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

[MFric4]

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 0Profile Custom Settings PerformanceProfile 1Flow Control Rx & Tx Enabled *FlowControl 3Header Data Split Disabled *HeaderDataSplit 0Interrupt Moderation Enabled *InterruptModeration 1IPv4 Checksum Offload Rx & Tx Enabled *IPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3Jumbo Packet Disabled *JumboPacket 1514Large Send Offload ... LSO 1Large Send Offload ... Enabled *LsoV2IPv6 1Maximum Number of R... 16 *MaxRssProcessors 16Preferred NUMA node System Default *NumaNodeId 65535Maximum Number of R... 8 Queues *NumRssQueues 8NDIS QOS Disabled DCB 0Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv4 0Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv6 0Receive Side Scaling Enabled *RSS 1RSS load balancing ... NUMAScalingS... *RSSProfile 4Speed & Duplex Auto Negotia... *SpeedDuplex 0SR-IOV Disabled *SRIOV 0TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3Virtual Machine Queues Enabled *VMQ 1Wake on Magic Packet Disabled *WakeOnMagicPacket 0Wake on Pattern Match Enabled *WakeOnPattern 1Wake on Magic Packe... Disabled EnablePME 0Interrupt Moderatio... Adaptive ITR 65535Log Link State Event Enabled LogLinkStateEvent 51Wake on Link Settings Disabled WakeOnLink 0SR-IOV VPorts 0 *NumVFs 0VMQ VPorts 63 VMQueues 63Receive Buffers 512 *ReceiveBuffers 512Starting RSS CPU 0 *RssBaseProcNumber 0Transmit Buffers 512 *TransmitBuffers 512Low 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 0VMQ VPorts 63 VMQueues 63Receive Buffers 512 *ReceiveBuffers 512Starting RSS CPU 0 *RssBaseProcNumber 0Transmit Buffers 512 *TransmitBuffers 512Low Latency Interrupts Disabled EnableLLI 0Profile Custom Settings PerformanceProfile 1Flow Control Rx & Tx Enabled *FlowControl 3Header Data Split Disabled *HeaderDataSplit 0Interrupt Moderation Enabled *InterruptModeration 1IPv4 Checksum Offload Rx & Tx Enabled *IPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3Jumbo Packet Disabled *JumboPacket 1514Large Send Offload ... LSO 1Large Send Offload ... Enabled *LsoV2IPv6 1Maximum Number of R... 16 *MaxRssProcessors 16Preferred NUMA node System Default *NumaNodeId 65535Maximum Number of R... 8 Queues *NumRssQueues 8NDIS QOS Disabled DCB 0Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv4 0Recv Segment Coales... Disabled *RSCIPv6 0Receive Side Scaling Enabled *RSS 1RSS load balancing ... NUMAScalingS... *RSSProfile 4Speed & Duplex Auto Negotia... *SpeedDuplex 0SR-IOV Disabled *SRIOV 0TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3TCP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *TCPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv4 3UDP Checksum Offloa... Rx & Tx Enabled *UDPChecksumOffloadIPv6 3Virtual Machine Queues Enabled *VMQ 1Wake on Magic Packet Disabled *WakeOnMagicPacket 0Wake on Pattern Match Enabled *WakeOnPattern 1Wake on Magic Packe... Disabled EnablePME 0Interrupt Moderatio... Adaptive ITR 65535Log Link State Event Enabled LogLinkStateEvent 51Wake on Link Settings Disabled WakeOnLink 0Locally Administere... 246E96071AE0 NetworkAddress 246E96071AE0Low Latency Interru... {} LLIPorts {}

But even after a reboot VMQ is not availible:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-NetAdapterVMQ

Name InterfaceDescripti...

[idata]

HI Marcel,

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

[idata]

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

[MFric4]

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.

[idata]

Hi Marcel,

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

[MFric4]

Any news on this?

[idata]

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-Oor 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

[MFric4]

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,

[idata]

Hi Marcel,

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

[idata]

Hi Marcel,

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