrrrrrerrrrrerrrrrrerrrrrr 119 Logging into a Target Using the Microsoft Software Initiator esseereeeeererrrrre 120 Windows Multipath I O Support sciscectiriceudecnevtavieeadiias cats eines casera 120 Multipath SUPPONE neiii renarena EERE EATE
123. ely These options assume you have already downloaded the driver kit from the Emulex website e Option 1 allows you to automatically run the AutoPilot Installer which completes the driver kit loading and AutoPilot installation with a few mouse clicks e Option 2 allows you to run the AutoPilot Installer separately This option is recommended when o Changing installation settings for a limited number of systems o Familiarizing yourself with AutoPilot Installer configuration options Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX 2 Installation 22 AutoPilot Installer Option 1 Automatically Run the AutoPilot Installer Use this option unless you have specific configuration needs 1 Double click the driver kit or run it from a command line See appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters on page 181 for information on the command line options The command line parameter APargs allows you to specify arguments that are automatically passed to the AutoPilot Installer command A Welcome page is displayed with driver kit version information and Emulex contact information 2 Click Next to proceed to the Installation Options page For each installation option the default installation location for that option is displayed Browse to a different location if desired 3 Click Install to continue the installation The Progress dialog box is displayed After all tasks are complet
124. em where the adapter is installed and monitored When packets are sniffed transmit packets may appear to have incorrect checksums because the hardware has not yet calculated them The adapter supports transmit LSO which allows the TCP stack to send one large block of data and the hardware segments it into multiple TCP packets This is recommended for performance but it can be disabled for packet sniffing applications LSO sends appear as giant packets in the packet sniffer because the hardware has not yet segmented them Note On Windows Server 2012 Recv Segment Coalescing is enabled by default You must disable Recv Segment Coalescing if you want to set the Checksum Offload setting to anything other than enabled For information on modifying the CheckSum Offload or Large Send Offload parameter see Configuring NIC Driver Options on page 44 Receive Side Scaling RSS for Non Offloaded IP TCP Network Traffic The adapter can process TCP receive packets on multiple processors in parallel This is ideal for applications that are CPU limited Typically these applications have numerous client TCP connections that may be short lived Web servers and database servers are prime examples RSS typically increases the number of transactions per second for these applications Understanding RSS To better understand RSS it helps to understand the interrupt mechanism used in the network driver Without RSS a network driver receives an inter
125. ent variable For example ReportLocation ProgramFiles my company reports Note The contents of the ProgramFiles environment variable is not terminated with a slash so you must provide one in the string Windows environment variables are not case sensitive Configuration Identification AUTOPILOT ID This section appears at the beginning of every AutoPilot configuration file and contains revision and label information The revision entry identifies the file s version number and the date on which it was produced The label entry is used to identify the configuration that the file supports This section may appear only once in the APInstall cfg file Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A o Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters 187 gt EMULEX AutoPilot Configuration File Software Configuration AUTOPILOT CONFIG This section can contain settings that control and configure AutoPilot Installer and the OneCommand Manager application operation This section can appear only once in the AutoPilot configuration file See Software Configuration Parameters on page 183 for information about settings that may be specified in this section Configuration Prompts Vendor Specific Questions STORPORT CONFIGURATION Note You must remove or comment out the entire STORPORT CONFIGURATION section for an unattended installation A STORPORT CONFIGURATION section may exist i
126. er Table 4 6 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Issue Overall failure Answer Solution Use the iSCSlSelect utility to clear the Adapter Configuration See the Emulex Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for instructions The driver loads successfully but there are event 11 entries in the event log for the iSCSI driver The most common cause is that the UCNA link is down See iSCSI Error Log on Windows Server 2008 on page 165 and look for specific event codes to confirm Unable to create a memory dump file on a system booted over iSCSI Make sure the disk has enough free disk space to create the dump file If a full memory dump is selected the disk must have free space at least equivalent to the amount of physical memory in the system Unable to log in to target from WMI e Ensure that the IP address on the UCNA is valid and the network connection has been set up to reach the target e If login is attempted after discovering the target ensure that the correct UCNA port has been selected for the login The iSCSI WMI GUI shows the target state as connected but no LUNs are seen from the disk manager Verify that the UCNA name used to connect to the target matches the UCNA name configured on the iSCSI target Multipath configuration shows duplicate LUNs on the disk manager Ensure that MPIO software is installed and the login options have selected the MPIO flag On Wind
127. er o Receive Side Scaling RSS is enabled and sets the RSS profile to use the Closest parameter for the Ethernet adapters If these conditions exist install KB2846837 before installing the Emulex NIC driver Onelnstall Installer Note The Onelnstall Installer does not allow you to perform pre installation tasks unattended installations or text only installations For these tasks use the driver kits The Onelnstall package is a self extracting executable file that installs the following software on your system All compatible protocol drivers o FC o FCoE o iSCSI o NIC o NIC RoCE Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 19 gt EMULEX Driver Installation Options e ElxPlus driver supports the OneCommand Manager application persistent binding and LUN mapping and masking e OneCommand Manager application for Emulex adapters Note The Enterprise kit for the OneCommand Manager application does not operate locally on Windows Server Core You must install the OneCommand Manager Core Kit command line interface only to the Windows Server Core Loading the Onelnstall Package To install the drivers using the Onelnstall package 1 ae ON 6 Download the OnelInstall package from the Emulex website Navigate to the Onelnstall package in Windows Explorer Double click the Onelnstall package The Welcome screen appears Click Next The Installation options screen
128. er Options Supported Operating Option Name Acceptable Values Systems Definition Class of Service Automatic Priority default Windows Server 2008 The following modes are 802 1p Filtered Priority Windows Server 2008 R2 Supported for selecting 802 1p User Priority Windows Server 2012 priorisy tags as i Sa i e Automatic Priority The DCBX Disable Priority Windows Server 2012 R2 standard allows the network adapter to negotiate priority class usage with DCBX aware endpoints such as switches or network cards If the peer indicates that priority pause is supported for a non zero priority the NIC automatically inserts the default priority in all transmitted packets This is the default mode allowing priority pause to operate for both storage and network traffic If the peer indicates a zero default priority such as when the peer does not support priority pause the device uses the Non Storage Priority mode discussed below e Filtered Priority This mode coerces the user priorities in each packet to avoid sending packets on the network function that may disrupt the converged adapter s storage traffic The network device uses the next lower priority if a conflict exists This mode is useful if multiple network priorities are necessary Only a limited number of classes are supported for priority pause so typically it does not function optimally in this mode e User Priority This mode allows any user specified p
129. erver 2008 and later versions allows TCP offloads in more scenarios than previous versions of Windows Server In particular TCP offloads may occur with the Windows firewall enabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX TCP Offload Failure 4 Troubleshooting 144 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers The following table lists common reasons why TCP offloads do not occur and their suggested fixes Table 4 4 Troubleshooting TCP Offload Failures Reasons for No TCP Offload Chimney offload is disabled on the system Solutions For Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 To determine whether Chimney offload is enabled or disabled at the command line type netsh interface tcp show global To enable Chimney offload at the command line type netsh interface tcp set global chimney enabled To disable Chimney offload at the command line type netsh interface tcp set global chimney disabled For Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 To verify whether offloading is enabled type netstat nt This command displays a list of connections and their offloading state Offloads are disabled for specific ports or applications To view any TCP ports or applications that may be configured to disable TCP offload at the command line type netsh interface tcp show chimneyports netsh interface tcp show chimneyapplications A third party firewall is running The Windows firewall
130. erver 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Transmit Buffers sets the number of Ethernet transmits that may be posted to the hardware at any given time The default value is sufficient to achieve maximum performance Reducing this value conserves system memory Transmit CPU Not Present or a value from 0 through number of CPUs 1 Optional There is no default setting Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Sets the CPU to be used to process transmit completions By default the driver intelligently chooses a CPU in the system so this parameter should only be set for advanced performance tuning Transmit Side Enabled Windows Server 2008 TSS distributes transmit Scaling TSS Disabled Windows Server 2008 R2 Completions to be processed on f multiple CPUs in parallel It uses Windows Server 2012 the RSS CPU table for distribution Windows Server 2012 R2 and therefore requires RSS to be enabled UDP Checksum Disabled Windows Server 2008 UDP offload checksum settings Offload IPv4 RX and TX Enabled default RX Enabled TX Enabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 offload the transmit and or receive IPv4 UDP checksum computation Offloading checksums increases system efficiency P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 61 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3
131. erver response containing a status error Error LOG DISCOVERY verbose Check Fabric configuration The driver recovers from this and continues with device discovery Ipfc_mes0236 P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 131 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0256 Start node timer on NPortld x x timeout value d Description Severity Log Action Starting timer for disconnected target with NPort ID and timeout value Information LOG _ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0260 Stop node timer on NPortlid x x SCSIId x x Description Severity Log Action Discontinuing timer for reconnected target with NPort ID and SCSI ID Information LOG ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0262 Node timeout on NPortld x x SCSIId x x Description Severity Log Action Disconnected NPort ID SCSI ID has failed to reconnect within timeout limit Error LOG ELS verbose Review system configuration Mailbox Log Messages 0310 0326 Ipfc_mes0310 Mailbox command timeout HBA unresponsive Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual A Mailbox command was posted to the adapter and did not complete within 30 seconds sync 0 asynchronous mailbox command is issued 1 synchronous mailbox command is issued Error LOG MBOX ve rbose This error could indicate a software driver or firmware issue If no I O
132. es are configured using the Advanced tab of the Device Manager Property page Table 3 14 lists the default values of LDTO and ETO on the Windows Server and the limits within which they can be configured Note Ifthe ETO is set to a number between 0 and 19 the driver assumes the value to 20 seconds internally You will not see any modification to the registry Table 3 14 LDTO and ETO Information on the Windows Server Value Default Minimum Maximum LDTO 20 sec 0 sec 3600 sec ETO 90 sec 0 sec 3600 sec To modify LDTO and ETO values edit the driver parameters for the iscsi service 1 Select the Emulex OneConnect iSCSI CNA in the Windows Device Manager under Storage Controllers 2 Right click and select Properties The Device Manager Property page opens 3 Select the Advanced tab and make the following changes e LDTO 25 e ETO 50 4 Reboot the system for the changes to take effect This sets the default value of LDTO to 25 seconds and the default value of ETO to 50 seconds The settings are applied the next time the driver is loaded You must reboot the system boot drivers or disable the iSCSI driver and enable it again non boot drivers in Device Manager for the settings to take effect Error Handling Under MultiPath MPIO and Cluster Configurations In an MPIO or cluster configuration fault tolerant software is present on the system in addition to the iSCSI driver s default error handling scheme Depending on the type o
133. etworkInterface Value 8 Force Configuring Multichannel Note RoCE is not supported when multichannel is enabled Multichannel or UMC allows you to divide a 10Gb port into multiple physical functions with flexible bandwidth capacity allocation These functions appear to the operating system and network as separate physical devices Multichannel can be configured on OCe14000 series adapters through the adapter BIOS or the OneCommand Manager application e To configure multichannel using the adapter BIOS see the Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual e To configure multichannel using the OneCommand Manager application see the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual or the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface User Manual Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A XG EMULEX 3 Configuration QQ NIC Driver Configuration Refer to the Emulex Universal Multichannel Reference Guide for additional information on multichannel NPar Configuration Dell Only Notes e NPar is available only on OCe14000 series adapters e When NPar is enabled RoCE cannot be configured on any function e Each partition should have standard NIC properties for stateless offload e SR IOV must be disabled on the adapter BIOS when NPar is used See the following documentation for information on disabling SR IOV on the adapter BIOS o To configure SR IOV using the adapter BIOS see the Boot for NIC iSCSI FC
134. evice is no longer operational 0x0002b 43 Informational The driver successfully recovered __ This message is informational from an error 0x0002a 42 Warning Legacy driver loaded Move to the NDIS 6 20 driver for Windows Server 2008 R2 for best performance 0x0029 41 Warning Legacy driver loaded Move to the NDIS 6 x driver for Windows Server 2008 for best performance 0x0028 40 Warning The firmware is outdated and does The firmware and the driver are not not support TOE offloads for this compatible versions See the driver Update the firmware Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware and drivers 0x0026 38 Warning The device firmware does not The firmware and the driver are not support RSS functionality for this compatible versions See the network adapter Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware and drivers Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information Table A 13 NIC Event Log Entries Continued 162 NIC Error and Event Logs Message ID Hexadecimal Decimal Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x0025 37 Warning The device firmware does not The firmware and the driver are not support TCP offload functionality compatible versions See the Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware and drivers 0x0024 36 Error The device fir
135. f failover configuration the iSCSI driver s error handling parameter can be configured to modify the timing characteristics of a failover operation If the iSCSI target is in Active Active failover mode the iSCSI driver can be configured to report I O errors as soon as they are detected by setting the iSCSI driver s LDTO and ETO parameters to 0 This allows the failover software to trigger a path failover to an active path or active node as quickly as possible If the iSCSI target is in Active Standby failover mode then the iSCSI driver must wait for the target side failover operation to complete before reporting device unavailability to the operating system For such configurations the driver s ETO must be set to the amount of time the iSCSI target needs to complete its failover operation Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 124 General Troubleshooting 4 Troubleshooting There are several circumstances in which your system may operate in an unexpected manner The Troubleshooting section contains reference tables on event codes and error messages and provides information regarding unusual situations General Troubleshooting Table 4 1 General Troubleshooting Issue The operating system fails to install or does not successfully install the driver Answer Solution Verify that the operating system is supported by the driver Windows Device Manager shows a code
136. f each parameter should be enclosed in double quotes See Examples on page 178 All options are case sensitive Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Appendix B Configuring iSCSI through DHCP 178 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Recommendations Description of Mandatory and Optional Parameters Table B 1 describes the parameters used in the data string for option 43 Table B 1 Data String Parameters for Option 43 Parameter Description Field Type lt TargetIP gt A valid IPv4 address in dotted decimal notation Mandatory lt TargetT CPPort gt A decimal number ranging from 1 to 65535 inclusive Optional The default TCP port is 3260 lt LUN gt A hexadecimal representation of the LUN of the boot Optional device By default LUN 0 is assumed to be the boot LUN It is an eight byte number which should be specified as a hexadecimal number consisting of 16 digits with an appropriate number of zeroes padded to the left if required lt TargetName gt A valid iSCSI name of up to 223 characters Mandatory lt dinitiatorName gt A valid iSCSI iqn name of up to 223 characters If it is Optional not provided the default initiator name generated by the UCNA based on its MAC address is used lt HeaderDigest gt Either E the header digest is enabled or D the header Optional digest is disabled lt DataDigest gt Either E the data digest is enabled or D the
137. failure indicates that the driver version mismatched version of the firmware that is running on the system does not match running on the board This error may the version of the firmware on the board be followed by error codes Correct this by running the installer from the 0x31840001 or 0x31880001 indicating desired version that the iSCSI driver failed to load 0x11840001 The iSCSI driver detected a failure in This failure indicates that the hardware has the hardware during initialization not been initialized or is malfunctioning This This error may be followed by error may also indicate that the firmware is not codes 0x31840001 or 0x31880001 running correctly indicating that the iSCSI driver failed to load 0x11800005 Both Port 0 and Port 1 links were down Check the links to the UCNA If the link is for a period exceeding the LDTO If reestablished any sessions that previously the UCNA has connection to the existed are reestablished and the devices is target there will be event log entries available for I O from the disk subsystem indicating that the drives were lost If any I Os were in progress the system may see I O errors or failures 0x11800003 Both Port 0 and Port 1 links are down Check the links to the UCNA 0x31840005 Driver load failed because the PCI Check the configuration on the UCNA Vendor ID and Device ID are not supported 0x1180000A The logical link on the OneConnect The iSCSI function may have been disabl
138. from corrupted use of to the VM that may allow the VM to SR IOV Assigning an SR IOV device crash the entire physical computer to a Virtual Machine could leave the This is no different than running a system vulnerable and lead to physical adapter SR IOV should only instability It is strongly be used when the VM has a trusted recommended that you assign server administrator SR IOV devices only to Virtual Machines that run trusted workloads or consider disabling the use of SR IOV 0x00036 54 Warning Incompatible optics Replace the incompatible SFP Replace with compatible optics for transceivers with compatible ones card to function for the card to function correctly 0x00035 53 Warning Optics of two types Remove one SFP transceiver or installed Remove one optic or install a matching pair of SFP install matching pair of optics transceivers 0x00034 52 Warning Optics faulted incorrectly Reseat the SFP transceiver If the installed not installed Reseat issue is not resolved replace it optics if issue not resolved replace 0x00033 51 Warning SR IOV virtualization failed Check system BIOS settings or initialization Check system BIOS disable SR IOV for the adapter settings or disable SR IOV for the adapter 0x00032 50 Warning The Ethernet link is down due to Improve the cooling conditions for PHY over temperature condition the device Improve cooling for the device Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P0
139. g Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition Large Send Offload allows the NIC hardware to segment large TCP packets up to 64kB into smaller packets lt Packet Size that may be transmitted This segmentation increases transmit efficiency for TCP applications that send large buffers During segmentation the hardware computes the IPv4 and TCP checksums for each individual packet The Windows Version 1 LSO supports only IPv4 Large Send Offload v2 IPv4 Disabled Enabled default Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Large Send Offload allows the NIC hardware to segment large TCP packets up to 64kB into smaller packets lt Packet Size that may be transmitted This segmentation increases transmit efficiency for TCP applications that send large buffers During segmentation the hardware computes the IPv4 and TCP checksums for each individual packet The Windows Version2 LSO supports larger offload sizes Large Send Offload v2 IPv6 Disabled Enabled default Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Large Send Offload allows the NIC hardware to segment large TCP packets up to 64kB into smaller packets less than the MTU that may be transmitted This segmentation increases transmit efficiency for TCP applications th
140. gate to Emulex AutoPilot Installer 3 Run the following batch files e Uninstall_fc_kit bat e Uninstall_cna_kit bat e Uninstall_nic_kit bat e Uninstall_iscsi_kit bat The driver files are removed from the system On all platforms the reports folder in the Emulex AutoPilot Installer folder is not removed so you can still view installation history and the drivers that have been installed on the system You can delete the reports folder at any time Uninstalling the Emulex Drivers The Emulex Storport Miniport and Emulex PLUS ElxPlus drivers are uninstalled using the Device Manager Windows Server 2008 Note On Windows 2008 after the message Warning you are about to uninstall this device from your system is displayed you must select Delete the software for this device to uninstall the driver Emulex Storport Miniport Driver To uninstall the Emulex Storport Miniport driver 1 Select Start gt All Programs gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management 2 Click Device Manager 3 Double click the adapter from which you want to remove the Storport Miniport driver A device specific console window is displayed Select the Driver tab 4 Click Uninstall and click OK to uninstall ElxPlus Driver Note Uninstall the ElxPlus driver only if all adapters and installations of Emulex miniport drivers are uninstalled To uninstall the ElxPlus driver 1 Run the Device Manager steps 1 and 2 above 2 Click the plus si
141. ge opens Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 80 DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration eea Details Events Power Management Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics SG EMULE X Advanced Property Configuration Value Wake On LAN E Performance CPU Affinity Flow Control Interrupt Moderation Num RSS Queues Receive Buffers Receive Side Scaling TCP Offload Optimization Transmit Buffers Set to Default Virtual Machine Queues E Protocol Offloads d Reset All to Defaut Single Root IO Virtualization SR IOV enables the adapter tola allocate virtual PCI functions for each virtual machine in E Hyper V Note that the virtual switch and virtual network _ adapter must have SRIOV enabled in the Hyper V Manager When using SRIOV the Emulex NIC driver must be installed L on each virtual function within the virtual machine SR IOV provides a direct hardware interface from the virtual machine to the networking adapter which reduces latency v and improves performance Figure 3 6 Emulex NIC Advanced Properties Page 5 Select SR IOV from the list and select Enabled from the Value list Note You must configure Hyper V to create an SR IOV enabled virtual machine See Microsoft Hyper V documentation for more information Hyper V The Hyper V role must be added using the Server Manager Once the Hyper V role is added you can enable SR IOV in the Hyper
