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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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.