I forgot to mention that I had tried the disable_msi=1 prior to my post with no luck.
The different driver did not make a difference either.
~ # ethtool -i vmnic2
driver: bnx2
version: 2.1.5d.v40.1
firmware-version: bc 1.9.6
bus-info: 0000:06:04.0
There is not a lot of choices for setting the interrupts on the motherboard BIOS. The only choices I had for setting the interrupt where 18h, 19h, BBS, and auto and that was in the NIC setup, not the motherboard BIOS. For the record, the MB is an ASUS KFSN4-DRE/SAS with Dual Quad Core Opteron 8360. I tried all three with the new driver and alternating disable_msi between 1 and 0. I saw no difference in any configuration in the messages file.
Kevin