Users Guide

3–Driver Installation
Installing VMware Driver Software
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num_queues Specifies the number of TX/RX queue pairs. num_queues can be 1–11 or
one of the following:
 –1 allows the driver to determine the optimal number of queue pairs
(default).
 0 uses the default queue.
You can specify multiple values delimited by commas for multiport or multi-
function configurations.
multi_rx_filters Specifies the number of RX filters per RX queue, excluding the default
queue. multi_rx_filters can be 1–4 or one of the following values:
 –1 uses the default number of RX filters per queue.
 0 disables RX filters.
disable_tpa Enables (0) or disables (1) the TPA (LRO) feature. disable_tpa=0 is the
default.
max_vfs Specifies the number of virtual functions (VFs) per physical function (PF).
max_vfs can be 0 (disabled) or 64 VFs on a single port (enabled). The
64 VF maximum support for ESXi is an OS resource allocation constraint.
RSS Specifies the number of receive side scaling queues used by the host or vir-
tual extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunneled traffic for a PF. RSS can be 2, 3, 4,
or one of the following values:
 –1 uses the default number of queues.
 0 or 1 disables RSS queues.
You can specify multiple values delimited by commas for multiport or multi-
function configurations.
debug Specifies the level of data that the driver records in the vmkernel log file.
debug can have the following values, shown in increasing amounts of data:
 0x80000000 indicates Notice level.
 0x40000000 indicates Information level (includes the Notice level).
 0x3FFFFFFF indicates Verbose level for all driver submodules (includes
the Information and Notice levels).
auto_fw_reset Enables (1) or disables (0) the driver automatic firmware recovery capability.
When this parameter is enabled, the driver attempts to recover from events
such as transmit timeouts, firmware asserts, and adapter parity errors. The
default is auto_fw_reset=1.
Table 3-5. VMware NIC Driver Optional Parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description