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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14.4 VMware ESX and Use Case Examples
14.4.1 Limitations
The current version of the RoCE supported driver requires ESXi-6.5.0 GA build 4564106 or above.
14.4.2 BNXT RoCE Driver Requirements
The BNXTNET L2 driver must be installed with the disable_roce=0 module parameter before installing the driver.
To set the module parameter, use the following command:
esxcfg-module -s "disable_roce=0" bnxtnet
Use ESX6.5 L2 driver version 20.6.9.0 (RoCE supported L2 driver) or above.
14.4.3 Installation
To install the RoCE driver:
1. Copy the <bnxtroce>-<driver version>.vib file in /var/log/vmware using the following commands:
$ cd /var/log/vmware
$ esxcli software vib install --no-sig-check -v <bnxtroce>-<driver version>.vib
2. Reboot the machine.
3. Verify that the drivers are correctly installed using the following command:
esxcli software vib list | grep bnxtroce