142. ged If you select NPar NPar is enabled and the PCI function parameters can be modified see Enabling NPar Using the Multichannel Property Page on page 100 e Factory Default restores the adapter to its factory default settings A system reboot is required for the changes to take an effect e Port tab lists all of the ports available on the adapter Each row in the list view corresponds to a single PCI function and contains all PCI function parameters The PF column contains the PCI function number of the device The Name column provides a friendly device name if one is available Otherwise the name is a generic operating system device class name Note If you cancel the configuration change and return the device to its factory default state a reboot is still required PCI Function Presentation Using NPar Table 3 6 PCI Function Representation for a Two Port Adapter Port Partition Function Personality 1 1 0 NIC 2 2 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 4 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 6 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 2 1 1 NIC 2 3 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 5 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 7 NIC iSCSI FCoE None Table 3 7 PCI Function Representation for a Four Port Adapter Port Partition Function Personality 1 1 0 NIC 2 4 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 2 1 1 NIC 2 5 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 3 1 2 NIC 2 6 NIC iSCSI FCoE None 4 1 3 NIC 2 7 NIC iSCSI
143. gn next to the Emulex PLUS driver class 3 Right click the Emulex driver and click Uninstall 4 Click OK in the Confirm Device Removal window Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation gt lt 33 gt EMULEX Removing Emulex Driver Kits and Drivers Older Versions of the Emulex Storport Miniport Driver To uninstall or update an earlier version of the Storport Miniport driver prior to version 1 20 you must remove the registry settings for the adjunct driver prior to manually installing a new driver To remove the adjunct driver registry settings 1 Browse to the Storport Miniport driver version 1 20 or later driver kit that you downloaded and extracted 2 Double click on the deladjct reg file A Registry Editor window appears to confirm that you want to execute deladjct reg 3 Click Yes The elxadjct key is removed from the registry Windows Server 2012 The Emulex Storport Miniport and Emulex PLUS ElxPlus drivers are uninstalled using the device manager Note On Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 after the message Warning you are about to uninstall this device from your system is displayed you must select the checkbox Delete the software for this device to uninstall the driver Emulex Storport Miniport Driver To uninstall the Emulex Storport Miniport driver in Windows Server 2012 1 Select Server Manager gt Dashboard gt Tools gt Computer Management gt Device M
144. guration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration ao Notes e The operating system comes with an Emulex inbox driver Emulex recommends that you use the Emulex out of box driver e Fora list of supported drivers and adapters see the latest Windows Drivers release notes which are available for download from the Emulex website e SR IOV is not supported with RoCE configurations e SR IOV is not supported with UMC e SR IOV is supported only on the following adapters in NIC mode installed on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 with an installed Emulex NIC driver o OCe11000 series NIC adapters o LPel6202 CFAs o OCel14000 series adapters e The driver supports the following virtual functions for the following adapter families o OCe11100 series adapters support a maximum of 24 virtual functions port o OCel14000 series adapters support a maximum of e 2 port 10 Gb 31 virtual functions physical function e 4 port 10 Gb 31 virtual functions physical function e 1 port 40 Gb 63 virtual functions physical function Server BIOS Configuration SR IOV requires support in the server chipset beyond standard virtualization technologies including operating system control of PCle and interrupt remapping The server may have BIOS options to control SR IOV and typically these are disabled by default The following may need modification in your system BIOS during boot e Enable Virtualization such as Intel VT x or AMD V This
145. hat is already configured or use the default name if no initiator name is already configured e Header digest Enabled e Data digest Disabled e Authentication type Mutual CHAP Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix C Port Speed Specifications 180 Negotiating Speed on a Mezzanine Card Appendix C Port Speed Specifications A UCNA can support only one Ethernet port speed at a time and the preference is always for 10 Gb s The type of module used copper or optical does not make a difference As soon as a 10 Gb module is plugged into one of the ports the UCNA switches to a 10 Gb speed no matter what speed the other port is running or even if I O is running on that port This behavior is a per UCNA constraint another UCNA can be running on a different speed Table C 1 lists negotiated speed specifications per an adapter s port connection Table C 1 Negotiated Speed Specification per Adapter Port Connection Port 0 Port 1 Port Link Status Speed 10 Gb s 10 Gb s Both ports link up 10 Gb s 10 Gb s 1Gb s Only Port 0 links up 10 Gb s 1Gb s 10 Gb s Only Port 1 links up 10 Gb s 1Gb s 1Gb s Both ports link up 1 Gb s 1Gb s Only Port 0 links up 1 Gb s 1Gb s Only Port 1 links up 1 Gb s 10 Gb s Only Port 0 links up 10 Gb s 10 Gb s Only Port 1 links up 10 Gb s Negotiating Speed on a Mezzanine Card A mezzanine card retains the first negotiated speed This could
146. he connection to the target or the state a period exceeding the ETO The error of the target device If the target is made log entry immediately following this available any sessions that existed previously entry will indicate the session ID of are reestablished and the devices are available the target that lost the connection for I O There will be event log entries from the disk subsystem indicating that the drives were lost If any I Os were in progress the system may see I O errors or failures 0x11990007 The iSCSI driver received a TMF that is The operating system version is not supported not supported and rejected this request The error log entry immediately following this entry will indicate the TMF function code that was rejected 0x11940008 The iSCSI driver received a TMF Abort This may indicate a slow connection to the request for an I O request that is not target Check network connectivity to the present with the driver target for any errors 0x1184000B Firmware returned invalid data in its Reload the firmware configuration iSCSI login and offload are disabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log 168 Table A 14 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows Server 2008 Continued Message ID Message Description Recommended Resolution 0x11840002 The iSCSI driver encountered a This
147. he iSCSI driver received a Task Management Function that is not supported and it rejected this request An application or service that is installed on the system may not be compatible with the driver 0x0a Error Task Management Function abort was received on a task that is not present The iSCSI driver received a Task Management Function Abort request for an I O request that is not present with the driver This may indicate a slow connection to the target Check network connectivity to the target for any errors 0x0b Error Error in determining firmware configuration Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual An error in determining the firmware configuration occurred The firmware on the UCNA may not be functioning properly Check the UCNA and reinstall the firmware if required P010077 01A Rev A gt lt EMULEX iSCSI Error and Event Log Appendix A Error and Event Log Information Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Ox0e Severity Warning Message iSCSI error was detected on session A ExpCmdSn B MaxCmdsSn C Recommended Resolution The iSCSI driver received an invalid iSCSI Command Sequence Number update from the target The event log entry indicates the session handle MaxCmdSN and ExpCmdsSN e Verify that the iSCSI target is certified by M
148. he number of RSS CPUs or disable RSS entirely Poor RSS behavior is typical only in network performance testing applications that receive data but perform no other processing For other applications RSS allows the application to scale other processing tasks across all CPUs thereby improving overall performance RSS offers the most benefit for applications that create numerous short lived connections These applications are typically CPU limited instead of network bandwidth limited For information on modifying the RSS Queues parameter see Configuring NIC Driver Options on page 44 Note Microsoft currently does not schedule RSS processing on all hyper threaded CPUs For example only CPU 1 and 3 have RSS queues on a dual core hyperthreaded CPU Enabling Windows to Use Up to Eight Processors Windows Server 2008 uses only four processors by default It is possible for adapters to use up to eight processors In order for the driver to use up to eight processors the registry must be changed and the system restarted For Windows Server 2008 set the registry keyword MaxNumRssCpus a DWORD type to 8 at the location HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Ndis Parameters Note Do not set the registry keyword to a value greater than the number of processors in the system or 16 whichever is smaller For Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 the operating system uses all available CPU cores for RSS witho
149. hese features affect only non offloaded TCP traffic Performance of some 10 Gb s stress applications may suffer with these features enabled In particular Emulex has seen some bi directional data stream test performance degradation when receive window auto tuning is enabled This is due to increased receive performance that adversely affects the same TCP connection s transmit performance To disable these features type these commands at the command line prompt netsh interface tcp set global autotuning disabled netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider none Interrupt Coalescing The Windows Server network driver automatically performs adaptive interrupt coalescing During periods of low network usage the interrupt delay is set to a minimum for lower latency As the interrupt rate increases the delay is increased This allows the driver to perform more work in a single interrupt which reduces the amount of wasted cycles from additional interrupts The interrupt coalescing algorithm automatically tunes the system to maintain responsiveness and performance in a wide variety of situations including RSS and TOE traffic On slower machines excessive interrupts cause user input to become non responsive and they may not allow sufficient CPU cycles for higher level drivers such as Microsoft iSCSI Initiator and applications This may result in timeouts in upper layer applications because they are never scheduled to run Increasing th
150. hitecture establishes each Emulex virtual NIC with a corresponding emulated NIC This allows the virtual machine to seamlessly failover to the emulated NIC if SR IOV is disabled It also allows Live Migration to another system regardless of the installed NIC hardware Note The driver currently supports the following virtual functions for the following adapter families o OCe11100 series adapters support a maximum of 24 virtual functions port o OCel4000 series adapters support a maximum of 02 port 10 Gb 31 virtual functions physical function 04 port 10 Gb 31 virtual functions physical function Q1 port 40 Gb 63 virtual functions physical function Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 58 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name TCP Checksum Offload IPv4 Acceptable Values Disabled RX and TX Enabled default RX Enabled Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Definition TCP Checksum Offload IPv4 offloads the transmit and or receive IPv4 TCP checksum computation Offloading TX Enabled Windows Server 2012 R2 checksums increases system efficiency TCP Checksum Disabled Windows Server 2008 TCP Checksum Offload IPv6 Offload IPv6 RX a
151. ication Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration P010077 01A Rev A 175 SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 176 iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x4d Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the command and firmware If this message is unexpected please data were not on the same check your iSCSI configuration connection Ox4e Warning Solicited command was This condition is detected by the OneConnect invalidated internally due to firmware If this message is unexpected please DIF warning check your iSCSI configuration Ox4f Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual internally due to an incoming unsolicited PDU that had immediate data on the connection that does not support it firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration P010077 01A Rev A SXC EMULEX Appendix B Configuring iSCSI through DHCP 177 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Recommendations Appendix B Configuring iSCSI through DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Proto
152. ice is expected to exceed 32 increase this parameter to a value greater than the number of expected I Os per device up to a maximum of 254 The QueueDepth parameter defaults to 32 If 32 is set and not a high enough value performance degradation may occur due to Storport throttling its device queue CoalesceMsCnt CoalesceMsCnt defaults to zero If you are using a performance evaluation tool such as IOMETER and if you expect the I O activity to be greater than 8000 I Os per second set CoalesceMsCnt to 1 and reinitialized with an adapter reset or system reboot CoalesceRspCnt CoalesceRspCnt defaults to 8 For all other values up to the maximum of 63 the adapter does not interrupt the host with a completion until either CoalesceMsCnt milliseconds has elapsed or CoalesceRspCnt responses are pending The value of these two driver parameters reduces the number of interrupts per second which improves overall CPU utilization However there is a point where the number of I Os per second is small relative to CoalesceMsCnt and this will slow down the completion process causing performance degradation Examples Test Scenario One e You execute IOMETER with an I O depth of 1 I O per device in a small scale configuration 16 devices In this case the test does not exceed the adapter s performance limits and the number of I Os per second are in the low thousands e Recommendation set CoalesceMsCnt to 0 or leave the default value Test Scena
153. ice was installed for example a script similar to the following would run remote execution remd serverl g emulex autopilot installer fc apinstall exe if errorlevel 1 goto serverlok echo AutoPilot reported an error upgrading Server 1 if not errorlevel 2147483650 goto unsupported echo Configuration file missing goto serverlok unsupported if not errorlevel 2147483649 goto older echo Unsupported operating system detected older if not errorlevel 2001 goto none echo The driver found is the same or older than the existing driver Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX Command Script Example goto serverlok none if not errorlevel 1248 goto noreport echo No Emulex adapter found goto serverlok noreport if not errorlevel 110 goto nocfg echo Could not open installation report file goto serverlok nocfg if not errorlevel 87 goto badcfg echo Invalid configuration file parameters goto serverlok badcfg if not errorlevel 2 goto serverilok echo No appropriate driver found serverlok remd server2 g autopilot ApInstall ConfigFileLocation g autopilot mysetup apinstall cfg if errorlevel 1 goto server2ok echo AutoPilot reported an error upgrading Server 2 if not errorlevel 2147483650 goto unsupported echo Configuration file missing goto server2ok unsupported if not errorlevel 2147483649 goto ol
154. icrosoft Check for errors reported at the target The Emulex iSCSI UCNA is only supported with certified targets e Check for software updates at the target vendor s website If applicable update the software e Check for driver and firmware updates at the Emulex website If applicable update the driver and firmware OxOf Warning The iSCSI target on session id N failed to open the command window within configured timeout The iSCSI driver did not receive an iSCSI command window update for up to 25 seconds during I O operations The event log entry indicates the session handle on which the error occurred The iSCSI driver triggers a session recovery on the session and continues e Verify that the iSCSI target is certified by Microsoft Check for errors reported at the target The Emulex iSCSI UCNA is only supported with certified targets e Check for software updates at the target vendor s website If applicable update the software e Check for driver and firmware updates at the Emulex website If applicable update the driver and firmware 0x10 Warning Encountered an error offloading an iSCSI connection error code N The iSCSI driver detected an error while offloading the iSCSI connection The operation is retried up to five times The session handle and the UCNA firmware error code are included in the event log message This may indicate a target is in error or it may point to transient network conn
155. icrosoft filter driver ms_netwnv Caution Do not change the filter driver name e VM Names e VM MAC Addresses e VMSID Virtual Machine Subnet ID e HOST IP Address Provider Address Physical NIC IP Address for NVGRE e VM IP Address Customer Address IP Address on each vNIC per VM e Subnet Masks Verification and Troubleshooting Verify that the host provider addresses can ping each other If pings fail perform the following steps 1 Shutdown all VMs on all of the hosts Remove the policies Remove the vport0 virtual switch Reboot the hosts Create a vport0 switch ATF YN On each VM add a new adapter and use the vswitch name that you just created Note Do not share the NIC with the host operating system Apply the polices Power up the VMs 9 Ping the provider addresses m H Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A XG EMULEX 3 Configuration 88 NIC Driver Configuration MS_NETWNV sys should only be bound to WNVNIC physical NIC If ms_netwnv is bound to a vswitch or Hyper V adapter unbind it from the host server For example Disable netadapterbinding vEthernet ComponentID ms_netwnv Verify that all of the IP Addresses and MAC Addresses used in the add and remove policy scripts match the VM IP s MACs using ipconfig all Create firewall rules to allow ICMP ping packets 1 New NetFirewallRule DisplayName Allow ICMPv4 In Protocol ICMPv4 2 New NetFirewallRule D
156. ific location Advanced and click Next 10 Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next 11 Click Have Disk and direct the Device Wizard to the location of be2iscsi inf If you have installed the driver installer kit in the default folder the path is c Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer iSCSI Drivers Storport x64 Windows Version 12 Click OK Select Emulex OneConnect OCm lt your adapter model gt iSCSI Initiator 13 Click Next 14 Click Finish The driver installation has completed The driver should start automatically Installing or Updating the NIC Driver Note The Microsoft patch KB2846340 must be installed on your system This patch from Microsoft s Knowledge Base kb is available for Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 on the Microsoft website Windows Server 2008 Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Device Manager Open the Network Adapters item Double click the desired Emulex adapter Select the Driver tab Click Update Driver The Update Driver wizard starts Click Browse my computer for driver software Gy Ol ee ee Note The driver affects only the selected adapter If there are other adapters in the system you must repeat this process for each adapter All dual channel adapter models are displayed in the Device Manager as two adapters therefore you must update each adapter 7 Click Let me pick from a list of device
157. iguration refer to Error Handling Under MultiPath MPIO and Cluster Configurations on page 123 If the ETO or LDTO value needs to be modified 1 Select the Emulex OneConnect iSCSI CNA in the Windows Device Manager under Storage Controllers 2 Right click and select Properties The Device Manager Property page opens 3 Select the Advanced tab and set the desired value of ETO and LDTO for example ETO 120 and LDTO 60 4 Reboot the system for the changes to take effect 5 Log into the iSCSI target using WMI For more information see Logging into Targets for Multipath Support on page 121 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 121 gt EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration 6 Enable MPIO a Select Start gt Administrative Tools gt Server Manager b In the Server Manager tree click Features c In the Features area click Add Features d In the Add Features wizard on the Select Features page select the Multipath I O check box and click Next On the Confirm Installation Selections page click Install m f When the installation is completed click Close on the Installation Results page g When prompted to restart the computer click Yes h Click Close 7 Discover all possible paths to all devices on the system a Open the MPIO control pane select Start gt Administrative Tools gt MPIO b On the User Account Control page click Continue The Properties dialog box
158. indows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x24 Error Device is not supported on The iSCSI adapter family is not supported on Windows 7 Operating System the Windows 7 client operating systems failing driver load 0x25 Info Interrupt Redirection N A capability is not supported by this hardware 0x26 Warning Logical link on the The iSCSI function may have been disabled in OneConnect Port is down the PXESelect application If you disabled it traffic is disallowed on this intentionally you can ignore this message function 0x27 Error Firmware returned invalid Reload the firmware data in its configuration iSCSI login and offload are disabled 0x28 Warning Error Recovery is not being A UE has occurred but UE recovery is not attempted Adapter is no enabled A system reboot is required to make longer functional the adapter operational again 0x2b Informational The storage device is Informational message that provides the slot operating in Gen x gt mode capabilities where the iSCSI adapter is and installed in a lt yy gt x PCle installed slot Ox2c Error The firmware appears The adapter is no longer functional A system unresponsive Unrecoverable reboot is required to make the adapter Error operational again Ox2d Informational Reporting X of the total Y Informational event to indicate that not all sessions logged in by
159. ing the system QoS Notes e Some switches have jumbo frame size support disabled on the port and global level by default e Some switches show the priority for FCoE on the switch itself Use a policy with zero bandwidth for the FCoE priority Host Client Configuration For all host and clients participating in the network 1 Create VLAN using the VLAN ID you configured in step 6 above 2 Assign appropriate IP address to the VLAN interface Note Ensure all the traffic is flowing through the vlan interface DCBX Disabled Switch Connection Generic Pause Mode 1 Host Configuration a On the host and peer systems ensure that Tx pause flow control and Rx pause flow control are enabled on all the ports and interfaces which are RoCE enabled using operating system standard tools 2 Switch Configuration a Enable Tx generic pause flow control and Rx generic pause flow control on each port participating in the cluster b Enable Jumbo Frames or set the MTU to at least 4200 or greater Note Some switches have jumbo frame size support disabled on the port and global level by default Examples for Cisco Switch Sample Class maps for RoCE on a Cisco Switch Note Not all switch settings are shown Cisco5548UP2 config show class map Type gos class maps class map type gos match any class fcoe match cos 3 class map type gos match all class roce match cos 5 class map type qos match any class default Emulex
160. ion Users Administrator gt New SmbMultichannelConstraint ServerName bench29clienti InterfaceIndex 25 onfirm Are you sure you want to perform this action Performing operation New SmbMultichannelConstraint on Target bench29client1 A Yes to All N No L No to All S Suspend 7 Help default is Y y InterfaceAlias Ethernet 5 InterfaceGuid be46d900 7861 4c62 b7a4 7a63f8b44543 InterfaceIndex 25 erverName bench29clienti PSComputerName Select Administrator C Windows system32 cmd exe ss Adninistrator gt ne at xan gt NetworkDirect Connections Listeners SharedEndpoints Mode IfIndex Type Local Address Foreign Address 26 1 118 49367 26 1 18 20 1 110 49368 20 1 1 20 2 0 110 445 NA 20 1 110225 1 445 fe80 74f2 aa42 5734 b2daz25 445 20 1 0 110 445 NA File Home Share View T F gt Network bench29client c v Search c Figure 3 15 Multichannel Constraint SMB Direct Resource Usage Active Connections Active connections describe the connections that a client makes to a server Passive connections describe the connections that a server allows the client to complete The maximum number of active connections per port for an adapter are required when setting the ConnectionCountPerRdmaNetworkInterface parameter Use Table 3 5 to determine the correct number of maximum active connections based on your OCe14000 series adapter and operating system N
