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OCI: Change Instance Networking Launch Types

edited Jul 18, 2023 7:51AM in Linux

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later 

Linux x86-64 

Goal: 

This document will outline the steps required to change the Network Launch Type from Hardware-assisted (SR-IOV) networking to Paravirtualized networking.

From the OCI Console “General Information” page for an instance, the NIC attachment type is currently: VFIO (Hardware-assisted (SR-IOV)) as highlighted here:

 

While logged into the instance, the driver is “bnxt_en” as seen from the output to the “ethtool” command: 

# ethtool -i ens3 
driver: bnxt_en     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
version: 1.10.0 
firmware-version: 20.8.187.0/pkg 20.8.29.0 
expansion-rom-version:  
bus-info: 0000:00:03.0 
supports-statistics: yes 
supports-test: no 
supports-eeprom-access: no 
supports-register-dump: no 
supports-priv-flags: no 

Solution: 

Before you begin: 

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