Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1006)

Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for VMware ESXi User Manual P010087-01A Rev. A
3. Configuration
ESXi Command Line Tool Transition
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3. Configuration
ESXi Command Line Tool Transition
For the ESXi 5.5 release and all subsequent operating system releases, VMware is
starting the transition from esxcfg commands to esxcli commands. This section
describes the transition to the esxcli commands.
Note: Both sets of commands are supported in the ESXi 5.5 release.
ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 Implementation
For ESXi 5.0 and 5.1, Emulex used the esxcfg series of native command line applications
to mine data, but the primary application used was the esxcfg-module to set and get
driver parameters.
FC and FCoE Driver Examples
For the FC and FCoE driver:
esxcfg-module -s “lpfc_log_verbose=0x10c3” lpfc820
This command could also be used to retrieve the driver parameters set.
For example:
esxcfg-module -g lpfc820
lpfc820 enabled = 1 options = ‘lpfc_log_verbose=0x10c3’
Ethernet Driver Examples
For the Ethernet driver, the following commands were also used to set and retrieve
driver parameters:
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To retrieve the parameters set:
~ # esxcfg-module -g be2net
be2net enabled = 1 options = ‘max_vfs=2,2’
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To set the module parameter that specify the number of virtual functions:
~ # esxcfg-module -s max_vfs=2,2 be2net
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To set the module parameter that enables or disables MSI-X:
~ # esxcfg-module -s msix=0 be2net