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CHAPTER 5 – CONFIGURING
DEFENSEPRO VA IN PCI
PASSTHROUGH MODE
When configuring DefensePro VA, to work in
passthrough
mode, you must associate the physical
ports of the host server with the VM running DefensePro VA.
This chapter describes how to identify the physical NIC ports and their associated PCI addresses for
DefensePro VA.
To perform this association, after inserting the NICs, complete the following steps:
1.
Validating the PCI Slots, page 75
2.
Validating the PCI Slot Addresses, page 76
3.
Association of the NIC ports, page 77
Validating the PCI Slots
1. When you insert the PCI NICs into the host server, write down the slot number.
2. For performance optimization, when more than one NIC is used, Radware recommends that you
associate the NICs with the first NUMA and move to the second NUMA only once the first one is
full.
3. Refer to your server's hardware specification documentation to understand the distribution of
the PCI slots among the different processors/NUMA systems. For example, in the HP DL380
Generation9 server (see
Figure 19 - HP DL380 Generation9 Server Specifications Example,
, below) slots 1-3 (marked (1) in the figure) and slots 4-6 (marked (2) in the figure) are
distributed to different NUMA systems:
Figure 19: HP DL380 Generation9 Server Specifications Example
Summary of Contents for DefensePro VA
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