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Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module User's Guide Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module Documentation Library |
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Overview of Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM User's Guide
Features of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM
Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal
Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM
Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules
Booting Over the Virtualized M2 NEM 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port
Booting over the Network With an x86 Blade Server
Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform
How to Configure the Network Host Files
Configuring the hxge Device Driver Parameters
Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Linux Platform
Installing and Removing the Driver on a Linux Platform
Configuring the Network Interface
Checking and Testing the hxge Device
Changing the hxge Driver Configuration
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a VMware ESX Server Platform
Installing the ESX Server Drivers on an Existing ESX Server
Installing the ESX Server Drivers With a New ESX Installation
Configuring the Virtual NEM M2 Network Adapters
How to Create a Jumbo Frames-enabled vSwitch
How to Create a Jumbo Frames-enabled VMkernel Interface
Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates
Enabling Private and Failover Mode
Note the following guidelines for configuring Jumbo Frames for VMware ESX server.
Any packet larger than 1500 MTU is a Jumbo Frame. ESX supports frames up to 9kB (9000 Bytes). Jumbo frames are limited to data networking only (virtual machines and the VMotion network) on ESX 3.5.
It is possible to configure Jumbo Frame for iSCSI Network, but it is not supported at this time.
Jumbo Frames must be enabled for each vSwitch or VMkernel interface through the command-line interface on your ESX Server 3 host.
To allow ESX Server to send larger frames out onto the physical network, the network must support Jumbo Frames end to end for Jumbo Frames to be effective.
For more information on Jumbo Frames configuration for ESX, refer to: ESX Configuration Guide for ESX 4.0 available at:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_vc40.html.
The following topics are covered in this section: