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September 7th, 2011 04:00
Broadcom 5709 NICs and VMQ Support
Do the Broadcom 5709 NICs support VMQ?
The Intel ET NICs do, but I can't find any information on the Broadcoms.
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woochman
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September 23rd, 2011 20:00
Hi Goodshots,
I'm actually looking into this and I just today updated the NIC drivers on our 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster nodes. Even though we're running R610s, I checked the Broadcom drivers for the R710 and the driver has the same time/date stamp as the one I used today.
I compared the physical NIC parameters of the updated NIC driver to the other node that was running the stock OS MS Broadcom Driver. The updated node had a VMQ option that was enabled by default.
That said, I believe that your NIC supports this as well. As part of our upgrades, I'm updating all the Dell drivers/firmware on both nodes. We're running R2 SP1 on both nodes which supports TCP Offloading/VMQ.
When these servers were built, TCP Offloading was disabled because that was the recommendation pre-VMQ.