161. ion Name Recv Segment Coalescing IPv6 Acceptable Values Disabled default on Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enabled default on Windows Server 2012 Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition RSC merges multiple TCP segments and identifies them as a single coalesced unit to the operating system s TCP IP stack This reduces the per packet receive processing overhead and CPU usage when standard 1514 byte sized frames are in use Notes e If checksum offloads are disabled RSC should also be disabled RSC depends on checksum offloads for better performance Both RSC IPV4 and RSC IPV6 are coerced to zero if TCP Connection Offload IPV4 is enabled RSS Base Processor Group Min 1 Max 63 Windows Server 2012 This defines the base processor group for the RSS queues on the network adapter A processor group contains 64 logical processors This value may be modified in conjunction with the RSS Base Processor Number to explicitly select the desired RSS processors for the adapter RSS Base Processor Number Min 1 Max 63 Windows Server 2012 This defines the base processor number for the RSS queues on the network adapter within the given processor group A processor group contains 64 logical processors so this value ranges from 0 to 63 This value may be modified in conju
162. ion No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0214 RSCN received Word count d Description Received RSCN from fabric Severity Information Log LOG_DISCOVERY verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0215 RSCN processed DID x x Description Processed RSCN from fabric Severity Information Log LOG DISCOVERY verbose Action No action needed informational Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 129 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0225 Device Discovery completes Description Severity Log Action This indicates successful completion of device re discovery after a link up Information LOG DISCOVERY verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0229 Assign SCSIid x x to WWN word 0 x x WWN word 1 x x NPortid x x Description Severity Log Action The driver assigned a SCSI ID to a discovered mapped FCP target BindType 0 DID 1 WWNN 2 WWPN Information LOG DISCOVERY verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0230 Cannot assign SCSIIid to WWN word 0 x WWN word 1 x x NPortid x amp x Description Severity Log Action SCSI ID assignment failed for discovered target Warning LOG _ELS verbose Review system configuration Ipfc_mes0232 Continue discovery at sequence number d PLOGIs remaining d Description Severity Log Action NPort discovery sequence continuation Informatio
163. ion of the currently installed driver e Copies the driver parameters from the configuration file into the registry for the driver s co installer FC and FCoE drivers only e Installs or updates the driver e Rediscovers adapters and records the updated adapter inventory in the report file e Records the final results and closes the report file There are two ways to perform an unattended installation e Install the driver silently e Run the driver kit installer separately Option 1 Install the Driver Silently Run the driver kit from a command prompt or script Specify the q quiet command line option For example elxdrv fc fcoe lt version gt exe q Note The name of the driver kit depends on the current version identifier For other command line options see AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters on page 181 Option 2 Run the Driver Kit Installer Separately 1 Follow steps 1 3 for Running a Software Installation Interactively on page 21 2 Clear the Run AutoPilot Installer check box on the Finish dialog box 3 Choose one of the following options e Run the AutoPilot Installer from a command prompt or script with the silent option APInstall exe silent e Edit the AutoPilot Installer configuration file before running AutoPilot Installer The configuration file is typically located in c Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer lt driver type gt APInstall cfg Emulex Drivers f
164. iple send operations with asynchronous completions Applications that do not prepost receive buffers may incur the penalty of the data copy and the performance improvement is significantly less noticeable Applications that transmit large amounts of data show excellent CPU efficiency using TCP offload TCP offload allows the network driver to accept large buffers of data to transmit Each buffer is roughly the same amount of processing work as a single TCP packet for non offloaded traffic The entire process of packetizing the data processing the incoming data acknowledgements and potentially retransmitting any lost data is handled by the hardware TCP Offload Exclusions Microsoft provides a method to exclude certain applications from being offloaded to the adapter There are certain types of applications that do not benefit effectively from TCP offload These include TCP connections that are short lived transfer small amounts of data at a time exhibit fragmentation from end to end or make use of IP options If an application sends less data than the MSS the driver like most TCP stacks uses a Nagling algorithm Nagling reduces the number of TCP packets on the network by combining small application sends into one larger TCP packet Nagling typically reduces the performance of a single connection to allow greater overall performance for a large group of connections During Nagling a single connection may have long pauses 200 ms between
165. iport will be Event ID 11 with source elxfc elxcna To view the error LOG 1 Open the Event Viewer window by doing one of the following e Click Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools gt Event Viewer e Right click My Computer Manage and Event Viewer in Computer Management The Event Viewer window is displayed 2 Double click any event with the source name ELXFC ELXCNA 3 Examine the entry at offset 0x10 and Event ID 11 The Emulex event code is found in byte 0010 and supplementary data is in the byte offsets 0011 through 0013 For example in Figure A 1 byte 0010 9b byte 0011 00 byte 0012 29 and byte 0013 00 Event Properties 2 x Event Date WAAT Source elxstor Time amp 52 19PM Categoyr None Type Error EventID 11 s User N A Bs Computer EMULEX D4C6E5BE a Description The description for Event ID 11 in Source elxstor cannot be found The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer You may be able to use the AUXSOURCE flag to retrieve this description see Help and Support for details The following information is part of the event Device RadPontd Data Bytes Words 0000 Of 00 10 00 61 00 68 00 h A 0008 00 00 00 OO Ob 00 O4 c0 0010 Sb 00 29 00 00 00 00 00 Pe PEE v l OK l Cancel Figure A 1 Event Properties Emulex Drivers for Windows User Ma
166. is going through the adapter reboot the system If these issues persist report these errors to Technical Support P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 132 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0326 Reset HBA HostStatus x x Description Severity Log Action The adapter has been reset Information LOG MBOX verbose No action needed informational INIT Log Messages 0400 0463 Ipfc_mes0400 Initializing discovery module OptionFlags x x Description Severity Log Action Driver discovery process is being initialized with internal flags as shown Information LOG_ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0401 Initializing SLI module Deviceld x x NumMSI d Description Severity Log Action PCI function with device id and MSI count as shown is being initialized for service level interface Information LOG ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0405 Service Level Interface SLI 2 selected n Description Severity Log Action Service Level Interface level 2 is selected Information LOG_ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0406 Service Level Interface SLI 3 selected n Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Service Level Interface level 3 is selected Information LOG _ELS verbose No action needed informational P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 T
167. is parameter is ignored Instead you are asked if the driver should be updated ForceRegUpdate Forcing an Update of an Existing Driver Parameter Value Default False The ForceRegUpdate driver parameter setting determines whether existing driver parameters are retained or changed when you update the driver By default all existing driver parameter settings are retained The ForceRegUpdate parameter does not affect any existing persistent bindings To set up an installation to remove the existing driver parameters from the registry and replace them with parameters specified in the AutoPilot Configuration file set this parameter to true Note You can use this setting for attended installations with the AutoPilot Installer wizard if you modify the AutoPilot Configuration file in an AutoPilot Installer Kit LocalDriverLocation Specifying Location to Search for Drivers Default Drivers The default Drivers folder is located in the same folder as AutoPilot Installer You can specify a local location that is to be searched for drivers during unattended installations The location may be a local hard drive or a network share Removable media are not searched Example LocalDriverLocation d drivers new Storport Note On x64 and 32 bit systems the path specified by LocalDriverLocation must contain at least one instance of an FC FCoE iSCSI and NIC driver AutoPilot Installer automatically selects the most recent revisions
168. is required for any virtual machine e Explicitly enable SR IOV in the system BIOS The specific name for this option varies between vendors For instance it may be called Intel VT d Virtualization Technology for Direct I O AMD Vi AMD I O Virtualization Technology or IOMMU Emulex PXESelect Configuration for SR lIOV The Emulex OCe11000 family of adapters requires enabling firmware support for SR IOV within the Emulex PXESelect BIOS See the Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for more information To enable firmware support in the PXESelect BIOS 1 Press lt Ctrl P gt during the Emulex PXE Select splash screen as the server boots A screen appears showing global options 2 Set the following options to use SR IOV Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration a e Advanced mode Enable e Universal Multichannel UMC Disable 3 Save the settings and enable SR IOV for each PCI function The server reboots after this modification SR IOV Server Validation Use the following Microsoft PowerShell commands to determine if your server is capable of SR IOV e Get VmHost e Get NetAdapterSriov e Get VmNetworkAdapter e Get VmSwitch See Microsoft documentation for more information Note Early SR IOV capable chip sets had errors that may prevent SR IOV from operating in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 The PowerShell c
169. isplayName Allow ICMPv4 Out Protocol ICMPv4 Direction Outbound PowerShell commands shown w WNVNIC used as the network connection name Get VM Get vmswitch Get vmnetworkadapter VMName fl vmname switch macaddress ipaddress virtualsub Get netvirtualizationprovideraddress Get netvirtualizationlookuprecord Get netvirtualizationcustomerroute Get netadapter wnvnic Get netadapterbinding componentID ms_netwnv Get netadapterencapsulatedpackettaskoffload wnvnic Get netadapteradvancedproperty wnvnic Disable netadatperSriov wnvnic Disable netadapterEncapsulationPacketTaskOffload wnvnic Get help NetVirtualization Get netadapterstatistics wnvnic Under the Host Device Manage Network Adapters gt Emulex Statistics tab check the following e VMQs Allocated e Tunnels Allocated e Tenants Allocated Verification 1 Ping a Launch Policy Scripts on each host b Ping using the t option pings should respond c Run the Remove Policy script on one host server d Pings should stop responding e Add policies pings should respond Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX 3 Configuration 89 NIC Driver Configuration 2 Change the VM IP Address For example change 10 0 0 5 on one host and 10 0 0 7 on the other Without NVGRE you would not be able to use the same IP address as the other VM Ensure that you see the WNVNIC interface using the PowerShell command get netadap
170. iver Ipfc_mes0458 Bring Adapter online Description Severity Log Action The FC driver has received a request to bring the adapter online This may occur when running HBAnyware Warning LOG _INIT verbose None required Ipfc_mes0460 Bring Adapter offline Description Severity Log Action The FC driver has received a request to bring the adapter offline This may occur when running HBAnyware Warning LOG_INIT verbose None required Ipfc_mes0463 Adapter firmware error hostStatus x x Info1 OxA8 x x Info2 OxAC x amp x Description Severity Log Action The firmware has interrupted the host with a firmware trap error Error LOG_INIT verbose Review HBAnyware diagnostic dump information FCP Log Messages 0701 0749 Ipfc_mes0701 Issue Abort Task Set to Pathid x x Targetlid x x Lun x x Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The driver has issued a task management command for the indicated SCSI device address Warning LOG _INIT verbose Review system configuration P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 135 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0703 Issue LUN reset to Pathld x x Targetid x x Lun x x Did x x Description Severity Log Action Storport is requesting a reset of the indicated LUN Warning LOG_INIT verbose Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster o
171. iver Configuration gt G EMULEX ri To modify a parameter without a driver reload use r This is useful to modify several parameters in sequence then force a reload of the driver at the end To force a driver reload use the f parameter The following is an example of such a sequence occfg a emulex r s rss 0 occfg a emulex r s interrupt moderation 0 occfg a emulex f Registry keys may be set to two special values e The delete value will cause the key to be entirely deleted and the driver will use the default value This is appropriate for keys that are optional such as the Network Address e The default value will set the key to the driver s default value If the key is optional the default value may be equivalent to deleting the key For example occfg a emulex s vlan delete occfg a emulex s rss default Viewing Device Parameters The occfg exe program can query device parameters from either the registry or the device driver if running driver version gt 2 103 x x The registry and driver values may differ until the driver is reloaded If the driver reload fails for any reason such as another application has an open handle to the device driver it may be necessary to reboot the system to apply the registry changes Note If the driver has been disabled or if the driver failed to load due to any error the driver query will return the error Failed to query driver for the
172. izationLookupRecord where _ VirtualSubnetID eq 6001 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 85 NIC Driver Configuration gt EMULEX Remove NetVirtualizationLookupRecord New NetVirtualizationLookupRecord VirtualSubnetID 6001 CustomerAddress 10 0 0 5 ProviderAddress 192 x x x MACAddress 080800000005 Rule TranslationMethodEncap New NetVirtualizationLookupRecord VirtualSubnetID 6001 CustomerAddress 10 0 0 7 ProviderAddress 192 x x x MACAddress 080800000007 Rule TranslationMethodEncap Add the customer route records for Red subnet Get NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute where VirtualSubnetID eq 6001 Remove NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute New NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute RoutingDomainID 11111111 2222 3333 4444 000000006001 VirtualSubnetID 6001 DestinationPrefix 10 0 0 0 24 NextHop 0 0 0 0 Metric 255 2 Configure the Host Provider Addresses and Routes required for this setup Host PA Address amp Route information required by the VM policy Host Hostname PA s VM VirtualSubnetID gt Set on the VMNetworkAdapter on eash host Satay ot kit a a a a a a a a a a a at ai ae ea ae a a ae ae a ae tee rete E eee eee ee ree ee es Hostl example hostl 192 x x x Bluel 5001 Red1 6001 Host2 example host2 192 x x x Blue2 5001 Red2 6001 2 1 Hostl a Configure Provider Address and Route Get the inte
173. ize adapter port LightPulse 0xC0 Insufficient revision level for STORPORT SYS 0xC1 Failed to allocate miniport un cached extension 0xC2 Insufficient un cached extension space 0xC3 Port initialization failure OneConnect 0xC4 Port initialization failure LightPulse 0xC5 Utility mailbox command error 0xC6 SLI4 Pre initialization failure 0xD3 NPIV memory allocation failure 0xE0 Unable to allocate exchange for unsolicited ELS command OxE1 Mis configured ports event on indicated port link and status Bits 31 24 Port ID Bits 23 16 Link ID Bits 15 8 Link status OxFO Unresponsive adapter port SLI4 mode OxF4 ULP Unrecoverable Error low part SLI4 mode OxF5 ULP Unrecoverable Error high part SLI4 mode OxF6 ARM Unrecoverable Error SLI4 mode OxF7 READ_NV failed SLI4 mode OxF8 READ_NV failed SLI4 mode OxF9 READ_REV failed SLI4 mode Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 152 FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Table A 1 Severe Errors Continued Bits 0 7 Interpretation OxFA READ_COMFIG failed SLI4 mode OxFB Failed to post header templates SLI4 mode OxFC Invalid Completion Queue Entry SLI4 mode OxFD Invalid Completion Queue Entry SLI4 mode OXxFE Invalid Completion Queue Entry SLI4 mode Malfunction Errors Table A 2 Malfunction Errors
174. large number of iSCSI targets more than 32 or 64 and higher values of queue depth the default setting may prove to be too aggressive In such a case you may need to change the im_policy parameter setting to 3 or 4 Although this increases latency of an I O request the lower interrupt rate may allow the system to be functional under a high load Creating Non Bootable Targets To set up non bootable targets proceed with the driver and operating system installation then download and use the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service to configure and manage the adapter Using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service You can use the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service to configure and manage the UCNA The Microsoft Initiator Service is available as a free download from www microsoft com See the documentation that accompanies it for detailed information Note When you install the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service you need to select only the Initiator Service check box and not the Software Initiator check box Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration DG EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration 120 The Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service sets its own initiator name Once you have installed it you must replace this with your chosen initiator name To do this 1 Inthe Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service under the general tab click Change 2 Type your initiator name and click OK Logging into a Target Using the Microsoft
175. le 3 10 Windows Server Performance Tuning Situations Situation Answer Solution There are a large number of short lived TCP Enable RSS increase number of RSS queues and disable connections such as web server or e mail TCP offload server There are large data transfers such as toa Use TCP connection offload file server web server with file downloads or an FTP server There are large data transfers such as toa Enable jumbo packets and use TCP offload backup server Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A NIC Driver Configuration SG EMULEX 3 Configuration 108 Table 3 10 Windows Server Performance Tuning Situations Continued Situation Answer Solution There is a small server struggling to keep up Disable RSS enable TCP offload enable jumbo packets with larger servers on the network and increase the interrupt moderation to allow fewer interrupts per second There is a general purpose server such as Use TCP offload and enable RSS Active Directory server DHCP server or a DNS server Analyzing Performance Issues You can use the Windows Performance Monitor perfmon to view statistics for each network device To view statistics for each network device 1 Click Start gt Run gt perfmon to launch the Windows Performance Monitor 2 Right click and select Add Counters to add additional statistics Table 3 11 lists a few statistics to use for troubleshooting performa
176. le A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Continued Message ID Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x3f Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally a received PDU had firmware If this message is unexpected please an invalid StatusSN check your iSCSI configuration 0x40 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally a received R2T had firmware If this message is unexpected please invalid field s check your iSCSI configuration 0x41 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received PDU firmware If this message is unexpected please had an invalid LUN check your iSCSI configuration 0x42 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the corresponding firmware If this message is unexpected please ICD was not ina valid state check your iSCSI configuration 0x43 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect the received PDU had an firmware If this message is unexpected please invalid ITT check your iSCSI configuration 0x44 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect the received sequence buffer firmware If this message is unexpected
177. le for download from the Emulex website ARI Considerations Note RoCE is not supported with ARI The PCle standard limits an adapter to a maximum of 8 physical functions This means that a 2 port adapter can only have 4 functions per port and a 4 port adapter can only have 2 functions per port The following requirements must be met to fully support ARI and expose more than 8 functions on an adapter Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 46 DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration e ARI must be available on the system to support up to sixteen functions on an adapter If these conditions are not met although you may configure all sixteen functions only eight functions will be present and discovered by the OneCommand Manager application after a reboot e Only OCe14000 series adapters support ARI e The system hardware such as the motherboard and BIOS must support ARI o ARI must be enabled in the system BIOS o The operating system must support ARI such as the Windows Server 2012 and later e Any management tools that you use must support ARI such as OneCommand Manager 10 2 and later For Dell multichannel support see NPar Configuration Dell Only on page 99 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A XG EMULEX 3 Configuration 47 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driv
178. losest Processor Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Driver 3 Configuration 74 NIC Driver Configuration SR IOV 0 Disabled TCP Checksum Offload IPv4 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled TCP Checksum Offload IPv4 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled TCP Checksum Offload IPv6 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled TCP Checksum Offload IPv6 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled Transmit 1 Enabled Transmit 1 Enabled Transmit Buffers 256 256 Transmit Bu ffers 256 0x100 256 Transmit CPU lt not set gt Transmit CPU lt not set gt Transmit Side Scaling 1 Enabled Transmit Side Scaling 0 Disabled UDP Checksum Offload IPv4 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled UDP Checksum Offload IPv4 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled UDP Checksum Offload IPv6 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled UDP Checksum Offload IPv6 3 Rx amp Tx Enabled VLAN Identifier 802 1q 102 VLAN Identifier 802 1q 102 0x66 Virtual Machine Queues 1 Enabled Virtual Machine Queues 1 Enabled Registry Wake On LAN Wake On LAN Using Interactive Mode 1 Enabled 0 Disabled
179. m To uninstall a driver kit on a Server Core system 1 From the system prompt navigate to the Program Files folder 2 Navigate to Emulex AutoPilot Installer 3 Run the following batch files e Uninstall_fc_kit bat e Uninstall_cna_kit bat e Uninstall_nic_kit bat e Uninstall_iscsi_kit bat The driver files are removed from the system On all platforms the reports folder in the Emulex AutoPilot Installer folder is not removed so you can still view installation history and the drivers that have been installed on the system You can delete the reports folder at any time Windows Server 2012 To uninstall a driver kit on a Windows Server 2012 system 1 Select Start gt Control Panel 2 From the Control Panel select Programs gt Uninstall a Program 3 Select one of the following in the program list and click the Uninstall icon in the tool bar above the program list If you have User Access Control enabled click Continue when asked for permission e Emulex FC kit 2 xx xxx e Emulex FCoE kit 2 xx xxx e Emulex NIC 4 xx xxx e Emulex iSCSI kit 4 xx xxx 4 Click Yes when prompted to remove the kit When the kit is removed from the system click OK Server Core System To uninstall a driver kit on a Server Core system 1 From the system prompt navigate to the Program Files folder Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 32 gt G EMULEX Removing Emulex Driver Kits and Drivers 2 Navi
180. maximum bandwidth specified on a PCI function e Each port can be configured to run up to two storage functions as long as they are different storage protocols Note A system reboot is required if any of the NPar function mode settings are modified A reboot is not required for bandwidth and MTU setting modifications Using NParEP Notes e NParEP support is available only on Dell 13G or newer systems when NPar is enabled e NParEP is available only on OCe14000 series adapters e Ona four port adapter ARI functionality must be enabled in the PCle subsystem on a particular system to support NParEP on all four ports PCI functions are displayed in the Windows Device Manager based on how this option is set By enabling NParEP you can expand the PCI functions of the adapter See Enabling NPar Using the Multichannel Property Page on page 100 for more information Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Events Resources Power Management Driver Details General _ Mode NPar X PORT 1 PORT2 Cat Status Statistics Diagnostics Multichannel Factory Default 0 NIC 2 NIC 4 NIC 6 NIC 8 Nic 10 NIC 12 NIC 14 NIC Enabled PF Protocol bw BWI Name 3 00 Emulex OneConnect 0Ce14102 13 100 Emulex OneConnect OCe 14102 13 100 Emulex OneConnect 0Ce14102 13 100 Emulex OneConnect OCe14102 12 00 Emulex OneConnect 0Ce1410
