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PowerVM® SR-IOV FAQs The PowerVM SR-IOV FAQs information has moved. Please refer to the PowerVM SR-IOV FAQs document in the PowerVM Library titled SR-IOV, vNIC, and HNV Information . The new document includes SR-IOV information for Power10 bases systems
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In 2015 PowerVM introduced support for Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) on POWER8 systems...Figure 1 illustrates a shared SR-IOV adapter with SR-IOV logical ports directly assigned to client partitions (e.g
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PowerVM SR-IOV technologies provide sharing of network adapters enabled in SR-IOV shared mode...The information in this library includes updates to the PowerVM SR-IOV FAQs and PowerVM vNIC and vNIC Failover FAQs
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PowerVC 1.3.2 (released December 2016) first added support for SR-IOV networking for NovaLink hosts
SR-IOV is a PCI standard architecture that enables PCIe adapters to become self-virtualizing
PowerVM SR-IOV FAQs with updates for Power10 based systems with system firmware FW1050
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To provide an efficient and managed transfer of data between partition memory and the I/O adapter, each client vNIC adapter is associated with a VIOS SR-IOV logical port in a one-to-one relationship. In this configuration the SR-IOV adapter hardware manages the routing of data between the adapter and partitions without additional overhead of the hypervisor or VIOS