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iii Contents Preface xiii 1. Product Overview 1 Components 1 Product Description 1 Hardware and Software Requirements 2 Features 3 2. Installing and Setting Up the Driver 5 Downloading and Installing .
iv Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o V erify the Hardware Installation 18 Rebooting the System 20 4. Network Conf iguration 21 Configuring the Network Host Fi.
Contents v ▼ T o Set Parameters Using the ethtool Utility 44 ▼ T o Set Parameters Using the Bundled configtool Utility 48 T uning for Maximum Performance on a Linux Platform 49 6.
vi Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 A. Specif ications 71 Connectors 71 Performance Specifications 72 Physical Characteristics 73 Power Requirements 73 B.
vii T ables T ABLE 1-1 Hardware and Software Requirements for Sun SPARC and X64 Servers 2 T ABLE A-1 XFP Connector Characteristics 72 T ABLE A-2 Performance Specifications 72 T ABLE A-3 Physical Chara.
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ix Figur es FIGURE 1-1 Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter 2 FIGURE 8-1 Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs With Tagging Adapters 68 FIGURE 8-2 Ethernet Tag .
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xi Declaration of Conformity EMC USA—FCC Class A This equipment complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This equipment may not cause harmful interference. 2. This equipment must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation.
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xiii Pr eface This guide provides instructions for installing both the hardwar e and software for the Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express car d. This manual also describes how to configur e the nxge driver , which controls the card.
xiv Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Chapter 6 describes how to configure the Jumbo Frame featur e. Chapter 7 describes how to configure link aggr egation. Chapter 8 explains V irtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) in detail and provides configuration instructions and examples.
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xvi Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Related Documentation The documents listed as online are available at: http://www.sun.com/documentation/ Documentation, Support, and T raining Thir d-Party W eb Sites Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in this document.
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1 CHAPTER 1 Pr oduct Overview This chapter provides an overview of the Sun x8 Expr ess Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter, including: ■ “Components” on page 1 ■ “Product.
2 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 FIGURE 1-1 Sun x8 Expr ess Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter Har dware and Softwar e Requir ements Before installing the adapter , make sure your system meets the hardware and software r equirements.
Chapter 1 Product Overview 3 Featur es The Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Pr ofile Adapter provides the following features: ■ T wo full-duplex 10 gigabit Ethernet interface that use a 10 gigabit Ethernet small form factor pluggable (XFP), optical transceiver with duplex LC fiber connector ■ IEEE 802.
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5 CHAPTER 2 Installing and Setting Up the Driver This chapter explains how to download and install the nxge driver . The nxge gigabit Ethernet driver ( nxge (7D)) is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver .
6 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 2. Uncompress the gzipped tar f ile: 3. Unpack the tar f ile: a. For SP ARC systems, change to the following directory: b. For x86 systems: 4. For SP ARC systems, determine which architecture your system is running: a.
Chapter 2 Installing and Setting Up the Driver 7 5. For x86 systems, install the software packages by typing the following at the command line: A menu similar to the following displays: 6. Select the packages you want to install: ■ Press Return or type all to accept the default and install all packages.
8 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 7. V erify that the nxge driver is installed on the system: ▼ T o Remove the Driver fr om a Solaris Platform 1. T o discover the driver packages run the pkginfo command: 2. T o remove the driver packages run the pkgrm command: Sun PCI-E 10G/1G Ethernet Adapter Driver(i386) 1.
Chapter 2 Installing and Setting Up the Driver 9 Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Linux Platform 1. Login to your system. 2. Download the driver RPM for your operating system: http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44eb1efd For example: 3.
10 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Note – In RHEL5.0 and later releases, the driver is packaged in the kmod driver binary package format. This packaging allows forward and backward driver binary compatibility within the same flavors of RHEL5 r eleases.
Chapter 2 Installing and Setting Up the Driver 11 7. Use the ethtool command to check the parameter conf igurations that apply to the nxge driver . ▼ T o Remove the Driver Fr om a Linux Platform ● T o remove the driver packages from a Linux Platform use the rpm -e command: (For 10G) # ethtool -i eth4 driver: nxge version: 2.
