diff --git a/docs/serving/parallelism_scaling.md b/docs/serving/parallelism_scaling.md
index 14cd3b057791..a32840ea73b9 100644
--- a/docs/serving/parallelism_scaling.md
+++ b/docs/serving/parallelism_scaling.md
@@ -118,14 +118,16 @@ The common practice is to set the tensor parallel size to the number of GPUs in
 ```bash
 vllm serve /path/to/the/model/in/the/container \
     --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
-    --pipeline-parallel-size 2
+    --pipeline-parallel-size 2 \
+    --distributed-executor-backend ray
 ```
 
 Alternatively, you can set `tensor_parallel_size` to the total number of GPUs in the cluster:
 
 ```bash
 vllm serve /path/to/the/model/in/the/container \
-     --tensor-parallel-size 16
+     --tensor-parallel-size 16 \
+     --distributed-executor-backend ray
 ```
 
 ## Optimizing network communication for tensor parallelism