SR-IOV in CVM

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mstewart_83
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Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:23 pm

Is SR-IOV supported in CVM for HyperV 2022? When I enable it on the CVM virtual machine nic, I get a message in HyperV manager that the nic status is degraded (sr-iov not operational).

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yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:27 pm

SR-IOV is supported by CVM.
The question is whether your NIC supports SR-IOV.
Make sure it can be toggled in BIOS.
mstewart_83
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Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:33 pm

I'm using Quad port Intel E810 25GB adapters which do support SR-IOV. I don't have any issues enabling it on Windows VMs. It's just the Starwind CVM appliances that have the issue.

Is there something that I need to do within the CVM console to get SR-IOV working?
yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:25 pm

Thanks for your update.
Oh, I love those NICs. From my experience E810s are quite tricky in terms of drivers, MTUs, and RDMA support. May be tricky for the future NVMe-oF/RoCE support.
You do not need to do any specific settings with CVM. Can you please let me know how exactly it is not working? Having screenshots will be helpful.
There is a known issue with SR-IOV support where the virtual function inherits the adapter properties instead of being just a listener. The problem manifests itself as the adapter going dark after the restart. It can be fixed by a series of restarts. This occasionally happens on Hyper-V. If this is a lab, we could have a call (reach out to support@starwind.com; this thread and 1135675 will be your references) to poke around your cluster.
If that does not work for you, please configure Hyper-V switches instead of SR-IOV while we are working on the fix.
geekbeets
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Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:24 am

Thanks, got it working.
yaroslav (staff)
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Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:33 am

You are welcome.
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