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13 CHAPTER 3 Installing the Adapter This chapter describes how to install the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter in your system and verify that it has been installed correctly .
14 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Adapter in slot-2 of a Sun Fire T2000 system. The SA T A cables from the adjacent card slot pr event the proper installation of an Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter in this slot.
Chapter 3 Installing the Adapter 15 Note – These illustrations show the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter being installed into a Sun Fire T2000, which requir es a standard height bracket for the low prof ile adapter .
16 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 9. Secure the retaining clip Caution – Do not use excessive force when installing the adapter into the PCI-E slot.
Chapter 3 Installing the Adapter 17 1 1. Install the optical transceivers. Note – Illustrations for installing the adapter and installing the optical transceiver show differ ent systems. This differ ence in systems provides the maximum clarity for installing the optical tranceiver and shows the most complicated adapter installation.
18 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Install an Optical T ransceiver 1. Pull the white locking handle into the full horizontal position.
Chapter 3 Installing the Adapter 19 4. Push the handle closed to lock the optical transceiver in place. 5. Repeat Step 1 through Step 4 to install the second optical transceiver 6.
20 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 7. Connect the Ethernet cables. V erifying the Har dware Installation After you have installed the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter , but before you boot your system, perform the following tasks to verify the installation.
Chapter 3 Installing the Adapter 21 3. V iew the device that you installed. Using the previous example, type: 4. Use the .properties command to display a list of device properties. The . properties command displays the specific information about the device.
22 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 5. T ype the following when you f inish looking at the .properties values: Rebooting the System After verifying the adapter installation, use the boot -r command to perform a reconf iguration boot on your system.
23 CHAPTER 4 Network Conf iguration This chapter describes how to edit the network host files after the adapter has been installed on your system. This chapter contains the following sections: ■ “.
24 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 1. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst f ile for nxge interfaces. In this example, the device instance is from a Sun x8 Expr ess Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter installed in slot 1.
Chapter 4 Network Configuration 25 ■ The host name must be differ ent from any other host name of any other interface, for example: /etc/hostname.nxge0 and /etc/hostname.nxge1 cannot share the same host name. The following example shows the /etc/hostname.
26 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Set Up a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port on a Diskless Client 1. Locate the root directory of the diskless client on the host server .
Chapter 4 Network Configuration 27 Installing the Solaris Operating System Over a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network The Solaris Advanced Installation Guide describes the full procedure for installing the Solaris Operating System over the network.
28 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 2. Find the root directory of the client system. The client system’s root dir ectory can be found in the install server ’s /etc/bootparams file. Use the grep command to sear ch this file for the r oot directory .
Chapter 4 Network Configuration 29 5. Shut down and halt the client system. Use the shutdown command to go to the OpenBoot ( ok ) prompt. 6. At the ok prompt, use the show-nets command to f ind the device path of the 10- Gigabit Ethernet device. The show-nets command lists the system devices.
30 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 9. After installing the Solaris Operating System, install the Sun x8 Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet software on the client system. The software installed in Step 4 is requir ed to boot the client system over the 10- Gigabit Ethernet interface.
Chapter 4 Network Configuration 31 Booting Over the 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network for Solaris x86 and Linux Systems ▼ T o Boot Over the Network on Solaris x86 and Linux Systems 1. Obtain the MAC address from the target Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter.
32 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 9. Press the F10 key to save the boot conf iguration changes and exit. System should reboot after saving the boot configuration.
Chapter 4 Network Configuration 33 10. Press the F12 key to install the OS from the network. If the cable is connected to the right port, you should see the MAC address that you assigned to your PXE server displayed by BIOS. 1 1. Y ou can now install the nxge driver and conf igure the adapter .
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35 CHAPTER 5 Conf iguring the nxge Device Driver Parameters The nxge device driver controls the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Y ou can manually set the nxge driver parameters to customize each device in your system. This chapter lists the available device driver parameters and describes how you can set these parameters.
