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Oracle Solaris Administration: SAN Configuration and Multipathing     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Solaris I/0 Multipathing Overview

2.  Fibre Channel Multipathing Configuration Overview

3.  Configuring Solaris I/O Multipathing Features

4.  Administering Multipathing Devices (mpathadm)

5.  Configuring SAN Devices

6.  Configuring Virtual Fibre Channel Ports

7.  Configuring FCoE Ports

What is FCoE?

Limitations of FCoE

Configuring FCoE Ports

How to Create an FCoE Port

How to Delete an FCoE Port

How to Display FCoE Port Status

How to Force a FCoE Port Reinitialization

Configuring FCoE Hardware Offload

8.  Configuring SAS Domains

9.  Configuring IPFC SAN Devices

10.  Booting the Solaris OS From Fibre Channel Devices on x86 Systems

11.  Persistent Binding for Tape Devices

A.  Manual Configuration for Fabric-Connected Devices

B.  Supported FC-HBA API

C.  Troubleshooting Multipathed Device Problems

Index

Configuring FCoE Hardware Offload

The following four tunables can be used to reduce CPU utilization and improve performance on a system with FCoE ports. These tunables are supported by the Intel 10 Gb Ethernet devices and can set in the ixgbe.conf file.

Copy the /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf to /etc/driver/drv/ixgbe.conf and modify the tunable values for your FCoE environment.

Table 7-1 FCoE Hardware Offload Tunable Parameters

Tunable Parameter
Description
Range
Default Value
fcoe_txcrc_enable
Controls whether the ixgbe driver offloads FC CRC transactions for transmitted FCoE packets.
0 – Disable FC CRC transaction offload

1 – Enable FC CRC transaction offload

1
fcoe_lso_enable
Controls whether the ixgbe driver offloads FC large send transactions for transmitted FCoE packets.
0 – Disable FC LSO transaction offload

1 – Enable FC LSO transaction offload

1
fcoe_rxcrc_enable
Controls whether the ixgbe driver offloads RC CRC transactions for received FCoE packets.
0 – Disable FC RX CRC transaction offload

1 – Enable FC RX CRC transaction offload

1
fcoe_lro_enable
Controls whether the ixgbe driver offloads FC large receive transactions for received FCoE packets.
0 – Disable FC LRO transaction offload

1 – Enable FC LRO transaction offload

0