181. mited QoS configuration is available through OneCommand Manager e A single traffic class group for RoCE exists per port e A single RoCE priority exists in PFC mode e Bandwidth allocation for priority groups is supported Notes e The Windows NIC driver does not support the Microsoft DCB QoS API e Powershell commands cannot be used to configure QoS related parameters for the RoCE profile RoCE Adapter Side With DCBX enabled the switch settings will be used for PFC Ensure that the switch settings used match the adapter default Priority 5 used for RoCE and PFC Note PFC is enabled by default in OCe14000 series adapters Switch Side For information on switch side configurations see appendix E RoCE Switch Support on page 193 0Ce14000 Series Adapter Defaults When using the OCe14000 series adapters for RoCE functionality the following defaults apply e Adapter boot time o PFC is disabled on all the ports in the NIC RoCE profile o Generic Pause is enabled on all the ports in the NIC RoCE profile e Back to back connection OCe14000 OCe14000 o PFC is disabled by default o Generic Pause is enabled on the connected port e DCBX enabled switch connection o When an OCe14000 series adapter is connected to DCBX enabled switch it shifts the mode from Generic Pause to PFC Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration Q gt G EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration o An OCe14000 series adap
182. mmand Manager Application Version User Manual for information about enabling the RoCE profile using OneCommand Manager GUI Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A NIC Driver Configuration gt G EMULEX 3 Configuration 90 e OneCommand Manager CLI See the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface Manual for information about enabling the RoCE profile using OneCommand Manager CLI Confirming That the RoCE Profile Is Enabled Confirm that the RoCE profile is enabled by using one of the following methods e Inthe Advanced tab of the Network Property page ensure that NetworkDirect is enabled See Figure 3 8 Diver Oetais Power Management Genesi Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics SSEMULEX Avanced Property Cortiguation RSS Profile Wie SROV Enabled Transmt Buffers Transm Side Scaling Virtual Machine Queues Protocol Offloads a IPvs a IPv6 Network Drect Network Drect MTU NVGRE Task Offoads The Network Direct feature enables an offloaded ROMA interface for SMB 3 0 network attached storage traffic using Microsoft s SMB Direct protocol Emulex supports ROMA over Converged Ethernet ROCE For best performance priority flow control PFC should be configured on the network switch Emulex defaults to priority S for ROCE traffic although it will still work without PFC enabled Figure 3 8 Advanced Property Configuration RoCE Enabled e By using a PowerShell
183. ms that refer to this same quantity such as packet size frame size or MTU The MTU is the Ethernet packet payload size This does not include the Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX 3 Configuration 109 NIC Driver Configuration Ethernet frame header or the trailing CRC The standard MTU is 1500 bytes corresponding to a 1514 byte packet size plus a 4 byte trailing CRC Historically any 1514 byte frame is a standard packet while any frame larger than 1514 bytes is called a jumbo packet Windows Server attempts to standardize the terminology across vendors so the jumbo packet parameter refers to the byte size of the packet The Windows Server driver supports several jambo packet values The larger packet size provides better throughput and CPU usage Typically all devices on the network including switches must be configured for the larger size The drawbacks of using jumbo packets are interoperability and increased memory usage on the server To set a jumbo packet value go to the Advanced Properties page in Windows Device Manager For information on how to configure the options through the Advanced Property page see Modifying Advanced Properties on page 62 The path MTU is the maximum MTU that can be used before IP fragmentation occurs taking into account the MTU for the endpoints and all routers between the endpoints To verify the path MTU ping a remote target with an increasing payload size E
184. mulex 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 manual Emulex disclaims any undertaking to give notice of such changes Emulex 3333 Susan Street Costa Mesa CA 92626 Note References to OCe11100 series products also apply to OCe11100R series products Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Table of Contents Table of Contents List Of FIQUIES a cisaisinnr nmana ie aaia aa List OF Tabl6S ciiccissiccctcstertitadscrsscnnserenciretiae tears mrteaesneienrerersaeiiensae LO 1 Introduction sssssssnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna L2 Driver Infor Matin caccscascesdcpssnsnntaiasaaiansdanssnimaransisqianieansswinniennaawiansanniewsnmed 12 COMPACIDINICY 3 cevsecavernvianteneevoeredeersiwer aa e AEE E EEE aa ER 12 Operating System Requirements ccee cece EEEE 13 ADDe VidtiOns issisicaicasndadsdicariissseiessneiaesaiectsansiareaiasaieatanlatasisinatesaeennctied 13 2 Installati n snaa a a aa a a a aana LO Driver Installation QDI ONS sasiiacsicterseasiiacentsinsanadsweeantinaswinas nnani Sassen 18 Onelnstall Installer cx ntevacactanraeeeindaeicenteadaiteiacietatedeatee oie beet oneeeecdanies 18 Loading the Onelnstall Package i cece nee
185. mulex PLUS EIXPlUS DriV riiesciecssiecicieedctecisseeecierdsavcccsseeabbens 27 Installing or Updating the FC FCoE Storport Miniport Driver cccceeeeeeeeeee ees 27 Installing or Updating the iSCSI Driver ccccccececeeee eee seen eeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeenee eens 28 Installing or Updating the NIC Driver cccccceeccse eects eeaeeeenee sense eeneeeenneees 29 Windows Server 2008 merrier eiae anaa AENA RARE EAE EPEA TE ENE IR a 29 Windows Server 2012 3 ciicseetsstuniaces E EERE E E EEEN 30 Removing Emulex Driver Kits and DriverS sssssssssnsnnnsnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 30 Uninstalling Emulex Driver KItS ssssssssssrrrrrerrersrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtsrrrrrrerrrerrrrrr 30 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 SXC EMULEX Table of Contents Windows Server 2008 ercisaiiiaceniari aiino Tei i i a a e e aE 30 Windows Server 2012 mercar csaccrsaget niani aE Aa EEE EEE AT REEE i aa 31 Uninstalling the Emulex Drivers ccccccece ese eee e ee eee eee eres rete renee renters 32 Windows Server 2008 wi dcssacvriasenniaceedavnigeantaddaietioasaws atid nannslaadtvaateabaneussanees 32 Windows Server 2012 eisie anaiei o sags deeaekadaseanesss saa taetear sa bassendscaaseacuadaneea 33 3 CONMQUIALION issisicsrcrrsrascmcieh er eee LATE niiin iann OM FC FCOE Driver ConfiGuratiom se sinsssvareainctinasseiaiennsstanascecsseenssemaseetaaem esenasen 34 Configuring FC Driver Parameters siccsicvsssevessiastiie
186. mware does not The firmware and the driver are not support network functionality compatible versions See the Downloads section of the Emulex website for compatible firmware and drivers 0x0023 35 Warning The Ethernet link is down due toa The Ethernet link is down due to the remote fault remote partner signaling a fault Check the peer device for errors 0x0022 34 Warning The Ethernet link is down due toa The Ethernet link is down due toa local fault link down event detected at the driver 0x0021 33 Informational Network device is operating in Gen2 For best performance install the mode and installed in a 4x PCle slot adapter in an 8x Gen2 PCle slot Note A 16x slot will not provide any additional performance 0x0020 32 Informational The network device is operating in For best performance install the Gen2 mode and installed in a 1x adapter in an 8x Genz2 PCle slot PCle slot Note A 16x slot will not provide any additional performance 0x001f 31 Informational The network device is operating in For best performance install the Genl mode and installed in a 8x adapter in an 8x Gen2 PCle slot PCle slot Note A 16x slot will not provide any additional performance 0x001e 30 Informational The network device is operating in For best performance install the Gen1 mode and installed in a 4x adapter in an 8x Genl PCle slot PCle slot Note A 16x slot will not provide any additional performance 0x001d 29 Informational The netw
187. mware for list of modules and debug trace levels This is a special command argument Examples Run interactively with menus occfg exe Set a parameter on all Emulex adapters occfg exe a Emulex s rss 1 Set multiple parameters on one adapter adapter occfg exe a Local Area Connection 23 s Flow 3 rss 0 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 19 Selecting an Adapter In batch mode the a parameter should be followed by a substring that is contained within the adapter name The name is a combination of the device manager name for example Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 and the network connection name for example Local Area Connection The later may be modified by using the Windows Network Connections applet ncpa cpl The most typical scenario involves setting parameters the same for all ports of a network adapter This is accomplished by specifying a emulex Often it is convenient to rename the connections to have a common name to easily operate on a group For example naming the network connections dot1 dot2 dot3 allows operating on all adapters using the substring dot or on any individual adapter by specifying the exact name such as dot1 Configuring Device Parameters The occfg program is used to query and modify registry parameters for Emulex network devices The registry keys are stored at HKLM System Cur
188. n LOG ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0235 New RSCN being deferred due to RSCN in process Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual An RSCN was received while processing a previous RSCN Information LOG_ELS verbose No action needed informational P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 130 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0236 Issuing command to name server type x x Description Severity Log Action See Also The driver is issuing a nameserver request to the fabric Also recorded if a GID_FT is sent Information LOG DISCOVERY verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0239 or Ipfc_mes0240 Ipfc_mes0238 NameServer response DID count d Description Severity Log Action Received a response from fabric name server with N DIDs Information LOG _ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0239 NameServer Response next DID value x x Description Severity Log Action See Also The driver received a nameserver response And this message is recorded for each DID included in the response data Information LOG DISCOVERY verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0236 Ipfc_mes0240 NameServer Response Error CmdRsp x x ReasonCode x x Explanation x x Description Severity Log Action See Also Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The driver received a names
189. n iSCSI target provides an asynchronous event notification to the UCNA when its logical unit inventory has changed the iSCSI driver initiates a bus rescan and the LUNs are updated dynamically However if an iSCSI target does not provide an asynchronous event notification the LUN list is not updated dynamically Perform a manual rescan in Disk Management P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 147 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Table 4 6 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Continued Issue A login to new target fails after Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service is installed Answer Solution When Microsoft iSCSI software is installed the service chooses a default IQN name for the UCNA The Microsoft iSCSI service issues the request to the iSCSI driver via the WMI interface to set this new IQN name Therefore any IQN name that was configured earlier such as by using iSCSISelect will be overridden and the new IQN name will be in effect Although this will not affect existing boot sessions and persistent sessions new target logins could fail because the new IQN name does not match the incoming IQN name configured on the target After the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service is installed the initiator name must be renamed to the previous name configured from the WMI GUI When software based iSCSI targets are logged into the UCNA Event ID 56 Driver SCSI 000000 Appears in the Windows event viewer This iss
190. n operation request from the port driver because attempted from the Microsoft WMI application the request was failed by the ARM resulted in an error Check the operation being firmware This error is immediately attempted for user or configuration errors followed by another error code entry indicating the WMI request code in error 0x348d0007 The iSCSI driver failed a WMI IOCTL This failure indicates that an operation request from the port driver This error is immediately followed by another error code entry indicating the WMI request code in error Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual attempted from the Microsoft WMI application resulted in an error Check the operation being attempted for user or configuration errors P010077 01A Rev A 165 gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log 166 Table A 14 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows Server 2008 Continued Message ID Message Description Recommended Resolution 0x33900002 The iSCSI driver failed an I O request This failure occurred due to a failed memory because it failed to retrieve a scatter allocation in the operating system Check low gather list from the Storport driver memory conditions 0x31880001 The iSCSI driver failed to load because This failure may be due to the firmware not initialization failed during a power being present or currently running This failure management bo
191. n the AutoPilot configuration file The first items in this section are the driver parameters to be used regardless of how the questions are answered This is followed by a subsection that contains questions these may be vendor specific questions A line containing QUESTIONS marks the start of the subsection and the end of it is marked by a line containing TENDQUESTIONS Within the question subsection there can be as many questions as needed Each question uses the format uestion uestion explanation answer0 answerl E AAJ E kei n w L E n wW 0 n AAJ 1 n answer2 answern Where e question contains the text of the question to be asked e explanation contains brief text to help explain the question The explanation appears below the question in a smaller font If there is no explanatory text empty quotes must be used in its place e answer0 contains the 1st answer to be displayed in the drop down list e answerl contains the 2nd answer to be displayed in the drop down list e answern contains the nth answer to be displayed in the drop down list For each question there can be as many answers as needed For each answer there must be a corresponding answer section with its corresponding driver parameters listed beneath it The answer uses the format answer 0 DriverParameter Paraml value Param2 value answer 1 DriverParameter Paraml value
192. nce issues For network performance all the counters from the table are useful Network Interface TCPv4 IPv4 and Processor Table 3 11 Statistics and Fine Tuning Situation Answer Solution Network Interface gt Packets Received Errors If this is incrementing even a small amount a physical issue may exist on the network such as a loose connection or bad cable causing CRC errors in Ethernet packets Find and eliminate the physical issue Network Interface gt Packets Received If this is incrementing dramatically the computer system Discarded may be receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic using network resources IPv4 gt Fragmented Datagrams sec If this is greater than 0 the computer system is sending or receiving IP fragments This is a serious performance issue See J umbo Packet on page 108 TCPv4 gt Segments Retransmitted sec TCP retransmits indicate that packets are being dropped by the receiving system or in a network switch Ideally reduce retransmits to 0 Processor gt Processor Time If CPU usage is high try to enable all available offloads such as TCP offload checksum offloads and use j umbo packets J umbo Packet The jumbo packet setting in the registry determines the maximum Ethernet packet size It includes the Ethernet frame header typically 14 bytes but excludes the trailing CRC The standard packet size is 1514 bytes plus a 4 byte trailing CRC Vendors use many ter
193. nction with the RSS Base Processor Group to explicitly select the desired RSS processors for the adapter RSS Max Processor Group Min 0 Max The number of processor groups present on your system Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2012 RSS Max Processor Group allows you to set the maximum number of processor groups for the RSS CPUs P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 56 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name RSS Profile NUMA scaling NUMA scaling static Conservative scaling Acceptable Values Closest processor default Closest processor static Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2012 Definition The RSS Profile setting determines the RSS load balancing profile implemented by Microsoft for this network adapter The Closest Processor settings will tend to localize the RSS CPUs to one NUMA node allowing the device driver to allocate memory from the local node The NUMA Scaling settings will use all NUMA nodes on the system and the memory allocation will not be specific to a particular node The driver will ignore the Preferred NUMA node setting SpeedDuplex AutoNeg default 10GbpsFullDuplex 1GbpsFullDuplex Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 Wind
194. nd TX Enabled default RX Enabled TX Enabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 offloads the transmit and or receive IPv6 TCP checksum computation Offloading checksums increases system efficiency P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 59 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name TCP Connection Enabled Offload IPv4 Disabled default Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Acceptable Values Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Definition Note TCP Connection Offload is not supported on 16Gb UCNAs If TCP offload is enabled the device offloads the entire TCP protocol including ACK processing retransmits and timers Applications that prepost receive buffers before the data arrives may avoid data copies in the receive path which substantially increases the system efficiency and data rates Windows does not offload TCP connections if any of the following are enabled e Network Load Balancing e IPSEC e Network Address Translation NDIS 5 1 Intermediate Drivers TCP offload must be enabled in the Windows operating system with the shell command netsh int tcp set global chimney enabl
195. nd from a remote NPORT Information LOG _ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0129 Rejected ELS command OpCode x x Description Severity Log Action Rejected ELS command from a remote NPORT Information LOG _ELS verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0130 ELS command error ulpStatus x x ulpWord 4 x x Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual ELS command failure Error LOG _ELS verbose Check remote NPORT for potential issue P010077 01A Rev A sc 4 Troubleshooting 128 gt G EMULEX Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Discovery Log Messages 0202 0262 Ipfc_mes0202 Start Discovery Link Down Timeout x x initial PLOGICount d Description Device discovery rediscovery after FLOGI FAN or RSCN has started TMO is the current value of the soft link time It is used for link discovery against the LinkDownTime set in parameters DISC CNT is number of nodes being discovered for link discovery RSCN CNT is number of nodes being discovered for RSCN discovery There will be value in either DISC CNT or RSCN CNT depending on which discovery is being performed Severity Information Log LOG_DISCOVERY verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0204 Discovered SCSI Target WWN word 0 x x WWN word 1 x x DID x x RPI x x Description Device discovery found SCSI target Severity Information Log LOG_DISCOVERY verbose Act
196. ne You cannot specify the SilentInstallEnable parameter on the command line Default False Setting this parameter to true causes AutoPilot Installer to operate with no user interaction SilentRebootEnable Enabling Silent Reboot Default False AutoPilot Installer s default behavior in unattended installations is not to restart the system AutoPilot Installer continues with the installation Restarts often require you to log in as part of the Windows start up process If there is no login the installation process would hang if the system is restarted However Windows can be configured to start up without requiring you to log in You must make sure it is safe to restart the system during unattended installations if you are going to set this parameter to true InstallWithoutQFE Enabling Installation if a QFE Check Fails Default False AutoPilot Installer checks for Microsoft s QFEs also known as KB Knowledge Base updates based on the checks you have specified in the STORPORT QFES section By default the installation terminates if the QFE check fails To enable a driver installation to proceed even if a check for QFEs fails set this parameter to true Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters 186 gt G EMULEX AutoPilot Configuration File AutoPilot Configuration File The AutoPilot configuration file is organized into section
197. ng the FC FCoE Storport Miniport Driver To update or install the FC FCoE Storport Miniport driver from the desktop 1 2 3 Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt System Select the Hardware tab Click Device Manager Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX 2 Installation 28 10 EL 12 13 14 Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol Drivers Open the SCSI and RAID Controllers item Double click the desired Emulex adapter Note The driver affects only the selected adapter If there are other adapters in the system you must repeat this process for each adapter All dual channel adapter models are displayed in Device Manager as two adapters and each adapter must be updated Select the Driver tab Click Update Driver The Update Driver wizard starts Select No not this time Click Next on the Welcome to the Hardware Update Wizard window Select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next Select Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next Note Using the OEMSETUP INF file to update Emulex s FC FCoE Storport Miniport driver overwrites customized driver settings If you are updating from a previous installation write down the settings Following installation use the OneCommand Manager application to restore the previous settings Click Have Disk and direct the Device Wizard to the location of oemsetup inf If you have
198. nges to take effect Notes e The modifications to the driver parameters made using the Device Manager Property page are not immediately applied Instead they take effect during the next driver load sequence either during the next reboot or a driver unload or load operation e Although the Advanced Tab of the Device Manager Property page can be accessed from any OneConnect iSCSI adapter the parameter changes are uniformly applied to all the OneConnect iSCSI adapter PCIe functions on the system Individual iSCSI PCle functions cannot have their own set of parameters Table 3 12 gives a description of the different iSCSI driver options and their possible values Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options Parameter Default Value Minimum Value Maximum Value Description ETO 90 seconds 0 seconds 3600 seconds ETO in seconds This parameter determines the amount of time the driver waits for the target to be available after it has lost connection Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options Continued 3 Configuration iSCSI Driver Configuration 118 Parameter im_policy Default Value 2 Minimum Value 0 Maximum Value 4 Description The Interrupt Moderation policy parameter controls the rate of interrupts for the UCNA For more information see Interrupt Moderation Policy Settings on page 119 large_io 64 64 512 Maximum t
199. nual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Severity Scheme When the Event Viewer is launched there are three branches Application Security and System All ELXFC ELXCNA error log entries are found under the System branch and all ELXFC ELXCNA error log entries have the Event Viewer severity level of error A severe error code indicates that the driver firmware or adapter is behaving abnormally and your intervention is required to correct the issue A malfunction error code indicates that there is an issue with the system but your intervention is not required A command error code indicates that an event has transpired but does not require your intervention An event may be issue oriented such as an invalid fabric command sub type An event may not be issue oriented such as exhausted retries on PLOGI or PDISC Related Driver Parameter LogError The LogError driver parameter determines the minimum severity level to enable entry of a logged error into the system See the Configuration Section for instructions on how to set driver parameters If set to 0 all errors regardless of severity are logged If set to 1 severe malfunction and command level errors are logged If set to 2 both severe and malfunction errors are logged If set to 3 only severe errors are logged Note Set LogError to 1 if you are troubleshooting SAN connectivity or device discovery issues Format of an Error Log Entry An error log ent
