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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
This will mount a virtual CD-ROM in the guest OS. If the guest OS is Windows, it can autorun the CD
and install tools (if not, navigate to the CD-ROM device and run the setup program yourself). If the
guest is a Linux OS, you must mount the CD, install the tools, and configure them. For example, if the
guest is Red Hat:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
# rpm –i /mnt/VMwareTools*.rpm
# vmware-tools-config.pl
VMware ESX NetQueue
Solarflare adapters supports VMware’s NetQueue technology, which accelerates network
performance in 10 Gigabit Ethernet virtualized environments. NetQueue is enabled by default in
VMware versions. There is usually no reason not to enable NetQueue.
NOTE:
VMware NetQueue accelerates both receive and transmit traffic.