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VLMB ANS Team on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with VMQ / VMDq

MFric4
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Hi,

we just bought some new Dell Poweredge R730 with Intel Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350 Network Adapter for using them Hyper-V 2012 R2.

According to http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products/000006517.html?wapkw=(hyper-v) this document it's possible to create a VLMB Team with Intel ANS Teaming and enable VMDq, so Hyper-V will make use of VMQ.

I installed the latest version of Intel PROSet, created a VMLB Team with Intel ANS and enabled virtual machine Queues:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-IntelNetAdapterSetting

Name: TEAM: Team # 0 - Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350 rNDC

DisplayName DisplayValue RegistryKeyword RegistryValue

 

----------- ------------ --------------- -------------

 

Low Latency Interrupts Disabled EnableLLI 0

 

Profile Custom Settings PerformanceProfile 1

 

Flow Control Rx & Tx Enabled *FlowControl 3

 

Header Data Split Disabled *HeaderDataSplit 0

 

Interrupt Moderation Enabled *InterruptModeration 1

 

IPv4 Checksum Offload Rx & Tx Enabled *IPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

Jumbo Packet Disabled *JumboPacket 1514

 

Large Send Offload ... LSO 1

 

Large Send Offload ... Enabled *LsoV2IPv6 1

 

Maximum Number of R... 16 *MaxRssProcessors 16

 

Preferred NUMA node System Default *NumaNodeId 65535

 

Maximum Number of R... 8 Queues *NumRssQueues 8

 

NDIS QOS Disabled DCB 0

 

Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv4 0

 

Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv6 0

 

Receive Side Scaling Enabled *RSS 1

 

RSS load balancing ... NUMAScalingS... *RSSProfile 4

 

Speed & Duplex Auto Negotia... *SpeedDuplex 0

 

SR-IOV Disabled *SRIOV 0

 

TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3

 

UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3

 

Virtual Machine Queues Enabled *VMQ 1

 

Wake on Magic Packet Disabled *WakeOnMagicPacket 0

 

Wake on Pattern Match Enabled *WakeOnPattern 1

 

Wake on Magic Packe... Disabled EnablePME 0

 

Interrupt Moderatio... Adaptive ITR 65535

 

Log Link State Event Enabled LogLinkStateEvent 51

 

Wake on Link Settings Disabled WakeOnLink 0

 

SR-IOV VPorts 0 *NumVFs 0

 

VMQ VPorts 63 VMQueues 63

 

Receive Buffers 512 *ReceiveBuffers 512

 

Starting RSS CPU 0 *RssBaseProcNumber 0

 

Transmit Buffers 512 *TransmitBuffers 512

 

Low Latency Interru... {} LLIPorts {}

 

Locally Administere... 246E96071AE0 NetworkAddress 246E96071AE0

Name: TEAM: Team # 0 - Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350 rNDC # 2

DisplayName DisplayValue RegistryKeyword RegistryValue

 

----------- ------------ --------------- -------------

 

SR-IOV VPorts 0 *NumVFs 0

 

VMQ VPorts 63 VMQueues 63

 

Receive Buffers 512 *ReceiveBuffers 512

 

Starting RSS CPU 0 *RssBaseProcNumber 0

 

Transmit Buffers 512 *TransmitBuffers 512

 

Low Latency Interrupts Disabled EnableLLI 0

 

Profile Custom Settings PerformanceProfile 1

 

Flow Control Rx & Tx Enabled *FlowControl 3

 

Header Data Split Disabled *HeaderDataSplit 0

 

Interrupt Moderation Enabled *InterruptModeration 1

 

IPv4 Checksum Offload Rx & Tx Enabled *IPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

Jumbo Packet Disabled *JumboPacket 1514

 

Large Send Offload ... LSO 1

 

Large Send Offload ... Enabled *LsoV2IPv6 1

 

Maximum Number of R... 16 *MaxRssProcessors 16

 

Preferred NUMA node System Default *NumaNodeId 65535

 

Maximum Number of R... 8 Queues *NumRssQueues 8

 

NDIS QOS Disabled DCB 0

 

Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv4 0

 

Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv6 0

 

Receive Side Scaling Enabled *RSS 1

 

RSS load balancing ... NUMAScalingS... *RSSProfile 4

 

Speed & Duplex Auto Negotia... *SpeedDuplex 0

 

SR-IOV Disabled *SRIOV 0

 

TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3

 

UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3

 

UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3

 

Virtual Machine Queues Enabled *VMQ 1

 

Wake on Magic Packet Disabled *WakeOnMagicPacket 0

 

Wake on Pattern Match Enabled *WakeOnPattern 1

 

Wake on Magic Packe... Disabled EnablePME 0

 

Interrupt Moderatio... Adaptive ITR 65535

 

Log Link State Event Enabled LogLinkStateEvent 51

 

Wake on Link Settings Disabled WakeOnLink 0

 

Locally Administere... 246E96071AE0 NetworkAddress 246E96071AE0

 

Low Latency Interru... {} LLIPorts {}

But even after a reboot VMQ is not availible:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-NetAdapterVMQ

Name InterfaceDescripti...

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idata
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HI Marcel,

 

 

Thank you fhe post. Let me further check for your issue here.

 

 

rgds,

 

wb

 

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idata
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Hi Marcel,

 

 

Can you provide also the exact X540- and I350 network adapter model?

 

 

e.g. X540-T1 or X540-T2?

 

I350-T2 or I350-T4?

 

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

wb

 

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MFric4
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They currently show up in device manager as "Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X540/I350" (10G ports) and "Intel(R) Gigabit 4P X540/I350" (1G ports) with Dell OEM drivers, when trying to change the driver windows shows "X540-AT2" (10G ports) and "I350 Gigabit Network Connection" (1G ports) as a matching driver.

Hope this can help.

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idata
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Hi Marcel,

 

 

Thank you for the information. We will further check on your concern.

 

 

rgds,

 

wb

 

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MFric4
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idata
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Hi Marcel,

 

 

Apologize for any delay. Just want to double check additional info :

 

1) Are you using the latest driver version 21.0 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/83418/Network-and-I-O

 

or the driver provided by Dell*?

 

2) Have you also updated all the NIC's firmware?

 

3) What build of the Dell* Software release are you using?

 

 

Thanks,

 

wb

 

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MFric4
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Hi,

1) we've tried the Dell Drivers (20.7) as well as the latet genuine Intel Drivers (21.0).

2) we've updated all NICs Firmware to the latest Version available.

3) currently there are the Dell NIC Drivers (20.7.) installed.

Regards,

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idata
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Hi Marcel,

 

 

Thank you for the information. We are further checking on this issue.

 

 

rgds,

 

wb

 

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idata
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Hi Marcel,

 

 

Good day. Further checking you need to contact Dell for the Dell OEM driver.

 

 

Thanks,

 

wb

 

 

 

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