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Preface
Overview
This user’s guide describes installation, configuration, and management of the
QLogic
®
QL45212 25Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for system administrators and other technical staff
members responsible for configuring and managing adapters installed on Dell
®
PowerEdge
®
servers in Windows
®
, Linux
®
, or VMware
®
environments.
What Is in This Guide
This preface specifies the intended audience, explains the typographic
conventions used in this guide, lists related documents, and provides technical
support and contact information. The remainder of this guide is organized into the
following chapters and appendices:
Chapter 1, Product Overview provides a product functional description, a list
of features, a list of supported operating systems, and the adapter
specifications.
Chapter 2, Installing the Hardware describes how to install the adapter
including the list of system requirements and a preinstallation checklist.
Chapter 3, Installing Drivers describes the installation of the adapter drivers.
Chapter 4, Upgrading Firmware describes the use of the Dell firmware
update package to upgrade adapter firmware.
Chapter 5, Preboot Adapter Configuration describes the preboot adapter
configuration tasks using the Human Infrastructure Interface (HII)
application.
Chapter 6, Configuring RoCE describes how to configure the QL45212
adapter, the Ethernet switch, and the host to use RDMA over converged
Ethernet (RoCE).
Chapter 7, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA describes how to configure iSCSI
Extensions for RDMA (iSER) for RHEL and SLES.
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