36 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 processing. The Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter utilizes Sun’s own innovative MAC Controller to map the 10-Gigabit XAUI interface onto the PCI Express form factor . It supports 10 Gb/sec bandwidth using eight transmit and eight r eceive lanes.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 37 ▼ T o Specify Device Instances for the ndd Utility Before you use the ndd utility to get or set a parameter for a nxge device, you must specify the device instance for the utility . 1. Check the /etc/path_to_inst f ile to identify the instance associated with a particular device.
38 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 After you enter the parameter name, the ndd utility prompts you for the parameter value. 2. T o list all the parameters supported by the nxge driver , type ? . Setting Parameters Using the nxge.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 39 ▼ T o Set Driver Parameters Using an nxge.conf File 1. Obtain the hardware path names for the nxge devices in the device tree. a. Check the /etc/driver_aliases f ile to identify the name associated with a particular device: b.
40 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 # apply only to 10gigabit ports. # Half duplex is not supported on any NIU card. # # adv-autoneg-cap # Advertise auto-negotiation capability. # default is 1 # adv-autoneg-cap = 1; # # adv_10gfdx_cap # Advertise 10gbps Full duplex capability.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 41 # #------- Receive DMA Configuration ---------------------------- # # rxdma-intr-time # Interrupts after this number of NIU hardware ticks have # elapsed since the last packet was received. # A value of zero means no time blanking (Default = 8).
42 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 b. The following parameters operate on a per port basis and can be set using the /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/nxge.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 43 d. The following example shows ports on two different cards being set. Only one node needs to be specif ied.
44 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 3. Add the following to a startup script, or use ndd before plumbing the interface: Utilizing more soft-rings provided by the Solaris TCP/IP stack signif icantly improves bulk thr oughput for Rx.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 45 ▼ T o Obtain Higher Thr oughput Using the Generic T unables for the Solaris TCP/IP Stack ● T o obtain higher throughput, add the followi.
46 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Setting Parameters on a Linux Platform ▼ T o Set Parameters Using the ethtool Utility 1. Determine which parameters are available using the ethtool utility: # ethtool -help eth4 ethtool version 1.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 47 ethtool -G DEVNAME [ rx N ] [ rx-mini N ] [ rx-jumbo N ] [ tx N ] ethtool -i DEVNAME ethtool -d DEVNAME ethtool -e DEVNAME [ raw on|off.
48 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 Following are some common parameters that can be changed: rx-usecs and rx-frames control the RX interrupt rate per RX DMA channel.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 49 2. T o change RX interrupt Coalesce parameters use the ethtool -C command: 3. T o get status of L4 HW checksumming, use the ethtool -k comma.
50 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Set Parameters Using the Bundled configtool Utility 1. T o get a list of tunable parameters, use the nxge_config if_name get command: These classification variables def ine how each IP class is configur ed.
Chapter 5 Configuring the nxge Device Driver P arameters 51 3. T o set a particular variable, use the /usr/local/bin/nxge_config if_name set param_name value : T uning for Maximum Performance on a Lin.
52 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 2. Set up the sysctl utility . # sysctl -p /etc/sysctl_nxge.conf.
53 CHAPTER 6 Conf iguring the Jumbo Frames Featur e This chapter describes how to configure the Jumbo Frames featur e. It contains the following sections: ■ “Jumbo Frames Overview” on page 53 .
54 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Show the Driver Statistics in a Solaris Envir onment 1. Use the kstat command to display driver statistics, for example: The previous example diplays the receive packet counts on all of the eight Receive DMA channels on interface 1.
Chapter 6 Configuring the Jumbo F rames Feature 55 2. Use the kstat command to display driver statistics of a VLAN interface, for example:. Enabling Jumbo Frames in a Solaris Envir onment This section describes how to enable jumbo frames in both a SP ARC and an x86 environment.
56 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Enable Jumbo Frames in a Solaris Envir onment Using nxge.conf 1. Enable Jumbo Frames for a port using the nxge.
