Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1

Technical white paper | Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1

5. Determine the PF to VF mappings.

If more than one PF has been configured to enumerate VFs, we recommend that you determine the vmnic and VF

associations. This is especially true when a Guest OS uses teaming or bonding to present multiple VFs to a VM for

redundancy . To resolve the PF to VF mappings, execute the following esxcli commands from the vSphere CLI, SSH, or

ESXi Shell. See Figure 5 for example output.

A. To list the vmnics that are configured for SR-IOV, use the following command. Take note of the vmnic numbers

when executing this command. The PCI addresses listed in the output are required when assigning the VF to a VM

in the next step:

#esxcli network sriovnic list

B. To list the VF that are associated with each of the vmnics, use the following comand (where <x> is the desired

vmnic number):

#esxcli network sriovnic vf list –n vmnic<x>

Figure 5: Determine PF to VF mappings