I haven't been able to get SR-IOV working on these Tinies. My thought is that the BIOS (motherboard, not just card card) needs to support it and that the Lenovos' BIOS doesn't.
Fairly confident about the former (that actual BIOS support is needed), since there is a plethora of search results saying so, and because my rack servers do have such options.
As to the latter, it seems likely people here would have experience (though maybe not in this forum, Networking). Anyone care to comment?
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Also, getting the FastBoot or the UEFI version isn't working for me to boot to SAN via iSCSI. It's probably a config thing on my part. If I'm doing things correctly, what I'm expecting is to boot to an install CD (like ESXi) and see a drive appear. I get no ctrl+B--the only way UEFI or FastBoot gets its config is from me putting it in the UEFI version when not booting Legacy. This is done by going into the motherboard BIOS and going to the ATA settings. I've had no success going directly to the card from some POST method. Anyway, no drive shows up. I think the target is set up correctly and suspect that the client/initiator side isn't.
Fairly confident about the former (that actual BIOS support is needed), since there is a plethora of search results saying so, and because my rack servers do have such options.
As to the latter, it seems likely people here would have experience (though maybe not in this forum, Networking). Anyone care to comment?
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Less important:
Also, getting the FastBoot or the UEFI version isn't working for me to boot to SAN via iSCSI. It's probably a config thing on my part. If I'm doing things correctly, what I'm expecting is to boot to an install CD (like ESXi) and see a drive appear. I get no ctrl+B--the only way UEFI or FastBoot gets its config is from me putting it in the UEFI version when not booting Legacy. This is done by going into the motherboard BIOS and going to the ATA settings. I've had no success going directly to the card from some POST method. Anyway, no drive shows up. I think the target is set up correctly and suspect that the client/initiator side isn't.
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