200. oE and RoCE Protocols User Manual o To configure SR IOV using the OneCommand Manager application see the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual or the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface User Manual NPar enables you to divide a 10Gb NIC port into multiple PCI functions with flexible bandwidth capacity allocation that appears to the operating system and network as separate NIC ports For example a single Ethernet 10Gb port appears as multiple physical devices showing in PCI configuration space as multiple functions Adapter Configuration NPar can be configured on OCe14000 series adapters in several ways including the Emulex adapter driver properties the adapter BIOS or using the OneCommand Manager application See the Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for information on configuring the adapter BIOS If you are using the OneCommand Manager application see the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual On the host operating system side NPar provides up to sixteen PCI functions per device using standard PCI configuration space when NParEP is enabled Four PCI functions can be mapped to a physical port on a 4 port adapter Eight PCI functions can be mapped to a physical port on an 2 port adapter Each function or partition is assigned a unique MAC address Partitions are available for virtual function assignment and for application segmentation using VLAN or IP subnets The partitions can be on separate
201. oad The iSCSI driver was unable to load because it was unable to map one or more PCI Base Address registers This failure may indicate a low memory condition or a hardware error Ox1f Error Hardware initialization has failed error code A The hardware initialization has failed This error causes the driver load to fail The error code included in the event log entry identifies the specific point of failure This failure indicates that the hardware has not been initialized or is malfunctioning This may also indicate that the firmware is not running correctly 0x20 Warning Initial memory allocation failed driver is running with reduced capabilities The driver failed to allocate its complete memory requirement and attempts to load with reduced capabilities The total number of targets available is reduced This message indicates a low memory condition 0x21 Info Target Reconnected for Session id N N A 0x22 Info Interrupt Redirection capability is enabled N A 0x23 Warning Interrupt Redirection capability is not supported by this firmware Update your firmware Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Update the firmware to the latest version P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log 173 Table A 15 iSCSI Error Log Entries on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 W
202. ol should be performed on the network switch The adapter will learn the configuration using the DCBx protocol Flow Control Disabled Windows Server 2008 Flow control is almost always RX and TX Enabled default Windows Server 2008 R2 sella eae a a Gea i rops on the network The switc Rx Enable Tx Disable Windows Server 2012 or network peer must also have Tx Enable Rx Disable Windows Server 2012 R2 flow control enabled The IEEE 802 3x Ethernet specification defines a control frame between peers that can request a pause in packet transmissions This allows one system to request a temporary halt of all incoming traffic when receive buffer space is exhausted The network device may be configured to respond to pause frames Rx Enable and or to send pause frames Tx Enable IP Checksum Disabled Windows Server 2008 This offloads the transmit and or Offload IPv4 RX and TX Enabled default Windows Server 2008 R2 ae i checksum RX Enabled Windows Server 2012 w a 7 oading checksums increases TX Enabled Windows Server 2012 R2 system efficiency Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 49 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name Large Send Offload v1 IPv4 Acceptable Values Disabled Enabled default Supported Operatin
203. om 256 1 to 2048 8 Value 0 8 Default 0 InitTimeout n Determines the number of time out seconds Reboot during driver initialization for the link to come up If the link fails to come up by InitTimeout driver initialization exits but is still successful If the link comes up before InitTimeout the driver sets double the amount for discovery to complete Value 5 30 seconds or 0x5 0x1E hex Default 15 seconds OxF LimTransferSize Limits maximum transfer size when non zero to Reboot selectable values Values 0 Port Default 1 64Kb 2 128 Kb 3 256Kb Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 39 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol LinkSpeed n LinkSpeed has significance only if the adapter Reset FC Only supports speeds other than one Gb s Value Auto select 1 Gb s 2 Gb s 4 Gb s 8 Gb s Default Auto select Notes e Setting this option incorrectly can cause the adapter to fail to initialize e If you configure the link speed in a BIOS utility the link speed may be overwritten by the Windows operating system according to its own configuration settings To avoid this issue configure the link speed in both the operating system driver and the Boot BIOS or UEFI driver LinkTimeOut n LinkTimeOut applies to a private loop onl
204. ommand Get VmHost fl includes IovSupportReasons that indicates if the chipset suffers from this issue Enabling SR IOV on Unqualified Servers If Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 detect an issue with the system I O remapping hardware you may still be able to use SR IOV by explicitly enabling SR IOV in the registry using lovEnableOverride Notes e Emulex recommends this procedure for trusted virtual machines only e It is recommended that you make a backup of your registry before you make any changes Caution Using registry editor can cause serious issues that may require you to reinstall the computer s operating system Emulex cannot guarantee that issues resulting from changes you make to the registry can be repaired Use the registry editor at your own risk Backing Up and Editing the Registry 1 Create a system restore point Open the registry editor by running regedit exe at the command prompt Select the hive the top level key and export it to a reg file Save the reg file to a location off of the server as a precaution ae WON Navigate to HKLM Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Virtualization a Create a DWORD type entry named IovEnableOverride 7 Set the value of IovEnableOverride to 1 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 78 gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 8 Reboot the system 9 Ifthe system
205. on a per port basis While the default value is 4 a value of 1 is considered to be the typical use case The ConfigScale parameter supersedes the ExtTransferSize parameter for OneConnect adapters For OneConnect adapters For all values except 0 up to 1024 targets can be discovered and mapped When ConfigScale 0 only 128 targets can be discovered and mapped A value of 0 limits max XRIs to 512 Note Use ConfigScale 0 to minimize the driver s per port memory foot print When ConfigScale is set to e 0 the max transfer size is limited to 500 KB e 1 the max transfer size is limited to 1012 KB e 2 the max transfer size is limited to 2036KB o Use ConfigScale 2 if connecting to tape devices e 3 the max transfer size is limited to 2036KB which is the best setting if you are running performance benchmarks in a non production environment e 4 the max transfer size is limited to 512KB Emulex 16 Gb s adapters ConfigScale is always set at 4 The max transfer size is set according to the value of the ExtTransferSize parameter Values 0 1 2 3 and 4 Default 4 Note For Emulex 16Gb s adapters only the value of 4 is valid Activation Requirement Adapter Protocol Reboot OneConnect and Emulex 16 Gb adapters DiscoveryDelay n DiscoveryDelay controls whether the driver waits for n seconds to start port discovery after link up If set to 0 immediate discovery after link up If set to 1 or 2
206. on failure OxAB SCSI command error OxAC Read check error 0xB0 Node timeout device removal signaled to Storport Command Errors Table A 3 Command Errors Bits 0 7 Interpretation 0x43 Fabric login succeeded 0x46 ELS command failed 0x47 Exhausted retries on ELS command 0x4A PLOGI accepted 0x56 LOGO accepted 0x59 PRLI accepted 0x63 Fabric name server response 0x6B ELS RSCN processed 0x71 LOGO received from fabric 0x79 FDISC accepted 0xA2 SCSI address assigned to discovered target 0xA4 Report LUNs error initial I O to discovered target 0xA5 Local error indication on FCP command 0xA8 Data overrun 0xA9 FCP command error OxAA SCSI check condition OxAD Local reject indication on FCP command OxAE Error on SCSI pass through command OxAF Error on Menlo CT command Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 154 FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Event Indicators Table A 4 Event Indications Bits 0 7 0x18 Interpretation Port shutdown event LightPulse 0x19 Port in off line state LightPulse Ox1A Port in on line state LightPulse 0x1B Port in off line state LightPulse OxA7 Data underrun 0xDO NPIV Virtual Port creation success Virtual Port Did in bits 8 31 0xD1 NPIV Virtual Port creation failed Virtual Port index in bits 8
207. onment Quick Fix Engineering quality of service queue pairs redundant array of independent disks Remote Command Service remote direct memory access received RDMA network interface RDMA over converged Ethernet read only memory remote port indicator receive segment coalescing Register State Change Notify receive side scaling receive selective acknowledgement storage area network Small Computer System Interface small form factor pluggable service level interface Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX SMB SRB SR IOV SSH TCP TCP PSH TMF TMO TOE TSO Tx aaacasa v Z gt JEFI BIOS GG E a c Z A VF VLAN VLANID VM VMQ VPN vPort WAIK WMI WWN WWNN WWPN XRI Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual 1 Introduction 17 Abbreviations server message block SCSI Request Block Single Root I O Virtualization Secure Shell network protocol Transmission Control Protocol TCP push flag task management function timed out TCP Offload Engine TCP segmentation offload transmit Universal Converged Network Adapter User Datagram Protocol unrecoverable error user interface Unified Extensible Firmware Interface BIOS Upper Layer Protocol Universal Multichannel universal naming convention virtual function virtual local area network virtual local area network id virtual machine virtual machine queue virtual private network virtual port
208. or Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 on the Microsoft website Windows 7 Ultimate Enterprise or Professional edition x64 only supported on only OneConnect OCe11100 series Universal Converged Network Adapters UCNAs Windows 8 and Window 8 1 x64 base version Pro and Enterprise x64 only supported on only OCe11100 series UCNAs Windows 7 x64 Windows 8 x64 and Windows 8 1 x64 drivers are Emulex signed You must accept the Emulex certificate to install these kits Support is provided by Emulex but not by Microsoft Check the Emulex website for required updates to the Windows operating system or the Emulex drivers Abbreviations ACC accept ACK acknowledgement ADISC discover address AL_PA arbitrated loop physical address API application programming interface ARI Alternative Routing ID Interpretation ARM Advanced RISC Machine ASC additional sense code ASCO additional sense code qualifier BIOS basic input output system CFA converged fabric adapter CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol CLI command line interface CNT count CPU central processing unit Emulex Drivers for Win dows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX CRC CT CTCP DAS DCB DCBx DPC DHCP DID DIMM DISC DISC CNT DMA DNS DSM ELS ETO ETS FAN FC FC AL FCoE FCP FDISC FDMI FLOGI FW Gen 2 or Gen2 GET_FT GSI GUI HBA hex ICMP IEEE IET Int cyclic redundancy check command transport
209. or Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 26 gt lt EMULEX Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol Drivers Uncomment the line that sets SilentInstallEnable to True There are other settings in the same section of the configuration file related to unattended installations that you may also want to edit See Software Configuration Parameters on page 183 for more information After editing the file you can run the AutoPilot Installer from the Start menu a command prompt or a script Installation Failure If the installation fails the Diagnostics window displays that the adapter failed If the adapter fails 1 Select the adapter to view the reason for the failure The reason and suggested corrective action are displayed Perform the suggested corrective action and run AutoPilot Installer again Note You can run AutoPilot Installer again from the Start menu Programs gt Emulex gt AutoPilot Installer or you can run APInstall exe from a command prompt Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol Drivers You can install or update the Emulex protocol drivers and utilities manually without using AutoPilot Installer The Emulex PLUS ElxPlus driver supports the OneCommand Manager application persistent binding and LUN mapping and masking Note The ElxPlus driver must be installed before you install the Emulex protocol drivers Installing the Emulex PLUS EIxPlus Dri
210. or network applications is based on choosing the ideal relationship between the DPC and application affinity to reduce processor cache coherency cycles The ideal mapping may require that both the DPC and application run on the same processor different processors or different cores of a dual core processor that share a common memory cache Even when the best affinity relationship is determined it is impossible to enforce this relationship because RSS or TCP offloading choose the DPC processor The driver uses multiple parallel DPCs that are explicitly assigned to particular CPUs for processing both RSS and TCP offloading tasks Each TCP connection is assigned to a particular CPU for processing This provides the advantage of assigning CPU affinities by reducing CPU cache misses without any user configuration Explicit processor affinity assignments are not necessary for the driver because the advantages of assigning processor affinities are realized by using RSS The only reason to experiment with application and interrupt CPU affinity is when performing isolated networking benchmarks Single TCP Connection Performance Settings One common benchmark is to run a single TCP connection between two computers as fast as possible The following are a few suggestions to deliver the best possible performance e Use TCP window scaling with a 256 Kb or 512 Kb window This may be controlled with show socket applications such as ntttcp from Microsoft
211. ork device is operating in For best performance install the Gen1 mode and installed in a 1x adapter in an 8x Genl PCle slot PCle slot Note A 16x slot will not provide any additional performance 0x001c 28 Error Vital product data is not initialized Use the offline flash utility to correctly reconfigure the device 0x0015 21 Warning Firmware version does not match The firmware version and driver driver version must match This is a warning message but it is recommended that you reinstall matching versions of the firmware and driver Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Table A 13 NIC Event Log Entries Continued Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 163 NIC Error and Event Logs Message ID Hexadecimal Decimal Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x0014 20 Error Failed to read registry The registry is corrupted Reinstall configuration the driver and or operating system 0x0013 19 Error Resource conflict The operating system failed to allocate resources for the device Check low memory conditions and operating system hardware resource conflicts 0x0012 18 Error Failed to enable bus mastering Verify that the BIOS allows bus mastering and that no resource conflicts exist 0x0011 17 Error The driver is incompatible with the The driver is loaded on the incorrect device hardware device Verify that the correct driver is installed 0
212. ort adapter can have 4 functions port A system reboot is required if any of the NPar function mode settings are modified A reboot is not required for bandwidth and MTU settings modifications Enabling NPar Using the Multichannel Property Page You can enable NPar on a port using the Multichannel property page Each port is represented by a tab on the Multichannel property page that lists all of the available PCI functions for a particular port The list of PCI functions displayed depends on the multichannel mode Note When provided by the switch the driver accepts the QoS setting as set by DCBX for the minimum committed bandwidth instead of the minimum bandwidth configured on each partition in the Multichannel tab If there are multiple NIC functions in an NPar configuration with storage and NIC functions together the committed minimum bandwidth for NIC will be divided equally between all NIC functions and the storage bandwidth will be assigned to the storage functions as applicable From the Multichannel property page you can Enable or disable NPar using the Mode list Enable or disable NParEP Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 101 Note NParEP is only available when NPar mode is activated on OCe14000 series adapters See Using NParEP on page 104 e Reset the adapter to the factory default settings using the Factory Default button
213. ote Passive and active connection limits for both the OCe14000 series adapters are e Active mode See Table 3 5 below e Passive mode Maximum passive connections are calculated using the following equation o 511 2 number of ports e Passive Active mode Active and passive connection counts together should not exceed 511 2 number of ports as calculated above Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A NIC Driver Configuration gt G EMULEX 3 Configuration 95 Table 3 5 shows the maximum number of SMB Direct active client mode connections that can be initiated on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 using the OCe14000 series adapters Table 3 5 SMB Direct Active Connections Client Mode Per Port for OCe14000 Series Adapters Adapter Type Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 1 port 40 Gb adapter 31 15 2 port 10 Gb adapter 15 7 4 port 10Gb adapter 7 3 The Maximum Queue Pair counts on a 1 port 2 port and 4 port OCe14000 series adapter are as follows PS C Users Administrator DVIROCE gt Get NetAdapterRama 1fdesc Emulex Format List Property MaxQueuePairCount MaxQueuePairCount 509 Figure 3 16 Resource Counts on a 1 Port 10Gb or 40Gb 0Ce14000 Series Adapter Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved PS C Users Administrator gt Get NetAdapterRdea ifdesc Emulex Format List Property MaxQueuePairCount MaxQueuePairCount 25
214. otup may also indicate a hardware issue 0x3184000c The iSCSI driver was unable to map This failure may indicate a low memory one or more PCI Base Address condition or a hardware error Registers and failed to load 0x3184000b The iSCSI driver ignored a The invalid entry must be removed or configuration entry because the entry corrected Check the registry configuration for was invalid any new valid values added to the driver parameters For more information on valid driver values see Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options on page 117 0x31840009 The iSCSI driver failed to load a The range specified for a configuration configuration value specified in the parameter is too large or too small and must be registry because the value was out of corrected Check the registry configuration for range The driver will use the default any new valid values added to the driver value for this configuration parameter parameters For more information on valid instead driver values see Table 3 12 iSCSI Driver Options on page 117 0x31840006 The iSCSI driver failed to load due to This failure occurred due to a failed memory memory allocation failure allocation in the driver Check low memory conditions 0x31840001 The iSCSI driver failed to load because This failure may be due to the firmware not initialization failed during normal being present or currently running This failure bootup may also indicate a hardware issue 0x31640004 An internal API faile
215. ove NetVirtualizationLookupRecord Remove the customer route records for Red subnet Get NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute where VirtualSubnetID eq 6001 Remove NetVirtualizationCustomerRoute 2 Configure the Host Provider Addresses and Routes required for this setup Host PA Address amp Route information required by the VM policy Host Hostname PA s VM VirtualSubnetID gt Set on the VMNetworkAdapter on eash host me my ee ce Sa a a ea Hostl example hostl 192 x x x Bluel 5001 Red1 6001 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 87 NIC Driver Configuration gt EMULEX Host2 example host2 192 x x x Blue2 5001 Red2 6001 2 1 Host1 a Configure Provider Address and Route Get the interface assign the PA and the default route Get NetVirtualizationProviderAddress where ProviderAddress eq 192 x x x Remove NetVirtualizationProviderAddress b Set VirtualSubnetID on the VM network port Get VMNetworkAdapter Bluel where MacAddress eq 060600000005 Set VMNetworkAdapter VirtualSubnetID 0 Get VMNetworkAdapter Redi where MacAddress eq 080800000005 Set VMNetworkAdapter VirtualSubnetID 0 Policy Script Information Verify or modify the following list of components for your specific conditions e Network connection name of the NIC attached to the virtual switch e Binding network connection to the M
216. ows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 SpeedDuplex is used for selecting link speed mainly for 10G BaseT Adapters When it is set to the default it auto negotiates 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps with switch peer Link speed can be forced to 1Gbps if option 1 0Gbps Full Duplex is selected Link speed can be forced to 10Gbps if option 10Gbps Full Duplex is selected 10Gbps is the maximum supported link speed P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 57 DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Supported Operating Option Name Acceptable Values Systems Definition SR IOV Disabled default Note For OCe11102 SR IOV enables the adapter to Enabled LPe16202 and allocate virtual PCI functions for OCe14000 series each virtual machine in Hyper V only Note that the virtual switch and virtual network adapter must have Windows solve 20 SR IOV enabled in the Hyper V Windows Server 2012 R2 Manager SR IOV requires a platform with IOMMU virtualization VT d AMD Vi When using SR IOV the Emulex NIC driver must be installed on each virtual function within the virtual machine SR IOV provides a direct hardware interface from the virtual machine to the networking adapter which reduces latency and improves performance The Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 SR IOV arc
217. ows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating Systems the server role must be set up for Multipath See the Emulex Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for more information on MPIO Multipath configuration takes a long time to fail over or failover does not occur Ensure that LDTO settings and ETO settings have been configured for MPIO These values must be set to 0 For more information see Configuring LDTO and ETO on the Windows Server on page 123 Sendtargets to an IET target fails because it violates the iSCSI specification Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual If you still want to add an IET target you must add the target manually This issue affects Sendtargets only P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 146 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Table 4 6 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver Continued Issue The following POST error message appears Initiator iSCSI Name mismatch Please use iSCSISelect to set a single name for all controllers Press lt Ctrl gt lt S gt to enter iSCSISelect Reboot required Answer Solution In the iSCSI BIOS the Emulex iSCSI initiator name may be different if more than one OneConnect UCNAs are in the system This message appears if the iSCSI initiator name is different on multiple controllers You must enter iSCSISelect and save a new initiator name on the first iSCSISelect menu window so that the iSCSI initiato
218. pecified in the APInstall command override those specified in the configuration file ConfigFileLocation path specifier NoSoftwareFirstInstalls TRUE FALSE SilentRebootEnable TRUE FALSE ForceDriverUpdate TRUE FALSE ForceDriverTypeChange TRUE FALSE SkipDriverInstall TRUE FALSE InstallWithoutQFE TRUE FALSE ForceRegUpdate TRUE FALSE LocalDriverLocation path specifier ReportLocation path specifier Path Specifiers Paths may be specified as e an explicit path ReportLocation C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer Reports Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX AutoPilot Installer Syntax 153 e arelative path LocalDriverLocation Drivers Storport Miniport assuming installation into C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer this path would logically become C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer Drivers Storport Miniport e with the ProgramFiles environment variable LocalDriverLocation ProgramFiles Emulex AutoPilot Installer Driver Configuration File Location The optional setting ConfigFileLocation contains the path to the configuration file that should be used If this parameter is not specified AutoPilot Installer uses the file named APInstall cfg in the same folder as APInstall exe The format is the same as
219. perations Ipfc_mes0713 Issued Target Reset to Pathld d Targetld d Did x x Description Severity Log Action See Also Storport detected that it needs to abort all I O to a specific target This results in login reset to the target in question Warning LOG FCP verbose Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster operations Ipfc_mes0714 Ipfc_mes0714 Issued Bus Reset for PathId d Description Severity Log Action See Also Storport is requesting the driver to reset all targets on this adapter Warning LOG FCP verbose Review system configuration Possible side effect of cluster operations Ipfc_mes0713 Ipfc_mes0716 FCP Read Underrun expected d residual d Description Severity Log Action See Also Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual FCP device provided less data than was requested Supplement Information LOG FCP verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0730 P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 136 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0729 FCP command error ulpStatus x x ulpWord 4 x x XRI x x ulpWord 7 x x Description Severity Log Action Remarks The specified device failed an I O FCP command Warning LOG _FCP verbose Check the state of the target in question Ipfc_mes0730 is also recorded if it is a FCP Rsp error Ipfc_mes0730 FCP response error Flags x x SCSI status x x Residual
220. please offset was out of order check your iSCSI configuration 0x45 Warning Command was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally a received PDU had firmware If this message is unexpected please an invalid DataSN check your iSCSI configuration 0x46 Warning Connection invalidation This condition is detected by the OneConnect completion notification firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration 0x47 Warning Connection invalidation This condition is detected by the OneConnect completion with data PDU firmware If this message is unexpected please index check your iSCSI configuration 0x48 Warning Command invalidation This condition is detected by the OneConnect completion notification firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration 0x49 Warning Unsolicited header This condition is detected by the OneConnect notification firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration Ox4a Warning Unsolicited data notification This condition is detected by the OneConnect firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration 0x4b Warning Unsolicited data digest This condition is detected by the OneConnect warning notification firmware If this message is unexpected please check your iSCSI configuration 0x4c Warning TCP acknowledge based This condition is detected by the OneConnect notif
221. ption Severity Log Action Receives an ELS_AUTH_REJECT Information LOG _FCSP verbose No action needed informational Ipfc_mes1904 Authentication ends for x x with status x x Y d d Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Authentication is done Information LOG _FCSP verbose No action needed informational P010077 01A Rev A 4 Troubleshooting 141 SG EMULEX Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes1905 Authentication policy change for local x 08x x 08x remote x 08x 08x Description Authentication policy has been changed Severity Information Log LOG FCSP verbose Action No action needed informational Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 4 Troubleshooting 142 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers gt G EMULEX Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers The following table provides troubleshooting information for the NIC drivers Table 4 3 Troubleshooting the NIC Drivers Issue Answer Solution Performance is not as expected The adapter may be installed in the wrong type of PCle slot Verify that the adapter has been properly installed If TOE is enabled and performance is not as high as expected the operating system may not offload TOE connections For more information see TCP Offloading TOE on page 112 There are frequent event log entries Unload and reload the driver to reset available target IDs Ensure for link changes or sta
222. r is running out of resources The Adapter ran out of resources while creating the requested number of SMB Direct connections Please reduce the connection count to a supported value Setting RoCE Parameters You can set the RoCE adapter parameters using OneCommand Manager PowerShell scripts or by using the Network Interface Property page Note See the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual for more information on using the OneCommand Manager GUI application to configure RoCE or see the OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface for information on using OneCommand Manager CLI to configure RoCE The following parameters can be modified from the Network Interface Property page Parameter Description NetworkDirect This parameter enables an offloaded RDMA interface for SMB 3 0 network attached storage traffic using Microsoft s SMB Direct protocol NetworkDirect MTU This parameter configures the maximum transmission unit frame size for RoCE traffic Note For optimal performance Emulex recommends setting the MTU size to 4096 The following parameters can be viewed via the Statistics Property Page Parameter Description RoCE QP Allocated Indicates the number of established queue pairs for RoCE RoCE Transmit Throughput The transmit data rate of RoCE traffic RoCE Receive Throughput The receive data rate of RoCE traffic QoS Concepts Related to RoCE Priority Groups It is advisable
223. r name on all controllers match All logins from the multiple controllers will use the new name See the Emulex Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for more information When an iscsicli logouttarget command is issued back to back ina script event 12 errors from the PlugPlayManager are seen in the Windows Event Viewer The error message is similar to this string The device SE ISCSI 00 SCSI Disk Device SCSI Disk amp Ven_ SE_ISCST amp Prod_00 amp Rev_3 64 5 amp 17659873 amp 2 amp 020000 disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal This behavior is not specific to the OneConnect UCNA On a system running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 the iSCSI driver fails to load after many iterations of enable disable from Device Manager Because the system failed to allocate contiguous uncached extension memory the iSCSI driver failed to load and an attention icon is displayed next to the OneConnect iSCSI device The Device Status shows This device cannot start Code 10 and an Event 11 error is logged in the Windows system event log for the iSCSI driver with 0x31840006 in the 5th DWORD There is no workaround for this issue When an iSCSI UCNA is used to log in to an iSCSI target and the LUN configuration on the target is changed neither the UCNA nor the WMI GUI see the updated LUN configuration Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual If a
224. r will be installed even if a Windows NDIS6 driver is available An event log message advises you to update to the latest driver for best performance The system crashes or appears to hang In the case of a hang there could be a message indicating that the driver experienced a hardware malfunction There are several possible causes for this issue e Certain systems require an updated BIOS to properly manage the power states of newer Intel and AMD processors Check with your OEM for information regarding BIOS and firmware updates that may be required to run well with the latest releases of the Windows operating systems Also certain BIOS settings may be required For example it is recommended that you disable any low power processor states and low power settings for PCle On certain AMD systems it is possible the intelppm sys driver isenabled and should not be To query this system driver s run state log in as administrator and at the command line type sc query intelppm If the results indicate that the intelppm driver is running you must disable it At the command line type sc config intelppm start disabled On all systems it may be necessary to set the power options to High Performance See the operating system documentation for details Monitoring TCP Offloads To monitor TCP offloads in a command window type netstat t This command indicates the offload state for each TCP connection of the system Windows S
225. rameter see Configuring NIC Driver Options on page 44 NUMA Considerations for Windows Server 2012 R2 NUMA assignments may affect network performance and CPU efficiency If your application is not NUMA aware and network traffic is moderate to heavy the CPU and memory access are managed by the operating system As a result the operating system may cross NUMA nodes or your application may be on the same NUMA node as other applications decreasing your network efficiency Regardless of whether your application is multi threaded and if data is not in parallel consider the NUMA CPU defaults Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A xs 3 Configuration 111 gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration To improve network and CPU performance for heavy network loads under these conditions you may have to make an appropriate NUMA CPU selection For example in Windows Server 2012 R2 you can use the Task Manager to adjust the Set Affinity property to bind the application to a specific NUMA node for maximum network performance and CPU efficiency Checksum Offloading and Large Send Offloading LSO The adapter supports IP TCP and UDP checksum offloading All these protocols are enabled by default You can disable offloading through the Windows Device Manager Advanced Properties Disabling checksum offloading is only useful for packet sniffing applications such as Ethereal or Microsoft Network Monitor on the local syst
226. ransfer size in a single I O request in KB By default the iSCSI driver supports a maximum of 64 KB of data and 16 scatter gather entries in a single I O request This option enables support for 512 KB of data in a single I O request If an application issues an I O request that is larger than 64 KB or that needs more than 16 scatter gather entries the request is split into multiple requests by the Storport driver Note If the large_io parameter is set to 512 the amount of physical memory consumed by the driver increases Also although intermediate values between 64 and 512 are accepted the memory used by the driver is the same as is used if large_io is set to 512 LDTO 20 seconds 0 seconds 3600 seconds LDTO in seconds This parameter determines the amount of time the driver waits for the controller s physical link to be available before reporting that the LUNs are unavailable to the operating system Iqd 128 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual 255 The LUN queue depth parameter configures the number of concurrent commands to a logical unit via Storport API StorPortSetDeviceQueueDepth The lqd parameter also sets the maximum number of concurrent commands allowed per LUN P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration gt lt EMULEX iSCSI Driver Configuration 119 Interrupt Moderation Policy Settings The Interrupt Moderation policy settings control the rate of interrupts for UCNA
227. re called jumbo frames Using a higher frame size is generally more efficient but it uses more system memory A larger frame size also requires support on the network switch J umbo frames are IPv4 only frames IPv6 packets will be fragmented by LSO Switches and the peer should be configured to accept the specified packet size or the size will be negotiated to the common smallest size Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 52 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name Acceptable Values Performance Tuning Maximum performance default e Dynamically balanced Statically balanced Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2012 Definition This parameter selects the driver algorithm for performance tuning allowing you to balance raw networking throughput with overall system fairness among multiple devices and applications e Maximum Performance This mode maximizes the network performance for this adapter This is the recommended mode However in systems with a large number of network or storage adapters this mode may limit the performance of other devices e Statically Balanced This mode configures the network adapter to throttles CPU usage in all cases
228. rentControlSet Control Class 4D36E972 E325 11CE BFC 108002bE10318 where is the device instance number The occfg program allows you to modify registry keys on a set of network devices Once modified the driver must be restarted to apply these parameters In batch mode occfg will automatically restart the driver when changing a parameter and in interactive mode there is a menu item to select to restart the driver In batch mode the commands to modify parameters will look like the following examples occfg a emulex s rss 0 occfg a emulex s Interrupt Moderation 4 Flow Control 3 The parameter name must uniquely specify one parameter to modify but it may be only a substring on the full parameter name For example the following are all equivalent occfg a emulex s Flow Control 3 occfg a emulex s flow 3 occfg a emulex s control 3 Note that the parameter name is generally the text readable parameter description name but you may specify the exact registry key name as well Microsoft has defined many documented standard registry key names that start with a character The is not a wildcard it is part of the registry key name The following examples are equivalent occfg a emulex s Flow Control 3 occfg a emulex s FlowControl 3 Note Quotes are required if the parameter name contains a space character Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 71 NIC Dr
229. rface assign the PA and the default route Get NetVirtualizationProviderAddress where _ ProviderAddress eq 192 x x x Remove NetVirtualizationProviderAddress Siface Get NetAdapter SWNVNIC New NetVirtualizationProviderAddress InterfaceIndex Siface InterfaceIndex ProviderAddress 192 x x x PrefixLength 24 b Set VirtualSubnetID on the VM network port Get VMNetworkAdapter Bluel where MacAddress eq 060600000005 Set VMNetworkAdapter VirtualSubnetID 5001 Get VMNetworkAdapter Redi where MacAddress eq 080800000005 Set VMNetworkAdapter VirtualSubnetID 6001 Example of a Script Removing the NVGRE Tunnel Between Two Hosts FEFEFE HEHE HEHEHE HEHEHE FE HH EHE FE HE HHH HE HE HE E HH FE HE HE HE HE FE HE HE TE HE FE HE HE TE HE FE HE HE HE HE FE HE E TE HE FE HE HE HE HE FE RRR HR ERR H EHH H HHHH HEEE HEHEHEH R HEE H HH EEH HHRHH Blue Virtual Network Information Rout ingDomainID 11111111 2222 3333 4444 000000005001 VirtualSubnetID 5001 Both RDID and VSID are defined by administrators MUST be unique in the datacenter Customer Addresses VM Name Host VSID CA PA MAC DefaultGw Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 86 gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Ta cm oma ty a a a a a a a a a a a a ee ee ere ene eer ene See ee ere ee ete ee ee esa eee ere ene eee eerie eens Bluel HOSEL 5001 10 0 0 5 192 x x x 06 06 00 00 0
230. rio Two e You execute IOMETER with an I O depth of 48 I Os per device in a small scale configuration 16 devices e Recommendation set QueueDepth to be greater than 48 for example 64 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 44 NIC Driver Configuration gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Notes e TOE is supported and enabled by default e TOE is not supported on LPe16202 CFAs and OCe14000 series adapters Configuring NIC Driver Options The Windows Server NIC driver supports configurable driver options through the Advanced Property page in Windows Device Manager For information on how to configure the options through the Advanced Property page see Modifying Advanced Properties on page 62 For more information on NIC driver options see Network Driver Performance Tuning on page 107 You can also set configurable driver options using Microsoft PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 Refer to the documentation that accompanies the Windows Server 2012 operating system for more information on using PowerShell See Table 3 3 on page 47 for a list of NIC driver options Advisory PowerShell Behavior Issues with Capabilities Reported by Standard PowerShell Commands Get NetAdapter Driver parameter default registry values are initially populated from the driver installation INF file Thereafter the registry is written to only if the default settings are explicitly overridden
231. riority value and should be limited to cases where storage functions are not used e Disable Priority The adapter always transmits either untagged packets or VLAN ID 802 1q tagged packets with a priority value 802 1p of zero Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 4g NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Supported Operating Option Name Acceptable Values Systems Definition Enhanced Disabled default Windows Server 2008 If ETS is enabled the driver filters Transmission Enabled Windows Server 2008 R2 transmit packets based on the Selection 802 1p priority tag into multiple Windows Ferver 2012 separate transmit rings The Windows Server 2012 R2 network switch should be configured for ETS to group nie a aroun i jar OCe11102 UCNAs may be assigned a QoS bandwidth on y __ limit For example one network ETSisnot supported in priority may to support priority conjunction with VMQ flow control to achieve loss less technology ETSis not network traffic Using separate available if SR IOVis hardware interfaces in the driver enabled allows each priority to progress at a different rate or pause temporarily without affecting the other priorities When ETS is enabled all configurations regarding bandwidth and priority flow contr
232. roubleshooting 133 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0436 Adapter not ready hostStatus x x Description Severity Log Action The adapter failed during powerup diagnostics after it was reset Error LOG_INIT verbose This error could indicate a hardware or firmware issue If issues persist report these errors to Technical Support Ipfc_mes0442 Adapter failed to init CONFIG_PORT mbxStatus x x Description Severity Log Action Adapter initialization failed when issuing CONFIG_PORT mailbox command Error LOG_INIT verbose This error could indicate a hardware or firmware issue If issues persist report these errors to Technical Support Ipfc_mes0446 Adapter failed to init CONFIG_RING mbxStatus x x Description Severity Log Action Adapter initialization failed when issuing CFG_RING mailbox command Error LOG_INIT verbose This error could indicate a hardware or firmware issue If issues persist report these errors to Technical Support Ipfc_mes0454 Adapter failed to init INIT_LINK mbxStatus x x Description Severity Log Action Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Adapter initialization failed when issuing INIT_LINK mailbox command Error LOG_INIT verbose This error could indicate a hardware or firmware issue If issues persist report these errors to Technical Support P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 4 Troubleshooting 134 Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Dr
233. rupt when a network packet arrives This interrupt may occur on any CPU or it may be limited to a set of CPUs for a given device depending on the server architecture The network driver launches one DPC that runs on the same CPU as the interrupt Only one DPC ever runs at a time In contrast with RSS enabled the network driver launches multiple parallel DPCs on different CPUs For example on a four processor server that interrupts all processors without RSS the DPC jumps from CPU to CPU but it only runs on one CPU at a time Each processor is busy only 25 percent of the time The total reported CPU usage of the system is about 25 percent perhaps more if other applications are also using the CPU This is a sign that Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration a RSS may help performance If the same four processor server uses RSS there are four parallel executing DPCs one on each processor The total CPU usage that is available for networking processing is increased from 25 percent to 100 percent Some server machines and some network traffic profiles do not benefit from RSS Because the non offloaded TCP stack includes a data copy during receive processing it is possible that memory bandwidth will limit performance before the CPU In this situation the CPU usage is very high while all processors wait for memory accesses To overcome this issue you can reduce t
234. ry Driver Registry Driver Registry Driver Registry Registry Registry 3 Configuration 73 NIC Driver Configuration Maximum RSS Processor Number lt not set gt Netw Netw Netw Netw Netw Netw Pack Pack Perf Perf Pref Pref RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS Rece ork Address lt not set gt ork Address lt not set gt orkDirect 1 Enabled orkDirect 1 Enabled orkDirect MTU 1024 1024 orkDirect MTU 1024 0x400 1024 et Size 9014 9014 et Size 9014 0x2336 9014 ormance Tuning 0 Maximum Performance ormance Tuning 0 Maximum Performance erred NUMA Node lt not set gt erred NUMA Node lt not set gt Base Processor Group lt not set gt Base Processor Group lt not set gt Base Processor Number Base Processor Number Max Processor Group Max Processor Group Profile 1 Profile 1 ive Buffers 896 Rece Rece Rece Rece Rece Recv Recv Recv Recv SR I Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual lt not set gt lt not set gt lt not set gt lt not set gt ive Buffers 1280 0x500 ive CPU lt not set gt ive CPU lt not set gt ive Side Scaling 1 ive Side Scaling 1 Segment Coalescing IPv4 Segment Coalescing IPv4 Segment Coalescing IPv6 Segment Coalescing IPv6 OV 0 Disabled Closest Processor C
235. ry will take the form of an event This event is described by Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Date date entry was logged Source elxfc elxcna Time time entry was logged Category none Type error Event id 0 User N A Computer name of computer Appendix A Error and Event Log Information FC FCoE Error and Event Logs P010077 01A Rev A 149 gt G EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Error Codes Tables Severe Errors Table A 1 Severe Errors Bits 0 7 0x00 Interpretation Invalid link speed selection SLI2 3 mode 0x01 READ_REV failed SLI2 3 mode 0x02 Invalid adapter type LightPulse 0x03 Invalid adapter type LightPulse 0x04 CONFIG_PORT failed 0x06 READ_CONFIG failed 0x07 CONFIG RING 0 failed 0x08 CONFIG RING 2 failed 0x09 CONFIG_RING 1 failed 0x0A CONFIG_RING 3 failed 0x0B INIT_LINK failed SLI2 3 mode 0x0C INIT_LINK failed SLI2 3 mode 0x0D READ_REV failed SLI2 3 mode Ox0E Invalid adapter type LightPulse OxOF Invalid adapter type LightPulse 0x10 CONFIG_PORT failed reinitialization 0x12 READ_CONFIG command failed reinitialization 0x13 CONFIG_RING 0 failed reinitialization 0x14 CONFIG_RING 1 failed reinitialization 0x15 CONFIG_RING 2 failed reinitialization 0x16 CON
236. s These control messages are point to point they are not forwarded by switches or routers You must configure both endpoints for flow control The adapter can either respond to flow control packets by temporarily pausing transmits or send flow control PAUSE packets when the transmitter is overwhelming the system s receive bandwidth For best performance flow control must be enabled on the switches as well as on UCNAs Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration gt lt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration 110 Receive and transmit flow control are on by default Flow control is not available if using FCoE on a converged network adapter In this situation priority pause is negotiated with the network switch and used only for the FCoE protocol packets The NIC function can also use priority pause if supported by the switch This requires tagging packets in the operating system with the correct priority value and enabling ETS in the driver properties Configurations that support multiple PCI functions per port generally configure flow control from the switch or blade configuration application Since flow control is an Ethernet port property it must be the same for all PCI functions using the same port If multiple PCI functions are exposed for a single 10 Gb s Ethernet port such as ina blade configuration the flow control parameter must be set the same on all adapters for the port The results are unpredictabl
237. s grouped according to related commands There are six main sections e AUTOPILOT ID Configuration Identification e AUTOPILOT CONFIG Software Configuration e STORPORT CONFIGURATION Configuration Prompts Vendor Specific Questions e STORPORT QFES QFE Checks e STORPORT PARAMS Setting Up FC Driver Parameters e SYSTEM PARAMS Setting Up System Parameters Each section begins with a heading The heading is required even if there are no settings in the section The only section not required is the Installation Prompts section which has the heading STORPORT CONFIGURATION That section cannot exist if AutoPilot Installer runs in silent mode You must delete or comment out that entire section for unattended installation Lines that begin with a semicolon are comments Some of the comments are sample settings To use the setting remove the semicolon Using the Windows Environment Variable ProgramFiles You can use the Windows ProgramFiles environment variable in the LocalDriverLocation and ReportLocation strings within the configuration file This allows you to specify strings in a driver independent manner allowing the same configuration file to be used on different systems where Windows may have been installed on different drives To use this option ProgramFiles must be the first component specified in the string The portion of the string that follows is appended to the contents of the ProgramFiles environm
238. s BIOS For best performance the network applications should try to use memory and CPU affinity from the same NUMA node This level of tuning is primarily noticeable when multiple adapters are running Receive Buffers 64 16384 inclusive The default value is 896 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 This determines the number of Ethernet receive buffers allocated per receive queue This number may be adjusted by the driver as needed Receive CPU Not Present or a value from 0 through number of CPUs on the system 1 Optional There is no default setting Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Sets the logical CPU used for processing the non RSS receive packets By default the driver intelligently chooses a CPU in the system so this parameter should only be used for advanced performance tuning RSS packets are processed by the set of RSS CPUs provided by the Windows operating system P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 54 NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Driver Options Continued Option Name Receive Side Scaling Acceptable Values Disabled Enabled default Supported Operating Systems Windows Server 2008 Windows
