Qlogic 3200 Series User Manual - Nic Partitioning (Npar)

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NIC Partitioning (NPAR) 

Noninteractive Commands

This chapter describes the noninteractive NIC partitioning (NPAR) command format 

and parameters of QConvergeConsole CLI. NPAR is supported by QLogic 3200 

Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters and 8200 and 8300 Series Converged Network 

Adapters.

For an overview of NPAR, see 

Appendix A

. For instructions on setting up NPAR in 

interactive mode, see 

Chapter 12 Setting Up NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Using 

Interactive Commands

.

Command Format

Noninteractive mode syntax includes the following:

qaucli -npar <switch> [<parameters>]

Where switch is one of the following:

-ainfo (NPAR Adapter Information)

-changepersonality (Change PCI Function Personality)

-ei

-eswitchinfo

-eswitchstats (General eSwitch Statistics)

-eswitchvportstats (View All eSwitch Statistics)

-feswitchcfg (Function x ESwitch Configuration)

-finfo

-h (Help), -?, ?

-ia

NOTE

SR-IOV and NPAR cannot be enabled at the same time. If SR-IOV is 

enabled on the host, all NPAR-related commands are disabled.

NOTE

To view the help, issue the -h command.