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How to enable Enhanced Networking Adapter (ENA) on Windows

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Most times when you increase or change the instance type of a server on AWS, the Network adapter changes and this can cause system related issues

Most times when you increase or change the instance type of a server on AWS, the Network adapter changes and this can cause system related issues

Here are steps for installing the ENA Driver:

  • Copy this to the browser of the Instance where you wish to install the Network Adapter into. This will automatically download the zip file containing the ENA network adapter
  • Open the command prompt (CLI) and navigate to the folder containing the path and run the command below.
 pnputil -i -aena.inf

The output will be as follow below

Output success would be
Microsoft PnP Utility
                                
Processing inf :            ena.inf 
Succesfully installed the driver on a device on the system.
Driver package added successfully.
Published name :            oem9.inf
                            
Total attempted:                 1                            
Number successfully imported:    1
  • Next stop the instance (server) by shutting it down
  • Enable ENA support on the instance.
    • Run this command below
      Note: (This step has to be done from your local computer) and NOT on on the instance itself).
    • Open the command prompt (CLI) on you local machine (work station) and type in aws configure
    • Now follow the prompt (instruction) by entering your keys and region where the instance is located.

      Modifying the instance Attribute (AWS-CLI)
aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id Replacethiswith theinstance_id --ena-support

The next step would be to describe the instance in order to ensure, the ENA (Enhanced Networking Adapter) is installed.

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids Replacethiswith theinstance_id --query "Reservations[].Instances[].EnaSupport"
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xtnsele
xtnsele
4 years ago

Note: At the moment the the download and installer steps have changed by AWS but the syntax still remains the same
– Now you have to download, navigate to the folder and run the install.ps1.

All other steps and syntaxes are valid

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xtnsele
xtnsele
4 years ago

If you encounter problems when you restart the instance, then you will have to disable ENA support using one of the following commands: And this has to be done from your local workstation and not on the server.

Modify-instance-attribute(AWS CLI)

– aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute –instance-id instance_id –no-ena-support

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/enhanced-networking-ena.html

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