239. s error codes in the system event log These error codes can be viewed by using the Event Viewer application To view the error codes Click the Start tab on the bottom of the screen Click Run Type eventvwr and click OK Click Windows Log Click System Click the be2net error under System Events to show the event details RoCE Event Log The Windows Device Manager generates error log codes if any errors occur during the installation of the NIC RoCE driver Each log contains a Message Id Severity and Symbolic Link The Message Id is unique and tracks the error message if it is not displayed ON OW pes 2 Ne Table A 12 shows the list of error codes the severity of the error the message displayed the meaning of the error and recommended resolutions When reporting an issue with the adapter to Emulex check the event log and report any of these entries that may be present Table A 12 RoCE Event Log Entries Message ID Hexadecimal Recommended Resolution Decimal Severity Message Ox3F 63 Warning lt adapter gt Incorrect RoCE Select the RoCE 2 profile profile selected select the RoCE 2 profile 0x3C 60 Warning The adapter ran out of Reduce the connection count to a resources while creating the supported value requested number of SMB Direct connections Please reduce the connection count to a supported value 0x3B 59 Warning RoCE is not enabled Update Update the firmware and ensure that the firmw
240. s in parallel This scaling typically improves application performance however it tends to increase CPU usage on low end machines RSS is only supported on two primary adapters per device It will appear disabled for additional PCI functions in blade server configurations RSS requires Windows 2008 and later Registry Key RSS Default Value 1 Enable Valid Values 0 Disable 1 Enable Using SR IOV with Emulex Devices Advisory OCe11100 series adapters may have an issue recovering from the corrupted use of SR IOV Assigning an SR IOV device to a virtual machine could leave the system vulnerable and lead to instability It is strongly recommended that you assign SR IOV devices only to virtual machines that run trusted workloads or consider disabling SR IOV This advisory is highlighting a use case where a rogue non Emulex digitally signed driver is installed by the system administrator on a virtual machine It is then possible for that rogue driver to crash an OCe11100 series networking adapter While there are many benefits to using SR IOV with virtualized workloads these benefits should be weighed against the potential risks in doing so As an example see the Microsoft TechNet Blog cited in the link below where the benefits and usage of the Windows Server 2012 Hyper V switch versus NIC SR IOV are noted http www emulex com downloads sr iov html Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Confi
241. s when a node that is a Dynamic discovered target or adapter becomes unavailable If the node fails to become available before the NodeTimeout interval expires the operating system is notified so that any associated devices if the node is a target can be removed If the node becomes available before NodeTimeout expires the timer is canceled and no notification is made Value 1 255 seconds or 0x0 OxFF hex Default 30 0x1E QueueDepth n QueueDepth requests per LUN target see Dynamic QueueTarget parameter If you expect the number of outstanding I Os per device to exceed 32 then you must increase to a value greater than the number of expected I Os per device up to a value of 254 If the QueueDepth value is set too low a performance degradation can occur due to driver throttling of its device queue QueueDepth supports more than 1000 outstanding commands per port Value 1 254 or 0x1 OxFE hex Default 32 0x20 QueueTarget QueueTarget controls I O depth limiting on a per Dynamic target or per LUN basis If set to 0 depth limitation is applied to individual LUNs If set to 1 depth limitation is applied across the entire target Value 0 1 or 0x0 0x1 hex Default 0 0x0 RmaDepth n RmaDepth sets the remote management buffer Reboot queue depth The greater the depth the more concurrent management controls can be handled by the local node Value 8 64 or 0x8 0x40 hex Default 16 0x10
242. script o Get NetAdapterRDMA She 2013 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved Users Administrator gt Get NetAdapterRDMA InterfaceDescription Emulex OneConnect 0Ce14102 U NIC 3 Jomain Emulex OneConnect 0Ce141 J NIC 4 Ethernet 9 Emulex OneConnect 0Ce14401 UX NIC Figure 3 9 Get NetAdapterRDMA RoCE Enabled Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration QJ gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration o Get NetOffloadGlobal opyright C 2013 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved S F Users Administrator gt Get NetOffloadGlobalSetting ReceiveSideScaling Enabled ReceiveSegmentCoalescing Enabled himney Disabled askOff load Enabled VetworkDirect Enabled NetworkDirectAcrossIPSubnets Blocked PacketCoalescingFilter Disabled Figure 3 10 Get NetOffloadGlobal RoCE Enabled If the profile is correct and NetworkDirect is enabled you should see active NetworkDirect listeners on IP addresses port 445 assigned to the NICs using netstat xan Using SMB Direct with NetworkDirect Because RoCE is supported in Windows using SMB Direct with NetworkDirect it is important that SMB Direct and NetworkDirect be configured correctly From the Advanced tab of the Network Interface Properties page 1 Enable the NetworkDirect parameter 2 Set the NetworkDirect MTU Emulex recommends a NetworkDirect MTU of 4096 bytes for OCe14400 series adapters Note The Ne
243. scripts 3 Copy the NIC driver to C driver on the Hyper V Hosts Configuration Creating a VM Use a 10Gb disk image size and 1GB RAM Install Windows Server 2012 RTM Turn off automatic administrator login by using control userpasswords2 Turn off the Windows Firewall Create a vswitch for NVGRE for example vport0 Oy Gr Ga E Create a vswitch for non NVGRE normal traffic Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX 3 Configuration 84 NIC Driver Configuration 7 Expose a NIC interface into the VM for each of the vSwitches e Make sure Enable virtual machine queue is selected under Network Adapter gt Hardware Acceleration of the VMs e Record the MAC addresses located under the Network Adapter gt Advanced Features These will be used in the add remove policy scripts 8 Rename the Network Connection name being used for NVGRE to WNVNIC for example Control Panel gt Network and Internet gt Network Connections rename Ethernet 3 to WNVNIC 9 Set up a NVGRE script Setting up a NVGRE Script The following sample script is required for network virtualization Example of a Script Adding the NVGRE Tunnel Between Two Hosts Add the locator records for Blue subnet Get NetVirtualizationLookupRecord where VirtualSubnetID eq 5001 Remove NetVirtualizationLookupRecord New NetVirtualizationLookupRecord VirtualSubnetID 5001 CustomerAddress 10 0 0 5
244. seendaics cneestaesacncoedens 144 Cisco Nexus Switch Situations for iSCSI eect a 145 Troubleshooting the iSCSI Driver coiccusiiiweceertiarvecreventercarvernveerveasss 145 Severe EM OlSieiewiaurscantataced lt ceinicekwnes EEE E A A aa 150 Malfunction Errors icccns rakes seatcensiSerai edanseeacianietnecaGedasiaenduaganatbenatans 152 Command EM OPS i ccvsisniv erste ule oana aE aA O aioe sea sess 153 Event IndicationS sssssssssrrsrrrrrrr ttrt rtrt rrtt rttr aeaeianuaee eater e untae 154 ELS FCP Command Error Status Codes 02 ccsccccstescsesccacteissecateusdevannsens 155 CT Command Response CodeS scvescessissvecssvesaeeecerttuvesseeesiwiaestieoeves 155 FC CT Reject Reason Codes ssssssrrrsssrrrsrrnrsnanrrtnnrrrtrirriirrrrirrrrna 156 ELS Command CodeS dinar dies inatandasnasiian der canned mies eceisnncseeesiotaceernsieys 156 SCSI Status CONES risian ninn e a iaa a aa a a a iaa ia 156 Local Reject Status Codes ssssssrrrsranarttnttn anart t tartti r rrr rrna 157 SRB Status CodeS sssssssseurrruttrrrrnn ttnt runna tettu AA Meme EE EEE EEEE EEEE EEEE 157 ROCE Event Log EntrieS ssssssrssessssrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrerere 159 NIC Event Log Entries sssssssrrsrrersssssrrrrrerrersrerrrrrrrrretrrerrrrrrerere 160 P010077 01A Rev A 10 gt EMULEX Table A 14 Table A 15 Table B 1 Table C 1 Table D 1 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A List of Tables iSCSI
245. stem is showing an excessive number of I O timeouts as a result of the switch routing frames to the incorrect port Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Ensure that the LACP is not used on the FCoE port P010077 01A Rev A 4 Troubleshooting 125 SG EMULEX Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Event Trace Messages ELS Log Messages 0100 0130 Ipfc_mes0100 FLOGI failure ulpStatus x x ulpWord 4 x x Description An ELS FLOGI command that was sent to the fabric failed Severity Error Log LOG ELS verbose Action Check the fabric connection Ipfc_mes0101 FLOGI completes successfully NPortid x x RaTov x EdTov x x Description An ELS FLOGI command that was sent to the fabric succeeded Severity Information Log LOG ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0102 PLOGI completes to NPortld x x Description The adapter performed an N PLOGI into a remote NPort Severity Information Log LOG_ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Ipfc_mes0103 PRLI completes to NPortlid x x TypeMask x x Fcp2Recovery x x Description The adapter performed a PRLI into a remote NPort Severity Information Log LOG_ELS verbose Action No action needed informational Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 4 Troubleshooting 126 DG EMULEX Troubleshooting the FC FCoE Driver Ipfc_mes0104 ADISC completes to NPortid x x Description The adapter performed an AD
246. t ExaMple siccisiscdsssedssedsscsssstedissassssescsesssssesdsassssarseveresedecens 191 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX Table of Contents Appendix E RoCE Switch Support s ssssssssunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaa L93 OVGIVIOW isriisisiiinsririiiiiaaniti nidia r n riitinti iiih irna AEP Aai EANA inii iniii an iini 193 DCBX Enabled Switch Connection PFC Mode ssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 193 Switch Configuration for PFC Priority 5 cccccccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneneenenes 193 Host Client Configuration ssssssssrsererrrersrrrrrrerrrtrttrrrrrrrrrrrtrtrrrrrrrrrrre 194 DCBX Disabled Switch Connection Generic Pause Mode cceeeeee eee nett tees 194 Examples for Cisco SWItCHii is ivsehsdecvaeten tonwdsiaded eain ai dade a e ns 194 Verifying Switch Configuration in OneCommand Managel cccsceceeeseeeeeeeeeeaees 197 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX List of Figures Figure 2 1 Figure 3 1 Figure 3 2 Figure 3 3 Figure 3 4 Figure 3 5 Figure 3 6 Figure 3 7 Figure 3 8 Figure 3 9 Figure 3 10 Figure 3 11 Figure 3 12 Figure 3 13 Figure 3 14 Figure 3 15 Figure 3 16 Figure 3 17 Figure 3 18 Figure 3 19 Figure 3 20 Figure 3 21 Figure A 1 Figure A 2 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual AutoPilot Installer Warning Software First Installation ccecce 24 Partial View of Windows De
247. tallation Reports During each installation AutoPilot Installer produces a report describing events that occurred during the installation This report has several sections Note The first section provides basic information including the time and date of the installation the name of the machine that the installation was performed on the version number of AutoPilot Installer and the identification of the configuration file that was used The second section provides an inventory of the Emulex adapters as they were before AutoPilot Installer performed any actions The third section lists the tasks that AutoPilot performs in the order they are done The fourth section records the results of each task When all driver installation tasks are completed an updated adapter inventory is recorded If you cancel AutoPilot Installer that fact is recorded along with when you cancelled the installation The contents of any error dialogs that are displayed are also recorded Command Script Example Modify the configuration file to script the installation of a system s driver The following example command script batch file assumes that you have made mandatory changes to the AutoPilot configuration file as well as any desired optional changes If your systems were set up with a service that supports remote execution then you can create a command script to remotely update drivers for all of the systems on the storage net If Microsoft s RCMD serv
248. taller command yourself The procedure for doing so is described in Option 2 Run the AutoPilot Installer Separately on page 22 and Unattended Driver Installation on page 24 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A o Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters 182 gt EMULEX AutoPilot Installer Syntax You can specify a non default directory for the driver kit by specifying an installation folder on the command line For example elxdrv fc fcoe lt version gt exe install C Emulex This option can be used in conjunction with the APArgs directive AutoPilot Installer Syntax The syntax used to run AutoPilot Installer silently from a command line or script is APInstall silent parameter setting parameter setting The silent switch and parameter settings can occur in any order One or more spaces must separate the switch and each parameter setting The syntax of a parameter setting is parameter _name value Double quotes are required only around values that contain spaces Spaces may separate parameters equal signs and values Parameter names and values are not case sensitive The APInstall command may contain the settings listed below Each setting except ConfigFileLocation may also be specified in the AutoPilot Configuration file For descriptions of each parameter see Software Configuration Parameters on page 183 Settings s
249. targets logged in by the firmware were firmware reported as available to the operating system If the total number of targets logged by the firmware is over the specified limits this error can be ignored Ox2f Warning Solicited command was This condition is detected by the OneConnect invalidated internally due to a firmware If this message is unexpected please Data Digest error check the iSCSI configuration 0x30 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received PDU firmware If this message is unexpected please size was greater than the DSL check the iSCSI configuration 0x31 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally the received PDU firmware If this message is unexpected please sequence size was greater check the iSCSI configuration than the FBL MBL 0x32 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally a received PDU firmware If this message is unexpected please HDR had AHS check the iSCSI configuration 0x33 Warning Connection was invalidated This condition is detected by the OneConnect internally due to a Header Digest warning Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual firmware If this message is unexpected please check the iSCSI configuration P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX Appendix A Error and Event Log Information iSCSI Error and Event Log Table A
250. ter e If you are unable to see the NVGRE Ethernet connection make sure that the Hyper V s control panel network connections property and advanced property windows are all closed The Control Panel renames the NDI Params registry keys and causes the policy scripts to be inoperative Cleaning Up Outdated Network Adapter Data 1 2 mg 0 oS Oy GI Start a win32 console window command prompt From the command prompt type Set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices 1 Start devmgmt msc In the device manager console go to the view menu and select Show hidden devices Open the network devices tree view Uninstall all Emulex entries Rescan for hardware changes Uninstall Emulex devices until they are not recognized Install the new driver Configuring RoCE for the OCe14000 Series Adapters Notes e Both Windows SMB Direct and Windows NetworkDirect which are included as part of the Windows operating system are required for RoCE e RoCE is not supported when multichannel is enabled e RoCE configurations are not supported with SR IOV e Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 is required to use the RoCE features on RoCE capable adapters Enabling the RoCE Profile on the Client Side The RoCE profile can be enabled by using one of the following e PXESelect BIOS See the Boot for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual for details of PXE Select BIOS utility e OneCommand Manager GUI See the OneCo
251. ter configures RoCE traffic for priority 5 e Manually enable priority 5 on the switch under a different priority group other than FCoE iSCSI NIC priority group Note If you do not enable priority 5 on the switch side the OCe14000 adapter continues to be configured for PFC mode priority 5 This configuration may result in packet losses unrecoverable errors or infinite retries for RoCE traffic e DCBX disabled switch connection o When an OCe14000 series adapter is connected to DCBX disabled switch it will be in generic pause mode Performance Considerations The following recommended settings can improve SMB performance over TCP including RDMA However the configuration should be tuned to provide line rate with TCP network traffic 1 2 Disable TCP Autotuning NIC MTU should be greater than RDMA MTU which is recommended to be set at 4096 NIC MTU size of 9014 is recommended On Windows Server 2012 R2 disable the bandwidth throttling option on the SMB client side to get good throughput This parameter has no effect on Windows Server 2012 Set SmbClientConfiguration EnableBandwidthThrottling 0 On a 40Gb link with a single client server configuration increase the QP count to a minimum of 8 for better throughput please note that this will reduce the maximum number shares that can be connected over RDMA Set ItemProperty Path HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services LanmanWorkstation Parameters ConnectionCount PerRdmaN
252. that it finds NoSoftwareFirstinstalls Prohibiting Software First Installations Default False When this parameter is set to true AutoPilot Installer prevents unattended installations from performing software first installations This way you can execute an automated installation on multiple machines in your network but only machines with Emulex adapters actually have Emulex drivers updated or installed If this parameter is omitted from the configuration file or explicitly set to true the page is not displayed AutoPilot Installer uses configuration file parameters to determine the appropriate management mode Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix D AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters SG EMULEX AutoPilot Installer Syntax 1535 ReportLocation Setting Up an Installation Report Title and Location The automatically generated file name for this report is report_mm dd yy txt where mm is the month number dd is the day and yy indicates the year You can change only the installation report folder the file name is auto generated In the following example x could be any available drive ReportLocation x autopilot reports installs SilentinstallEnable Enabling Unattended Installation Note Setting the SilentInstallEnable parameter to true in the configuration file is functionally equivalent to supplying the silent switch on the command li
253. the RoCE Profile on the Client Side 89 Confirming That the RoCE Profile Is Enabled cece cece cette eters 90 Using SMB Direct with NetworkDirect cccccececeeeeee eee eeeeeeseteeeeseteeeeeenesategs 91 Mapping the RoCE Enabled Client to the Server Side Storage ccccceeeeeceeeneeeaees 92 SMB M ltic hanne liepia TERE EEE EEEIEE TEENE EEE ARETE 92 SMB Direct RESOURCE USAGE iirinn iinan iii EEEN EEEE EAEE 94 QoS Concepts Related to ROCE sssssssssssreririnn ttti nann EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE 96 Configuring QoS for ROCE soisessa inana cae eae pedai ys ecepheedin deen dann 97 Performance Considerations c ceceee eee eee nee teeta 98 Configuring Multichannel cancst sp axiauce vo bscese cela een caienay hen aseeeeepsed eaves cbeedeater ates 98 NP ar Configuration Dell Only iccocsasdsenduleaceventengaeeseanergecevens cada linensesenancena 99 Adapter CONfIQUIALION s se cvsenetaeduvcuteds lava sci nhy steutnenataedevaneneteddetadaned NEEE 99 NPar Partition SUPPE sitsecessn eccnunds Ga cena desea da GE E ARTEEN EEEE DEREDE 99 NPar Considerations esaeren enana i Eea AERA AEE aaah EE 100 Enabling NPar Using the Multichannel Property Page sssssssssesessererererererrererrere 100 Using NParEP cairai ereireiierriernna n a aaa ae ita ana aaa 104 Network Driver Performance TUNING cccceceee eect teen eeeeeeeeeeeeeaeteenaneenanes 107 Optimizing Server Hardware and BIOS Configuration ccecceseeeeeeee
254. the command line Type c Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer lt driver type gt APInstall exe Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A DE EMULEX 2 Installation 23 AutoPilot Installer Note The location of APInstaller exe may differ on your system depending on your system s Program Files location You may also specify a different location when you install the driver package Hardware First Installation or Driver Update The driver kit must be downloaded from the Emulex website and loaded Notes e Updating the NIC protocol driver may temporarily disrupt operation of any NIC teams configured on the system e To update the Emulex protocol drivers begin the procedure at step 2 To perform a hardware first installation Ae Install a new Emulex adapter and power on the system If the Windows Found New Hardware wizard is displayed click Cancel to exit AutoPilot Installer performs this function Note If there are multiple adapters in the system the Windows Found New Hardware wizard appears multiple times Click Cancel to exit the wizard each time it appears Run AutoPilot Installer using one of the two options listed in Running a Software Installation Interactively on page 21 When the AutoPilot Installer Welcome page appears select an adapter in the list and click Next The installation continues Consider the following e If you are updating the driver the existing port settings are
255. the maximum value Windows reduces the number of queues as necessary based on the number of installed CPU cores This value may be reduced during performance tuning for a particular application It is possible that system performance may improve by limiting the number of RSS queues For OCe11102 greater than 4 RSS queues requires Advanced Mode Support be enabled in the BIOS controller configuration Maximum RSS Processor Number Min 1 Max The number of CPU cores installed on your system Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 This parameter sets the maximum processor number for the RSS CPUs This is the highest processor number of any processors from the RSSMaxProcGroup parameter Network Address Valid MAC Address The default setting is None Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 This overrides the permanent MAC address for the interface The MAC address should follow this format XX XX XX XX XX XX where X is a hex digit 0 9 or A F e The address cannot be a multicast address which has the lowest bit in the first byte set e The address cannot be all zeros For example 01 00 00 00 00 00 is not valid while 02 00 00 00 00 00 is valid P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 51 DG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Table 3 3 Windows Server 2
256. tifies you when the driver is installed and also gives you a chance to stop the installation Whether AutoPilot installer is launched from the command line or run as a program Windows always starts AutoPilot Installer as a separate stand alone task This means that AutoPilot Installer has its own command prompt window and cannot access others Unattended Driver Installation An unattended driver installation sometimes referred to as a quiet or silent installation requires no user input This is useful for performing an installation remotely froma command script or when you want to make sure a custom configuration is not changed by a user during installation Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation SG EMULEX Text Only Driver Installation 2 When in unattended installation mode AutoPilot Installer does the following e Reads the configuration file e Reads any options that may be specified on the command line overriding the configuration file settings as appropriate e Opens the installation report file e Validates the operating system e Discovers adapters and records the adapter inventory in the report file e Verifies mandatory configuration file parameters e Searches for drivers to install based on the LocalDriverLocation setting in the configuration file e Verifies if appropriate that the selected driver is either a different type than the currently installed driver or a more recent vers
257. time for small packets is very high in the networking stack Using a teaming driver may also lead to this since it increases the CPU load during receive Increasing the number of Receive Buffers in the advanced property page may alleviate some of these drops in particular if the drops are the result of bursts of small receive packets on the network However if the CPU is the limit increasing the buffer resources does not help because the driver cannot post them fast enough Enabling RSS is another strategy to reduce drops since it allows the NIC driver to use additional CPU cores The number of RSS queues may be increased to increase the total number of posted buffers available to the adapter Enabling RSC can also reduce CPU consumption in the networking stack by combining multiple TCP packets into one larger packet For best performance the system BIOS should be set to Maximum Performance or manually disable C states The transitions to low power C states may cause a steady trickle of drops due to increased latencies from packet reception until the driver s interrupt processing code is invoked Receive Drops No Fragments CPU Limited Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual The number of receive packets dropped because of a DMA bottleneck from the network adapter to host memory This may be caused by bottlenecks in either the PCle bus or main memory In the Status tab of the Custom property page the Emulex NI
