Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
6.4 Installing the Windows Driver
The driver installer can be downloaded from the following Dell Support website:
http://support.dell.com
Download the installer for your platform and adapter using the URL and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file to install
the driver.
esxcfg-module –g bnxtnet Print module parameters.
esxcfg-module –s ‘multi_rx_filters=2
disable_tap=0 max_vfs=0,0 RSS=0’
Set the module parameters.
vmkload_mod –u bnxtnet Unload bnxtnet module.
vmkload_mod bnxtnet Load bnxtnet module.
esxcli network nic set –n vmnicX –D full –S
25000
Set the speed and duplex of vmnicX.
esxcli network nic down –n vmnicX Disable vmnicX.
esxcli network nic up –n vmnic6 Enable vmnicX.
Table 26: VMware Commands (Continued)
Command Description