Introduction, Driver information, Compatibility – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual

P010077-01A Rev. A

1. Introduction

Driver Information

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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:

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

Note: 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

Configuring the FC/FCoE driver parameters

Improving server performance with FC/FCoE drivers

Ethernet and TOE

Configuring NIC driver options

SR-IOV

Configuring NVGRE

Configuring RoCE supporting SMB Direct

Configuring Multichannel

Configuring NIC partitioning (NPAR) for Dell only

Tuning network driver performance

iSCSI

Configuring iSCSI driver options

Creating non-bootable targets

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.

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