Dell Brocade 1020 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual - Page 248

A Network driver parameters TABLE 39 Function Network driver configuration parameters (continued) Default Value Possible Values Method to Configure Notes Other NetQueue NA Configuration • Number of NetQueues and filters • Heap values Legacy Ethernet NA pause NA esxcfg-module Refer to "Configuring VM Client interface NetQueue" on page 221. autoneg: off, on rx: off, on tx: off, on ethtool -A command Flow control mechanism for Ethernet. Managing VMware driver configuration with cfg • Following is an example of using the esxcfg-module command to disable message signaled interrupts (MSI-X). esxcfg-module -s "bnad_msix_disable=1" bna where: bnad_msix_disableBrocade network adapter message signaled interrupts 1 Disables MSI-X and enables INTx mode instead. NOTE MSI-X is enabled in the network driver by default, and must remain enabled for NetQueue to function. Enabling NetQueue in VMware system also enables MSI-X in the system by default. If enabling NetQueue, make sure that bnad_msix_disable=1 is not listed in VMware module parameters because that would disable NetQueue. • Display current driver configuration settings using the following command: esxcfg-module -g bna • Following is an example of using the esxcfg command to set the Jumbo Packet (MTU) size. First, set the MTU size on a virtual switch using the following command. esxcfg-vswitch -m where: MTU size MTU size (1500-9000 kb) vSwitch ID Virtual switch identification, such as vSwitch0 Display a list of virtual switches on the host system and their configurations using the following command. esxcfg-vswitch -l Next, create VMkernal interface with the MTU setting. esxcfg-vmknic -a "VM Kernel" -i -n -m where: VM Kernel VMkernal name. 220 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual 53-1002144-01