258. tistics that that the SAN configuration is correct prior to reloading the driver show more than expected CRC This clears the driver s consistent binding table and frees target errors IDs for new target nodes The driver fails to load and an There may not be enough memory installed in the system to event log entry states that the provide sufficient memory for all devices installed in the system driver failed to load due to memory Try installing more memory if possible constraints Unpredictable results occur when If multiple PCI functions are exposed for a single 10 Gb s flow control setting differs among Ethernet port such as in blade configurations the flow control PCI functions parameter must be set the same on all adapters for the port Results are unpredictable if the setting differs among PCI functions because this is a shared property of the 10 Gb s port On servers that support PCle hot Hot unplug is not supported in this release unplug the system may hang or produce a bugcheck if a PCle hot unplug or replace is attempted When Wake on LAN is set through The system may not support Wake on LAN on the PCle slot in the advanced properties page the which the adapter is installed Check the system documentation system does not wake when to determine whether the system is capable of Wake on LAN receiving a magic packet or a operation packet that would normally wake a system BIOS setting may not be corr
259. to split traffic into two or more priority groups one priority group for RoCE and other groups for non RoCE traffic Many of the cluster applications use TCP and RoCE traffic simultaneously Some of them use TCP for establishing connections and share connection specific information As a result it is important to allocate enough bandwidth greater than 1 to non RoCE NIC traffic to avoid a slow connection establishment rate and starvation of NIC traffic Work conserving behavior ensures that each priority group gets enough bandwidth Based on this behavior non RoCE traffic should be given sufficient bandwidth ideally 30 70 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration SG EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration a L2 Flow Control While running a port in generic pause mode because of congestion RoCE latencies can be adversely affected Under these conditions it is advisable to configure RoCE to use PFC PFC mode ensures that RoCE traffic latencies are unaffected in presence of congestion as a result of NIC traffic However PFC mode is not required For switches and adapters that do not support PFC RoCE can continue to work without PFC mode While you can still perform bandwidth allocation for RoCE traffic as opposed to NIC traffic this allocation cannot be guaranteed as all the outgoing traffic is paused Configuring QoS for RoCE When configuring QoS for RoCE it is important to keep in mind the following e A li
260. tus Nameserver Response Code 0x98 This code is useful in determining if the expected number of targets ina SAN configuration are being presented by the nameserver to the requesting adapter The number in byte 0x11 is the number of targets returned to the nameserver query made by the adapter if the number of targets does not match expectations examine the SAN configuration found in the switch tables and if that information shows targets or devices still missing check connections between the switch ports and those devices Context Allocation Failures There are a number of event codes for which the interpretation contains the phrase context allocation failure these types of events are referring to the internal memory constructs of the Emulex Storport Miniport driver and as such are intended for Emulex design engineers information If you encounter this type of code contact Emulex support for analysis and determination if that particular event may be an indicator of a failed adapter or of some issue with interaction between the adapter the Emulex Storport Miniport driver the host operating system and the host memory Note Context allocation failures are rare Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 159 gt EMULEX NIC Error and Event Logs NIC Error and Event Logs Viewing the NIC Error Log For Windows Server operating systems the network driver generate
261. tworkDirect MTU affects only RoCE traffic but the NIC traffic still uses the Packet Size MTU An SMB Server will accept an incoming connection request from an SMB Client when the NetworkDirect MTU on the server is at least as large as the NetworkDirect MTU on the initiating client 3 Use the netstat xan command to enumerate the active NetworkDirect connections and listeners Figure 3 11 A NetworkDirect enabled driver creates listeners on any configured IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and the link local IPv6 address SMB Direct listeners listen on port 445 tae C Users Adninistrator gt netstat xan Active NetworkDirect Connections Listeners SharedEndpoints Mode IfIndex Type Local Address Foreign Address Kernel 26 Listener fe8O fded e692 8d6a 9cBex261 445 NA Kernel 26 Listener 26 2 2116426 445 NA Kernel 26 Listener 20 2 0 110 445 NA Kernel Listener f e8G 74 22 aa42 5734 b2dax251 445 NA Kernel 25 Listener 26 1 2116 25 445 NA Kernel 25 Listener 26 1 8 116 445 NA Figure 3 11 Active Network Connections and Listeners Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration Q2 gt EMULEX NIC Driver Configuration Mapping the RoCE Enabled Client to the Server Side Storage Using an available network share with the proper permissions configured open an SMB share from the Windows Run command or from the command prompt by typing net use devicename computername sharename
262. ue has been observed on Windows Server 2008 R2 under the following conditions e The iSCSI target is a software based target MSiSCSI IET StarWind that uses a local hard drive or a RAM disk for its backend LUN e Different UCNA ports are involved in the login A SAS controller is present on the system Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual This occurs caused because of an issue with the data reported by the iSCSI target in the Product Identification field in response to the standard inquiry from the UCNA This field should be unique among different targets LUNs but software based targets report the same pre formatted data for all the LUNs across all targets When Windows encounters the same Product Identification field for different LUNs with the same Bus Target Lun field it records error in the event log No other effect has been found as a result of this behavior The workaround for this error is to use non overlapping LUN numbers for the various LUNs across the various iSCSI targets On the iSCSI target system LUNs can be numbered sequentially they do not have to start at zero P010077 01A Rev A se Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 148 gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Appendix A Error and Event Log Information FC FCoE Error and Event Logs Viewing the FC FCoE Error Log The system event log is a standard feature of Windows Server software All events logged by the Emulex Storport Min
263. unedntrecaezedsnt eco edanseaneves 155 Event Log Interpretation cccceccc cece eee eee tees eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesatesaeeseeeenneenenaas 155 Additional Event Log Information ccccec eect enna 155 ASC ASCO rr diaweeda tie liawide ind caduwed take cloaweldtnidiawenlatieciiweddnida tes Aabeaind 157 Additional Notes on Selected Error Codes c cece cece ee teen eee e tee ennenae 158 NIC Error and Event LOS cioijndcccmntevmncaneacaiadioanaet aa 159 Viewing the NIC Error LOG sccccscscasusacsdcsieratcestenavusccdasmussededs teats eatssiandacaadal 159 ROCE Event 0g vin dciviactoriacsietoiinesetievecdresaenideewe nrc ncsseetnnraemeacnivia ri 159 NIC Event OG svi cropian iino ikan sE EEEE ROER ETRE E AEE GEEAE EA 160 ISCSI Error and Event LO Gisssinsissasiaswapasecaceaessnwansswancstancsaunaseenntvenskeoeeesreskeiees 164 Viewing the iSCSI Error and Event Log on Windows Server 2008 acnrccccccrcn 164 iSCSI Error Log on Windows Server 2008 2 0 lt ccceecesdeseeveemesaseevasend cened enssaxenk 165 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 6 DE EMULEX Table of Contents 7 Viewing the iSCSI Error Log on Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 and Window Server 2012 R2 sssssssrrrrrrrnrtts rnrn rrr rrtt rnnr rnrn rrtt Earann rE EErEE EEn 168 Appendix B Configuring iSCSI through DHCP sssssssnnnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna 177 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
264. uration 64 NIC Driver Configuration Note Modifying properties causes the network driver to reload and some TCP connections may be temporarily dropped Emulex OneConnect 0Ce11102 IT N E Propertie x L Diver Detais Resources Power Management General Advanced Status Statistics Diagnostics SE EMULEX Advanced Property Configuration Class of Service 802 1p Enhanced Trensmission Selection Network Address Packet Size VLAN Identifier 802 19 Configuration parameters must be set correctly for the device to operate on the network These parameters typically require corresponding changes to the network switch or network peer device OK Cancel Figure 3 2 NIC Advanced Properties in Windows Server 2008 Statistics Property Page Use the Statistics Properties tab to view the performance of the device and network By viewing the statistics properties you can troubleshoot issues and performance tune the system for example you can assess how different device properties change the performance of the system To view the statistics properties 1 Enter the Windows Device Manager using one of the following options e Click Start gt Control Panel gt System and click the Device Manager hyperlink e Click Start gt Run then type devmgmt msc and click OK The Windows Device Manager is displayed Figure 3 1 2 Right click the network adapter for which you wish to view the statistics properties
265. ut manual configuration TCP Offloading TOE Note TCP Offloading TOE is not supported by OCe14000 series adapters The adapter and drivers support TCP offload which provides significant performance improvements The performance improvements are e lt A zero copy receive data path exists In contrast all non offloaded TCP packets are copied in the network stack This copy dramatically increases the memory bandwidth and CPU requirements for receive data e Sending and receiving of ACK packets is handled entirely in hardware reducing PCle bus usage and interrupts Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A SG EMULEX 3 Configuration 113 NIC Driver Configuration e TCP timers including delayed ACK push retransmit and keep alive are implemented in hardware This reduces host CPU usage e Retransmits are handled entirely in hardware e Packetizing data including segmenting checksums and CRC is supported The network driver should use send and receive buffers that are larger than 1 MB for maximum efficiency e The driver provides efficient parallel processing of multiple connections TCP on multiple CPU systems The adapter receive path is zero copy for applications that prepost receive buffers or that issue a socket read before the data arrives Ideal applications use Microsoft s Winsock2 Asynchronous Sockets API which allows posting multiple receive buffers with asynchronous completions and posting mult
266. ute this installer file as elxdrv fc fcoe lt version gt exe q APargs SilentRebootEnable True then after installing the AutoPilot Installer the driver kit automatically executes it as APInstall exe silent SilentRebootEnable True To specify more than one parameter separate the settings by one or more spaces and put quotes around the entire APargs expression For example the command line all on one line elxdrv fc fcoe lt version gt exe APargs SilentRebootEnable True localDriverLocation d drivers new Storport results in the AutoPilot Installer being run as APInstall exe SilentRebootEnable True localDriverLocation q drivers new Storport Parameter values that contain spaces such as path names must be enclosed in quotes To add such a setting to APargs you must insert backslashes before the quotes around the value and then add quotes around the entire APargs expression For example the command line all on one line elxdrv fc fcoe lt version gt exe APargs ReportLocation C Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents reports results in AutoPilot Installer being run as APInstall exe ReportLocation C Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents reports If you have many parameters to pass to the AutoPilot Installer or if you want to do so repeatedly then it may be less error prone to run the utility kit installer interactively delay AutoPilot Installer execution and then run the AutoPilot Ins
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268. ventually the IP packet length exceeds the path MTU and the packet fragments This can be seen by using a packet sniffing application such as Ethereal Wireshark or Microsoft Network Monitor IP fragmentation degrades performance dramatically because all fragments must be received and reassembled before delivering the network packet to the upper layer protocol In many cases IP fragmentation may lead to a 10x performance degradation The MTU parameter should be modified on all systems to avoid IP fragmentation for optimal network throughput Typical cases for using the MTU e Server interconnects are typically deployed using jumbo frames This is the most efficient configuration for high bandwidth server to server communication such as Network Attached Storage iSCSI and database transactions e Servers connected to client systems that run desktop operating systems typically use standard 1500 byte frames Most desktop systems do not support jumbo packets e Servers that need both high performance server to server communication and client access can be configured with jumbo frames with Path MTU Discovery enabled Path MTU Discovery is enabled by default in the Windows Server and it allows TCP connections to negotiate the optimal packet size that avoids IP fragmentation Flow Control The adapter supports IEEE 802 3x standard flow control which uses control packets to temporarily pause the transmission of packets between two endpoint
269. ver for the First Time Note Only one instance of the ElxPlus driver should be installed even if you have multiple adapter ports installed in your system To install the ElxPlus driver from the desktop 1 Run the driver kit installer but do not run AutoPilot Installer See Running a Software Installation Interactively on page 21 for instructions Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add Hardware The Add Hardware Wizard window appears Click Next Select Yes I have already connected the hardware and click Next Select Add a new hardware device and click Next Select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list Advanced and click Next Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 2 Installation 27 gt lt EMULEX Manually Installing or Updating the Emulex Protocol Drivers 6 Select Show All Devices and click Next 7 Click Have Disk and direct the Device Wizard to the location of elxplus inf If you have installed the driver installer kit in the default folder and C is your Windows system drive the path is C Program Files Emulex AutoPilot Installer Drivers Storport x64 HBA 8 Click OK 9 Select Emulex PLUS Click Next and click Next again to install the driver 10 Click Finish The initial ElxPlus driver installation has completed Continue with manual installation of the Storport Miniport Driver See Installing or Updating the FC FCoE Storport Miniport Driver
270. ver version that is running on the system does not match the version of the firmware on the UCNA Install a driver that is compatible with the firmware 0x05 Warning Port link is down check connection to UCNA Check the links to the UCNA 0x06 Info Port link is up N A 0x07 Error Link down timeout expired on the port all targets are lost The link on the UCNA is down for a period exceeding the LDTO value If the UCNA has a connection to the target event log entries from the disk subsystem indicate that the drives were lost If any I O was in progress the system may see O errors or failures Check the links to the UCNA If the link is reestablished any sessions that previously existed are reestablished and the devices are available for I O 0x08 Error Target with session id N failed to connect within the configured timeout A connection to the target was lost for a period exceeding the ETO The error log entry includes the session ID of the target that lost the connection Event log entries from the disk subsystem indicate that the drives were lost If any I O was in progress the system may see I O errors or failures Check the connection to the target or the state of the target device If the target is made available any sessions that previously existed are reestablished and the devices are available for I O 0x09 Error Task Management request N was unhandled T
271. version 6 internet Small Computer System Interface internet Storage Name Server iSCSI Qualified Name kilobyte or Knowledge Base Link Aggregation Control Protocol local area network load balancing and failover link down time out N_Port Logout large receive offload large send offload link service reject logical unit number media access control Microsoft Management Console multipath input output message signaled interrupt maximum segment size maximum transmission unit not applicable network attached storage network address translation Network Driver Interface Specification network interface card or controller NIC partition N_Port ID virtualization New Technology File System Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX NUMA NVGRE OCCFG OS PCI PCIe PDISC PE PF PFC PHY PLOGI POST PRLI PRLO PT PT PXE QFE QoS QP RAID RCMD RDMA Recv RNIC RoCE ROM RPI RSC RSCN RSS Rx SACK SAN SCSI SFP SLI 1 Introduction 16 Abbreviations non uniform memory access network virtualization generic routing encapsulation OneConnect config operating system peripheral controller interface peripheral controller interface express discover N_Port service parameter pre installation environment PCI function process flow control physical layer Port login power on self test process login process logout point to point fabric topology Pre boot Execution Envir
272. vice Manager ssssssssssrsrrrerererrrsrrrrrerrrre 63 NIC Advanced Properties in Windows Server 2008 cccceeseeeeeeeeneeeenenes 64 NIC Statistics Properties in Windows Server 2008 ccccceceeeeeeeeeneeeenenes 65 Device Manager for Windows Server 2012 cccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneneenanes 78 Emulex NIC Driver Properties Page c ccscccccseckscecececcesarckdaecdsaecssacteancnes 79 Emulex NIC Advanced Properties Page ccceceeeee eee eeee sees tees teeta 80 Emulex NIC Statistics Properties page cccceee eee e nese eee eee eeae teens 82 Advanced Property Configuration ROCE Enabled ccccccceeeueeeeeeeeeee ees 90 Get NetAdapterRDMA ROCE Enabled cccccceseeeeee esses esses eeeaeeeenee eee 90 Get NetOffloadGlobal RoCE Enabled ccccesecseeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneneaes 91 Active Network Connections and Listeners cccceecee eect ee eee ee eeeeeeene ees 91 SMB Share Two RDMA Connections Per RDMA Enabled Network Interface ccceccececee center eee s ents rents nents renee es 92 Get NetAdapterStatistics sd s2c eissenissascezacas cbs steed dekesaresrsabebeadey detvedes 92 Two SMB Direct Connections Per Interface cccccecceee eee eset eeeaeenenne es 93 Multichannel Constraint ices certo tseieedidviweivivssyteddetersdtanseiaepticieedetedees 94 Resource Counts on a 1 Port 10Gb or 40Gb OCe14000 Series Adapter 95 Resource Counts on a 2 Port 10Gb OCe140
273. will report whatever is present in the registry when the feature is not enabled This can conflict with what the driver actually supports in the current configuration Determining What PowerShell Is Reporting Registry Driver Reported Capabilities You can usually tell whether PowerShell is using capabilities reported by the driver or is picking up registry values e SRIOV Check the output of Get NetAdapterSRIOV CurrentCapabilities for CurrentCapabilities If CurrentCapabilities is empty the driver is not currently enabled for SR IOV Any reported fields in Get NetAdapterSriov fl are based on registry values If CurrentCapabilities is not null the driver is enabled for SR IOV Get NetAdapterSriov fields are based on what the driver reports NetAdapter commands behave in this manner e RDMA Check the output of Get NetAdapterRdma RdmaAdapterInfo for RdmaAdapterInfo If RdmaAdapterInfo is empty any reported fields in Get NetAdapterRdma fl are based on registry values If RdmaAdapterInfo is not null the driver is reporting RDMA capabilities Get NetAdapterRdma fields are based on what the driver reports Considerations for Using UMC and NIC Note UMC is not supported on LPe16202 CFAs e 64VLAN IDs can be used with each UMC virtual channel e SR IOV must be disabled when using UMC because it is not supported For additional information on UMC refer to the Emulex Universal Multichannel Reference Guide which is availab
274. x0010 16 Warning The network driver was reset This may indicate a system hang or hardware issue Verify other system devices are working properly 0x000c 12 Informational The Ethernet link is down This message is informational 0x000b 11 Informational The Ethernet link is up This message is informational 0x000a 10 Error The network device detected an A hardware error occurred Verify error that the firmware flash image is not corrupted Contact Emulex Technical Support 0x0009 9 Error Failed to register interrupt service Thisis an NDIS error Verify that routine hardware resource conflicts do not exist 0x0008 8 Error Failed to get TCP offload handlers This is an NDIS error Verify the NDIS version is valid for the driver 0x0007 7 Warning A memory allocation failure This warning occurred due toa occurred during driver load failed memory allocation Check low Performance may be reduced memory conditions Use a smaller MTU or disable TCP offload to reduce driver memory requirements 0x0006 6 Error Driver load failed due to memory This failure occurred due to a failed allocation failure memory allocation in the driver Check low memory conditions 0x0005 5 Error Failed to register scatter gather This failure occurred due to a failed DMA memory allocation in the operating system Check low memory conditions 0x0004 4 Error Failed to map device registers This failure occurred due to a failed memory allocation in the operating s
275. y 0x14 Warning Failed to retrieve scatter The iSCSI driver failed an I O request because it gather list for an SRB an IO failed to retrieve a scatter gather list from the has failed Storport driver This failure occurred because of a failed memory allocation in the operating system Check low memory conditions 0x15 Error ACIT library table An internal API failed in the iSCSI driver during initialization failed initialization This failure may indicate a low memory condition 0x16 Error An ACIT API failed An internal API failed in the iSCSI driver during initialization This failure may indicate a low memory condition 0x17 Error Unsupported hardware failing Driver loading failed because the PCI Vendor ID driver load and Device ID are not supported Check the UCNA configuration 0x18 Error Memory could not be This failure occurred because of a failed allocated failing driver load memory allocation in the driver This failure may indicate a low memory condition 0x19 Warning WMI driver error code A The iSCSI driver failed a WMI IOCTL request from the port driver The event log entry includes the WMI request code in error An operation attempted from the Microsoft WMI application resulted in an error Check the operation being attempted for errors Oxla Warning WMI IOCTL error code A The iSCSI driver failed a WMI IOCTL request Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual from the port driver because the request was failed
276. y A Dynamic timer is started on all mapped targets using the link timeout value If the timer expires before discovery is re resolved commands issued to timed out devices returns a SELECTIION_ TIMEOUT The Storport driver is notified of a bus change event which leads to the removal of all LUNs on the timed out devices Value 1 500 seconds or 0x0 OxFE hex Default 30 0x1E LogErrors LogErrors determine the minimum severity level Dynamic required to enable entry of a logged error into the system event log Errors are classified as severe malfunction or command level A severe error requires user intervention to correct a firmware or adapter issue An invalid link speed selection is an example of a severe error A malfunction error indicates that the system has issues but user intervention is not required An invalid fabric command type is an example of a malfunction error An object allocation failure is an example of a command error If set to 0 all errors are logged If set to 1 command level errors are logged If set to 2 malfunction errors are logged If set to 3 severe errors are logged Value 0 3 Default 3 Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A 3 Configuration 4Q gt lt EMULEX FC FCoE Driver Configuration Table 3 1 Storport Miniport Driver Parameters Continued Activation Parameter Definitions Requirement Adapter Protocol NodeTimeout n The node timer start
277. ystem Check low memory conditions Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077 01A Rev A gt EMULEX Table A 13 NIC Event Log Entries Continued Appendix A Error and Event Log Information 164 iSCSI Error and Event Log Message ID Hexadecimal Decimal Severity Message Recommended Resolution 0x0003 3 Error Unsupported medium This is an internal NDIS error Check the operating system installation 0x0002 2 Error The network driver initialization This may be a firmware driver failed mismatch or corrupt installation Check the firmware version reinstall the firmware and try again This may also indicate a hardware issue 0x0001 1 Informational The driver successfully loaded This message is informational and indicates successful loading of the device driver iSCSI Error and Event Log Viewing the iSCSI Error and Event Log on Windows Server 2008 The iSCSI driver generates error codes in the system event log in the form of Event ID 11 errors These error codes can be viewed by using the Event Viewer application To view the error codes 1 Click the Start tab on the bottom of the screen 2 Click Run 3 Type eventvwr and click OK 4 Click Windows Log 5 Click System 6 Click the be2iscsi error under System Events to show the details of the event The iSCSI driver logs errors with the port driver error code of SP_INTERNAL_ADAPTER_ERROR which translates to an Event ID

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