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I've seen the supported media matrix for the XL710 and I've read the QSFP+ Utility Tool guide. I notice that for VMware the documentation is very vague.
Are there any special configurations or commands that need to be done in order to breakout a from 40GbE to 4x10GbE or should it recognize the breakout cable?
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Hello Ankum,
Thank you for posting in Intel Ethernet Communities. The operations in the utility will be the same on VMware as they are in the quick usage guide demonstrated in Windows. The installation will be different. The base driver is required to be installed prior to running the utility, and the utility will be called qcun64e. Example (qcun64e /nic=1 /set=4x10). Let us know if you have any other questions.
Best regards,
Daniel D
Intel Customer Support
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Thanks Daniel!
So I ran the Utility tool and received the following.
Intel(R) QSFP+ Configuration Utility
QCU version: v2.32.20.28
Copyright(C) 2014 - 2018 by Intel Corporation.
Software released under Intel Proprietary License.
NIC Seg:Bus Ven-Dev Mode Adapter Name
=== ======= ========= ======== =================================================
1) 000:094 8086-1583 N/A Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710
Error: Invalid image on the adapter.
Then I ran the it again with switches and I got this output
[root@hostXXXX] ./qcun64e /nic=1 /set=4x10
Intel(R) QSFP+ Configuration Utility
QCU version: v2.32.20.28
Copyright(C) 2014 - 2018 by Intel Corporation.
Software released under Intel Proprietary License.
QSFP+ Configuration modification is not supported by this adapter.
How to do I resolve this, so I can break this out into 4x10GbE?
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Hello Daniel,
Could you tell me how to install qcu utility on esxi in detail. Thanks you very much!
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I believe it's the Intel retail version. The XL710 are in 4 Dell C6420s.
[root@hostXXXX:~] esxcli network nic get -n vmnic3
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 40000BaseCR4/Full
Auto Negotiation: false
Cable Type:
Current Message Level: 15
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:5e:00.0
Driver: i40e
Firmware Version: 6.00 0x800036d2 18.5.17
Version: 2.0.7
Link Detected: false
Link Status: Down
Name: vmnic3
PHYAddress: 0
Pause Autonegotiate: false
Pause RX: false
Pause TX: false
Supported Ports:
Supports Auto Negotiation: true
Supports Pause: true
Supports Wakeon: false
Transceiver: external
Virtual Address: 00:50:56:55:b5:fa
Wakeon: None
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Hi Daniel,
We ended up swapping the XL710 with the X710. It made things easier and we had a timeline to complete. Thank you for all you assistance.
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