Identifying MZ522 Ports in VMware ESXi

To identify MZ522 ports in VMware ESXi 6.0, perform the following steps:

During the ESXi host startup, press F2 to go to the Customize System/View Logs screen and enter the user name and password as prompted.

Figure 4-183 Customize System/View Logs

Select Configure Management Network and press Enter.

Figure 4-184 Selecting Configure Management Network

Select Network Adapters and press Enter.

Figure 4-185 Selecting Network Adapters

As shown in Figure 4-186, vmnic0, vmnic1, vmnic2 and vmnic3 are the four NIC ports of the MZ522. You can press the space bar to select one or more vmnic ports as management network ports.

Figure 4-186 MZ522 NIC ports (NPAR is disabled)

The sequence of vmnic network ports in Figure 4-186 may vary in the actual situation, and you can use the MAC addresses to identify the physical ports. The MAC addresses of the are allocated as follows: the last byte of the MAC address of Port 1 is larger by 2 than that of Port 0 of the same controller. Therefore, vmnic0 and vmnic3 map to Port 0 and Port 1 of Controller 0, and vmnic1 and vmnic2 map to Port 0 and Port 1 of Controller 1 respectively. Table 4-6 lists the mapping between physical ports and MAC addresses.

After NPAR is enabled, 16 vmnics are displayed on the Network Adapters screen, as shown in Figure 4-187.

Figure 4-187 MZ522 NIC ports (NPAR is enabled)

The FCoE/iSCSI functions of each physical port can be allocated to any PF. Therefore, the MZ522 reserves MAC addresses for all NIC and FCoE/iSCSI functions, as shown in Table 4-7.

After the IP address of the vmnic management port is configured and SSH is enabled, you can use a terminal tool to log in to the VMware ESXi CLI over SSH.

On the Configure Management Network screen, select IPv4 Configuration and press Enter.

Figure 4-188 Selecting IPv4 Configuration

Set an IP address for the management network port.

Figure 4-189 Setting an IP address for the management network port

On the Configure Management Network screen, select Troubleshooting Options and press Enter.

Figure 4-190 Selecting Troubleshooting Options

Select Enable SSH and press Enter to enable SSH.

Figure 4-191 Enabling SSH

Use a terminal tool to log in to the OS CLI over SSH, and run the lspci|grep -i 57810 command to view to MZ522 PCIe devices, as shown in Figure 4-192. After NPAR is enabled, there are 16 PCIe devices, corresponding to 16 vmnic ports.

Figure 4-192 MZ522 PCIe devices (NPAR is enabled)