Chapter 6 Configuring the Jumbo F rames Feature 57 ▼ T o Check Layer 3 Conf iguration ● Check the Layer 3 conf iguration by using the dladm command with the show-link option, as shown in the following example: Enabling Jumbo Frames in a Linux Envir onment This section describes how to enable jumbo frames in a Linux environment.
58 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 3. Set the MTU for maximum performance: Where x is the instance number of the interface you want to configur e jumbo frames on. ▼ T o Show the Driver Statistics in a Linux Envir onment 1.
Chapter 6 Configuring the Jumbo F rames Feature 59 3. T o get more specif ic statitics, use the grep command on the output of ethtool -S: # ethtool -S eth9 |grep tx_pac tx_packets: 8645339 tx_packets:.
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61 CHAPTER 7 Conf iguring Link Aggregation This chapter describes how to configure link aggr egation. It contains the following sections: ■ “Overview of Link Aggregation” on page 61 ■ “Confi.
62 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ T o Conf igure Link Aggr egation in a Solaris Envir onment 1. Aggregate nxge0 and nxge1 to form an aggregation and a random number 33 as key . a. Unplumb the interfaces to be aggregated: b.
Chapter 7 Configuring Link Aggregation 63 2. Plumb up the interface aggr key , which is aggr33 is this case: 3. Show link-aggregation status again, and now the state should become attached: 4.
64 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 5. Use the dladm show-aggr -L command to display LACP specif ic information: For more information r efer to the man pages for dladm , man dladm .
Chapter 7 Configuring Link Aggregation 65 3. Conf igure bond0 interface. In this example, bond0 is the master of the two interfaces eth4 and eth5. # ip addr add 192.
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67 CHAPTER 8 Conf iguring VLANs This chapter explains V irtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) in detail and pr ovides configuration instructions and examples.
68 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 FIGURE 8-1 Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs W ith T agging Adapters The example network has the following features: The physical LAN network consists of a switch, two servers, and five clients.
Chapter 8 Configuring VLANs 69 The Main Server is a heavily used server that needs to be accessed from all VLANs and IP subnets. The server has a Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter installed. All three IP subnets are accessed by means of the single physical adapter interface.
70 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 T agging an Ethernet frame requires the addition of a tag header to the frame. The header is inserted immediately following the destination MAC address and the Source MAC addr ess.
Chapter 8 Configuring VLANs 71 2. Use the ifconfig(1M) to conf igure a VLAN virtual device, for example: The output of ifconfig -a on a system having VLAN devices nxge123000 and nxge224000 : 3. On the switch, set VLAN tagging and set VLAN ports to coincide with the VLANs you’ve set up on the server .
72 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 2. Plumb the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter interface: where xxx.xxx.xx.xxx = the IP addr ess of the interface. 3. Insert the VLAN module: 4.
73 APPENDIX A Specif ications This appendix lists the specif ications for the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter. It contains the following sections: ■ “Connect.
74 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 T ABLE A-1 lists the characteristics of the f iber connectors used by the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Prof ile Adapter.
Appendix A Specifications 75 Physical Characteristics Power Requir ements T ABLE A-3 Physical Characteristics Dimension Measurement Length 167.65 mm (6.6 inches) W idth 68.90 mm (2.713 inches) Height Component side = 14.48 mm (0.57 inches) maximum Solder side = 2.
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77 APPENDIX B Diagnostic Softwar e This appendix provides an overview of the SunVTS diagnostic application and instructions for updating the SunVTS software to r ecognize the adapter .
78 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Software /system_administration/tools/testing_valid/sunvts/index.html Select the document for the Solaris release on your system.
Appendix B Diagnostic Software 79 Using the SunVTS netlbtest Y ou must have the Ethernet card and the device driver installed, a loopback connector in place, and Intervention mode enabled before running netlbtest .
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81 Index Symbols /etc/hostname.nxge number f ile ,2 4 A assigning an IP address, 24 C configuring the network host files, 23 configuring VLANs, 69 D diskless clients, 25 documentation SunVTS, 78 E .
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