Solarflare CIM Provider for ESXi 6.x

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information about the Solarflare CIM Provider.

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Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0

Resolution

Solarflare CIM provider can be used with Solarflare Native VMware driver (sfvmk). This Provider serves inventory information, supports driver configuration, and allows the user to perform remote (over CIM protocol) actions that are supported by the Solarflare Linux Utilities and Solarflare vSphere Plugin.

Supported ESXi Versions

This provider supports ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7.

Supported hardware platforms

This provider supports the following Solarflare adapters:

• Solarflare SFN8522M Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
• Solarflare SFN8042 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
• Solarflare SFN8522 Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
• Solarflare SFN8542 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
• Solarflare SFN8722 Dual Port SFP+ OCP Server Adapter
• Solarflare XtremeScale X2522 (10G) PCIe Dual Port SFP28
• Solarflare XtremeScale X2522-25G PCIe Dual Port SFP28
• Solarflare XtremeScale X2541 PCIe Single Port QSFP28
• Solarflare XtremeScale X2542 PCIe Dual Port QSFP28
• Solarflare XtremeScale X2562-25G Dual Port SFP28 OCP 3.0 Server Adapter

IPMI extensions (if any)
None
 

Implementation schema details

 
The below profiles are supported by the CIM Provider:
 

Profile/Sub-Profile	Organization	DSP
Registered Profile	DMTF	DSP1033 v1.0.0
Physical Asset	DMTF	DSP1011 v1.0.2
Software Inventory	DMTF	DSP1023 v1.0.1
Software Update	DMTF	DSP1025 v1.0.0
Ethernet Port	DMTF	DSP1014 v1.0.1
Host LAN Network Port	DMTF	DSP1035 v1.0.2
Record Log	DMTF	DSP1010 v2.0.0
Diagnostics	DMTF	DSP1002 v2.0.0