Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual page 1446

Intel 10 Gb NIC uses 3 ports of resources for a port. When assigning Intel 10 Gb NIC,
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3-port resources are required for one port.
Emulex 10 Gb NIC uses 4 ports of resources for a port. When assigning Emulex 10
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Gb NIC, 4-port resources are required for one port.
The following table shows examples of I/O assignment to the number of processors.
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Number of
processors/
LPAR
SMP
SMT
enabled
disabled
1 1-2
2 3-4
3 5-6
4 7-8
5 9-10
6 11-12
7 13-14
8 15-16
9 17-18
10 19-20
11 21-22
Example of I/O assignment combination
Dedicated NIC
Maximum
(Intel 1 Gb;
number of
Broadcom 1 Gb)
ports
Shared NIC/
Virtual NIC (NIC2)
8 8
2
0
10 10
4
2
12 12
0
4
14 14
2
6
16 16
4
0
18 18
0
2
20 20
2
4
22 22
4
6
24 24
0
8
26 26
2
10
28 28
1395
Dedicated Dedicated
NIC (Intel 10 NIC (Emulex
Gb): 3-port 10 Gb):
resources 4-port
used for 1 resources
port used for 1
port
0 0
2 0
0 2
0 0
2 0
0 2
0 0
4 0
0 2
0 0
4 0
0 2
0 0
4 0
0 4
0 0
6 0
0 4
0 0
6 0
0 4
0 0
6 0
0 4
0 0
8 0
0 4
0 0
8 0
0 4
0 0