did you follow the instructions here:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vCloud-NFV-OpenStack-Edition/3.0/vmwa-vcloud-nfv30-performance-tunning/GUID-1F05987F-012B-4BC4-9015-CDE3C991C68C.html
?

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022, 21:48 Lombardo, Ed <Ed.Lombardo@netscout.com> wrote:

> I am using vmware hypervisor.
>
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> Subject: Re: How to increase mbuf size in dpdk version 17.11
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> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 19:56:39 -0800
> Cliff Burdick <shaklee3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's showing you have 0 hugepages free. Maybe they weren't passed
> > through to the VM properly?
>
> Which hypervisor? Not all hypervisors really support hugepages.
>