Users Guide

8–VMware Driver Software
Download, Install, and Update Drivers
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The VMware driver is released in the packaging formats shown in Table 8-2.
Download, Install, and Update Drivers
To download, install, or update the VMware ESXi drivers for BCM57xx and
BCM57xxx 10GbE network adapters, see http://www.vmware.com/support
. This
package is double zipped—unzip the package before copying it to the ESXi host.
Driver Parameters
The following sections describe the parameters for these drivers:
 bnx2 Driver Parameters
 bnx2x Driver Parameters
 cnic Driver Parameters
 bnx2i Driver Parameters
 bnx2fc Driver Parameter
 qcnic Driver Parameters
 qfle3 Driver Parameters
 qfle3i Driver Parameters
 qfle3f Driver Parameters
bnx2 Driver Parameters
disable_msi
The disable_msi parameter can be supplied as a command line argument to
the insmod or modprobe command for bnx2.
When set to
1 (enabled), this parameter disables MSI and MSI-X and uses the
legacy INTx mode.
Table 8-2. VMware Driver Packaging
Format Drivers
Compressed ZIP QLG-bnx-6.0-offline_bundle-<version>.zip
(legacy ESXi 6.5)
Compressed ZIP QLG-qcnic-6.5-offline_bundle-<version>.zip
(native ESXi 6.5)
Compressed ZIP QLG-qcnic-6.7-offline_bundle-<version>.zip
(native ESXi 6.7)