diff --git a/vllm/config/parallel.py b/vllm/config/parallel.py
index f32ecef14821..f7fb8ec42a38 100644
--- a/vllm/config/parallel.py
+++ b/vllm/config/parallel.py
@@ -109,22 +109,24 @@ def _validate_eplb_config(self) -> Self:
 class ParallelConfig:
     """Configuration for the distributed execution."""
 
-    pipeline_parallel_size: int = 1
+    pipeline_parallel_size: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """Number of pipeline parallel groups."""
-    tensor_parallel_size: int = 1
+    tensor_parallel_size: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """Number of tensor parallel groups."""
-    prefill_context_parallel_size: int = 1
+    prefill_context_parallel_size: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """Number of prefill context parallel groups."""
-    data_parallel_size: int = 1
+    data_parallel_size: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """Number of data parallel groups. MoE layers will be sharded according to
     the product of the tensor parallel size and data parallel size."""
-    data_parallel_size_local: int = 1
-    """Number of local data parallel groups."""
-    data_parallel_rank: int = 0
-    """Rank of the data parallel group."""
+    data_parallel_size_local: int = Field(default=1, ge=0)
+    """Number of local data parallel groups. A value of 0 is a sentinel used by
+    the engine-args layer to signal that data parallelism was specified
+    externally (see `ParallelConfig.__post_init__`)."""
+    data_parallel_rank: int = Field(default=0, ge=0)
+    """Rank of the data parallel group. The runtime check at
+    ``__post_init__`` further bounds this by ``data_parallel_size``."""
     data_parallel_rank_local: int | None = None
-    """Local rank of the data parallel group,
-    set only in SPMD mode."""
+    """Local rank of the data parallel group, set only in SPMD mode."""
     data_parallel_master_ip: str = "127.0.0.1"
     """IP of the data parallel master."""
     data_parallel_rpc_port: int = 29550
@@ -184,7 +186,7 @@ class ParallelConfig:
     - "flashinfer_nvlink_two_sided": Use flashinfer two-sided kernels for mnnvl
     - "flashinfer_nvlink_one_sided": Use flashinfer high-throughput a2a kernels"""
 
-    max_parallel_loading_workers: int | None = None
+    max_parallel_loading_workers: int | None = Field(default=None, ge=1)
     """Maximum number of parallel loading workers when loading model
     sequentially in multiple batches. To avoid RAM OOM when using tensor
     parallel and large models."""
@@ -197,15 +199,15 @@ class ParallelConfig:
 
     enable_dbo: bool = False
     """Enable dual batch overlap for the model executor."""
-    ubatch_size: int = 0
+    ubatch_size: int = Field(default=0, ge=0)
     """Number of ubatch size."""
 
-    dbo_decode_token_threshold: int = 32
+    dbo_decode_token_threshold: int = Field(default=32, ge=0)
     """The threshold for dual batch overlap for batches only containing decodes.
     If the number of tokens in the request is greater than this threshold,
     microbatching will be used. Otherwise, the request will be processed in a
     single batch."""
-    dbo_prefill_token_threshold: int = 512  # TODO(lucas): tune
+    dbo_prefill_token_threshold: int = Field(default=512, ge=0)  # TODO(lucas): tune
     """The threshold for dual batch overlap for batches that contain one or more
     prefills. If the number of tokens in the request is greater than this
     threshold, microbatching will be used. Otherwise, the request will be
@@ -260,10 +262,10 @@ class is dynamically inherited by the worker class. This is used to inject
     master_port: int = 29501
     """distributed master port for multi-node distributed 
     inference when distributed_executor_backend is mp."""
-    node_rank: int = 0
-    """distributed node rank for multi-node distributed 
+    node_rank: int = Field(default=0, ge=0)
+    """distributed node rank for multi-node distributed
     inference when distributed_executor_backend is mp."""
-    nnodes: int = 1
+    nnodes: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """num of nodes for multi-node distributed
     inference when distributed_executor_backend is mp."""
     numa_bind: bool = False
@@ -318,7 +320,7 @@ class is dynamically inherited by the worker class. This is used to inject
     """Port of the coordination TCPStore. Can be set by the API server; workers
     connect as clients to exchange self-picked group ports at runtime."""
 
-    decode_context_parallel_size: int = 1
+    decode_context_parallel_size: int = Field(default=1, ge=1)
     """Number of decode context parallel groups, because the world size does
     not change by dcp, it simply reuse the GPUs of TP group, and tp_size
     needs to be divisible by dcp_size."""